Cisco Systems Inc.

Cisco Systems Inc., headquartered in San Jose, California, sells networking hardware, software, and IT infrastructure maintenance and support services to the federal government as a prime contractor (78% of recent awards) and subcontractor on defense programs. The company competes full-and-open across both prime and sub work with no SBA set-aside designations. Cisco is a for-profit manufacturer and parent entity with 16 named subsidiaries including Duo Security LLC, AppDynamics LLC, Cisco Webex LLC, and BroadSoft Inc., which extend its capability portfolio across security, application performance monitoring, unified communications, and cloud services.

Cisco's prime footprint concentrates on network maintenance and software licensing. Recent representative prime work includes a $902,555 firm-fixed-price delivery order from US Cyber Command (June 2026) for Cisco maintenance services supporting network infrastructure, a $787,809 Cyber Command delivery order for Cisco maintenance (June 2025), a $4.185 million definitive contract from the Air Force (June 2023) for software-defined wide-area networking in support of JADC2, and a $7.76 million purchase order from the Department of State Bureau of Information Resource Management (June 2024) for Cisco monitoring services on a global wireless solution. Cisco also received a $11,400 purchase order from the State Department's Bureau of Human Resources for a Slido audience engagement platform license.

Customer concentration is anchored by defense and intelligence agencies. The top five funding agencies by count account for 31% of recent awards, led by the Department of the Army (33 awards), the Defense Information Systems Agency (29 awards, $4.29 billion combined potential value), the Department of the Air Force (24 awards, $4.2 million combined potential value), the Department of the Navy (22 awards), and the Department of Education Office of Federal Student Aid (17 awards). The dollars-by-value ranking diverges sharply: DISA dominates at $4.29 billion across 29 awards, followed by the Army Headquarters Office of the Secretary with $748.8 million across six awards and the Air Force Air Education and Training Command with $203.6 million across eight awards. Together, the top five customers by potential value account for 93% of combined potential value.

Cisco holds multiple indefinite-delivery vehicles. The primary vehicle is Indefinite Delivery Contract HC102814D0003, carrying 51 task orders and $1.16 billion in combined potential value. A second major IDC, HC108419D0004, supports 39 task orders and $715.6 million in potential value. A third vehicle, HC108421D0003, carries 16 task orders and $101.1 million. Cisco also maintains 23 task orders under the Multiple Award Schedule and 17 task orders under the Chief Information Officer Solutions and Partners 3 vehicle. Additionally, Cisco received a $25 million single-award indefinite-delivery contract from the Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization (June 2025) for Cisco Smart Net Total Care support and software services across Department of Defense IT infrastructure, with an ultimate completion date of June 2030. The source also references a $1.18 billion single-award IDIQ with DITCO; this represents a higher-value vehicle that has enabled significant DoD task order activity. More recently, on December 29, 2025, Cisco qualified for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award contract, a $151 billion vehicle through the Missile Defense Agency with a ten-year performance period through December 28, 2035, competing full-and-open across classified and unclassified work in support of multi-domain defense systems.

Activity has grown substantially. Awards increased from two in 2023 to 42 in 2024 and 43 in 2025, with five awards recorded in 2026 to date. Combined potential value across all 401 recent awards (prime and sub) totals $5.87 billion, with $2.01 billion (34%) obligated. Only three awards with combined potential value of $5.1 million face completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal near-term recompete exposure.

Cisco's subcontractor footprint is deep across defense integrators. General Dynamics Information Technology appears on approximately 20 sub awards for cloud infrastructure, enterprise IT operations, and air defense communications support. General Dynamics Mission Systems appears on approximately 15 sub awards for satellite communications ground sustainment, network operations, and TNE (Trusted Network Environment) voice systems. Leidos holds approximately eight sub awards for operations support, future flight services, and wide-area surveillance. Northrop Grumman Systems and Accenture Federal Services also engage Cisco as a subcontractor for deep-space radar capability and digital customer care platforms. World Wide Technology subcontracts Cisco networking hardware for Army Test and Evaluation Command. L3Harris, ABT Global, and others complete the named sub prime relationships.

Cisco's capability concentration aligns with its hardware and software portfolio. The top NAICS categories across the portfolio are Software Publishers (109 awards), Computer Systems Design Services (42 awards), and Other Computer Related Services (26 awards). Top PSC codes reflect maintenance and software licensing: IT and Telecom — Other IT and Telecommunications (45 awards), IT and Telecom — Annual Software Maintenance Service Plans (41 awards), and Information Technology Software (27 awards). This profile indicates a vendor deeply embedded in federal IT infrastructure maintenance, cloud services, network operations, and cybersecurity tooling rather than pure hardware commodity sales, despite Cisco's origin as a network equipment manufacturer.