Crown Innovations, Inc.

Crown Innovations, Inc., a minority-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, is a prime contractor on $5.07 billion in combined potential value across 250 recent federal awards, competing predominantly full-and-open rather than under set-asides. The company's footprint spans technical research, systems engineering, data analysis, and infrastructure modernization for civilian federal agencies, with heavy concentration in aviation, aerospace, and energy sectors.

The vendor's customer base is dominated by two agencies that anchor 97% of potential value. The Federal Aviation Administration (36 awards, $3.78 billion) leads by far, with Crown holding a $2.268 billion single-award Systems Engineering and Technical Innovative Solutions (SETIS) contract effective through June 30, 2028, and a $222 million communications rack fabrication and NEXCOM field construction IDV running through February 2029. The Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration (4 awards, $935 million) is the second-largest customer, anchored by a $900 million single-award technical and analytical services contract awarded April 1, 2024, through March 31, 2034. NASA (111 awards across multiple centers, $247.2 million combined) is third but significantly smaller in dollar terms; Crown holds a $120.9 million single-award NASA Academic Mission Services-2 (NAMS-2) contract through November 2029 with Ames Research Center, designated as a total small business set-aside for air traffic management research, advanced technology development, nanoelectronics, and prototype software.

Across the award portfolio, Crown competes under both set-aside and full-and-open postures. Task orders flowing from the FAA's SETIS IDV and EIA's omnibus contract are frequently issued under total small business or partial small business set-aside designations, while many NASA BPA calls and GSA Schedule work carry no set-aside. The vendor also holds a $23 million NASA Blanket Purchase Agreement under the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) for data analysis and technical support through April 2029.

Crown's capability footprint is concrete and mission-aligned. On the EIA front, the vendor has completed the 2024 Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) valued at $4.3 million and provides survey operations support under a $19.6 million delivery order issued July 9, 2026. For the FAA, Crown executes airport infrastructure projects — tower replacements, runway visual range installations, communications shelter upgrades, and precision approach path indicator systems — across the National Airspace System at sites including Will Rogers International Airport in Oklahoma City, Dallas-Fort Worth, Sonoma County, and Cape Blanco State Airport; recent definitive contracts range from $267,000 to $1.49 million. NASA task orders emphasize air traffic management engineering research (a $9.8 million delivery order awarded December 1, 2024), nanosensor and nanoelectronic device research, advanced air mobility systems integration, and vertiport automation toolbox development (a $831,572 Phase II SBIR award from July 2023).

Recent activity shows sharp acceleration. Awards per year climbed from 5 in 2022 to 22 in 2024, before moderating to 17 in 2025 and 9 year-to-date in 2026. Twenty-three awards with completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $103.6 million, including expiring FAA infrastructure work and EIA delivery orders — material recompete exposure for Crown and opportunity signal for competitors. Crown's top parent vehicles by task-order frequency are Mission Oriented Business Integrated Services (71 task orders, $64.2 million), NASA's Multiple Award Schedule (60 task orders, $66 million), and the Professional Services Schedule (40 task orders, $23.3 million); these vehicles indicate broad civilian agency access and recurring re-order patterns.

On the sub-contract side, Crown operates almost exclusively as a prime (244 of 250 awards, or 98%). Named sub work is sparse: Crown subcontracts to Raytheon Company on FAA radar system replacement work (two sub awards, April 2026) and to Analytical Mechanics Associates on NASA engineering and technical support services. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, Crown subcontracts approximately 14% of total contractor hours to 11 named subcontractors, indicating a primarily build-your-own-team delivery model with selective subcontractor use.

Service Contract Inventory invoicing shows $19.2 million across FY2022–FY2024, declining from $7.7 million annually in FY2022–FY2023 to $3.8 million in FY2024 — a decline driven by project completion and shifting mix toward IDV delivery orders not fully captured in SCI. FTE trajectory was volatile across the same period (39.2 FTEs in FY2022, 15.9 in FY2023, 56.7 in FY2024), reflecting concentrated work cycles. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, government-paid rates ranged from a 10th percentile of $96.11/hr to a median of $203.57/hr and 90th percentile of $797.99/hr, positioning the vendor in the technical-professional and subject-matter-expert tier. GSA Schedule labor offerings span 41 categories from administrative support at $43.67/hr through senior executive and SME roles up to $385.54/hr, with no security-cleared labor offered.

INFORMATION SYSTEMS (INFORMATION RESOURCE MANAGEMENT/SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT SERVICES). AVIATION SERVICES, MANAGEMENT SERVICES (POLICY/PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT, PROGRAM SUPPORT/EVALUATION MANAGEMENT ANALYSIS, POLICY/PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT), Systems Development