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Defense Unicorns

HQ Colorado SpringsFounded 202151-200 employees

Provides secure software deployment solutions for mission-critical defense environments.

StartupDefense services and supportInformation management and cybersecurity
Website
Total raised
$172M
3 rounds
Last round
$136M
Series B · Jan 13, 2026
Prime obligations
$151M
Since FY2008
Prime awards
27
Every award since FY2008
Systems
5
Capabilities
2

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Federal Prime Contracts$151M obligated · FY2021–FY2026

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Obligated
$151M
FY2021–FY2026
Contract actions
97
27 awards
Peak year
FY2025
$44.9M
Top buyer
Federal Acquisition Service
64% of obligations
Obligations by fiscal yearLast 5 full years avg $22.2MFaded: FY2026 so far; DoD publishes actions about 90 days late.
FY2021: $50K · 1 actionsFY2022: $9.0M · 6 actionsFY2023: $23.2M · 16 actionsFY2024: $33.8M · 23 actionsFY2025: $44.9M · 24 actionsFY2026 (to date): $40.3M · 27 actions
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Obligations by fiscal year
Fiscal yearObligatedActionsAwards
FY2026 (to date)$40.3M2710
FY2025$44.9M2414
FY2024$33.8M2310
FY2023$23.2M169
FY2022$9.0M65
FY2021$50K11

Top buyers

  1. Federal Acquisition Service$96.7M 64%
  2. U.S. Air Force$54.0M 36%
  3. U.S. Army$420K 0.3%
  4. U.S. Navy$174K 0.1%
  5. Missile Defense Agency$500 0.0%

What they sell (PSC)

  1. National Defense R&D Services; Defense-Related Activities; Experimental Development$77.3M 51%
  2. IT and Telecom - Business Application/Application Development Support Services (Labor)$36.7M 24%
  3. IT and Telecom - Business Application/Application Development Software as a Service$19.7M 13%
  4. IT and Telecom - Platform Support Services: Database, Mainframe, Middleware (Labor)$9.9M 6.5%
  5. National Defense R&D Services; Defense-Related Activities; Applied Research$7.2M 4.8%
  6. IT and Telecom - Business Application Software (Perpetual License Software)$173K 0.1%
  7. General Science and Technology R&D Services; General Science and Technology; Applied Research$150K 0.1%
  8. National Defense R&D Services; Defense-Related Activities; Basic Research$140K 0.1%
  9. National Defense R&D Services; Department of Defense - Military; Experimental Development$500 0.0%
  10. Support- Professional: Other$500 0.0%

Industry (NAICS)

  1. Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (Except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)$123M 81%
  2. Custom Computer Programming Services$26.2M 17%
  3. Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing$2.0M 1.3%
  4. Software Publishers$378K 0.2%
  5. Engineering Services$140K 0.1%
  6. Other Computer Related Services$65K 0.0%

Where the work is done

  1. Colorado$99.7M 66%
  2. Texas$36.7M 24%
  3. Florida$9.9M 6.5%
  4. District of Columbia$4.6M 3.1%
  5. Connecticut$150K 0.1%
  6. Georgia$140K 0.1%
  7. Maryland$65K 0.0%
  8. Alabama$500 0.0%

Contract pricing

  1. Firm Fixed Price$81.5M 54%
  2. Labor Hours$69.8M 46%

Competition

  1. Not Available for Competition$128M 84%
  2. Not Competed Under SAP$10.1M 6.7%
  3. Full and Open Competition After Exclusion of Sources$7.5M 5.0%
  4. Not Competed$5.9M 3.9%
  5. Competed Under SAP$65K 0.0%
  6. Full and Open Competition$1K 0.0%

Largest awards10

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.

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

Defense Unicorns federal obligations by fiscal year
Fiscal yearDirect: contracts
FY2026$15.3M
FY2025$23.5M
FY2024$7.9M
FY2023$5.9M
FY2022$1.9M
FY2021$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.

Recipients (UEIs) tied to this company

Each action counts for the company USAspending reported on that row, so a subsidiary's dollars count for Defense Unicorns only for the period it reported Defense Unicorns as its parent. 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. Fiscal year 2027 is partial.

Funding3 rounds · $172M

Equity raised
$172M
Latest
$136MSeries B · Jan 13, 2026
Last valuation
$1.00B?Basis not stated · Series B · Jan 13, 2026
Cumulative raised$137M
Oct 18, 2022Jan 13, 2026

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.

Systems5

UDS Base

The free, open‑source foundation of the UDS platform, including UDS Core and the UDS CLI.

Maturity not rated

UDS Enterprise

Secure runtime and shared cybersecurity services for mission software.

