Boston Engineering Corporation

Boston Engineering Corporation, a small business product design and engineering consulting firm based in Waltham, Massachusetts, operates as a prime contractor on defense and federal research and development awards with exposure to multiple Navy commands, the Air Force, and the Army, competing predominantly under small-business set-asides while also holding full-and-open contract vehicles.

Boston Engineering's federal customer base concentrates heavily with the Department of the Navy. The Naval Sea Systems Command anchors the portfolio with 27 awards worth $4.03 billion in combined potential value, driven primarily by the company's $4 billion Seaport-NXG indefinite-delivery contract awarded January 2, 2025. The Office of Naval Research follows with 21 awards valued at $55.6 million. The Naval Air Warfare Center, Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command, and the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support round out the active set. Together, these five customers account for 68% of Boston Engineering's award count and capture the full $5.09 billion combined potential value across all awards. The revenue concentration is extreme: the Seaport-NXG vehicle alone represents 79% of the portfolio's potential value, with the Air Force's $975 million Rapid Sustainment Office MAC IDIQ adding another 19%.

Boston Engineering's capability portfolio centers on advanced technology development, prototyping, testing, and systems integration across robotics, autonomy, sensor systems, human-machine teaming, augmented reality, and Internet of Things applications. Representative prime work includes a $24.96 million Office of Naval Research definitive contract awarded September 29, 2025, to advance a bio-inspired propulsion and vehicle concept from technology readiness level 3/4 to procurement maturity; a series of Small Business Innovation Research Phase II awards from Naval Sea Systems Command on Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) High program support, including contracts valued at $1.999 million (June 9, 2025), $1.878 million (May 8, 2025), and $1.933 million (February 13, 2025), all cost-plus-fixed-fee and designated as total small business set-asides; and a $1.999 million SBIR Phase III award from the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support on September 23, 2025, for digital warehousing enterprise OCR and augmented reality solutions under the Strategic Distribution and Disposition Broad Agency Announcement.

Boston Engineering's set-aside posture is mixed. The firm competes predominantly under total small business set-asides—the overwhelming majority of definitive contracts and SBIR/STTR work carry that designation—but holds three significant full-and-open IDVs: the $4 billion Seaport-NXG vehicle from Naval Sea Systems Command (awarded January 2, 2025), the $975 million Rapid Sustainment Office MAC from the Air Force (awarded July 30, 2024), and a $1.57 million Other Transaction IDV from the Air Force for in-scope engineering change activities on the DARK DECEIVER program (awarded December 20, 2024). The company was also awarded a seat on GSA's OASIS+ Total Small Business Set-Aside multiple-award GWAC on December 19, 2024, with a placeholder ceiling of $999,999,999,999 and a base period through December 18, 2029, spanning management and advisory, technical and engineering, research and development, intelligence, environmental, facilities, and logistics functional domains.

Activity has accelerated in the past three years. The company executed four awards annually in 2022 and 2023, then grew to eight in 2024 and fourteen in 2025. Two awards have been issued in 2026 to date. Ten awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $47 million) face recompete exposure. Boston Engineering's subcontractor footprint is minimal—only three sub-awards appear in the source, with roles on MIT Lincoln Laboratory FFRDC equipment and integration work (November 2025) and on Atlantic Diving Supply's DARK DECEIVER detailed payload integration (June 2024). Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $76.6 million, representing 2% of the portfolio's $5.09 billion potential value, indicating the firm is in early execution phases across most vehicles.