Bevilacqua Research Corporation

Bevilacqua Research Corporation, a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, operates as a prime contractor delivering defense engineering, research and development, and technical support services to the Department of Defense and related agencies. The vendor competes predominantly in full-and-open procurements and Total Small Business set-asides, with no 8(a), HUBZone, or other socioeconomic set-aside activity across its recent award footprint.

The company's capability portfolio centers on systems engineering, test and evaluation, prototype fabrication, advanced technology development, and fleet support for naval and defense applications. Recent representative work includes a $87.8 million cost-no-fee delivery order from the Office of the Secretary of Defense under Seaport Next Generation for engineering and technical support to the Test and Evaluation and Prototype Fabrication Division (award date July 25, 2022, completion September 7, 2027); a $13.3 million cost-plus-fixed-fee Naval Sea Systems Command delivery order under Seaport-NXG for mission-deployed systems and special programs engineering and fleet support in Panama City, Florida (award date June 20, 2023, completion June 19, 2028); and a $7.5 million Naval Sea Systems Command delivery order for diving, biomedical, IT, logistics, and program management support to the Navy Experimental Dive Unit (award date September 18, 2022, completion September 17, 2027). The company also pursues Small Business Innovation Research Phase I and Phase II awards—a $265 thousand Air Force Research Laboratory Phase II SBIR for optically stimulated cognitive load regulation research (July 2022) and a $95.7 thousand Engineer Research and Development Center Phase III SBIR for multispectral technical effects and enhanced cognitive processing technology (May 2023, extended through December 2026).

Customer concentration skews toward Navy and defense technology customers, with the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command anchoring 9 awards worth $10.07 billion combined potential value and the Office of the Secretary of Defense accounting for 14 awards worth $1.09 billion. By award count, the Engineer Research and Development Center dominates with 220 awards totaling $21.8 million in potential value. The top five customer agencies together account for 86% of all awards. Dollar concentration is extreme: the Navy and OSD together represent over 98% of the vendor's $11.34 billion combined potential value, while the ERDC's 220 awards represent less than 0.2% of total dollars.

Bevilacqua Research holds positions on five primary Army Corps of Engineers IDIQs—contracts W912HZ10D0001 (105 task orders, $9.4 million combined value), W912HZ05D0014 (71 task orders, $3 million), W912HZ08D0005 (36 task orders, $2.7 million), DAAH0100DA100 (18 task orders), and W91C9G07D0003 (10 task orders, $34 million)—which collectively account for 240 task orders and approximately $9.4 million in invoiced value. Most significantly, Bevilacqua Research was awarded a $151 billion multiple-award IDIQ by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, designated the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD), running through December 28, 2035. SHIELD encompasses research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, test and evaluation, and cybersecurity across multi-domain defense applications including ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile defense with full-and-open competition and no set-aside designation. Performance is primarily in Huntsville, Alabama.

Award activity has been sparse in recent years—one award in both 2020 and 2021, three in 2022, three in 2023, and three in 2025—despite the vendor's 333 total awards spanning back to 1994 and a $280.1 million combined obligation across the footprint. Four awards worth $108.8 million combined potential value reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure. Across NAICS coding, the vendor's historical footprint splits between Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services (106 awards), Research and Development in Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (41 awards), and Engineering Services (36 awards). The company operates almost exclusively as a prime (332 of 333 awards); the single sub award was placed under DCS Corporation on an Air Force Life Cycle Management Center advisory and assistance services engagement in June 2025. Service Contract Inventory reporting is minimal—only two SCI-reportable records spanning FY2022 to FY2024 in a subcontractor capacity, reflecting limited transparency into the company's federal service-contract activity above the $150,000 threshold on those specific vehicles.

Military research & development, Computer programming services