Owl Cyber Defense Solutions LLC

Owl Cyber Defense Solutions LLC, headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, is a veteran-owned small business operating as a prime contractor (67% of awards) and subcontractor (33%) delivering cross-domain collaboration technologies, secure communications systems, and cybersecurity hardware to the Department of Defense. The company competes in full-and-open federal procurements without set-aside designations, reflecting its competitive standing in defense technology markets.

Owl Cyber Defense's core capability portfolio centers on secure cross-domain solutions enabling controlled data transfer and communications across multiple security classification levels. Concrete representative work includes a $18 million operations and maintenance delivery order from the Defense Information Systems Agency issued March 2026 for TAWNY operations and support of all deployed versions of MINERVA under a $150 million single-award AFMC IDV; a $3.96 million Naval Air Systems Command definitive contract (December 2025) for P-8A Poseidon Cross Domain Solutions software development; an $8.2 million Office of Naval Research definitive contract (September 2024) for software security technology development and application to cross-domain solutions; and a $2.98 million Army European Command delivery order for SCREECH operations and MINERVA platform maintenance under the SBIR Phase III program. The vendor also manufactures XD-branded hardware platforms including the PRISM data diode series and Extensible Chat Bridge systems, with recent purchase orders for equipment maintenance and platform upgrades. Recent small-dollar awards reflect manufacturing and equipment sales: a $623 thousand Ogden Air Logistics Complex acquisition of a Cross Domain Full Motion Video system (December 2024) and a $36 thousand purchase of an XD Verge system (December 2024).

Customer concentration skews heavily toward defense. By award count, Naval Air Systems Command and its subordinate Naval Air Warfare Center account for 20 awards (19% of the top five customers), followed by the Missile Defense Agency with 7 awards. By potential value, concentration deepens: the Missile Defense Agency anchors $253.1 million (44% of the top five customers' combined value), the Air Force Research Laboratory carries $79 million across five awards, and Army European Command contributes $29.4 million across five awards. These three customers account for 67% of combined potential value across the portfolio. The Missile Defense Agency and Air Force commands represent the core revenue base; Navy commands represent volume but smaller individual award values.

Owl Cyber Defense holds multiple high-value IDVs. The $151 billion Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award IDV with the Missile Defense Agency was awarded January 2026 with performance through December 2035, supporting detection, tracking, interception, and neutralization capabilities against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats. The $150 million single-award MINERVA IDV with Air Force Materiel Command (awarded July 2025, performance through July 2030) focuses on secure cross-domain collaboration technologies bridging different security domains and chat protocols; two delivery orders totaling $7.1 million have been issued under this vehicle. The $249.13 million multiple-award Missile Defense Agency IDV (awarded June 2022, through June 2027) procures commercial off-the-shelf spare parts, hardware, testing, and support services for Cross Domain Solutions. A $4.91 million Other Transaction IDV with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (May 2025) supports the Rapid Resilience Responses (R3) program's Sensor Housing and Operation Planning (SHOP) initiative. Owl Cyber Defense also holds task order positions on Air Force Research Laboratory IDV FA875020D0600 (9 task orders, $55.5 million), the multi-agency One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services vehicle (6 task orders), and several Air Force Materiel Command and Space Command IDVs. These vehicles position the vendor to bid task orders across multiple defense commands.

Award activity expanded from 7 awards in 2022 to a peak of 24 in 2024, then moderated to 18 in 2025; three awards in 2026 year-to-date reflect partial-year capture. Six awards with combined potential value of $35.1 million reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, exposing the vendor to recompete across MINERVA operations and maintenance, SCREECH sustainment, and P-8A software modernization work. Combined potential value across the 104-award portfolio (prime and sub) stands at $578.9 million, with $130.6 million obligated to date (23% of potential).

SCI reporting captures minimal federal service-contract activity above the $150 thousand threshold — one prime record in FY2023 carrying zero invoiced revenue and four subcontractor records across FY2022–FY2024 totaling 0.8 FTEs. This narrow SCI footprint reflects the vendor's model: the portfolio is dominated by product sales (hardware, software platforms), development contracts, and delivery orders under research vehicles, which fall outside SCI reporting scope. The vendor's actual federal services workforce is substantially larger than the 0.8 FTEs in SCI; SCI captures only service contracts above the threshold and excludes development, testing, manufacturing, and product delivery work that comprises most of the award value.

Owl Cyber Defense subcontracts frequently to major defense primes. Named subcontractor relationships include Lockheed Martin Corporation (XD bridge and guardian assemblies, data diode labor and materials, systems engineering), BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services Inc. (systems engineering, evaluation, and systems analysis worldwide; V2CDS annual support and licensing), L3 Technologies Inc. (RGS sustainment support and licensing), General Dynamics Mission Systems Inc. (VoIP task order support), Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (DARPA research program support services hardware), and Booz Allen Hamilton (ground system technology and laboratory R&D). Atlantic Diving Supply appears as a subcontractor for warranty and maintenance of XD PRISM and XCB platforms. The vendor maintains a corporate structure with a named subsidiary, Trident Systems LLC, registered as a for-profit manufacturing entity, which likely supports the hardware manufacturing and platform support workload.

NAICS concentration centers on research and development (21 awards), other computer-related services (14 awards), and computer systems design (12 awards), with secondary strength in engineering services (11 awards) and software publishing (9 awards). PSC framing mirrors this: the vendor's primary work codes are National Defense R&D Services (17 awards, experimental development focus), Information Technology Software (5 awards), and Communications Security Equipment and Components (3 awards). This category mix confirms the vendor's positioning as a defense R&D and technology transition contractor rather than a service provider or general IT integrator.