Computational Physics, Inc.

Computational Physics, Inc., a for-profit scientific and technical services provider based in Springfield, Virginia, delivers computational physics, remote sensing, astronomy, astrophysics, aerospace engineering, and atmospheric science support to the Department of Defense and federal research agencies primarily as a prime contractor (81% of recent awards).

The Naval Observatory dominates the customer base. The top five funding agencies account for 82% of recent awards by count and 97% by combined potential value. The Department of the Navy Naval Observatory leads with 182 awards valued at $186.5 million combined potential value, followed by the Office of Naval Research with 76 awards worth $114 million. The Naval Observatory represents approximately 63% of the vendor's total award volume by dollar value across three primary indefinite delivery contracts. When these two Navy entities are combined, they represent approximately $300.5 million of the $322 million combined potential value across all awards—a highly concentrated customer base centered on Naval Observatory astronomy, space science, and precision timekeeping missions.

Capability footprint centers on specialized scientific and engineering labor in support of astronomy and space research. Representative prime work includes a $28.7 million Office of Naval Research definitive contract awarded in April 2026 under Total Small Business set-aside for remote sensing modeling, sensor calibration, instrument design, and scientific analyses through April 2031; a $12.7 million Office of Naval Research definitive contract awarded in February 2022 for geospace remote sensing research, development, and engineering support through January 2027 under Total Small Business set-aside; and a $6.9 million Naval Observatory single-award indefinite delivery contract awarded in June 2025 for astronomy-related scientific and technical services through December 2030. Delivery orders against the Naval Observatory's $72.71 million primary indefinite delivery contract (N0018924D0009) span precise time engineering, astronomy analysis tool development, postdoctoral research associate services, systems engineering, satellite aerospace engineering, electrical engineering for RF and timing systems, and CTO/remediation support. Work is performed primarily in Washington, DC, with some activity in North Springfield, Virginia and Rockville, Maryland.

Vehicle position across Naval Observatory and Navy vehicles is substantial. Computational Physics holds three Naval Observatory indefinite delivery contracts: a $72.71 million single-award IDC for astronomy-related scientific and technical services through February 2029 (71 task orders, $42.2 million combined potential value); a $4.2 million single-award research scientist and R&D support contract through December 2025 (43 task orders, $6.3 million combined potential value); and a $6.9 million single-award small-business-set-aside IDC for labor services through December 2030. An additional $4.1 million flows through an Office of Naval Research indefinite delivery contract (12 task orders). The vendor also holds positions on one acquisition solution for integrated services vehicle drawing 17 task orders.

Activity grew from 14 awards in 2022 to a peak of 44 in 2024, settling to 43 in 2025 and 35 year-to-date in 2026. Thirty-five awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $31.9 million, representing near-term recompete exposure centered on the Naval Observatory's core astronomy and precision timekeeping programs.

Computational Physics operates predominantly as a prime contractor; 81% of recent awards are prime positions. The vendor also holds a significant federal grant footprint as prime recipient. NSF awards include a $269,926 FY2026 Geosciences Project Grant on ionospheric seismology, a $359,936 Project Grant on thermospheric dynamics measurements using Fabry-Perot interferometers, and prior awards on oxygen/nitrogen UV cross sections for remote sensing and magnetometer array operations. The vendor serves as subcontractor to The Regents of the University of Colorado on the Global-Scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission (multiple sub-awards from December 2024 through September 2025 for algorithm management and technical support), to the University of Illinois on the Global Lyman-Alpha Imagers of the Dynamic Exosphere (GLIDE) instrument development (multiple sub-awards February 2024–October 2025), to Assurance Technology Corp on scientific services (multiple sub-awards through February 2024), and to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and other academic institutions on NSF and NASA-funded space weather and atmospheric research.

Set-aside posture splits between Small Business and full-and-open competition. Within the Naval Observatory and Office of Naval Research portfolios, total small business set-asides recur alongside unrestricted full-and-open awards. A $28.7 million ONR definitive contract and a $12.7 million ONR definitive contract both carry Total Small Business set-aside designation. The Naval Observatory's $6.9 million June 2025 indefinite delivery contract is also small-business set-aside. However, the bulk of task order volume flows through the $72.71 million primary IDC, which is not set-aside; delivery orders against that vehicle are issued full-and-open or sole-source without socioeconomic set-aside.

SCI-reportable service contract activity is minimal: the source identifies only 10 SCI records (4 as prime, 6 as named subcontractor) across FY2022–FY2025, with no invoiced revenue recorded in the SCI dataset for those years. This reflects that most of Computational Physics' federal work is procured as definitive or delivery order contracts rather than through vehicles requiring SCI reporting, and substantial activity may be classified or conducted outside SCI reporting thresholds.