Federal contractor · COLORADO SPRINGS, CO

DEFENSE UNICORNS, INC.

DEFENSE UNICORNS, INC. received $35.5M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 10 awards (−21% vs FY2025). Since FY2021: $146.5M. Its largest customer was Federal Acquisition Service ($20.3M).

Obligations · FY2026
$35.5M
New awards
10
Sole-source
94%
Single offer
6.0%
UEI
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Small businessVeteran-owned
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 49.7KFY2021
  2. 9MFY2022
  3. 23.2MFY2023
  4. 33.8MFY2024
  5. 44.9MFY2025
  6. 35.5MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Federal Acquisition Service$20.3M57%
    3 awards
  2. Department of the Air Force$15M42%
    5 awards
  3. Department of the Army$270K0.8%
    1 awards
  4. Missile Defense Agency$5000.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$21.3M60%
  2. IT & telecom$14.2M40%

Where the work was performed

  1. El Paso County, CO$21.4M60%
  2. Bexar County, TX$7.9M22%
  3. Brevard County, FL$5M14%
  4. Denver County, CO$1.1M3.2%
  5. Houston County, GA$140K0.4%
  6. Madison County, AL$5000.0%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition100.0%
    US 39% · $35.5M
  • Sole-source awards94%
    US 30% · $33.4M
  • Single-offer competitions6.0%
    US 8.8% · $2.1M
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. Department of the Army$270K
    Department of Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. AIR GAP SOFTWARE DELIVERY SBIR III TO 1 SBIR PHASE III DERIVED FROM WORK COMPLETED UNDER COMPETITIVELY AWARDED SBIR/STTR PHASE I CONTRACT FA8649-21-P-1315 FROM TOPIC AF21A-TCSO1.$65M
    Federal Acquisition Service· El Paso County, CO· Research & development· Sep 16, 2022 – Jun 12, 2026· 47QFCA22F0052
  2. THE PURPOSE OF INTEGRATED DEFENSE CYBER SYSTEMS (IDCS) ARCHITECTURE PLATFORM SUPPORT IS TO IMPROVE THE AIR FORCES CYBER SECURITY POSTURE, LOWER THE BURDEN OF SOFTWARE DELIVERY, AND REDUCE OVERALL SOFTWARE SUSTAINMENT.$12.7M
    Department of the Air Force· Bexar County, TX· IT & telecom· Feb 27, 2025 – Feb 18, 2026· FA830725FB047
  3. THE PURPOSE OF INTEGRATED DEFENSE CYBER SYSTEMS (IDCS) ARCHITECTURE PLATFORM SUPPORT IS TO IMPROVE THE AIR FORCES CYBER SECURITY POSTURE, LOWER THE BURDEN OF SOFTWARE DELIVERY, AND REDUCE OVERALL SOFTWARE SUSTAINMENT.$10.5M
    Department of the Air Force· Bexar County, TX· IT & telecom· Feb 27, 2025 – Feb 18, 2026· FA830725FB046
  4. SBIR SEQUENTIAL PHASE II PROPOSAL/AWARD$9.9M
    Department of the Air Force· Brevard County, FL· IT & telecom· Dec 16, 2024 – Dec 12, 2025· FA252125C0004
  5. AIR GAP SBIR III TO3 SONIC$6.6M
    Federal Acquisition Service· Denver County, CO· IT & telecom· Sep 27, 2023 – Sep 24, 2026· 47QFCA23F0056
  6. AIR GAP SBIR III BASE TO6$4.6M
    Federal Acquisition Service· District of Columbia, DC· IT & telecom· Sep 20, 2024 – Dec 22, 2025· 47QFCA24F0044
  7. MODERNIZING SECURE SOFTWARE DELIVERY ACROSS USSF MISSION ENVIRONMENTS WITH UDS$2M
    Department of the Air Force· El Paso County, CO· Research & development· Mar 24, 2026 – May 20, 2026· FA228026C0002
  8. DEFENSE UNICORNS- SOFTWARE LICENSE$270K
    Department of the Army· El Paso County, CO· IT & telecom· May 5, 2026 – Jun 3, 2026· W911NF26PA014

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

By fiscal year

  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $1.4M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $4.7M received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

4 companies · $6.1M reported

  1. KBR SERVICES, LLC$4.1M
    HOUSTON, TX · 2 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  2. SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION$1.1M
    RESTON, VA · 3 subawards · Computer systems design and related services
  3. GEORGIA TECH APPLIED RESEARCH CORP$701.8K
    ATLANTA, GA · 1 subaward · Scientific research and development services

Showing the top 3 of each list. Open the profile for potential partners and the full lists.

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 9 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. MILE TWO LLC$63.7M−18% in FY2026
    DAYTON, OH · 54% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Acquisition Service · Scientific research and development servicesAir Force · Scientific research and development services
  2. CHESAPEAKE TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL, CORP.$103M−34% in FY2026
    CALIFORNIA, MD · 59% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Acquisition Service · Scientific research and development services
  3. APTIMA INC$105M−0.3% in FY2026
    WOBURN, MA · 2 entities · 59% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Acquisition Service · Scientific research and development servicesAir Force · Scientific research and development services

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Lobbying and PAC activity

Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.

Matched organizations

  • Defense UnicornsAI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2026
$60K
2 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$60K

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$0
    2 reports
  2. 2026$60K
    2 reports

Top issues

  1. Defense2 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES2 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE2 reports

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

  1. REVERE FEDERAL STRATEGIES$60K
    2 reports
  2. Capitol Integration$0
    2 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Sep 30, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026.