Avian, LLC

Avian, LLC, doing business as Avian Of Maryland, LLC, is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business operating as a prime contractor and subcontractor that delivers engineering, program management, technical writing, systems integration, and test-and-evaluation support to the Department of Defense and civilian transportation agencies, with a portfolio dominated by large indefinite-delivery vehicles anchoring over $176 billion in combined potential value. The vendor operates as a parent entity with two named subsidiaries (Level Up LLC and Avian-Precise Company, LLC, a small business joint venture) and is headquartered in Lexington Park, Maryland.

Avian's customer concentration is extreme, with 87% of awards clustered in three Navy commands: Naval Air Warfare Center (36 awards, $1.06 billion combined potential value), Naval Sea Systems Command (20 awards, $82.68 billion combined potential value), and the Office of Naval Research (7 awards, $53.2 million combined potential value). The Navy commands dominate both award count and dollar value; however, the dollar ranking is inverted by two outsized indefinite-delivery vehicles: the Missile Defense Agency's SHIELD contract ($151 billion multiple-award IDIQ, awarded December 2025, running through December 2035) and the Air Force's EWAAC ($92 billion multiple-award IDIQ, awarded February 2022, running through September 2031). Together, these two Air Force and MDA vehicles account for the majority of combined potential value despite representing only three awards.

Avian's vehicle portfolio sits across high-ceiling GWACs and Navy IDIQs. The vendor holds seats on SeaPort-e (18 task orders, $72.72 billion combined potential value), Seaport Next Generation (10 task orders, $107.3 million), the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (6 task orders, $83 million), the STEPC BPA under DOT (4 task orders, $3 million combined potential value), and the OASIS+ Unrestricted IDIQ from GSA (ceiling carried as no specified value in the source). The Navy IDIQs and SeaPort vehicles drive the bulk of Avian's work, while DOT transportation work flows through the STEPC vehicle at much smaller scale. Avian's largest single definitive contract is a $147.7 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order with Naval Air Warfare Center for test, engineering, and administrative support to Naval Test Wing Atlantic (awarded March 2022, running through April 2032, under Total Small Business set-aside), where SCI-reportable invoicing ran $3.8 million in FY2022 (27.2 FTEs), $12.7 million in FY2023 (58.3 FTEs), and $12.3 million in FY2024 (52.5 FTEs), with subcontractors including Tekla Research (SDVOSB), Aviation Systems Engineering Company Inc., J.F. Taylor Inc., KBR Wyle Services LLC, and Science Applications International Corporation accounting for 28 percent of contractor hours in FY2024.

Avian's activity has grown sharply: six awards in 2021 to twelve in 2025 (year-to-date). However, recompete exposure is modest—only three awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $82.7 million, limited to the STEPC BPA and related task orders expiring in early 2026 through mid-2027. The vendor competes predominantly as a prime (72% of recent awards, 59 absolute) and operates at scale: across SCI-reportable prime contracts, Avian invoiced $47.9 million from FY2022 through FY2024 (FY2022: $9.6 million across 80.6 FTEs; FY2023: $19.3 million across 97.4 FTEs; FY2024: $19 million across 93.9 FTEs), with median government-paid hourly rates running $73.15/hr (10th percentile $46.38/hr, 90th percentile $112.47/hr). On its prime contracts, Avian engages subcontractors for an average 31 percent of total contractor hours across 33 named subcontractors, predominantly Precise Systems Inc., J.F. Taylor Inc., KBR Wyle Services LLC, and Booz Allen Hamilton.

The vendor's capability framing rests on naval aircraft and systems engineering: the Naval Air Warfare Center contract exemplifies test, depot-level maintenance, and in-service engineering agent support for aircraft systems; Seaport-NXG delivery orders cover airborne mine countermeasures systems repair, overhaul, and integrated logistics support at Naval Sea Systems Command (Panama City, Florida, $16.3 million ceiling through April 2028); and program management and financial analyst support to ONR Code 03 (Arlington, VA, $5.9 million ceiling through January 2028, with BCS Allegient as a major subcontractor). At the Transportation side, Avian delivers integrated communications, education, and training support to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration under STEPC ($2.47 million ceiling through September 2025) and conference planning and drug-and-alcohol program communications through smaller BPA calls. Avian's GSA Schedule portfolio spans 135 labor categories at $24.10–$270.30/hr, from entry-level illustration and financial analysis roles to senior business consulting, without security-cleared positions.

Avian operates with full-and-open and set-aside mixed posture: the STEPC BPA and smaller DOT awards carry SDVOSB set-asides, while the dominant Navy IDIQs and GWACs (SeaPort-e, SHIELD, EWAAC, OASIS+) are unrestricted full-and-open vehicles. In subcontracting roles, Avian supports program management and engineering tasks to Precise Systems Inc., Booz Allen Hamilton, KBR Wyle Services LLC, J.F. Taylor Inc., and others, with named recent work including hardware and software program management under a SAIC COBRA task order (December 2025), Naval Information Warfare executive and program management support under Highbury Defense Group (October 2025), and carrier-based aircraft command-and-control and logistics program support under Precise Systems (June 2025).

AVIAN is an SDVOSB that specializes in technical support to Naval Aviation including Systems Engineering; Flight Test planning, execution, data analysis, and reporting; programmatic support; and acquisition support. The company is particularly strong in its unmanned aerial capabilities across the Navy and Marine Corps portfolio and in the commercial arena too. Additionally, we have expertise in Strategic Communications, Workforce Development and Training, and a range of other specialty subjects.