Epiq Design Solutions LLC

Epiq Design Solutions LLC, doing business as Epiq Solutions, manufactures advanced radio frequency and wireless monitoring technologies—including software-defined radio systems, transceivers, signal processors, and spectrum monitoring equipment—as a prime contractor (43% of recent awards) and subcontractor (57%) to defense, intelligence, and homeland security agencies, competing on full-and-open basis without set-aside designation. The company is a small business and for-profit LLC based in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, operating as a subsidiary of parent Eds Buyer, LLC, with primary NAICS coverage in Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (41 awards) and Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing (26 awards).

Epiq's customer concentration sits heavily with the Department of the Air Force. The top five federal customers by award count and potential value account for 49% and 56% of recent awards respectively, led by Air Force Materiel Command Aeronautical Systems Center (24 awards), followed by Department of Navy Office of Naval Research (14 awards, $415 thousand potential value) and Air Force Defense Finance and Accounting Service (14 awards, $13.5 million potential value). A second-tier concentration emerges on the dollars side: Army Space and Missile Defense Command holds seven awards carrying $6.2 million in combined potential value, and Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate carries $1.2 million across three awards. Recent prime work includes a $10.86 million Other Transaction Agreement from the Air Force for research and engineering (awarded January 2025, performance through January 2027), a $2.46 million delivery order from Army SMDC for development and engineering of electronic equipment (October 2024, extending through September 2026), a $630 thousand purchase order from Naval Supply Systems Command for electronic switches (January 2026, completion April 2027), and a $71 thousand delivery order from Naval Information Warfare Systems Command for software-defined radio systems supporting CERF SQUID Arrays (January 2026, completion May 2026).

Epiq holds a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Air Force's Air Mobility Command valued at $13.5 million through September 2027 for radio equipment, services, development, and engineering support—a vehicle that has generated multiple delivery orders across several federal agencies and anchors the company's prime footprint. Additional parent vehicles include Basic Ordering Agreements FA862021G4027 and FA862021G4035 (11 and four task orders respectively, full Air Force designation), Indefinite Delivery Contract W911SR22D0044 with Army SMDC (six task orders, $4.3 million combined potential value), and Indefinite Delivery Contract N0001923D0008 with the Navy (four task orders). Activity accelerated markedly in 2024 with 50 awards, followed by 37 in 2025 and six year-to-date in 2026; four awards with combined potential value of $14 million face completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore present recompete exposure.

As a subcontractor, Epiq delivers RF transceiver systems, software-defined radio cards, digital tuners, and related hardware and engineering support to a broad prime base anchored by large integrators. L3Harris Technologies Integrated Systems L.P. is the dominant prime relationship, with recurring sub work across BIG SAFARI programs (aircraft manufacturing and radio/wireless communications equipment), PRO FORMA efforts, and advanced ELINT signals exploitation contracts. Sierra Nevada Company LLC engages Epiq on BIG SAFARI transceivers, down converter units, and computer components. Science Applications International Corporation places subcontract work for C5ISR systems engineering and modernization, with RF cards and digital tuner boards. Kratos S2, Inc. uses Epiq for SBIR Phase III COSMIC efforts, procuring Sidekiq X4 PCIe blades and software maintenance. BAE Systems, The MITRE Corporation, Southwest Research Institute, Booz Allen Hamilton, and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory round out the recurring sub base, ordering hardware, engineering support, and prototype development for DARPA research, signals intelligence support, and Navy warfare systems. SCI-reportable invoicing across prime federal service contracts totaled $778 thousand in FY2022–FY2023, a narrow view that excludes goods, products, and classified work and therefore substantially understates the vendor's federal revenue footprint. Across SCI prime contracts, average sub-hours share was zero percent, indicating the vendor built its own delivery teams on those specific engagements, though the broader sub-award volume (57% of total awards) demonstrates heavy reliance on teaming as a feeder to larger primes in the RF and communications technology space.