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Cosmic Shielding Corporation

HQ United StatesFounded 20201-10 employeesUpdated

Develops radiation shielding for electronics used in space.

StartupAdvanced manufacturing and materialsSpace, launch and counterspace
Website
Total raised
$1.0M
2 rounds
Last round
$1.0M
Pre-Seed · May 5, 2021
Prime obligations
$3.9M
Since FY2008
Prime awards
4
Every award since FY2008
Systems
1
Capabilities
2

Federal Prime Contracts$3.9M obligated · FY2022–FY2026

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Obligated
$3.9M
FY2022–FY2026
Contract actions
6
4 awards
Peak year
FY2025
$2.0M
Top buyer
U.S. Air Force
100% of obligations
Obligations by fiscal yearLast 4 full years avg $981KFaded: FY2026 so far; DoD publishes actions about 90 days late.
FY2022: $50K · 1 actionsFY2023: $75K · 1 actionsFY2024: $1.8M · 1 actionsFY2025: $2.0M · 2 actionsFY2026 (to date): $0 · 1 actions
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Obligations by fiscal year
Fiscal yearObligatedActionsAwards
FY2026 (to date)$011
FY2025$2.0M22
FY2024$1.8M11
FY2023$75K11
FY2022$50K11

Top buyers

  1. U.S. Air Force$3.9M 100%

What they sell (PSC)

  1. National Defense R&D Services; Department of Defense - Military; Applied Research$2.0M 51%
  2. National Defense R&D Services; Defense-Related Activities; Applied Research$1.9M 49%

Industry (NAICS)

  1. Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (Except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)$3.9M 100%

Where the work is done

  1. Alabama$2.0M 51%
  2. Georgia$1.8M 47%
  3. California$75K 1.9%

Contract pricing

  1. Firm Fixed Price$3.9M 100%

Competition

  1. Full and Open Competition After Exclusion of Sources$3.9M 100%

Largest awards4

  • Sbir Phase II Sequential Tacfi - Radiation Threat Mitigation System · U.S. Air Force · USAspending ↗
    $2.0M
  • Sttr Phase II F2-17530 - Enabling In-orbit Ai by Msp/plasteel Conformal/spot Shielding of Cots Based Electronics to Support ISR Sensor Data Processing Applications · U.S. Air Force · USAspending ↗
    $1.8M
  • Multifunctional Conformal Radiation Shielding: Commercial Off the Shelf Systems with Rad-hard Resilience · U.S. Air Force · USAspending ↗
    $75K
  • Multifunctional Composite Radiation Shielding · U.S. Air Force · USAspending ↗
    $50K

Awards marked “Outside DoD, DHS, DOE and NASA” come from the contractor-first USAspending search of this company's awards at every agency and are not in sector totals. Awards of DoD, DHS, DOE and NASA under $10,000 net are counted in totals but not listed; find them on USAspending ↗.

Signed obligations on federal prime contracts (award types A–D) from USAspending, FY2008 through Oct 9, 2026. Obligations are money the government committed, not company revenue, and include de-obligations. Subcontracts and grants are excluded. Matching is by registered UEI.

Federal Obligations by Year (All USAspending, as Reported at the Time)

Cosmic Shielding Corporation federal obligations by fiscal year
Fiscal yearDirect: contracts
FY2026 (partial)$0
FY2025$2.0M
FY2024$1.8M
FY2023$75K
FY2022$50K

Direct is the company's own reviewed UEIs. Reported by USAspending is subsidiaries as reported by USAspending: recipients that name this company as their parent, not yet reviewed ownership.

Directly matched recipients (up to 12)

UEIs matched to this organization, largest obligations first. Subsidiary recipients are not included in this list; their attributed obligations can appear in the company totals above.

Each action is credited by the ownership basis shown in its column. Reported-parent rows count for Cosmic Shielding Corporation only for the period a subsidiary reported Cosmic Shielding Corporation as its parent; reviewed links follow their reviewed dates. Net of de-obligations; these are obligations, not ceilings. They come from the whole USAspending baseline (every recipient size, contracts and assistance) and are a separate view from the curated contract totals on this page. FY2026 and later are partial, as on Markets.

Funding2 rounds · $1.0M

Equity raised
$1.0M
Latest
$1.0MPre-Seed · May 5, 2021

Raised counts equity rounds; debt, secondary sales and grants are totaled separately. Amounts in other currencies are converted at the announcement month's average rate. A ~ marks an estimated or converted amount.

Systems1

  • PlasteelA composite material for radiation shielding of electronic components.
    —

Newest unveiled first. Systems that belong to a government program link to the program page, where variants, costs and contracts are.

Capabilities2

  • Advanced manufacturing and materials
    Developer
    classify_sectors run 37, haiku, taxonomy 2026-10-18b: Radiation shielding for electronics used in space; no defense use is stated.
    —Reported
  • Space, launch and counterspace
    Developer
    classify_sectors run 37, haiku, taxonomy 2026-10-18b: Radiation shielding for electronics used in space; no defense use is stated.
    —Reported

Maturity and TRL describe this organization's work; the field-wide maturity is on each technology's page.

People3

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People
PersonRole
Lembit SihverCo-Founder & CTO
Yanni BarghoutyCo-Founder & CEO
Michael GhadaksazChief Product Officer

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Sources6

Profile2

  1. 1
    DatabaseSixth-Domain public startups directory

    Sixth-Domain · Supports Organization · kind

    “{"group": "startups", "id": "91b15c1a-c919-4e50-8ab3-69f8347ed813", "name": "Cosmic Shielding Corporation"}”
  2. 2
    CompanyBRINGING COMPUTE INTO ORBIT

    Cosmic Shielding Corporation · Supports Organization · description, Organization · name, Organization · website

    “Built on flight-proven Plasteel® technology, Cosmic Shielding delivers radiation-protected solutions ranging from ready-to-integrate VPX enclosures and NVMe shields to fully custom designs. Our solutions enable modern COTS GPUs, storage, sensors, and other electronics to operate reliably in the harshest radiation environments, helping teams rapidly move systems from concept to flight while cutting lead times and saving mass.”

Systems1

  1. 3
    CompanyPlasteel®

    Cosmic Shielding Corporation · Supports System

    “Plasteel® is a proprietary, ultra lightweight, hydrogen-rich nanocomposite developed primarily to protect sensitive electronics from operational effects and the cumulative long-term damage and harmful effects caused by protons, neutrons, electrons, and heavy ions.”

Funding2

  1. 4
    CompanyCosmic Shielding Corporation raises $1 million in pre-seed round to enable a permanent human presence in space

    PR Newswire · May 5, 2021 · Supports Funding round, Funding round · amount, Organization · ownership

    “The pre-seed funding round was led by SpaceFund in collaboration with WorldQuant Ventures, Helios Capital, Starbridge Venture Capital, Batshit Crazy Ventures, and Space.VC”
  2. 5
    DatabaseCosmic Shielding Corporation - PitchBook company profile

    PitchBook · Supports Funding round, Organization · country, Organization · employee range, Organization · founded year, Organization · linkedin url, Organization · x url

    “Later Stage VC”

People1

  1. 6
    CompanyCosmic Shielding Corporation - team page

    Cosmic Shielding Corporation · Supports Role

    “Michael Ghadaksaz Chief Product Officer”

Government identifiers1

UEI
V6E2L2PASYD5
COSMIC SHIELDING CORPORATION
Checked Oct 21, 2026

Identifiers are matched to this legal entity; related companies may hold different registrations.

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