Chesapeake Technology International, Corp.

Chesapeake Technology International, Corp., a Prince Frederick, Maryland-based software and systems development company, delivers electronic warfare modeling, tactical software engineering, and advanced systems integration services to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor (84% of recent awards) and subcontractor. CTI competes on full-and-open federal contracts across SBIR Phase III vehicles and Defense R&D IDIQs, with no set-aside designations in its recent prime footprint. The company is a subsidiary of Parsons Government Services Inc. and operates alongside sibling subsidiary Rapid Imaging Technologies LLC (a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Business).

CTI's customer concentration is heavily skewed toward naval aviation and special operations. The Naval Air Warfare Center accounts for 84 awards and $207.7 million of combined potential value — 31% of all dollars across CTI's footprint — reflecting deep entrenchment in SBIR Phase III Topic N151-021 work on modeling and visualizing complex tactical electronic warfare environments, threat radars, and tactical aircraft for mission planning and fleet operations. The Office of the Secretary of Defense ranks second with $197.8 million across four awards (the CTI MAESTRO SBIR III umbrella award package valued at $188.2 million through February 2027), followed by the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory at $170 million across three awards. United States Special Operations Command, Naval Special Warfare Command, and the Marine Corps round out the top-five customer set, together accounting for an additional $90.7 million.

CTI holds three primary parent IDIQs anchoring task-order activity. The Naval Air Warfare Center awarded a $35.8 million SBIR Phase III Indefinite Delivery Contract (N6893613D0006) extending through March 2028, supporting continued development of electronic warfare capabilities, Tactical Assault Kit software engineering, and Marine Corps Electronic Warfare Family of Systems products — recent delivery orders include a $6.3 million cost-plus-fixed-fee order (March 2026) for EW environment modeling and visualization at NAS Point Mugu, a $2.1 million SBIR Phase III order (August 2025) for Tactical Assault Kit software development, and a $3.6 million order (March 2024) for Marine Corps EW Family of Systems advancement. The Marine Corps awarded a separate $24.5 million SBIR Phase III Indefinite Delivery Contract (September 2024) for software engineering support services extending through September 2029, with an initial $5.1 million task order issued on the same date. CTI also holds a $9.9 million Basic Ordering Agreement (May 2025) with the Naval Air Warfare Center under SBIR Phase III Topic N151-021 extending through May 2030. Additional task-order vehicles include IDCs valued at $14.6 million, $9.2 million, $24.9 million, and $14.3 million across Naval Air Systems Command and other Defense R&D customers.

Activity has grown materially — four awards in 2022 to eighteen in 2024 — before declining to twelve in 2025 and two in 2026 year-to-date. Six awards carrying combined potential value of $202.7 million face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, creating significant recompete exposure. The largest of these is the $188.2 million MAESTRO SBIR III suite maturing February 2027. CTI's recent combined potential value across all awards stands at $662 million, with $370.7 million obligated to date.

In its subcontractor role, CTI delivers software engineering and development services to Booz Allen Hamilton on EMAPS 2 original awards (three sub-awards spanning September 2023 through October 2024) and to Smartronix on multiple U.S. Special Operations Command Pacific C5ISR task orders (six sub-awards from April 2024 through August 2025). CTI also subcontracts to Science Applications International Corporation on OASIS high-fidelity aviation systems engineering simulator support (reassignment of previous RIT contract to CTI per acquisition, valued at $3 million through January 2026) and to HII Mission Technologies Corp on Army Research Laboratory photonics and persistent expeditionary surveillance efforts.

CTI's capability portfolio centers on defense R&D and system integration — electronic warfare effects modeling, visualization and mission-planning tools, Tactical Assault Kit (ATAK) software engineering and server deployment, tactical software platform integration (MEERKAT), order-of-battle and threat-data libraries, cross-platform application programming interfaces for military command-and-control systems, and advanced analytics for fleet operations. Recent representative prime awards include a $6.3 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order (March 2026) with the Naval Air Warfare Center for continued EW environment modeling and visualization extending through March 2027 at NAS Point Mugu; a $144 thousand firm-fixed-price purchase order (September 2025) with the Drug Enforcement Administration for ATAK integrations in Prince Frederick, Maryland; and a $100 thousand sole-source purchase order (March 2025) with the Naval Air Warfare Center for MEERKAT software system concept analysis and object model integration in California, Maryland. CTI also holds a $3.1 million Air Force delivery order (January 2023) for FY23 MCSCOP Modernization system development and integration and a $748 thousand SBIR Phase II definitive contract (September 2021) with Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex for flight playback tool development.

CTI's award portfolio spans twenty-four distinct federal agencies, with the top five accounting for 75% of recent awards. The vendor competes across research-and-development NAICS codes (39 awards in R&D in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences; 37 in Engineering Services) and defense-systems R&D and weapons-modification PSC categories, signaling focus on applied research and exploratory development for naval aviation and special-operations platforms. The company maintains working relationships with major defense primes including L3Harris Technologies and Science Applications International Corporation, noted in the source as subcontractor partners on prior efforts.