Slingshot Aerospace Inc.

Slingshot Aerospace Inc., a small-business space technology prime contractor, delivers space domain awareness, satellite tracking, optical tracking systems, and advanced visualization and mission operations software to the Department of the Air Force, the Missile Defense Agency, DARPA, NOAA, and allied defense agencies, operating predominantly under full-and-open and total small business set-aside designations across a mixed portfolio of definitive contracts, Other Transaction Agreements, SBIR contracts, and IDVs.

Headquartered in El Segundo, California (with a registered division office in Windsor, Colorado), Slingshot Aerospace is a for-profit corporation operating under total small business set-aside classification across the majority of its active prime awards. The company specializes in space situational awareness, on-orbit threat identification, low-Earth orbit satellite tracking and cost reduction, digital twin software platforms, predictive analytics and constellation guidance, and advanced visualization environments for space operations. Recent capability work spans the Air Force Research Laboratory's STEREO HORUS program ($2.5 million OTA, awarded December 2024, targeting 100x improvement in agile satellite tracking at scale), the Air Force Research Laboratory's PNT-Sentinel program ($1.9 million definitive contract, awarded July 2024, for data ingest and exploitation from proliferated LEO satellites), the Space and Missile Systems Center's Phase III SBIR in space domain awareness and space situational awareness ($2.01 million, awarded August 2025, exploiting in-space sensors), NOAA's Traffic Coordination System for Space Presentation Layer ($13.3 million Time and Materials contract, awarded November 2024, for web-based graphical user interface and data products service with migration from Space-Track.org), and two major Air Force awards: a $36.9 million definitive contract for the Orbital Lab Training Tool and Advanced Visualization Environment digital twin software (awarded February 2022, completion February 2026) and a $26.8 million firm fixed-price definitive contract for distributed synthetic training environment evolution and prototyping (awarded October 2025, completion April 2027).

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to the Department of the Air Force ecosystem. The top five funding agencies account for 82% of awards by count and 98% of combined potential value. The Department of the Air Force itself anchors three awards valued at $133 million combined — the largest being the June 2026 Other Transaction Agreement for Multi-User Experiential Next-Gen Training and Augmentation Tool follow-on production with a $69.2 million ceiling through December 2030. The Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory has issued 15 awards totaling $15 million, while the Space and Missile Systems Center has placed five awards worth $13.1 million. NOAA accounts for two awards ($13.5 million combined) and DARPA for two ($1.5 million combined). The dollar rankings diverge from volume: AFRL dominates award count but modest per-award value, while Department of the Air Force corporate drives the potential-value ceiling through the new OTA vehicle.

Slingshot Aerospace holds two parent IDVs. A DARPA Other Transaction IDV (awarded March 31, 2023) for the Predictive Reporting and Enhanced Constellation Objective Guide (PRECOG) program carries a $999,413.56 ceiling. More substantially, the Missile Defense Agency awarded a $151 billion Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award IDIQ on December 29, 2025 (completion July 15, 2026), a full-and-open competition vehicle supporting research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats; Slingshot has received one initial delivery order under SHIELD valued at $500 (issued December 29, 2025). Additionally, Slingshot holds a position on an Air Force definitive IDIQ contract (FA880621D0001) with two task orders.

Recent award trajectory shows seven awards in 2022, six in 2023, seven in 2024, and four in 2025, with one award in 2026 to date. Two awards (combined potential value $28.1 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and face recompete risk: the Orbital Lab Training Tool definitive contract (February 2026) and the distributed synthetic training environment definitive contract (April 2027). Total recent awards span 33 items (prime and sub combined), with 91% as prime work and 9% as subcontractor work. Combined potential value across all awards totals $178.8 million, with $95.9 million (54%) obligated to date.

Slingshot's subcontractor footprint is limited. The vendor subcontracts to The Boeing Company on two software development service awards (non-production work, awarded December 2023 and October 2024). Most of Slingshot's federal work is executed as a prime contractor across R&D-focused NAICS 541712 (Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences), with secondary exposure in space research and technology and computing infrastructure services. The company operates a single named subsidiary, Slingshot Aerospace LTD (for-profit organization).