Energetics Technology Center, Inc.

Energetics Technology Center, Inc. (doing business as Energetics Incorporated) is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization based in Indian Head, Maryland, that provides research and development services in energetics, fuzing, and advanced defense technologies to the Department of the Navy and Department of Defense as a prime contractor on 96% of its recent federal awards.

Energetics Technology Center's capability footprint centers on membrane (MEM) fuzing technology, energetic materials research, and advanced defense systems engineering. Recent representative work includes a $4.4 million definitive contract awarded by Naval Sea Systems Command on December 20, 2024, for base-year labor in MEM fuzing and technology development through December 2029, with place of performance in Indian Head, Maryland. The vendor is also the inaugural awardee under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ contract issued by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025—a $151 billion multiple-award vehicle running through December 2035 that serves as the DoD's primary procurement mechanism for advanced multi-domain defense capabilities including research, prototyping, systems engineering, and production across air, missile, space, and cyber defense domains. In its grant-recipient role, Energetics Technology Center received a cooperative agreement from the Advanced Research Projects Agency (dated August 28, 2023, and completing February 27, 2026) for research titled "Cathode Scintillator Detector for Electro-Chemistry" under the Low Energy Nuclear Reactions Program. Earlier, the vendor received a $150,000 cooperative agreement from the Air Force Research Laboratory (awarded June 1, 2022, through March 1, 2024) for research on "Effects of Electromagnetic Fields on Energetic Materials" under CFDA 12.300 (Basic and Applied Scientific Research).

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Navy. The top three customer offices account for 88% of recent awards by count and 100% by combined potential value: Naval Sea Systems Command leads with 8 awards worth $17.1 million combined potential value, the Secretary of the Navy Office of Naval Research follows with 5 awards worth $23.2 million, and the general Navy account carries 6 additional awards. The Missile Defense Agency accounts for 2 awards with combined potential value of $500, while the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency holds 1 award. Energetics Technology Center's position on SHIELD positions the vendor for multi-year DoD task-order activity, though the inaugural order under that vehicle carries minimal near-term value. Awards per year have remained sparse (one per year from 2021–2023, two in both 2024 and 2025), and only one award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, suggesting limited near-term recompete exposure. The vendor subcontracts to Parsons Government Services Inc. on command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) research and development support. Primary NAICS concentration falls under research and development in physical, engineering, and life sciences, with secondary capability in engineering services and explosives manufacturing, reflecting the vendor's energetics and fuzing technology specialization.