Stottler Henke Associates, Inc.

Stottler Henke Associates, Inc., based in San Mateo, California, delivers artificial intelligence, advanced software solutions, planning and scheduling systems, and simulation technologies to federal agencies primarily as a prime contractor (96% of recent awards) under the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs, competing predominantly under total small business set-asides across defense and civilian R&D.

Stottler Henke's customer concentration sits heavily with Department of Defense research agencies. The top five funding agencies account for 51% of awards and 53% of combined potential value, led by the Air Force Research Laboratory (110 awards, $35 million combined potential value) and the Naval Air Warfare Center (39 awards, $31.1 million combined potential value), followed by the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command (26 awards, $13 million), Naval Sea Systems Command (24 awards, $11.7 million), and NASA Shared Services Center (30 awards, $10.9 million). The two rankings align closely, with Air Force and Navy dominating both volume and dollars. Recent representative prime work includes a $26.9 million cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract with Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (August 2023) for satellite network scheduling tool development running through 2028; a $4.77 million SBIR Phase III delivery order with Naval Air Warfare Center (July 2025) for AI-enabled research and development extending through May 2028; a $1.9 million SBIR Phase II contract with Air Force Research Laboratory (May 2025) for SHERLOC-MULTI space threat assessment using data fusion and AI; and a $849 thousand SBIR Phase II award with NASA (July 2025) for disaster autonomous aerial response technology. Stottler Henke also holds a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery contract (SHIELD) with the Missile Defense Agency awarded December 2025 with a $151 billion ceiling through 2035, structured for rapid order issuance across defense and systems engineering domains. The company operates under two active Naval Air Warfare Center BOAs — one for SBIR Phase III R&D (September 2029 completion) and a prior agreement structured for exploratory research opportunities.

Award activity has grown year over year from 2022 (12 awards) through 2024 (19 awards), with 2025 showing 13 awards; the source reflects only two awards year-to-date in 2026. Fourteen awards (combined potential value $18.2 million) face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure. The vendor's award portfolio spans 492 total awards across 46 customer agencies since 1991, with combined potential value of $191.2 million and combined obligated dollars of $222.2 million. Award concentration is high in R&D categories — 136 awards fall under research and development in physical, engineering, and life sciences, with 118 more in closely related physical science R&D work. PSC concentration reflects this: R&D-Defense Other (applied and basic research) accounts for 94 awards, and Space R&D Services account for 43 awards.

In its sub role, Stottler Henke serves under Triad National Security, LLC on Los Alamos National Laboratory management and operating contract work (IT professional services, including Aurora technical support) across multiple 2024–2026 sub awards, and under CUBRC, Inc. on enhanced exploitation of multi-INT data for space situational awareness R&D. Stottler Henke also received two federal grant awards from the Department of Energy Office of Science (CFDA 81.049) in February 2024: a $199,967 project grant for "Generative Embeddings Network-Based Semantic Inference and Search (GENESIS)" and a $199,950 project grant for "Informer (Induced Seismicity Transformer)" — both supporting AI and machine learning capability advancement aligned with DOE research priorities.

Stottler Henke's footprint is characterized by sustained engagement in SBIR and STTR Phase I, II, and III work across Air Force Research Laboratory, Naval Air Warfare Center, Naval Sea Systems Command, Army Research Development and Engineering Command, NASA, Missile Defense Agency, and DARPA, with firm fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee structures dominating. The vendor competes predominantly under total small business set-asides on individual SBIR/STTR awards and holds seats on Navy BOAs that enable ongoing Phase III commercialization and exploratory research work.

Artificial Intelligence, Software Development, Training, Simulation, HLA, Decision Support, Neural Networks, Case-based Reasoning, Planning & and Scheduling, Expert Systems, Logic, Artificial Intelligence Research, Algorithm Development, Theorem Proving