# Firehawk

> Firehawk is a Dallas defense manufacturer attacking the slowest part of the rocket business: making propellant. Its thermoplastic feedstock can be printed, molded or extruded into fuel grains, letting the company promise shorter production cycles and more distributed factories while supplying familiar solid and hybrid rocket architectures to the U.S. military, defense primes and allied markets.

- **Founded:** 2020
- **Headquarters:** Dallas, United States
- **Founders:** Will Edwards (Co-founder and CEO), Ronald D. Jones (Co-founder and Chief Scientist), Steve Edwards (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** Approximately 120 employees; LinkedIn lists 51-200 and showed 123 employees in August 2026.
- **Products:** 3D-printed propellant, Solid rocket motors, Hybrid rocket engines, Base bleed motors, Rocket-system integration
- **Notable:** Demonstrated additively manufactured Javelin- and Stinger-class launch motors and flew a GMLRS-class hybrid analog above 18,000 feet under Army work., Reported 58 hybrid and solid hot-fire tests and one hybrid flight test by August 2025., Won a two-year, firm-fixed $4.9 million Air Force contract in 2025 for hybrid-engine development.

## Products & services

- **3D-printed propellant** — Thermoplastic energetic feedstock and an additive production process for repeatable, mission-tailored fuel grains with less curing and fixed tooling.
- **Solid rocket motors** — Legacy-compatible and extended-range solid motors built with additively manufactured propellant for missile and rocket programs.
- **Hybrid rocket engines** — Controllable hybrid propulsion combining printed solid fuel grains with hardened oxidizer feed systems.
- **Base bleed motors** — Thermoplastic propellant elements and molding processes intended to reduce projectile base drag and extend 155mm artillery range.
- **Rocket-system integration** — Load, assemble, pack and all-up-round integration capacity at the company’s Crawford, Mississippi site.

## Achievements

- Demonstrated additively manufactured Javelin- and Stinger-class launch motors and flew a GMLRS-class hybrid analog above 18,000 feet under Army work.
- Reported 58 hybrid and solid hot-fire tests and one hybrid flight test by August 2025.
- Won a two-year, firm-fixed $4.9 million Air Force contract in 2025 for hybrid-engine development.
- Won a $4 million AFWERX TACFI contract in 2025 for extended-range solid motors using printed thermoplastic propellant.
- Raised an oversubscribed $60 million Series C led by 1789 Capital.
- Opened or acquired a 636-acre, DCMA-rated rocket integration campus in Crawford, Mississippi.
- Selected in 2026 for an Army Hydra-70 prototype agreement alongside three other suppliers.
- Built an active U.S. patent portfolio around printed fuel-grain geometry, thermoplastic nanocomposites and propulsion components.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — The U.S. Army selected Firehawk and three other companies for Hydra-70 M151 prototype agreements; reporting says each is expected to supply 24 prototypes and an updated technical data package within 18 months.
- **2026-08** — CEO Will Edwards said construction was underway at the Lawton propellant facility and described a production process reduced from roughly 60 days to about six hours.
- **2026-07** — Firehawk announced a new multi-million-dollar AFRL contract to develop and evaluate a larger, more capable hybrid rocket engine.
- **2026-06** — The company reported a static fire of its proprietary printed propellant in a five-inch solid rocket motor.
- **2026-05** — General Dynamics OTS announced an exclusive teaming agreement with Firehawk for 155mm base bleed motor opportunities.
- **2026-04** — Firehawk broke ground on its Great Plains Arsenal propellant and motor production campus in Lawton, Oklahoma.
- **2026-02** — Mississippi announced a $16.5 million Firehawk project in Crawford expected to create 100 jobs.

## Links

- Website: https://firehawkdefense.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/firehawk-aerospace
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/FirehawkAero
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/pages/category/Engineering-Service/Firehawk-Aerospace-105288511244227/

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Last updated: 2026-08-22