Connected Alliances LLC

Connected Alliances LLC, a woman-owned small business based in Laconia, New Hampshire, serves the Department of Defense and the Department of the Air Force as a prime contractor providing strategic consulting, program management, and technical support services for modernization pathfinder initiatives, operational energy innovation, training systems development, and logistics transformation. The company is SBA-certified as a Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) and self-certified as a Small Disadvantaged Business, competing predominantly under woman-owned small business set-asides on roughly 55% of recent awards while winning the remainder through full-and-open competition, demonstrating competitive strength in both postures.

Connected Alliances concentrates heavily on Air Force pathfinder projects—rapid prototyping and proof-of-concept initiatives designed to accelerate capability development and implementation. Representative work includes a $6.24 million Combat Cyber Guardian Readiness Pathfinder with Air Force (awarded December 2025), a $4.615 million Blended Wing Body Composite Manufacturing Pathfinder with Air Force Research Laboratory (March 2025), a $4.399 million Wireless Power Enabling Nonstop Drones Utilizing Remote Energy (ENDURE) Pathfinder with the Office of the Secretary of Defense (August 2024), and a $3.78 million F-16 Fighter Training Unit Process Pathfinder with Air Education and Training Command (December 2024). Across these initiatives, Connected Alliances delivers multimedia training platforms, virtual reality immersive training systems, facility validation and modernization support, data analytics, operational energy efficiency solutions, and workforce competency development for transport and fighter aircraft platforms spanning the C-5, C-17, C-130, KC-46, CV-22, MH-139, F-16, and B-767 fleets.

Customer concentration tracks heavily toward Air Force commands. The top five funding agencies account for 92% of combined potential value, led decisively by the Department of the Air Force Headquarters District Washington with 24 awards and $433.6 million in combined potential value—the $99.999 million A4 and SAF/IEN Aviation Energy Efficiency IDIQ awarded September 2025 and the $99.999 million PKH/SANTOS/PRYMAK Operational Energy and Logistics Innovation IDIQ awarded September 2023 anchor this concentration. Air Education and Training Command follows with 28 awards and $59.4 million, Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory with 25 awards and $47.7 million, Air Mobility Command with 16 awards and $38 million, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense with 13 awards and $23.8 million. The company has worked with 19 distinct federal customer agencies in recent years, but Air Force-related organizations represent the preponderance of the portfolio.

Connected Alliances holds five primary Indefinite Delivery Contracts with the Department of the Air Force valued at approximately $500 million combined through 2027–2030. Four woman-owned small business set-aside IDIQs dominate the portfolio: the $99.999 million A4 and SAF/IEN Aviation Energy Efficiency contract (ultimate completion September 2030), the $99.999 million PKH/SANTOS/PRYMAK A4 Pilot Production and Training Modernization contract (September 2028), the $99.999 million PKH/SANTOS/PRYMAK Operational Energy and Logistics Innovation contract (September 2028), and the $99 million PKH/SANTOS/PRYMAK Sustainment Strategic Framework contract (September 2027). A fifth award—a $151 billion multiple-award IDIQ under the Missile Defense Agency's Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program—awarded December 2025 with no set-aside designation and ultimate completion in 2035, represents a significant new vehicle. These IDIQs have generated approximately $238 million in cumulative task orders to date. Under the PKH/SANTOS/PRYMAK suite, the three main IDIQs account for 110 delivery orders valued at $238.3 million combined.

Activity has remained strong but shows slight deceleration in 2025–2026. The company received 28 awards in 2022, 32 in 2023, 41 in 2024, 25 in 2025, and 14 through early 2026. Thirty-one awards with ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months carry a combined potential value of $63 million and represent recompete exposure. The company's award portfolio is dominated by delivery orders under its existing Air Force IDIQs, with 43 orders under one vehicle, 43 under another, 27 under a third, and 24 under a fourth, demonstrating the critical importance of IDIQ vehicle holds to the business model. All 149 recorded awards are prime contracts; the company has no recorded subcontract footprint in the source data, positioning it as a pure prime across its federal engagement.

Connected Alliances' capability portfolio concentrates on air platform-specific training modernization, operational energy and fuel efficiency technology pathfinders, logistics innovation and supply chain optimization, facility validation and military construction reform, workforce competency development, and cyber and information technology readiness initiatives. Work is performed firm fixed-price across multiple Air Force installations including Randolph, Scott, Wright-Patterson, Davis-Monthan, and Lackland Air Force Bases, as well as Space Force installations and defense agencies in Washington and other locations nationwide.

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