Verus Research, LLC

Verus Research, LLC, doing business as Verus Research, is a small business prime contractor and subcontractor providing advanced research, engineering, and test capabilities in directed energy, electromagnetics, plasma physics, radiation effects, space systems, and autonomous technologies to defense and federal research agencies. The company operates as a Subchapter S Corporation headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and is a subsidiary of Radiance Technologies Inc. Verus Research competes predominantly in full-and-open solicitations across the defense research portfolio, with 93% of recent awards as prime contractor work and no SBA set-aside designations characterizing the prime footprint, though the company qualifies as a small business and holds multiple small-business-reserved vehicles.

Verus Research's customer concentration reflects heavy dependence on Air Force research and development. The top five funding agencies account for 68% of awards by count and 98% of combined potential value. The Department of the Air Force dominates by dollar value at $46.95 billion across seven awards, anchored by the $151 billion Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award IDIQ awarded December 29, 2025, through December 28, 2035, with a $500 initial delivery order. The Department of the Army's Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation follows with ten awards and $466.9 million combined potential value, including a $27.98 million delivery order for airborne non-kinetic systems test and evaluation (ultimate completion February 28, 2029) and a $28.99 million combined environments design of experiments delivery order (completion October 18, 2028). The Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory supplies 41 awards valued at $185.3 million, concentrated in SBIR and STTR programs (Phase I and Phase II) across high-power microwave antennas, RF system response and analysis, spacecraft fault identification, and autonomous satellite technologies. The Navy's Office of Naval Research and Naval Air Warfare Center contribute six and ten awards respectively totaling $22.3 million combined.

Verus Research holds four major parent contract vehicles anchoring its prime work. The $151 billion SHIELD IDIQ (Missile Defense Agency, multiple award, full and open, December 28, 2035) and the $46 billion Eglin Wide Agile Acquisition Contract (EWAAC) vehicle (Air Force, multiple award, full and open, September 9, 2031) represent the largest dollar ceilings. The OASIS+ Total Small Business Multiple Award IDIQ, awarded by GSA on December 19, 2024, carries a ceiling of $999,999,999,999 (a system placeholder indicating no real ceiling cap) and runs through December 18, 2029; Verus Research was placed on this governmentwide contract supporting seven functional domains—Management and Advisory, Technical and Engineering, Research and Development, Intelligence Services, Environmental Services, Facilities, and Logistics. A $900 million Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Architecture and Integration Directorate IDIQ (multiple award, full and open, November 14, 2027) supports multi-domain systems capabilities with performance at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The company also holds a non-traditional Army Other Transaction Agreement valued at $56.92 million for the Cornerstone OTA Radiation Combined Environments Test Capability (RCETC), awarded February 2, 2023, through September 15, 2027, with performance at Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Recent representative prime work spans defense research and test capability development. In SBIR/STTR programs, Verus Research holds Phase II contracts for high-power microwave (HPM) test capabilities spanning 4 to 20 GHz ($1.25 million, AFRL, completion December 11, 2026), RF system response and analysis ($1.25 million, AFRL, completion August 15, 2026), high-frequency, high-gain, high-power microwave antennas ($1.25 million, AFRL, completion July 23, 2026), model-based spacecraft fault identification ($999,992, AFRL/Navy, completion June 22, 2026), and electromagnetic simulation and cable-antenna interaction analysis ($239,672, Office of Naval Research, completion July 16, 2023). In larger development programs, Verus Research won a $37.47 million five-year definitive contract from AFRL for Tools for Enabling Autonomous Multi-Satellite Systems (TEAMS) (completion January 3, 2028), development of high-power electromagnetic (HPEM) effects testing capability valued at $30 million (AFRL, completion September 21, 2027), a $4.97 million DARPA Waveform Agile Radio-Frequency Directed Energy (WARDEN) contract to extend high-power microwave back-door attack range by a factor of ten (completion May 31, 2026), and a $15.94 million Office of Naval Research labor-and-materials contract for research and engineering (completion June 30, 2026). The $56.92 million Cornerstone OTA for radiation combined environments test capability centers on facility design, component manufacturing, and computational infrastructure for the Orthrus module and associated subsystems, with performance at Albuquerque.

Activity has remained moderate and flat over the last five years—ranging from eleven awards in 2021 to twenty-one in 2022, then declining to twelve in 2024 and six in 2025 (partial year). Twelve awards with combined potential value of $207.1 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete exposure across SBIR Phase II contracts, the RCETC OTA, and several PEO Simulation, Training and Instrumentation delivery orders on non-kinetic test and evaluation vehicles. The company obligated $297.1 million against $48.62 billion combined potential value across all awards (1% utilization), reflecting typical IDIQ ceiling inflation and early-stage funding on long-duration contracts.

Verus Research subcontracts to tier-one primes on defense systems programs. Named sub relationships include Lockheed Martin Corporation (six sub awards since December 2023 for advanced systems and professional engineering services in support of Next Generation Interceptor and MK21A reentry vehicle programs), Radiance Technologies Inc. (a directed energy systems integration laboratory (DESIL) task order, October 2, 2025), and Applied Research Associates Inc. (digital engineering frameworks for convergence support, October 16, 2023). Subcontract scope centers on engineering services, systems integration, and development support for missile defense and advanced systems programs.

The company's prime-work profile is dominated by research and development in physical, engineering, and life sciences (64 awards across NAICS 541712/541713) and manufacturing of guided missile and space vehicle components (9 awards). PSC concentration reflects applied research, basic research, and experimental development across defense systems, with secondary clustering in atomic energy defense activities and weapons systems R&D.

Research and development in the field of technology, namely engineering and physical sciences, advanced modeling, systems design, and application development relating to electromagnetic and radiation effects, directed energy, and embedded systems.