Defense Unicorns has secured a $350 million single-award contract from the US Department of Defense to accelerate software delivery across the department. The Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, awarded by Army Contracting Command Aberdeen Proving Ground, allows any DoD organisation to directly access Defense Unicorns' software products, including Unified Defense Stack Enterprise and UDS Fleet. The single-award structure enables ordering activities to issue task orders without running new competitions for each requirement, streamlining the procurement process. UDS Enterprise provides hardened runtime and cyber services for secure software operation across cloud, on-premises, and tactical edge environments, whilst UDS Fleet offers a control plane for managing software across distributed environments. Defense Unicorns, founded in 2021, currently serves the US Navy, Air Force, and Space Force, with software deployed across over 100 mission systems.

Defense Unicorns secures $350M Army software delivery contract. * Defense Unicorns has secured an IDIQ contract to enhance software delivery for the Army * The contract has an estimated completion date of Sept. 23, 2031 * Defense Unicorns previously worked with the Army C5ISR Center on UDS Army The U.S. Army has awarded Defense Unicorns a $350 million contract to provide an open-source software delivery capability for the Department of War, Army Enterprise and other national security environments. What are the contract details? The War Department said Friday the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract was awarded Sept. 24 and is expected to run through Sept. 23, 2031. Individual orders will determine where work will be performed and what funding will be provided. The Army solicited bids online and received one offer for the contract. Army Contracting Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, is overseeing the award. What is Defense Unicorns? Defense Unicorns is a service-disabled, veteran-owned defense technology company that builds open-source, airgap-native technologies to develop, deliver and sustain mission software. The company raised $136 million in a Series B funding round in January, pushing its valuation past $1 billion. In May 2025, Defense Unicorns announced that it had achieved Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Level 2, which allows it to manage controlled unclassified information. What Army work has Defense Unicorns done before? The award comes after Defense Unicorns announced UDS Army, an offering it developed with the Army Combat Capabilities Development Command's C5ISR Center, in February. UDS Army supports commercial applications for Army missions and uses authorized cloud environments at Impact Levels 4 and 5. UDS Army also includes an application marketplace, sandbox environments and software packages designed for cloud, on-premises and tactical edge settings. According to the company, the offering is meant to help small and mid-sized software companies succeed in the national security ecosystem and give Army program managers a way to acquire, test and deploy applications. Defense Unicorns said UDS Army can cut the time needed to earn an authorization to operate from 18 months to as little as two weeks.

Defense Unicorns, a veteran-owned defence technology company, has been selected by the Defense Innovation Unit to support the Open Mission Engine (OMEN) programme for Air Mobility Command. The company will deliver UDS Fleet, a system designed to help commanders deploy, update, monitor, and sustain mission software in contested and disconnected environments. UDS Fleet provides system administration, fleet management, and cybersecurity capabilities built for airgapped and tactical edge environments. The solution enables mission applications to be deployed without network connectivity and restored to operational baseline in minutes. Component software in UDS Fleet has flown on the F-22, F-16, C-17, and a Navy Category 2 UAS, and is deployed across multiple classification levels within the Department of War.