Boston Fusion Corp

Boston Fusion Corp, a woman-owned small business based in Lexington, Massachusetts, delivers advanced artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics capabilities for Department of Defense research and development as a prime contractor (90% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor to large defense primes. The vendor competes full-and-open across all customer agencies with no set-aside designations on its prime IDIQ work, though most individual task orders and definitive contracts carry SBIR/STTR designations or Total Small Business set-asides reflecting the vendor's small-business profile.

Boston Fusion's customer concentration sits heavily with defense research agencies. The top five customers account for 68% of recent awards by count: the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (15 awards, $19.4 million combined potential value), the Air Force Research Laboratory (12 awards, $20.2 million), the Office of Naval Research (11 awards, $13.4 million), Naval Air Warfare Center (6 awards, $2.5 million), and the Missile Defense Agency (6 awards, $2.9 million). By potential value, the Air Force Research Laboratory and DARPA lead, with the Office of Naval Research third and the Army and Defense Contract Management Agency rounding out the top five at $4 million and $3.7 million respectively. The portfolio spans 17 distinct federal agencies; no single customer dominates dollars, though the Air Force, Navy (ONR), and DARPA together anchor roughly 60% of combined potential value.

Boston Fusion holds seat on multiple federal vehicles anchoring its R&D footprint. The vendor was awarded a $151 billion multiple-award IDIQ under the Missile Defense Agency's Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program on December 29, 2025, running through December 28, 2035, with an initial $500 delivery order issued simultaneously. The vendor also holds DARPA Other Transaction IDVs, including the $4.323 million Environment-Driven Conceptual Learning (ECOLE) vehicle awarded May 30, 2023, and the $499,950 GEO-TRAIT geospatial trait modeling vehicle from November 22, 2021. Boston Fusion operates under Naval Air Warfare Center Basic Ordering Agreements (four task orders, $3.5 million combined potential value) and an Information Analysis Center Multiple-Award Contract (two task orders). Representative recent capability work includes a $5.535 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the Office of Naval Research for development of the Rubric-Based Intelligent Curation (RUBICON) framework—a modular system for sailor-centric text-based reporting—awarded January 31, 2025; a $1.999 million SBIR Phase II definitive contract from the Department of the Army for strategic intelligence tools applying computational social science to grey-zone modeling, awarded April 14, 2025; and a $725,000 definitive contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory for MIRAGE, a project to develop physically realizable alterations that degrade adversary AI system confidence in military observations, awarded July 22, 2025.

Activity peaked in 2024 (eight awards) and has moderated to five awards in 2025 and two through mid-2026. Two awards face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months with combined potential value of $725 thousand. The vendor's category concentration centers on applied research and exploratory development across physical engineering and life sciences, with top NAICS codes reflecting R&D in the physical, engineering, and life sciences (39 and 28 awards respectively). Boston Fusion subcontracts to Lockheed Martin on the DAC Integration and Contextual Explanation (DICE) service item across four task orders (June 2024–July 2024) and to HII Mission Technologies Corp on Resilient All-Domain Command and Control counter-AI research efforts (December 2024), with prior subcontract work involving Rutgers University on autonomous swarming hierarchies development and Arizona State University on SBIR Phase II research. The vendor also acts as sub-recipient to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on natural language processing model development under a federal grant from the Research Development and Engineering Command.

Boston Fusion conducts advanced research and development in the areas of information fusion, processing, analysis, and related services, for the government and private sector entities.