Apogee Engineering, LLC

Apogee Engineering, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, operates as a prime contractor (94% of recent awards) delivering systems engineering, program management, technical advisory services, and research and development support to the Department of Defense, Department of the Air Force, and civilian agencies including NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey. The vendor competes on full-and-open vehicles alongside small-business set-aside work, with no dominant SBA designation shaping the prime footprint.

Apogee's customer concentration is heavily skewed to the Air Force. The top five funding agencies account for 76% of awards by count and 97% of combined potential value, with the Department of the Air Force and its subordinate commands (Headquarters, Air Combat Command, Space Command, Materiel Command) anchoring the portfolio at $46.27 billion combined potential value across 74 awards. The Department of the Interior US Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants represents the second significant customer by award volume (66 awards, $35 million combined potential value), driven largely by low-dollar MASTCAM-Z planetary science instrument operations-support calls under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule. The Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command, despite only four awards, carries $10 billion combined potential value — a material concentration signal for recompete risk. The rankings diverge sharply: USGS places many small orders while the Air Force anchors the bulk of dollars across fewer, larger vehicles.

Apogee's vehicle portfolio is anchored to OASIS and OASIS+ government-wide acquisition contracts and Air Force-specific indefinite-delivery contracts. The vendor holds seats on OASIS (original, expiring March 1, 2025), OASIS Small Business (61 task orders, $1.37 billion combined potential value, full and open competition), and dual OASIS+ vehicles awarded December 2024 — both OASIS+ Total Small Business Set-Aside (multiple-award, $999,999,999,999 ceiling, through December 18, 2029) and OASIS+ Unrestricted (multiple-award, no set-aside, through December 16, 2029). Against these vehicles, Apogee has won $89.97 million in M-Code Aviation Receiver GPS system support for the Air Force (May 2026, Warner Robins, Georgia, through November 2031) and $12.9 million in research and science bridge action advisory support to the Air Force Research Laboratory (November 2024, Albuquerque, through November 2026). The vendor also holds the ASTRO government-wide acquisition contract ($3.5 billion ceiling, through November 2031), where Air Combat Command issued a $39.45 million time-and-materials delivery order for 95th Wing E-4B airborne command post support (March 2025, Offutt Air Force Base, through March 2030). Apogee was awarded two additional major IDIQ vehicles in 2025 — a $151 billion Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract from the Missile Defense Agency (December 2025, through December 2035) and a $46 billion Eglin Wide Agile Acquisition Contract fourth on-ramp from Air Force Lifecycle Management Center (March 2025, through September 2031). A newly awarded $866.563 million Advisory Support and Technical Requirement Administration (ASTRA) contract with the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (July 2026, through June 2031) adds engineering and technical intelligence production capacity for NASIC and Air Force intelligence efforts. Five Air Force-specific indefinite-delivery contracts (FA700016D0012, FA700014D0006, FA700013D0001, and others) carried 170 task orders with $21.4 million combined potential value. The GSA Multiple Award Schedule remains active for NASA and USGS planetary science work.

Activity has been flat over the past five years — 11 to 12 awards per year from 2022 through 2025, with only four awards recorded to date in 2026 — but potential-value concentration is volatile. Four awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry $110.3 million combined potential value, concentrated in small USGS MASTCAM-Z operations-support calls and low-dollar vehicle-minimum orders. The original OASIS contract expires March 1, 2025, creating a near-term recompete cliff as task-order work transitions to OASIS+ vehicles already in hand.

Across SCI-reportable service contracts (a strict subset above the $150,000 threshold), Apogee invoiced $177.1 million in prime contract dollars from FY2022 through FY2025, with a declining trajectory: $44 million in FY2022, $42.3 million in FY2023, $55.8 million in FY2024, and $35 million in FY2025. The FTE trajectory shows similar contraction: 197 FTEs in FY2022 declining to 183 in FY2025. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts span a broad spectrum — median around $109.45 per hour, with senior labor priced through $158.86 per hour and entry-level administrative support at $48.10 per hour. The GSA Schedule labor portfolio reflects this span, with 68 active categories ranging from administrative specialist roles at $35.95 per hour to cloud program manager roles at $268.30 per hour, with security-clearance requirements common in mid- and senior-level categories. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors account for an average 35% of total contractor hours, with 110 named subcontractors reported, indicating a mixed delivery model that leans toward in-house capacity but maintains a steady supply-base dependency.

Apogee's subcontractor footprint reflects advisory and engineering support roles fed to larger defense primes. Applied Research Solutions, Inc. is a recurring prime for Air Force cyber resiliency and engineering-professional-and-administrative support (CROWS/EPASS work, eight sub-awards from August 2022 through December 2023). Sawdey Solution Services Inc. is a prime for combat search and rescue test and evaluation support at Nellis Air Force Base (five sub-awards, November 2022 through November 2023). Chugach Technical Solutions LLC is a prime for Coast Guard radio-frequency communications engineering and code-plug support (four sub-awards, August 2022 through February 2025). Booz Allen Hamilton issued a $12.9 million prime order for Air Force Research Laboratory advisory support in which Apogee subcontracted with 63% of hours supplied by subs including Leidos (operating as SAIC), BCS Allegient (8(a)-certified), Think Strategically LLC (veteran-owned), Venova Technologies (women-owned), Philip Renaud, and The Leadership Coaching Group LLC. More recently, Deftec Corporation is a prime on B-21 program integration and 1st Space Brigade technical support sub-awards (December 2025 and June 2026). General Dynamics Information Technology and Odyssey Systems Consulting Group (OASIS SB pools 4 and 6) have also issued sub-awards to Apogee. The vendor operates predominantly as a prime deliverer of its own engineering and program-management capacity but regularly subcontracts specialized roles — military operations analysis, training development, RF engineering, cybersecurity — to mission-focused subs.

Apogee's capability framing grounds in aerospace and defense systems engineering, missile defense, space systems, and intelligence analysis work. The $89.97 million MAR JPO GPS user equipment support contract is representative of platform-systems work (aircraft and weapons-system receiver architecture). The $39.45 million 95th Wing E-4B airborne command-post support reflects sustained operations and maintenance for strategic platforms. The $13.354 million interagency-and-international-coordination work under OASIS frames advisory and program-management services. The recurring MASTCAM-Z operations-support calls — representing seven separate BPA calls to USGS from June 2023 through November 2025, totaling $243 thousand — anchor the NASA Mars rover mission domain. The $12.9 million Air Force Research Laboratory management-assistance and research-science-bridge order, invoicing $2.6 million in FY2025 across 6.8 FTEs at $187.66 per hour derived rate, frames research transition and directed-energy / space-vehicle analytical support. These awards collectively position Apogee as a platform-systems and research-to-operations bridge contractor for Air Force and DoD customers, with secondary capacity in civilian space-mission technical operations.