FA945323CA035↗

Name: FA945323CA035: Stratfi, Small Business Innovative Research, Economical Reentry Capsules for Hypersonic Testing
Creator: SpendQuery

STRATFI, SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATIVE RESEARCH, ECONOMICAL REENTRY CAPSULES FOR HYPERSONIC TESTING

Definitive Contract · Department of the Air Force · to Varda Space Industries, Inc. (UEI J3R2KNLS7GE4) · data as of 2026-09-30

Obligated to date$27.00M14 actions

Current value$29.66Mwith options exercised

Period2023-05-16 → 2026-12-16current end date

Up for re-bid: ends 2026-12-16. Recompete brief → · Space Environment Technologies and Science (SETS) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) Call 004 ↗

What it is

Product or service: National Defense R&D Services; Department of Defense - Military; Applied Research (PSC AC12)
Industry: Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (Except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology) (NAICS 541715)
Contracting office: Fa9453 Afrl RVK (FA9453)
Competition: Full and open after exclusion of sources · 1 offer received
Set-aside: Small business
Pricing: Firm fixed price
How it was bought: Standalone contract
Where the work is: Los Angeles, CA · district CA-43
Topics: hypersonics

Obligations by fiscal year

FY2023$9.03M

FY2024$7.24M

FY2025$6.08M

FY2026$4.66M

SpendQuery holds FY2023 on; earlier years are on USAspending.gov.

Subcontractors: where the money went next

No subawards reported for this award. Primes report subawards of $30,000 or more; many awards have none.

Every action

14 actions since 2023-05-12. Each is a modification or amendment with the money it added or took back.

Date	Modification	Kind	Amount	What the agency wrote
2026-01-08	P00013	Funding only	$4.66M	SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATIVE RESEARCH (SBIR) IIB SEQUENTIAL AWARD: ECONOMICAL REENTRY CAPSULES FOR HYPERSONIC TESTING
2025-09-10	P00012	Administrative change	$0	SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATIVE RESEARCH (SBIR) IIB SEQUENTIAL AWARD: ECONOMICAL REENTRY CAPSULES FOR HYPERSONIC TESTING
2025-07-10	P00011	Funding only	$319.2K	SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATIVE RESEARCH (SBIR) IIB SEQUENTIAL AWARD: ECONOMICAL REENTRY CAPSULES FOR HYPERSONIC TESTING
2025-03-04	P00010	Funding only	$3.04M	SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATIVE RESEARCH (SBIR) IIB SEQUENTIAL AWARD: ECONOMICAL REENTRY CAPSULES FOR HYPERSONIC TESTING
2025-01-28	P00009	Funding only	$2.72M	SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATIVE RESEARCH (SBIR) IIB SEQUENTIAL AWARD: ECONOMICAL REENTRY CAPSULES FOR HYPERSONIC TESTING
2024-09-28	P00008	Funding only	$321.2K	SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATIVE RESEARCH (SBIR) IIB SEQUENTIAL AWARD: ECONOMICAL REENTRY CAPSULES FOR HYPERSONIC TESTING
2024-09-17	P00007	Supplemental agreement (work within scope)	$0	SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATIVE RESEARCH (SBIR) IIB SEQUENTIAL AWARD: ECONOMICAL REENTRY CAPSULES FOR HYPERSONIC TESTING
2024-06-06	P00006	Funding only	$631.0K	SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATIVE RESEARCH (SBIR) IIB SEQUENTIAL AWARD: ECONOMICAL REENTRY CAPSULES FOR HYPERSONIC TESTING
2024-04-24	P00005	Funding only	$3.62M	SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATIVE RESEARCH (SBIR) IIB SEQUENTIAL AWARD: ECONOMICAL REENTRY CAPSULES FOR HYPERSONIC TESTING
2024-02-06	P00004	Additional work (new agreement)

Source: USAspending.gov prime award transactions and FSRS subaward reports, as loaded by SpendQuery (data as of 2026-09-30). Amounts are obligations (money committed), not outlays. The official record on USAspending.gov ↗