Red Drum Labs LLC

Red Drum Labs LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business based in Richmond Heights, Ohio, operates as a subcontractor (90% of recent awards) and occasional prime on defense training and research programs, with 18 of its 20 recent awards flowing through Lockheed Martin and Applied Research Associates as the primary primes. The firm competes full-and-open; no set-aside designations appear across its prime footprint, though its SDVOSB status anchors eligibility for SDVOSB-reserved task orders under parent vehicles.

Red Drum Labs delivers specialized operator and technical training, hardened-facility support, and defense research and development services to special operations and threat-reduction customers. The firm's prime work includes a $44.8 thousand firm-fixed-price purchase order from the Department of the Army awarded March 10, 2026 for two-day airfield seizure hasty access training in Savannah, Georgia, and a $167.057 thousand Defense Threat Reduction Agency Small Business Innovation Research Phase I contract awarded June 1, 2024 for automated discovery via VPP experimentation research and development (ADVERDT), performed in Mayfield Village, Ohio with ultimate completion by December 31, 2024. The bulk of the firm's activity, however, flows as subcontractor work: Red Drum Labs has delivered hardened-facility support training, mechanical barrier training, automotive entry courses, and exercise support under multiple option-year modifications to Lockheed Martin's hardened facility support (205A) contract since mid-2023, and has provided planning support and analysis personnel on an Applied Research Associates contract valued at multiple task orders in 2024 and 2025.

Customer concentration sits entirely within Department of Defense and special operations. United States Special Operations Command anchors the award volume with 15 awards (count provided in source; dollar magnitude not itemized separately), the Defense Threat Reduction Agency accounts for 3 awards worth $167 thousand combined potential value, and the Department of the Army and Department of the Army Special Operations Command split the remaining 2 awards. Red Drum Labs places 15 task orders under an Indefinite Delivery Contract (H9225417D0001), 2 task orders under Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction R&D, and 1 task order under One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services. Combined potential value across all 20 awards is $212 thousand; combined dollars obligated significantly exceeds the potential value, reflecting multiple option-year and task-order continuations on existing vehicles.

Activity peaked in 2024 with 13 awards and declined to 2 awards in 2025 and 1 in 2026 to date. The most recent award, the March 2026 Army training purchase order, represents the current pipeline endpoint in the source; no recompete cliff or forward-visibility awards are present.