Black Cape, Inc.

Black Cape, Inc., a SBA-certified veteran-owned small business based in Arlington, Virginia, delivers advanced research and development, software development, data analytics, and artificial intelligence solutions to Department of Defense and intelligence agencies as a prime contractor (91% of recent awards) and selective subcontractor. Black Cape competes predominantly under full-and-open vehicle vehicles rather than set-aside categories, though it holds a seat on the OASIS+ Total Small Business government-wide IDIQ and has received SBIR Phase I, II, and III awards across multiple agencies under small-business set-asides.

Black Cape's customer concentration is heavily tilted toward defense and national security. The top five funding agencies by potential value account for 99% of combined dollars, led by the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command (2 awards, $4 billion combined potential value), driven almost entirely by a $4 billion Seaport-NXG multiple-award indefinite delivery contract awarded January 2, 2025. The Department of the Air Force ranks second (6 awards, $1.84 billion combined potential value), anchored by a $600 million Enterprise Decision Integration Support (EDIS) single-award IDIQ (September 2025 – September 2030) and a $274.6 million Authoritative Theater Object Management System SBIR Phase III delivery order (April 2026 – March 2031). The Department of the Air Force Headquarters District Washington holds a $249 million AI Talent 2.0 Basic Ordering Agreement (May 2023 – May 2028), and the Office of the Secretary of Defense holds a parallel $249 million JAIC AI Data Readiness BOA (March 2022 – March 2027). The United States Special Operations Command accounts for 7 awards and $60.9 million potential value, including a $49 million single-award platform-agnostic data storage infrastructure IDIQ (May 2022 – May 2027) and multiple SBIR Phase III delivery orders for RUBICON and related software development initiatives.

Vehicle holdings position Black Cape across strategic defense and intelligence platforms. Beyond the Seaport-NXG, EDIS IDIQ, and USSOCOM platform-storage contract, Black Cape holds a $151 billion multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract under the Missile Defense Agency's Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program (January 2026 – December 2035), a $999,999,999,999 ceiling OASIS+ Total Small Business multiple-award IDIQ through GSA (December 2024 – December 2029), and a $950 million Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) multiple-award IDIQ with the Department of the Air Force (February 2022 – May 2030). Black Cape also holds a GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract under the Multiple Award Schedule covering Information Technology Professional Services and Cloud Computing, effective through March 2029, with nine labor categories spanning $137.55 to $334.20 per hour across software developer, cloud engineer, data scientist, and subject-matter-expert roles, all requiring a bachelor's degree and security clearance.

Capability portfolio centers on battle management systems, artificial intelligence and data analytics, platform-agnostic data infrastructure, and defense modernization. Representative named work includes the RUBICON platform-agnostic data storage infrastructure for air-ground integration (Air Force Research Laboratory and USSOCOM SBIR Phase II and III, $1.2 million and $3.2 million respectively), the Fusion of Open Source Resources for Event Classification and Alerting of Significant Threats (FORECAST) system (Air Force Research Laboratory SBIR Phase I and II, $148 thousand and $1.2 million), Advanced Battle Management System support services (Air Force ABMS IDIQ), Enterprise Decision Integration Support for Air Force command and control (EDIS IDIQ, $600 million), and the Authoritative Theater Object Management System for theater-level battle management (Air Force, $274.6 million delivery order). Black Cape has also delivered SBIR Phase I and II work on high-speed missile-to-missile communications (Missile Defense Agency, $149.6 thousand Phase I) and Hokkien low-density language processing (USSOCOM, $174.6 thousand Phase I) and holds a $2.8 million Army SBIR Phase II contract for unspecified Topic A234-007 work. Recent subcontract engagements place Black Cape under CACI Inc. (Full-Spectrum Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance Innovation and Integration, November 2025), Systems & Technology Research LLC (Navy software development and integration, April 2025; ARPA-H automated medical device patching GUI support, April 2025), and Kratos S2, Inc. (COSMIC AES SBIR Phase III labor and travel, January 2024).

Activity trajectory shows modest but consistent recent volume. Awards per year declined from 9 in 2022 to 5 in 2023, then rebounded to 9 in 2024 and 9 in 2025, with 3 awards through early April 2026. Combined potential value across all 43 prime and sub awards reaches $6.43 billion, though obligated dollars total only $68.8 million (1% of potential value), reflecting the predominance of IDIQs and BOAs with task orders issued incrementally. Recompete risk is minimal—only 3 awards (combined potential value $7.9 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. Obligated-to-potential-value ratio signals that Black Cape has substantial unfunded ceiling headroom across its portfolio of government-wide and agency-specific vehicles, positioning the company to scale work volume rapidly as task orders are issued.