Culmen International, LLC

Culmen International, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, is a prime federal contractor delivering technical, international security, management, and logistics services across defense, diplomatic, and civilian agencies, with 92% of recent awards as prime and a posture of competing predominantly in full-and-open (unrestricted) procurements rather than set-asides, though the vendor qualifies as small business by SBA standards and holds selective Total Small Business set-aside positions on certain delivery orders and IDIQs.

Culmen's capability portfolio is broad and mission-driven. The vendor delivers language instruction (Modern Standard Arabic, Russian, Ukrainian, English enhancement courses delivered through DSCA and the George C. Marshall Center), international security advisory services (Bulgaria, Montenegro, Armenia, Nigeria, Albania, Ukraine advisory work through the State Department's Global Advisory and Support Services vehicle), naval medical research support (infectious disease surveillance, febrile illness research, vector-borne disease characterization across the Indo-Pacific through multiple NAMRU Indo-Pacific delivery orders under Bureau of Medicine and Surgery vehicles), equipment procurement and logistics (maritime systems integration, non-intrusive inspection equipment, thermal imaging devices, CBRN threat detection systems, foreign military sales case support), program management and administrative services (program management office support, acquisition support services), and research support services (medical readiness systems biology research, clinical research support, experimental therapeutics development). Representative work includes a $15.355 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order from the Defense Health Agency (March 2025) for infectious disease research and surveillance to characterize medical threats to warfighters; a $9.562 million firm-fixed-price delivery order from PEO Enterprise Information Systems (March 2025) for acquisition and engineering support services in Alexandria, Virginia; an $8.334 million BPA call from the State Department's Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation (August 2024) for CBRN equipment to support operations in Ukraine; and a $38.4 million cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (July 2024) for transit, logistics, and interpretation support services under the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to defense and State Department agencies. The top five agencies by award count account for 46% of recent awards: Defense Security Cooperation Agency (106 awards, $34.3 million combined potential value), State Department Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation (45 awards, $370.9 million), Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (30 awards, $72.4 million), US Special Operations Command (24 awards, $49.7 million), and Office of the Secretary of Defense (20 awards, $38.5 million). A different ranking emerges by potential value: Naval Supply Systems Command anchors the dollars with 17 awards carrying $75.83 billion combined potential value (driven by the Maritime Acquisition Advancement Contract IDIQ), followed by Defense Health Agency (9 awards, $10.09 billion), Joint PEO Chemical and Biological Defense (8 awards, $9.28 billion), Air Combat Command (11 awards, $1.08 billion), and the Army (6 awards, $914.9 million). This divergence reflects Culmen's mix of high-volume language and advisory delivery orders (smaller dollars, high frequency) and lower-frequency but massive maritime and medical research vehicles (high individual order values).

Culmen holds seat on multiple strategic parent vehicles. The Maritime Acquisition Advancement Contract (MAAC), a $10 billion multiple-award IDIQ awarded by Naval Supply Systems Command in May 2025, has generated 17 task orders totaling $10 million in combined potential value. Recent MAAC orders include cylinder assemblies ($10.18 million), interface unit data ($14.71 million), ball valves ($1.83 million), sonar projectors ($630,841), aircraft seating, fuel system valves, and compressors. The Omnibus IV Military Medical Research and Development IDIQ ($10 billion, Defense Health Agency, June 2022) carries multiple orders: a $15.355 million infectious disease surveillance order (March 2025, cost-plus-fixed-fee through March 2030), a $14.179 million implementation science support order (June 2024, cost-plus-fixed-fee through July 2029), a $12.458 million medical readiness and drug development order (November 2024, cost-plus-fixed-fee through August 2029), and a $1.413 million clinical research support order (September 2024, firm fixed-price through September 2026). The Worldwide Expeditionary Multiple Award Contract TITUS (WEXMAC TITUS), a $65.8 billion multiple-award IDIQ awarded by Naval Supply Systems Command (January 2025), has generated orders for base operations and life support across multiple geographic regions and military departments. The Department of Defense Counter Narcotics and Global Threats (CN&GT) contract, a $960 million multiple-award IDIQ awarded by Air Combat Command (March 2023), has yielded task orders for Tajikistan troop carriers ($9.347 million, September 2024), AFRICOM intelligence fusion operations in Ghana and Nigeria, construction support in Kazakhstan and Jordan, and other global operations and logistics work. The GLOBALCAP IDIQ ($5 billion, Bureau of African Affairs, July 2025) procures training, equipment, logistics, and construction for sub-Saharan Africa. Culmen also holds a $5.3 billion single-award Transportation Security Administration screening partnership contract (June 2026), a $151 billion multiple-award Missile Defense Agency SHIELD program IDIQ (December 2025), a $100 million single-award International Development Finance Corporation staffing contract (September 2023), a $90 million State Department Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation BPA for specialized operational equipment (September 2022), and positions on OASIS+ Unrestricted (GSA FAS, $999.999 billion placeholder ceiling, December 2024), OASIS SB (Defense Health Agency, small business set-aside), JE-CLASS II (Army Chemical and Biological Defense, $906.57 million, January 2023), and the Nonstandard Weapons, Parts, and Accessories Army IDIQ.

