Redwire profile
Redwire is a Jacksonville, Florida-based space infrastructure company founded in 2020 that develops avionics, power solutions, and mission hardware for civil, commercial, and national security programs.
What Redwire does
Redwire Supplies space infrastructure hardware and mission systems to civil agencies, commercial operators, and national security programs. Redwire sells components and subsystems across avionics, sensors, power solutions, critical structures, mechanisms, radio frequency (RF) systems, platforms, and microgravity payloads. Redwire generates revenue by delivering these manufactured hardware systems and payload capabilities under task orders and contracts tied to customer flight schedules.
The product lines that define the company for research purposes:
- Avionics and sensors
- Power solutions
- Critical structures and mechanisms
- Radio frequency systems
- Platforms and missions
- Microgravity payloads
This profile is qualitative by design. It carries no share price, no price target, no valuation multiple, and no rating — those change faster than any page can honestly track, and the filings linked below are the authoritative source for them.
Redwire drone lineup
The current public product record does not identify a complete aircraft lineup.
No complete-aircraft offering is catalogued for this company; it is tracked here as an unmanned-systems enabler.
Statuses are editorial classifications from the company’s current public catalog: active means currently presented for sale, delivery, or program work; development means publicly disclosed but not a mature production offering; legacy means retained for historical or installed-fleet coverage.
Recent contracts & awards
A dated log of the specific contracts, orders, funding, and deployments reported for Redwire, each tied to its primary source. This is a record of what was announced — a "selection", "award", or "partnership" is not the same as obligated money, so read each source before treating a figure as revenue. No figure appears here unless a source reported it.
- Zacks analysis examines Redwire space and defense portfolio growth potential
On August 26, 2026, Zacks.com published an analysis article titled 'Can Redwire's Space and Defense Portfolio Drive a New Growth Phase?' examining whether Redwire's space and defense portfolio can sustain a new phase of growth. Specific revenue numbers, backlog figures, contract values, and customer names from the article were not retrievable for this entry. Researchers should verify Redwire's financial results and actual program backlog on Redwire's investor relations site before treating third-party growth questions as settled performance.
Zacks.com: Can Redwire's Space and Defense Portfolio Drive a New Growth Phase?
Where Redwire sits in the value chain
Redwire is an enabler: it supplies inputs to the companies that build complete systems, so its demand is spread across many platforms instead of concentrated in any single program.
Its disclosed activity spans aerial drones. That placement is the single most useful thing to fix in your head before reading any coverage, because the same headline means different things at different layers: a large platform award is transformative for a pure-play, material but diluted for a diversified contractor, and only indirectly relevant to a component supplier whose exposure arrives later as build-rate demand. Retail coverage routinely applies one story to all three layers at once. For the layer-by-layer comparison across the sector, see the drone stocks research shortlist and the list of publicly traded drone companies.
What to watch
The signals worth tracking are structural, not price-based — they tell you whether the business is changing shape, which is what eventually shows up in the numbers.
- How Redwire allocates delivery across civil, commercial, and national security programs, and whether any customer sector becomes a disproportionate driver of overall backlog.
- Whether Redwire's space and defense business lines demonstrate sustained revenue expansion in upcoming quarterly filings to address questions raised in financial commentary.
- The conversion pace of development work into recurring production orders for Redwire's avionics, sensors, and power solutions.
- Flight readiness and delivery milestones for Redwire's platform, mission, and microgravity payload hardware.
How to research Redwire
Every question below has one authoritative source, and using the wrong source is how most retail research goes wrong.
| Research question | Where the answer lives | What to look for |
|---|---|---|
| How much of this is really drones? | Segment tables in the annual filing | Whether unmanned systems are reported as their own segment or buried inside a larger one. |
| Is the revenue repeatable? | Revenue-recognition policy and backlog discussion | Recurring sustainment, services, or subscription language versus one-time hardware sales. |
| Is a win real money? | Official DoD contract announcements | Contract type, awarding command, and whether the amount announced is obligated or a ceiling. |
| Can the balance sheet fund the plan? | Liquidity discussion and share-count disclosure | Dilution history and cash runway relative to the manufacturing scale-up being promised. |
- Redwire publishes its quarterly earnings reports, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, and governance disclosures on Redwire's investor relations site, which provides primary data on revenue and contract backlog.
- To evaluate third-party questions regarding space and defense market positioning, read Zacks commentary on Redwire's space and defense portfolio, while noting that specific figures require independent confirmation.
- Track customer task orders and hardware delivery announcements across avionics, power solutions, and microgravity payloads through press statements on Redwire's investor relations page.
One failure mode is worth naming explicitly: a company announcement describing a "selection", "award", or "partnership" is not the same as obligated money, and the two are easy to conflate because they use the same vocabulary. Check the official record before treating either as revenue. Our full approach is documented on the methodology page.
Redwire FAQ
What does Redwire do?
Redwire Supplies space infrastructure hardware and mission systems to civil agencies, commercial operators, and national security programs.
Is Redwire publicly traded?
Redwire trades as RDW on NYSE. Listing status is not a quality signal, and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell it.
What should investors watch with Redwire?
How Redwire allocates delivery across civil, commercial, and national security programs, and whether any customer sector becomes a disproportionate driver of overall backlog.
Where can I research Redwire directly?
Go to the primary sources: Redwire investor relations, Zacks.com: Can Redwire's Space and Defense Portfolio Drive a New Growth Phase?. Avoid aggregator summaries when the filing itself is available.
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