E Labs Inc.

E Labs Inc., a for-profit small business based in Fredericksburg, Virginia, provides environmental qualification testing and climatic assessment services to the Department of the Navy and other federal agencies as a prime contractor (88% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor to defense primes. The vendor operates without SBA set-aside designations on most prime work, though recent awards show mixed patterns — some designated Total Small Business, others competing full-and-open.

E Labs's capability portfolio centers on environmental and qualification testing for military systems and subsystems. Primary work includes climatic environmental testing, electromagnetic interference and susceptibility (MIL-STD 461G) testing, vibration and shock assessment, and post-test support. Representative examples include a $184,300 firm-fixed-price purchase order from Naval Sea Systems Command for environmental qualification testing of the MK6 MOD1 Common Display System (awarded September 2024, completion September 2025); a $75,450 Total Small Business purchase order from Naval Air Warfare Center for climatic environmental testing of the AN/SPN-46 radar system (awarded February 2026, completion August 2026); and a $37,700 purchase order from the Federal Aviation Administration for environmental testing of a WAAS horn antenna (awarded July 2026, completion August 2026). The vendor also performs shorter-cycle QA testing work for civilian agencies such as the Federal Correctional Institution Phoenix.

Customer concentration is extremely narrow. Naval Sea Systems Command dominates the footprint, accounting for 26 awards carrying $777 thousand in combined potential value across 83% of the vendor's recent award count. Naval Air Warfare Center supplies 4 additional awards valued at $130 thousand. These two Navy commands represent the vast majority of the vendor's business; the Office of Naval Research, Federal Aviation Administration, and Marine Corps each account for single low-value awards. The vendor serves 12 distinct federal agencies overall, but concentration with Navy is the defining characteristic.

E Labs sits on four named parent vehicles with minimal utilization — one task order each under an indefinite delivery contract (80MSFC20D0004), the Multiple Award Schedule, another indefinite delivery contract (N0042124D0002), and a Combat Net Radio vehicle. Activity is episodic rather than growth-trajectory: one award in 2019, four in 2020, dormancy in 2021–2023, then four awards in each of 2024 and 2025, with three awards in 2026 year-to-date. Two awards with combined potential value of $113 thousand face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and therefore expose the vendor to recompete risk in that window. In its subcontractor role, E Labs delivers testing services to Leidos on Army Natick engineering support, to General Dynamics Mission Systems on engineering design development, to The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory on a NASA Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe magnetometer boom contract, and to Thales Defense & Security on configuration management and testing support.