Activity trajectory shows growth year over year: 17 awards in 2022, 50 in 2023, 43 in 2024, 62 in 2025, and 26 awarded through September 2026. Recompete risk in the next twenty-four months includes 24 awards with combined potential value of $61.5 million reaching ultimate completion, requiring recompete or renewal.

On SCI-reportable federal service contracts (contracts above the $150,000 threshold), Culmen invoiced $68.1 million in prime contract work across FY2022–FY2025: $27.3 million in FY2022 (28.8 FTEs), $20.2 million in FY2023 (13.3 FTEs), $3.7 million in FY2024 (2.6 FTEs), and $17 million in FY2025 (24.8 FTEs). The FTE trajectory shows volatility—from 31.7 FTEs in FY2022 to a low of 12.3 in FY2023, rising to 35.9 in FY2024 and climbing to 73.6 in FY2025—reflecting the vendor's mix of fixed-term research and advisory projects and larger ongoing technical support programs. Government-paid hourly rates on federal service contracts span a wide range: median around $172.92/hr, with senior labor pricing extending through $2,771.47/hr (90th percentile), suggesting a workforce mix from field researchers and administrative support staff to senior technical and program management roles. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors account for an average of 1% of total contractor hours, with five named subcontractors reported, indicating that Culmen builds its own delivery teams with minimal subcontract engagement on SCI-reportable service work.

Teaming relationships on the sub side include notable primes: Booz Allen Hamilton (European Theater Operations, DSCU ICB support, SSMARTT platform), UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge National Laboratory management and operations, RIST foreign national support across Kazakhstan, Slovakia, Ukraine, Mexico, France, and Moldova), KBR Wyle Services (aircraft armament and fuel containment systems reliability analysis), HII Mission Technologies Corp (Joint Network of Engineering and Emerging Operations intelligence support), AECOM Services (temporary staffing for systems engineering and technical assistance), Family Health International (Strengthening Infectious Disease Detection System activity in Uzbekistan), Hunatek System Solutions and the Hunatek-Culmen JV (NNSA Office of Global Material Security strategic and programmatic support), and HTGS-Culmen JV LLC (State Department real property management, facilities management, and DOE/NNSA GMS technical advisory services). The Hunatek-Culmen and HTGS-Culmen joint ventures indicate strategic partnerships for longer-term government support work, particularly in facilities management and energy security domains.

Federal grant activity is limited but strategically focused. Culmen is a recipient of a $5.21 million cooperative agreement from the State Department Bureau of Counterterrorism (September 2025 through September 2028, CFDA 19.701 Global Counterterrorism Programs) to support community engagement, establish communication channels in border communities, and improve border security capabilities of Libyan law enforcement units. Prior cooperative agreements include work on the North African Border Security Management Academy (International Security and Nonproliferation, ending February 2025) and aviation security enhancement at Sebha International Airport in Libya (Bureau of Counterterrorism, through September 2026). Culmen also acts as sub-recipient on National Science Foundation NSF Engine evaluation work for the Piedmont Triad Regenerative Medicine Engine under Wake Forest University Health Sciences (evaluation plan development, survey research methods, data collection and analysis, 2025–2026), and cholera response and surveillance support in Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of Congo under The Task Force For Global Health (April 2025).

The corporate structure includes two named subsidiaries: Vysnova Partners, LLC (received a $2,500 delivery order from Defense Health Agency in June 2023 for military medical research and development services) and Analytic Strategies LLC. The vendor's ownership remains a private for-profit LLC with no publicly stated federal minority-ownership, 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB, or other SBA set-aside designations beyond its small business status, allowing it to compete across both unrestricted and Total Small Business set-aside procurements while maintaining a primarily full-and-open competitive posture.

Program management, acquisition support, financial analysis, engineering, procurement, intl logistics, and language services for WMD Nonproliferation, Border Security, FMS, FMA, Intl Development, and Military, Intelligence & Law Enforcement Operations.