American Electronic Warfare Associates, Incorporated

American Electronic Warfare Associates, Incorporated, doing business as Amewas, is a veteran-owned small business based in California, Maryland, that provides advanced engineering, technical, and program support services for naval aviation and electronic warfare systems as a prime contractor (85% of recent awards) and subcontractor to larger defense primes. Amewas competes on both set-aside and full-and-open bases, with Total Small Business set-asides anchoring the majority of its single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract vehicles and cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing structures characterizing its Navy work.

Amewas's customer concentration is extreme and heavily Navy-centric. The Naval Air Warfare Center accounts for 105 awards (combined potential value $3.15 billion) alone, representing roughly 44% of all recent awards and 7.6% of combined potential value—but this understates the concentration because the top customer by potential value, Department of the Army Materiel Command Army Contracting Command Aberdeen Proving Ground, carries just 2 awards worth $37.4 billion combined potential value (90% of all combined potential value), a figure that reflects a placeholder or notional ceiling on a government-wide vehicle rather than realistic delivery volume. Excluding that outlier, Amewas is predominantly a Naval Air Systems Command and Naval Air Warfare Center shop: Naval Air Systems Command and Naval Air Warfare Center awards combined account for over 91% of realistic award activity. The vendor also serves the Air Force Space Command and Naval Sea Systems Command at much smaller scale.

Amewas holds three active single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts with the Naval Air Warfare Center. The largest, awarded June 16, 2025, carries a $466.65 million ceiling through June 15, 2030, set-aside for Total Small Business, and focuses on Integrated Battlespace Simulation and Test capabilities and engineering, technical, and program support for naval aviation and electronic warfare systems at Patuxent River, Maryland, with subordinate performance locations. Through January 2026, delivery orders under this vehicle total approximately $220.7 million and cover integrated combat environment support services, joint simulation environment enterprise support, electromagnetic environmental effects technical services, and labor and training support. A second single-award IDIQ, awarded May 3, 2023, carries a $248.23 million ceiling through May 4, 2028, also set-aside for Total Small Business, supporting the Battlespace Division with similar scope at Lexington Park and Patuxent River, Maryland, and has generated over $200 million in task orders. A third vehicle, a $1 million multiple-award IDC for Sensitive Compartmented Information program management, was awarded February 21, 2025, through February 2030, with a $1,000 minimum guarantee and allowance for small-business set-asides on individual task orders. Recent representative delivery orders include a $93.8 million labor, training, and systems support order (June 30, 2025), a $53.4 million labor support order for the DAITA Group and LVCE (August 26, 2025), a $40.2 million IBST staff support services order (August 25, 2025), a $35.2 million IBST Investments order exercising option year one (September 17, 2025), a $6.4 million F-35 AI/ML Analytics and Debrief Application order (January 29, 2026), and a $6.3 million AI Agent Development order under the TIGERCAT 1D program (September 26, 2025). On non-Navy work, Amewas holds a $54.7 million delivery order with the Air Force Aeronautical Systems Center for Joint Simulation Environment enterprise operator support under the Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services IDIQ (January 30, 2025). Amewas also competes under the Seaport Next Generation government-wide IDIQ, with two named delivery orders totaling $187.4 million for electromagnetic environmental effects technical and engineering support services and airworthiness and cybersecurity safety support to Naval Air Systems Command (awarded September 9, 2024, and May 23, 2024, respectively).

Activity has grown year over year — five awards in 2022 to twenty-two in 2025 — though the source captures only the first two months of 2026. Six awards (combined potential value $221.2 million) reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and face recompete exposure. SCI-reported invoiced revenue on federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $163.7 million from FY2022 through FY2025 ($46.7 million in FY2022, $44.4 million in FY2023, $33.8 million in FY2024, $38.7 million in FY2025), with approximately 162 to 188 FTEs delivered to the federal government annually. On SCI-reportable prime contracts, government-paid hourly rates span a median around $98/hr, with senior labor pricing through $127/hr (90th percentile) and junior labor from $65/hr (10th percentile). Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors performed on average 19% of total contractor hours, with eighty named subcontractors engaged across the prime portfolio.

Amewas executes most work through an established network of subcontractors rather than self-performing delivery. Named recurrent subs include J.F. Taylor, Inc. (engineering, manufacturing, and specialized technical services), Resource Management Concepts, Inc. (IT and infrastructure), American Systems Corporation (enterprise software and systems integration), Science Applications International Corporation (simulation, cyber, and M&S support), Booz Allen Hamilton (engineering and technical support), Deloitte Consulting LLP (program management and technical consulting), The Mil Corporation (cyber and engineering support), Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (command-and-control and tactical data link modules), and Synergy Aerospace, Inc. (engineering services). On the Seaport-NXG electromagnetic environmental effects contract, subcontractors include Richardson Electronics LTD (magnetron components), TTI Inc. (electronic components), and Carter-Lambert Divisions LLC (engineering support). On the airworthiness and cybersecurity work, Amewas subs Cavu Consulting Inc. (service-disabled veteran-owned small business), Carter-Lambert Divisions LLC (service-disabled veteran-owned and HUBZone-certified), and C3 Innovations Inc. (8(a)-certified, economically disadvantaged, women-owned small business). As a subcontractor, Amewas delivers engineering and technical support to larger primes including Science Applications International Corporation (F-35 simulator support and Air Force Modeling and Simulation Support Services), J.F. Taylor, Inc. (engineering support for multiple task orders covering simulation, training, and systems development), Mantech Advanced Systems International, Inc. (engineering services for the Stingray Systems Test Integration Lab and Triton program verification and validation), Resource Management Concepts, Inc. (IT infrastructure and IBST support), DCS Corporation (fighter test services for USMC VMX-1 Squadron F-35 development and testing), HII Mission Technologies Corp (research, analysis, and M&S for tactical and strategic survivability), Reliance Test & Technology, LLC (Atlantic Ranges and Targets Department sustainment support), and others.

The vendor's capability portfolio, grounded in active delivery orders, centers on integrated battlespace simulation and test infrastructure; joint simulation environment enterprise operations; electromagnetic environmental effects technical engineering; F-35 and advanced fighter aircraft AI/ML analytics and debrief applications; airworthiness and cybersecurity safety technical support; naval aviation systems research, development, design, fabrication, integration, test, and evaluation; and labor-intensive training and systems support across the Navy's research, development, test, and evaluation enterprise at Patuxent River, Maryland, Lexington Park, Maryland, and subordinate operational locations.

ENGINEERING/CONSULTING SERVICES IN ELECTRONIC WARFARE. THREAT SCENARIO DEVELOPMENT & SURVIVABILITY ANALYSIS; THREAT ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC SUPPORT MEASURES; TACTICS DEVELOPMENT; ELECTRONIC COUNTER MEASURES DEVELOPMENT & ASSESSMENT.