Charles River Analytics, Inc.

Charles River Analytics, Inc., an employee-owned small business based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, delivers advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, and human-machine teaming solutions to the federal government as a prime contractor on 98% of recent awards, with a child-company relationship to parent Grvty, Inc. The company competes predominantly full-and-open across defense and civilian agencies, with SBIR and STTR set-asides representing a recurring but non-dominant posture across the prime footprint.

Charles River Analytics operates as a research and development services provider, with concrete work spanning neurosymbolic AI agents for military planning, autonomous systems and robotic platforms, vestibular and cognitive health assessment tools, virtual reality-based training and rehabilitation systems, naval information warfare software development, cybersecurity and intrusion detection, and space domain awareness capabilities. Recent representative contracts include a $3.7 million cost-plus-fixed-fee Air Force Research Laboratory award for meta-reinforcement learning-based intelligent neurosymbolic agents for strategic insight; a $14.1 million full-and-open Naval Information Warfare Systems Command contract (RESCIND program) for cybersecurity and network defense R&D; a $15.4 million Office of Naval Research unmanned underwater vehicle experimentation contract; and a $11.1 million DARPA contract for the Strategic Chaos Engine for Planning, Tactics, Experimentation and Resiliency (SCATTER) program. The company also holds a $249 million Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center for AI and machine learning test and evaluation services and a $950 million Advanced Battle Management System contract with the Air Force, positioning it as a significant technology partner for defense AI and autonomy initiatives.

Customer concentration sits heavily with Department of Defense components. The top five funding entities account for 87% of combined potential value and include the Naval Sea Systems Command (51 awards, $3.99 billion—anchoring the portfolio through large SBIRS High work), the Air Force ($950.2 million across 91 awards), DARPA ($189.5 million across 65 awards), the Office of Naval Research ($132 million across 117 awards), and Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory ($105.5 million across 216 awards). By award count, Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory leads with 216 awards, but the two rankings diverge sharply: Naval Sea Systems Command places far fewer individual awards but dominates in dollar value through its space-based infrared system development contracts.

Charles River Analytics maintains a robust indefinite delivery vehicle footprint across multiple agencies. The company holds a recently awarded $151 billion Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ with the Missile Defense Agency (December 2025); the $249 million JAIC Blanket Purchase Agreement (active through January 2027); a $24 million single-award Naval Information Warfare Systems Command Indefinite Delivery Contract for DATEM software development; a $5.6 million DARPA Other Transaction IDV under the OPEN program (TA2); and a $2.5 million single-award Department of Transportation Indefinite Delivery Contract for transportation human factors research. The company also participates in multiple Navy IDIQs supporting SBIRS High and other programs.

Activity has remained relatively flat to slightly declining—39 awards in 2022, 29 in 2023, 41 in 2024, 27 in 2025, and 1 award through January 2026. The recompete cliff shows 33 awards (combined potential value $98.8 million) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing moderate recompete exposure across the portfolio.

Across SCI-reportable federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold, Charles River Analytics invoiced $1.5 million in combined activity through FY2024 (FY2022: $765 thousand across 1.9 FTEs; FY2024: $760 thousand across 0.6 FTEs). Government-paid median hourly rates for labor on these prime service contracts ran around $395 per hour, with senior labor pricing reaching $1,660 per hour at the 90th percentile. The SCI dataset is a narrow slice of the company's federal work, excluding R&D contracts, goods, classified work, and most small-business awards that dominate Charles River Analytics' footprint.

The company operates primarily as its own delivery engine—across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors accounted for an average of 2% of total hours. Named sub relationships on recent federal awards include Proximavision Corp (doing business as B4M) on a DARPA PULLING GUARD OTA, the Trustees of Boston University on a DARPA CACHE compartmentalization research contract, and the University of Nevada, Reno on an Office of Naval Research 873-authority fundamental research project. On contracts where Charles River Analytics subcontracts to primes, it supports Atlantic Diving Supply on uncrewed payload computing and augmented reality licensing work, HII Mission Technologies on resilient all-domain command and control test and evaluation, and others. The company's sub engagement is minimal by share, reflecting a prime-focused business model.

Federal grant work spans health, safety, and civilian research. Charles River Analytics is a recipient under the SBIR and related programs from civilian agencies including the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (RECOVER rehabilitation system for traumatic brain injury, $628 thousand; SAMM socially assistive mobile manipulator for tetraplegia, $400 thousand), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (SURVIVE immersive VR for stimulant use disorder treatment; NO VAPE VR for vaping cessation), the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (IMPRINT confined spaces training), the Department of Energy Office of Science (intrusion detection and cybersecurity research, $200 thousand), and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (VR train-the-trainer program). Grant work reflects the company's deep expertise in immersive technologies, human factors, and behavioral health applications alongside its core defense AI and autonomy mission.

The vendor's research and development footprint centers on NAICS 541712 (Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences except Biotechnology), with 428 awards, and 541714 (Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology), with 303 awards. Primary PSC coding aligns with R&D–Defense Other (Applied and Basic Research), with secondary coverage in defense systems R&D and national defense services. The portfolio reflects sustained investment in advanced analytics and AI for defense planning, autonomous systems, space domain awareness, naval systems, and emerging technologies, with growing civilian health and safety applications.