Federal contractor · SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA

REDWIRE DEFENSE TECH OPERATIONS, LLC

REDWIRE DEFENSE TECH OPERATIONS, LLC received $17.3M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 2 awards. Its largest customer was Department of the Army ($17.3M).

Obligations · FY2026
$17.3M
New awards
2
Sole-source
91%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Other than small business
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Company family

Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.

2 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $17.6M in FY2026 together.

  1. REDWIRE DEFENSE TECH OPERATIONS, LLCSAN LUIS OBISPO, CA · Family page
    $17.3M
  2. REDWIRE DEFENSE TECH SLO, LLCSAN LUIS OBISPO, CA
    $209.1K

AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-09-30

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 17.3MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Army$17.3M100%
    2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$17.3M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. San Luis Obispo County, CA$17.3M100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition91%
    US 39% · $15.9M
  • Sole-source awards91%
    US 30% · $15.9M
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.8% · $0
  • 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$15.9M
    Department of Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. TACTICAL UNCREWED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS (TUAS) LONG RANGE RECONNAISSANCE (LRR) PROGRAM$15.9M
    Department of the Army· San Luis Obispo County, CA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Jun 3, 2026 – Jun 4, 2026· W58RGZ26F0333
  2. IN SUPPORT OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 14387-UNLEASHING AMERICAN DRONE DOMINANCE THE ARMY CONTRACTING COMMAND-REDSTONE ARSENAL ESTABLISHES THIS BASIC ORDERING AGREEMENT TO PROCURE DRONES.$1.5M
    Department of the Army· San Luis Obispo County, CA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· May 2, 2026 – May 2, 2026· W58RGZ26F0331

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

  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $18.5M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $13.3M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $41.9M 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 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 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

5 companies · $100.2M reported

  1. ATLANTIC DIVING SUPPLY, INC.$98.2M
    VIRGINIA BEACH, VA · 22 subawards · Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers
  2. AAR GOVERNMENT SERVICES, INC.$1.7M
    WOOD DALE, IL · 1 subaward · Support activities for air transportation
  3. MANTECH TSG-2 JOINT VENTURE$87.8K
    FAIRFAX, VA · 1 subaward · Scientific research and development services

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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 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 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 3 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. PERFORMANCE DRONE WORKS LLC$17.9M+471% in FY2026
    HUNTSVILLE, AL · 91% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  2. AXXEUM INC$22M−76% in FY2026
    HUNTSVILLE, AL · 78% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  3. AERO ENGINEERING SUPPORT GROUP INC$10.6M+140% in FY2026
    KISSIMMEE, FL · 52% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing

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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.

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.