Colvin Run Networks, Inc.

Colvin Run Networks, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in McLean, Virginia, serves as a prime contractor (97% of recent awards) delivering advanced information technology services — analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, cybersecurity, and cloud computing — to Department of Defense and defense research agencies, with a dominant footprint in Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs.

Colvin Run competes predominantly under total small business set-asides across its prime portfolio. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation operating under primary NAICS 541512 (Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences) and applies research-and-development PSC coding across 26 SBIR/STTR awards, which account for the bulk of its named contract work. The vendor's recent award trajectory has accelerated significantly — one award in 2022, climbing to five in 2024 and ten in 2025 — but dollar concentration masks this volume: a single $4 billion SeaPort-NxG multiple award contract with Naval Sea Systems Command, awarded in January 2025, represents 99.5% of the combined potential value across the entire 37-award portfolio. With only $20.5 million obligated against a combined potential value of $4.02 billion, the portfolio is heavily ceiling-weighted by the SeaPort vehicle.

Customer concentration by award count centers on research agencies. The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) leads by volume with 14 awards valued at $8.4 million combined potential, split across SBIR Phase I, Phase II, and Phase II Direct Phase contracts for projects including RAGTIME (automated documentation and analytics, $1.8 million), CAMBER (generative AI for maintenance reporting, $1.25 million), Digital Spaceport of the Future ($1.9 million), and GREX (decentralized autonomous command-and-control, $180 thousand). The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) hosts eight awards totaling $4 billion in potential value, anchored by the SeaPort-NxG contract and supported by definitive contracts for SBIRS High analytics and data-fusion work ($2 million definitive contract in March 2026, cost-plus-fixed-fee through March 2029; $240 thousand Phase I SBIR in June 2025). The Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) holds two awards worth $2.4 million (a $2.25 million R&D definitive, cost-plus-fixed-fee through May 2029, and a $174.9 thousand SBIR Phase I). Naval Strategic Systems Programs, Naval Air Warfare Center, and Defense Microelectronics Activity round out the top customers. The ranking by potential value is dominated entirely by the SeaPort platform; by award count, AFRL's dense SBIR portfolio is the operational center of gravity.

Colvin Run's parent vehicles position it to compete across Navy and cross-DoD opportunities. The company holds a seat on SeaPort Next Generation (two task orders, $500 combined potential value, through January 2029), allowing competition for NAVSEA and Navy system command partners including NAVAIR, NAVWAR, NAVFAC, NAVSUP, and ONR. In December 2025, Colvin Run was awarded a position on the Missile Defense Agency's Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award IDIQ with a $151 billion ceiling and a 10-year performance period through December 2035 — an unrestricted, full-and-open competition vehicle supporting multi-domain defense systems R&D, prototyping, systems engineering, and production. A single initial task order for $500 has been issued. Colvin Run also maintains a General Services Administration Federal Supply Schedule contract (Schedule 54151S, $500 thousand ceiling, valid through January 2028) offering 15 IT labor categories at rates spanning $99.73 to $360.68 per hour for project support, project management, program oversight, and subject-matter-expert roles, all requiring a bachelor's degree with no security-cleared positions offered.

Four awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying combined potential value of $4.2 million and therefore representing near-term recompete exposure. The vendor operates predominantly as a prime contractor with minimal sub engagement — only one sub-award appears in the source data, a professional support services sub-award under Serco Inc. in January 2023 for NAVSEA Surface Warfare support. Across SCI-reportable service contracts above the $150,000 threshold, Colvin Run appears as a named subcontractor only, delivering 0.6 FTEs in FY2024 and thus contributing to a larger prime's staffing rather than managing its own service-contract invoicing footprint. The overwhelming majority of the vendor's federal revenue flows through SBIR/STTR research contracts and the newly acquired SeaPort-NxG and SHIELD vehicles, not through labor-category service contracts.

Colvin Run Networks streamlines data coordination, validation & verification processes with distributed ledger technology (blockchain) concepts & methodologies. We optimize high volume transactional ecosystems and complex, mission-critical, data-driven supply chain activities. Applications include logistics, interdepartmental processes, Internet of Things, credentialing, and chain-of-command approvals.