Blackwatch International Corporation

Blackwatch International Corporation, a McLean, Virginia–based for-profit technology solutions provider, operates as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards) delivering microelectronics design, fabrication, engineering, and manufacturing sustainment services to defense and civilian agencies, with a $9.45 billion combined potential value across 42 recent prime and sub awards and a recent shift toward larger vehicles and full-and-open competition work rather than set-asides.

Blackwatch's customer concentration is dominated by defense microelectronics and FBI IT infrastructure. The Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA) leads by award count with 21 awards totaling $447.2 million in combined potential value, reflecting Blackwatch's strategic role as a manufacturer and engineering support provider for the Department of Defense's assured-access microelectronics mission. The Federal Bureau of Investigation's Headquarters Division represents the largest dollar concentration by a substantial margin: two awards carry $8.61 billion in combined potential value, anchored by a single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) under Information Technology Supplies and Support Services 2 (ITSSS-2) with an $8.6 billion ceiling. The Department of Commerce's Patent and Trademark Office follows with two awards totaling $130.9 million, while the Department of the Navy carries two awards totaling $254.9 million in combined potential value. Fourteen distinct federal agencies have awarded Blackwatch work across the source's time window.

Vehicle positioning reveals a footprint centered on large-scale indefinite delivery contracts. Blackwatch holds a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with DMEA (contract HQ072723D0002) valued at $214.2 million through August 2028, with nine delivery orders totaling $164.9 million in combined potential value issued to date; the contract specifies cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing for manufacturing sustainment, microelectronics fabrication, assembly, testing, and facility operations at McClellan Park and Jackson, California. Blackwatch also sits on GSA's OASIS+ Total Small Business multiple-award IDIQ (awarded December 2024, ceiling $999,999,999,999, base through December 2029), and on the Missile Defense Agency's Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award IDIQ (awarded December 2025, $151 billion ceiling, ten-year period through December 2035), on which Blackwatch received an initial delivery order for $500 in December 2025. Two Federal Supply Schedule positions (GS10F0368L and GS35F0005M) carry minimal recent activity.

Recent award trajectory shows growth concentrated in FY2025 and FY2026. After baseline activity of three to four awards per year from 2021 through 2024, Blackwatch received seven awards in FY2025 and three in FY2026 (through mid-April). Notably, five awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $114.7 million, representing near-term recompete exposure. Recent representative prime work includes a $62.3 million End User Support Operations Support (EUSOS) definitive contract with the Patent and Trademark Office (awarded April 2026, through October 2031, labor-hours pricing), a $115.9 million silicon carbide capability expansion delivery order with DMEA (awarded April 2026, cost-plus-fixed-fee, through September 2030), a $36.1 million DMEA manufacturing sustainment and engineering support delivery order for microelectronics facility operations (awarded August 2023, cost-plus-fixed-fee, through March 2028, generating $7.1 million in FY2024 invoiced labor across 12.0 FTEs with zero subcontractor engagement), a $68.7 million Patent and Trademark Office Enterprise Infrastructure Product Line compute contract (awarded March 2023, labor-hours pricing, through March 2028, invoicing $13.4 million in FY2024 across 50.9 FTEs with 34 percent subcontracting), and a $15 million BPA call with FBI Headquarters for audio, video, engineering, enhancement, and repair services under ITSSS-2 (awarded August 2025, time-and-materials pricing, through February 2031).

Set-aside posture has shifted from small-business reservations to full-and-open competition. Of recent awards, the DMEA single-award IDV and several task orders carry Total Small Business set-asides; the FBI BPA, SHIELD multiple-award IDIQ, and the Patent and Trademark Office work operate under full-and-open or no-set-aside designations. The OASIS+ vehicle provides a small-business platform for civilian agency work across seven functional domains.

Service Contract Inventory data capture is partial and recent. SCI-reportable invoicing totaled $20.5 million in FY2024 across 62.9 FTEs (contract-level aggregation), with prior fiscal years showing minimal SCI-reportable activity ($0 in FY2022 and FY2023, though 0.9 FTEs were reported in FY2022). On federal services contracts captured in SCI, government-paid hourly rates ran at a 10th percentile of $142.29/hr, median of $205.51/hr, and 90th percentile of $268.73/hr. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors performed approximately 6 percent of contractor hours; Blackwatch named three subcontractors in SCI filings. The FTE trajectory reflects growing federal service-contract engagement: from 0.9 FTEs in FY2022 to 50.3 FTEs in FY2024.

Subcontracting footprint remains light in recent awards. Blackwatch delivered one sub-award visible in the source: engineering and scientific support services for Human Dimensions and Global-scale Biology (HBG) Task requirements under a Science Systems and Applications Inc. prime contract (awarded October 2025). The vendor's self-performance rate across SCI-reportable contracts (94 percent of contractor hours) and the 98 percent prime-vs-sub split in the award portfolio indicate Blackwatch builds delivery teams in-house rather than as a feeder subcontractor.

Corporate structure includes a single named subsidiary, North Star JV LLC, certified as a small disadvantaged business and structured as a limited liability company. The subsidiary designation does not carry explicit capability framing in the source material.

Blackwatch's capability portfolio spans microelectronics manufacturing, IT infrastructure, and federal IT support services, with work performed across multiple locations: primary operations at McLean, Virginia (West McLean for Patent and Trademark Office and FBI work) and McClellan Park and Jackson, California (DMEA manufacturing sustainment), plus subordinate performance sites including Huntsville, Alabama (SHIELD) and location-specific task order sites under OASIS+.

Blackwatch provides SCA and Medical support staffing, operations, IT services including programming, software development, architecture, SharePoint maintenance, database and configuration management, Cyber, IA and Risk Management Framework services, program and project management, telecommunications maintenance, repairs, and replacements, A/V and VTC upgrades and replacements, facilities maintenance services, operations of facilities, ports, warehouses, etc.