Redshred, LLC

Redshred, LLC, a minority-owned, woman-owned small business based in Catonsville, Maryland, delivers artificial intelligence, data analytics, and information management services to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor across SBIR/STTR research programs and three significant indefinite delivery vehicles totaling $5.2 billion. The company competes predominantly under total small business set-asides on R&D contracts and holds no-set-aside positions on its three IDVs, reflecting a dual posture of small-business research focus paired with enterprise-scale contracting capability.

Redshred's capability portfolio centers on AI-driven automation, natural language processing, document processing, and voice-assistant technologies tailored to defense operations and sustainment. Core innovations include AIRMATE (Airworthiness Model Automation for Certification Evaluations), VADER (Voice Assistant for Data Entry and Recording), AVTOC (Automatic Virtual Technical Order Creator), and ALDDOM (Authoritative Lineage Determination for Documents with Metadata). Recent representative work includes a $1.28 million SBIR Phase II contract from Naval Air Warfare Center for research and development (awarded October 2025, completion May 2029); a $1.8 million STTR Phase II contract from Air Force Research Laboratory for ALDDOM document authentication and metadata analysis (awarded June 2023, completion June 2025); and a $1.4 million cost-plus-fixed-fee R&D contract from Naval Air Warfare Center (awarded April 2026, completion October 2029). Smaller SBIR Phase I and STTR Phase I awards from Army, Navy, Air Force Research Laboratory, and Defense Threat Reduction Agency range from $99 thousand to $250 thousand, spanning topics including prompt engineering for large language models, radiation health physics AI assistants, and space-based infrared system data governance.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to the Navy and Air Force. By potential value, Naval Sea Systems Command dominates at $4 billion (66% of Redshred's total portfolio) through the $4 billion Navy SeaPort-NXG multiple-award IDC awarded January 2025 (completion January 2029). The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center's Rapid Sustainment Office supplies $975 million through the RO MAC IDIQ awarded July 2024 (completion July 2033). The Office of the Secretary of Defense contributes $249 million through the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center Basic Ordering Agreement awarded March 2022 (completion March 2027). Research dollars cluster with Air Force Research Laboratory (8 awards, $6.1 million combined value) and Naval Air Systems Command and Naval Air Warfare Center combined (4 awards, $8.6 million combined value). By award count, Air Force Research Laboratory leads at eight awards, followed by Naval Air Warfare Center at four. Smaller engagement with Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology and National Science Foundation accounts for grant work on NLP manufacturing tools and extended NESTOR tagging (Cooperative Agreement with NIST, completed February 2024).

The IDV footprint is anchored on three vehicles: the $4 billion Navy SeaPort-NXG (1 task order placed, $500 minimum guarantee), the $975 million Air Force Rapid Sustainment Office MAC (1 task order placed, $1 thousand kickoff meeting), and the $249 million Joint AI Center BOA for data readiness and AI development support. Task order activity under these vehicles has just begun; the bulk of Redshred's recent funding flow derives from discrete SBIR/STTR awards rather than IDV task orders. Activity accelerated sharply in 2025 (9 awards) from a historical baseline of 2 awards per year in 2022–2023 and 5 awards in 2024. Within the next twenty-four months, two awards (combined potential value $6.7 million) reach ultimate completion, exposing limited recompete surface relative to the vendor's $5.24 billion portfolio ceiling — most of that ceiling is anchored on IDVs extending to 2029 or 2033 and is at risk only if vehicles are recompeted or Redshred loses its seat. Redshred is a prime on all 29 awards in the source data; no subcontract footprint is reported. The source identifies prior grant work as a recipient on an NIST Cooperative Agreement; no federal grant sub-recipient activity is noted.

RedShred Adds structure to unstructured data by adding enrichments and knowledge representation enabling use of machine learning models and knowledge graphs.

Preprocess and analyze unstructured data from manuals, forms and short text.