CoAspire named sole small-business prime on USAF FAMM for AM-built RAACM cruise missiles

CoAspire, the Manassas, Virginia firm founded in 2013 by former naval aviator Doug Denneny, has been named the only small-business prime contractor on the US Air Force Family of Affordable Mass Missiles (FAMM) framework. Its RAACM (Rapidly Adaptable Affordable Cruise Missile) is built around additively manufactured fuselage, wings and stabilizers that assemble without dedicated tooling. FAMM targets about $218,000 per unit versus more than $1 million for weapons such as Lockheed Martin's JASSM, seeking up to 28,000 missiles over five years with production starting in 2027. CoAspire has already demonstrated a four-month design-to-flight-test cycle; Divergent Technologies previously delivered RAACM airframe structures in 10 weeks on its DAPS manufacturing system.

That selection places additive manufacturing at the center of US munitions cost and rate goals rather than as a side-process for prototypes. CoAspire runs a distributed network of more than 56 US suppliers-including propulsion houses Ursa Major and Beehive Industries and AM partners Divergent Technologies and X-Bow-spreading capacity and reducing single-site risk. For defense AM, the practical test is whether tool-light printed structures can hold unit cost, flight-critical quality and surge volume once serial production begins.

Suppliers already qualified on structural AM for munitions gain a clearer demand path; the FAMM timeline leaves little room for unproven print cells.