Taumat LLC

Taumat LLC, a for-profit limited liability partnership based in Silver Spring, Maryland, conducts applied research and development in advanced materials, thermal management, and protective equipment for defense and civilian customers as a prime contractor exclusively under small-business set-asides. The vendor operates entirely as a prime — 100% of its recent awards are prime contracts and grants — with no subcontract footprint, and competes across Total Small Business designations on defense R&D, SBIR/STTR Phase I and Phase II work, and NSF cooperative agreements.

Taumat's customer base spans four distinct federal agencies with balanced concentration. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency leads by potential value at $1.8 million for a definitive contract on thermal corralling, absorption, and harvesting in high-power microelectronics (awarded February 2026, completion August 2028). The Department of the Army Research Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) holds two awards totaling $1.5 million: a $1.31 million Small Business Technology Transfer Phase II award for thin, lightweight, soldier-portable laser-protective equipment (May 2025–May 2027) and a $197 thousand STTR Phase I contract (March 2024). The Department of the Air Force Research Laboratory contributes one award at $180 thousand, a Small Business Innovation Research Phase I contract for multi-objective modeling and additively manufactured mesostructures for hypersonic survivability (April 2024). The National Science Foundation holds two grants: a $1.2 million Cooperative Agreement under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) for solid-state phase change cooling technology for CPUs (September 2025–August 2027), and a $275 thousand SBIR Phase I project grant for thermal energy storage materials and CPU cooling (September 2023–August 2024).

Taumat's capability portfolio centers on thermal management innovation, materials science, and protective equipment for high-performance microelectronics and soldier systems. Work encompasses solid-state phase change cooling systems, advanced laser-protective materials, thermal energy storage materials discovery using machine learning and shape memory alloy topology optimization, and hypersonic-survivability structures via additive manufacturing. All work is performed at Taumat's facilities in Takoma Park, Maryland.

Recent activity shows modest but steady pace — one award in 2023, two in 2024, two in 2025, and one in early 2026. Two awards (combined potential value $1.3 million) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and expose the vendor to recompete risk: the Air Force SBIR Phase I completed May 2025 and the Army STTR Phase I completed September 2024.