DKW Communications Inc.

DKW Communications Inc., a minority-owned, Black American-owned small disadvantaged business headquartered in Washington, D.C., delivers IT infrastructure, telecommunications, software maintenance, and systems engineering services to defense and civilian federal agencies exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards). The company operates as a Subchapter S corporation under primary NAICS codes 541512 (Computer Systems Design Services) and related engineering services categories, competing across both set-aside vehicles (Total Small Business predominant) and full-and-open procurements.

DKW's customer concentration is heavily skewed toward the Navy. The top five customer agencies account for 53% of recent awards by count, but the potential-value rankings diverge sharply: the Naval Sea Systems Command anchors $10 billion in combined potential value across only 10 awards, while the Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command leads by award count (146 awards) with $976.3 million combined potential value. The Treasury Department's Internal Revenue Service represents the second-largest dollar concentration at $4.01 billion across 4 awards. The Department of Interior's Office of Policy Management and Budget rounds out the active set with 13 awards worth $46.8 million. Work spans Navy software maintenance of fielded training systems, worldwide expeditionary logistics and disaster relief operations, IT infrastructure and digital services across Interior and USDA, and IT help desk support for USAID and civilian agencies.

Recent prime work includes a $105.2 million single-award IDIQ with the Naval Air Warfare Center (Total Small Business set-aside through March 2031) for software maintenance, with three delivery orders issued totaling $34.8 million as of November 2025; a $65 billion multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract under the Worldwide Expeditionary Multiple Award Contract (WEXMAC) TITUS program with the Naval Supply Systems Command (awarded October 2025, no set-aside, performance through December 2029) for humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, and logistics support; a $12.4 million delivery order from the Department of Interior's Office of Natural Resources Revenue under GSA Multiple Award Schedule (Total Small Business set-aside, through May 2029, Denver, Colorado) for IT contractor support; and a $188,584 purchase order from the Space and Missile Systems Center (Total Small Business set-aside through July 2027, Lompoc, California) for TS/SCI cleared contractor escort services during communications facility installation.

Vehicle positioning shows heavy reliance on Navy-specific indefinite delivery contracts. The top parent vehicles include an IDV (N6523607D7881) with 130 task orders worth $26.6 million combined potential value, the GSA Multiple Award Schedule with 43 task orders totaling $585.7 million, the 8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resources for Services (8a STARS) GWAC with 31 task orders worth $64 million, and Alliant Small Business with 18 task orders carrying $139.9 million. Only two awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing $12.7 million in recompete exposure.

SCI-reported invoiced revenue fluctuated across the source period: $16.1 million in FY2022 across 97.0 FTEs, a spike to $1.5 million in FY2023 across 6,552 FTEs (indicating a high-volume, lower-margin engagement), and $13.9 million in FY2024 across 87.7 FTEs. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts span $23.35 per hour at the 10th percentile to $115.89 per hour at the 90th percentile, with a median of $81.35 per hour. On GSA Multiple Award Schedule labor categories, DKW offers six technical writer and editor positions ranging from $120.05 per hour (associate degree, two years' experience) through $157.77 per hour (master's degree, six years' experience), with no security-cleared roles. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor self-performs all labor with zero subcontractor engagement, building its own delivery teams rather than leveraging subs.

The source indicates DKW has held federal contracts since at least August 2002, with recent activity showing one award in 2026, two in 2025, and six in 2024, down from two in 2022. The company's award footprint spans 72 distinct federal agencies across 360 total awards with combined potential value of $125.02 billion, though only $346.8 million has been obligated to date—a signal of large ceiling vehicles with modest utilization or early-stage task-order ramp.

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