Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc.

Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc., a subsidiary of Verisk Analytics, delivers climate modeling, atmospheric science research, and satellite data analysis to federal agencies as a prime contractor (96% of recent awards) on full-and-open contracts. The company operates from Lexington, Massachusetts, with no SBA set-aside footprint; nearly all work flows through full federal competition or agency-specific research solicitations managed by NASA, NOAA, the Air Force Research Laboratory, and the National Science Foundation. AER operates across multiple NAICS categories — primarily Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Custom Computer Programming Services, and Scientific and Technical Consulting — reflecting a diverse portfolio of atmospheric and Earth sciences research ranging from climate modeling through metamaterial sensor development to satellite data exploitation.

AER's customer concentration is highly distributed across civilian science agencies. The top five funding agencies by award count account for 69% of recent awards: the Department of the Air Force (148 awards), NASA (104 awards, $1.3 million combined potential value), NASA Shared Services Center (58 awards, $17.7 million), NOAA (55 awards, $1.1 million), and NASA Headquarters (29 awards, $14.3 million). Potential-value concentration skews toward Air Force and NASA. The Air Force Research Laboratory dominates dollar share at $67.1 million across 14 awards — primarily research contracts for rapid battlespace identification, space weather environmental modeling, and machine learning applications. NASA Shared Services Center anchors the civilian research base with $17.7 million across 58 awards spanning ocean circulation research, carbon dioxide tracking via Orbiting Carbon Observatory missions, Arctic sea ice dynamics, cloud feedback characterization, hail process analysis, water-vapor profiling, and rainfall forecasting for humanitarian support. Recent Air Force definitive-contract work includes $2.999 million for rapid battlespace identification (awarded July 21, 2026, cost-plus-fixed-fee) and $2.196 million for machine learning-driven data compression on space weather model data (awarded February 24, 2023, ultimate completion November 30, 2025). NASA grant work includes $4.403 million for ultra-compact infrared sensor development using metamaterial filters and $705 thousand for water-vapor boundary-layer profiling via GNSS radio-occultation data assimilation.

AER places work under five primary IDIQ vehicles: Indefinite Delivery Contract 1332KP23DNAAA0003 (16 task orders), Federal Supply Schedule GS35F0055L (10 task orders, $1.7 million combined potential value), Indefinite Delivery Contract F1962883C0027 (7 task orders), Indefinite Delivery Contract F1962886C0141 (6 task orders), and Indefinite Delivery Contract F1962884C0134 (4 task orders). The portfolio is weighted toward AFRL research contracts and NASA grants rather than agency-wide GWACs or GSA vehicles.

Activity has declined from 22 awards in 2022 to 1 in 2026 (year-to-date), with 7 awards (combined potential value $4.5 million) facing ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months and thus recompete exposure. Recent sub work is routed exclusively through L3Harris Technologies on Global Ground Station System (GGSS) sustainment services task orders and through KBR Wyle Services on Ground Systems and Mission Operations software engineering. Grant sub-award activity shows AER performing technical data analysis and modeling support under University of Maryland Baltimore County, Colorado State University, University of Miami, and Smithsonian Institution prime grants funded by NASA.

AER's SCI-reported service-contract activity is minimal: three records covering FY2022–FY2024, all routed through subcontractor positions (zero prime SCI records). The SCI dataset shows approximately 1.1 FTEs in FY2022 and 2.8 FTEs in FY2024 across named subcontractor engagements. This is a partial view — SCI captures only federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold and excludes the preponderance of AER's research grant work, goods procurement, and classified activity. AER operates primarily as a prime recipient on direct-award research contracts and grants from civilian agencies, not as a service-contract prime in the SCI sense, and carries minimal subcontractor engagement across the portfolio outside the L3Harris and KBR Wyle relationships.