Episys Science Inc.

Episys Science Inc., doing business as Episci, a minority-owned and woman-owned small business based in Poway, California, delivers advanced artificial intelligence, autonomous systems research and development, and tactical defense technologies to the Department of the Air Force, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and NASA as a prime contractor (96% of recent awards) through Small Business Innovation Research awards, Other Transaction Agreements, and indefinite delivery vehicles. The company competes predominantly in full-and-open and small-business set-aside vehicles rather than restricted 8(a) or HUBZone categories.

Episys Science's capability portfolio centers on tactical AI systems, collaborative autonomy platforms, complex emitter tracking, and autonomous systems prototyping for military applications. Representative prime work includes a $14.354 million Other Transaction Agreement from DARPA for AI Reinforcements (AIR) supporting advanced artificial intelligence and autonomous systems research through April 2028; a $15 million Small Business Innovation Research Phase II Strategic Funding Increase from the Air Force Research Laboratory for continued iterative development of the Modular Autonomy Kit and Autonomous Collaborative Platform; a $4.725 million definitive contract from Air Force Lifecycle Management Center Wright Patterson for EPISYS Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Kits under SBIR Phase III with completion in October 2026; and a $4.89 million Air Force Research Laboratory purchase order for beyond line-of-sight autonomous wide field intelligent geolocation capabilities under SBIR Phase III. Additional work spans 5G-MOSAIC communications research for lunar networks awarded by NASA ($850 thousand SBIR Phase II), government reference architecture modeling for the Air Force Research Laboratory ($1.996 million), and AI-aided hypersonic target recognition for the Office of the Secretary of Defense ($249 thousand SBIR Phase I).

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward Air Force components and DARPA. The top five customer agencies by award count represent 64% of recent awards, led by the Air Force Research Laboratory with 18 awards valued at $37.1 million combined potential, followed by DARPA with 9 awards at $33.1 million, and the broader Department of the Air Force with 8 awards at $958.4 million. However, the potential-value rankings diverge significantly: the Air Force Lifecycle Management Center at Eglin Air Force Base anchors $47 billion in combined potential value through just two awards — the Eglin Wide Agile Acquisition Contract (EWAAC), a $47 billion multiple-award indefinite delivery vehicle for rapid weapons technology development with an ultimate completion date of September 2031, and the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS), a $950 million indefinite delivery contract. Episys holds positions on both IDIQs as a contractor, with one $1,000 delivery order issued against EWAAC in 2021 and one $1,800 delivery order against ABMS in 2022. Beyond those two mega-vehicles, the company holds three smaller single-award IDIQs: a $2.463 million indefinite delivery contract with Air Force Materiel Command for USAF Test Pilot School curriculum development at Edwards Air Force Base (established March 2025, completion March 2030); a $4.9 million indefinite delivery contract with the Air Force for advanced network, collaborative, and autonomous capability research (established May 2024, completion May 2029); and a $6.166 million Other Transaction IDV from DARPA for tactical AI and autonomous systems research (established February 2024). Episys also participates in two additional parent vehicles carrying smaller task order volumes.

Activity has declined in recent years, moving from 10 awards in 2022 and 13 in 2023 to 7 in 2024 and 6 in 2025, with just 1 award recorded in 2026 year-to-date. Seven awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $42.8 million, representing significant recompete exposure. The most recent prime contract award is a January 2026 delivery order worth $395 thousand from Air Force Materiel Command for USAF Test Pilot School curriculum development at Edwards Air Force Base, due January 2027.

In its limited subcontractor role, Episys performs collaborative autonomy software development under Atlantic Diving Supply, Inc. on a December 2024 sub-award and supported Systems & Technology Research LLC on Joint All-Domain Warfighting (JAWS) follow-on testbed and predictive analytics work in 2023. The company also serves as a sub-recipient on a University of California Santa Cruz grant award for hybrid reinforcement learning algorithms development supporting Air Force Research Laboratory applications in swarm engagement and multi-agent behavior planning.

Episys Science Inc. is a subsidiary of Applied Intuition, Inc., a for-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California. The parent company's full federal contracting footprint is not characterized in the source.

Awards across Episys Science's portfolio concentrate in two top NAICS categories: Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (45 awards) and Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences excluding Biotechnology (12 awards), with principal PSC coding in defense and national defense R&D services, applied research, and experimental development. The company holds no federal grant awards as a prime recipient beyond the NTIA Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund award, a $8.168 million project grant through January 2028 to develop, demonstrate, and evaluate a software-defined radio system integrating 3GPP sidelink with open radio access network capabilities for 5G and 6G applications, in collaboration with subrecipients OpenAirInterface5G and the University of Washington.