Maturity not rated

UDS Fleet

Software management and updates across distributed operational environments.

Maturity not rated

UDS Registry

Software registry for secure mission software supply chains.

Maturity not rated

Unified Defense Stack (UDS)

A secure, portable, airgap‑native software delivery platform purpose‑built for military systems.

Maturity not rated

Newest unveiled first. Open a system for its milestone timeline, components and sources.

Capabilities2

  • Defense services and support
    Developer
    classify_sectors run 37, haiku, taxonomy 2026-10-18b: Provides secure software deployment for mission-critical defense environments, so its customers are defense users.
    —Reported
  • Information management and cybersecurity
    Developer
    classify_sectors run 37, haiku, taxonomy 2026-10-18b: Provides secure software deployment for mission-critical defense environments, so its customers are defense users.
    —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
Andrew Greene · LinkedIn ↗Co-Founder
Jeff McCoy · LinkedIn ↗Co-Founder and CTO
Rob Slaughter · LinkedIn ↗Co-Founder and CEO

Sources15

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Profile6

  1. 1
    DatabaseDefense Unicorns - PitchBook company profile

    PitchBook · Supports Organization · employee range, Organization · linkedin url, Organization · x url

    “employee_range: 51-200 (profile: 167)”
  2. 2
    DatabaseDefense Unicorns - Crunchbase company profile

    Crunchbase · Supports Organization · linkedin url, Organization · x url

    “linkedin_url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-unicorns”
  3. 3
    CompanyDefense Unicorns | The Airgap Software Company

    Defense Unicorns · Supports Organization · name

    “Defense Unicorns | The Airgap Software Company”
  4. 4
    DatabaseDefense Unicorns Company Overview, Contact Details & Competitors | LeadIQ

    LeadIQ · Supports Organization · country

    “located at 555 East Pike Peak Avenue, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80903, United States”
  5. 5
    DatabaseDefense Unicorns - LinkedIn company profile

    LinkedIn · Supports Organization · employee range, Organization · linkedin url

    “employee_range: 51-200 (profile: 51-200 employees)”
  6. 6
    DatabaseDefense Unicorns — hq city

    Supports Organization · hq city

    “Defense Unicorns is headquartered in Colorado Springs,CO.”

Systems3

  1. 7
    CompanyDefense Unicorns Awarded $350M Single Award IDIQ to Accelerate Software Delivery for the Department of War - Defense Unicorns

    Supports System

    “UDS Fleet gives program offices a single control plane to manage and update software across distributed operational environments at scale.”
  2. 8
    CompanyDEFENSE UNICORNS RAISES $136 MILLION SERIES B - Defense Unicorns

    Supports Funding round, System

    “completion of a $136 million Series B financing round led by Bain Capital.”
  3. 9
    CompanyDefense Unicorns | Airgap Software Delivery Platform

    Defense Unicorns · Supports System

    “UDS Base is the free, open-source foundation of the platform, including UDS Core and the UDS CLI.”

Funding6

  1. 10
    CompanyDEFENSE UNICORNS RAISES $136 MILLION SERIES B TO BUILD THE SOFTWARE BACKBONE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR

    Defense Unicorns (PR Newswire) · Jan 13, 2026 · Supports Funding round · amount, Funding round · post money valuation usd, Organization · ownership

    “announced the completion of a $136 million Series B financing round led by Bain Capital.”
  2. 11
    NewsDefense Unicorns valued at $1 billion in latest funding round

    Reuters · Jan 13, 2026 · Supports Funding round · post money valuation usd

    “bringing its valuation to over $1 billion”
  3. 12
    Regulatory filingForm D: Defense Unicorns, Inc.

    U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · Mar 4, 2024 · Supports Funding round · amount

    “Issuer: Defense Unicorns, Inc.; Date of First Sale: 2024-02-16; Total Amount Sold: 34999979”
  4. 13
    Regulatory filingDefense Unicorns, Inc. - SEC Form D/A (0001950785-22-000002)

    U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · Oct 25, 2022 · Supports Funding round

    “Total Amount Sold $ 504,329 USD”
  5. 14
    Regulatory filingForm D: Defense Unicorns, Inc.

    U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · Oct 18, 2022 · Supports Funding round · amount

    “<totalAmountSold>504329</totalAmountSold>”
  6. 15
    CompanyDefense Unicorns | About Us

    Defense Unicorns · Supports Funding round, Funding round · amount, Organization, Organization · founded year, Role

    “Defense Unicorns announced a $35M Series A investment, co-led by Ansa Capital and Sapphire Ventures”

Government identifiers1

UEI
VVNBQBAWMBG8
DEFENSE UNICORNS, INC.
Checked Oct 18, 2026

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

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