Crown Innovations, Inc.

Crown Innovations, Inc., a minority-owned, Subcontinent Asian American-owned small disadvantaged business based in Arlington, Virginia, operates as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards) delivering technical, strategic research, systems engineering, and infrastructure modernization services to civilian federal agencies under total small business set-asides and full-and-open designations. The company is a Subchapter S corporation structured as a for-profit entity.

Crown's customer concentration is extreme and venture-critical: the Federal Aviation Administration Headquarters alone accounts for 36 awards and $3.79 billion in combined potential value—roughly 75 percent of the vendor's entire $5.08 billion pipeline. The Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration holds four awards worth $935 million. NASA across all centers accounts for 138 awards totaling $142.4 million in potential value. These three agencies represent approximately 98 percent of Crown's combined potential value; the vendor operates a highly specialized aerospace and energy analytics business serving a narrow customer base. Within the top five customers by award count, NASA Headquarters leads with 87 awards ($102.3 million), but the dollar concentration at FAA—driven by a $2.268 billion single-award SETIS (Systems Engineering and Technical Innovative Solutions) Indefinite Delivery Contract awarded June 30, 2022, through June 30, 2028—creates acute recompete exposure. Twenty-three awards worth $113.1 million face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, including the active FAA SETIS vehicle and multiple smaller IDIQs.

Crown holds five major parent vehicles. The FAA SETIS contract ($2.268 billion ceiling, partial small business set-aside, designated NAICS 541330 for engineering services) anchors the portfolio and sustains the vendor's largest customer relationship through delivery orders for research, service analysis, strategic planning, and systems engineering supporting the National Airspace System. The Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration awarded a $900 million single-award IDC (effective April 1, 2024, through March 31, 2034) for technical, analytical, and research services supporting data collection, analysis, and dissemination missions; recent task-order activity includes a $19.6 million delivery order for survey operations support (July 9, 2026) and a $4.3 million order for the 2024 Residential Energy Consumption Survey (September 1, 2024). NASA Ames Research Center awarded a $117.5 million single-award IDIQ (October 1, 2024, through November 30, 2029) under the NASA Academic Mission Services-2 (NAMS-2) program, designated total small business set-aside, for scientific research in air traffic management, advanced technology development, nanoelectronics, and prototype software performed at Moffett Federal Airfield, Mountain View, California; recent task orders include a $10.29 million delivery order for air traffic management engineering and research support (December 1, 2024, with 10.5 FTEs and $2.9 million invoiced in FY2025) and a $407,827.85 order for nanosensor and nanoelectronic device research (June 1, 2025). A $222 million single-award IDC (February 13, 2025, through February 12, 2029) procures communications rack fabrication, engineering, and NEXCOM field construction and installation support, with place of performance in Ontario, California; recent task orders fund NEXCOM floating crew labor ($27.2 million, April 15, 2025) and warehouse lease and operating expenses ($719,199, May 19, 2026). NASA Headquarters holds a $23 million Blanket Purchase Agreement (May 1, 2024, through April 30, 2029) for data analysis and technical support services under the Multiple Award Schedule; task orders fund enterprise risk and opportunity management and program lifecycle management support for the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate. Crown also places work against the GSA Multiple Award Schedule for task orders in strategic evaluation and assessment support, advanced air mobility development, and technical consulting. On the GSA side, 62 task orders placed under the Multiple Award Schedule carry $66.3 million combined potential value; 71 task orders under MOBIS (Mission Oriented Business Integrated Services) carry $64.2 million; and the Professional Services Schedule hosts 40 task orders worth $23.3 million.

Recent work examples span the customer portfolio. For FAA, Crown completed tower replacement and infrastructure sustainment projects at multiple airports (Lubbock, Dallas-Fort Worth, Sonoma County, Spokane International, Julian, and Sixes, Oregon) under total small business set-asides with firm fixed-price ceilings ranging from $171,652 to $1.5 million (August 2025 through September 2024), and delivered a navigation standards study ($292,105, September 1, 2024). For NASA, Crown issued a $310,498 BPA call for strategic evaluation and assessment support to the Office of the Associate Administrator in the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (August 1, 2025, under MAS) and a $2.56 million delivery order for model-based systems engineering supporting Advanced Air Mobility architecture analysis (July 1, 2024). For EIA, Crown completed the 2024 Residential Energy Consumption Survey ($4.3 million, September 1, 2024) and delivered information dissemination support ($11.06 million, April 29, 2026). Crown also held a $831,572 NASA SBIR Phase II award for development of a Vertiport Human Automation Teaming Toolbox (July 27, 2023, through April 26, 2025, total small business set-aside) and a $6.32 million delivery order supporting UAS and Advanced Air Mobility initiatives (June 14, 2023, through June 18, 2028, partial small business set-aside, time-and-materials pricing, with FY2024 invoicing of $1.6 million across 5.4 FTEs at $103.53 per blended hour and 10 percent subcontractor engagement).

Crown's activity trajectory shows recent acceleration: five awards in 2022, five in 2023, twenty-two in 2024, seventeen in 2025, and ten year-to-date in 2026. Service Contract Inventory reporting reveals SCI-reportable invoiced revenue of $31.2 million across FY2022–FY2025 ($7.7 million in FY2022, $7.7 million in FY2023, $3.8 million in FY2024, $12 million in FY2025) with an FTE footprint of 39.2 FTEs in FY2022, declining to 15.9 in FY2023, expanding to 56.7 in FY2024, and stabilizing at 55.5 in FY2025. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, median government-paid hourly rates run around $163.86 per hour, with rates spanning $96.89 at the tenth percentile through $697.70 at the 90th percentile; senior research and subject matter expert roles command rates above $300 per hour. Crown's GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 41 categories from administrative support at $43.67 per hour through senior executive and subject matter expert roles at $220–$385 per hour, with no security-cleared positions offered and education requirements ranging from high school through master's degree.

Crown operates predominantly as a self-performing prime: across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors perform on average 18 percent of contractor hours, with 17 named subcontractors reported across the portfolio. Named sub work includes program management support services under the Engineering and Technical Support Services (ETSS) contract with Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc. (September 25, 2025), technical services at NASA's Aerospace Research Technology and Simulation facilities with unnamed subs (December 1, 2024), and sub roles under Raytheon Company on radar system replacement work (April 10, 2026). The vendor's sub footprint is sparse and opportunistic rather than strategic; Crown does not function as a feeder to larger primes but instead anchors its own delivery teams.

The top NAICS categories reflect administrative and technical service concentration: Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services dominates with 119 awards, followed by Custom Computer Programming Services (25 awards), Power and Communication Line and Related Structures Construction (22 awards, reflecting FAA tower and infrastructure work), Engineering Services (17 awards), and Research and Development in Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (16 awards). Primary PSCs center on professional support program management (54 awards), other professional support services (49 awards), administrative support services (27 awards), engineering and technical support (15 awards), and miscellaneous communication equipment (11 awards).

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