Fairwinds Technologies LLC

Fairwinds Technologies LLC, a women-owned small business based in Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, operates as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards) delivering maritime equipment, communications systems, RF components, and tactical systems integration to the Department of Defense and federal civilian agencies under full-and-open competition and Total Small Business set-asides.

Fairwinds competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides on SEWP V and related GSA vehicles, while pursuing full-and-open delivery orders on the Maritime Acquisition Advancement Contract and Army C5ISR Gateway to Sustainment IDIQ, where the vendor holds material IDIQ positions as a women-owned small business. The vendor's capability portfolio centers on procuring and delivering specialized maritime and defense electronics—radio frequency amplifiers, circuit card assemblies, valve and pump assemblies, power supplies, solenoid valves, alternating current and hydraulic motors, RF module assemblies, and antenna systems—for naval ship sustainment, Army communications modernization, and tactical command-and-control infrastructure. Representative prime work includes a $34.5 million alternating current motor delivery order under the Maritime Acquisition Advancement Contract (September 2025), a $96.8 million RF module assembly task order under C5ISR G2S for Army communications (October 2025), a $157.4 million Ground Control Station delivery order from Naval Air Warfare Center under SEWP V (March 2026), a $45.9 million scout kit and antenna delivery under SEWP V for PEO C3T (July 2026), and a $46.8 million military 5G waveform development contract from Air Force Research Laboratory under Total Small Business (October 2025). The vendor also holds recent positions on the newly awarded SEWP VI GWAC (November 2026, $20 billion ceiling) and the SHIELD multiple-award IDIQ from the Missile Defense Agency (December 2025, $151 billion ceiling).

Customer concentration is acute and Navy-anchored. Naval Supply Systems Command dominates both volume and potential value—158 awards (30% of total awards) carrying $10.75 billion in combined potential value (18% of total dollars). The top five customers by combined potential value account for 26% of overall portfolio dollars: Naval Supply Systems Command ($10.75 billion), Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime ($3.24 billion), Department of the Air Force ($950.3 million), PEO Command Control Communications-Tactical ($690.8 million), and Naval Air Warfare Center ($172.1 million). Eighty-one distinct federal agencies have placed orders, but the Navy's NAVSUP dominates in absolute terms—the vendor executed 158 Maritime Acquisition Advancement Contract delivery orders valued at $426 million obligated across naval equipment procurement spanning hydraulic systems, electrical components, RF assemblies, and structural elements for ship-class sustainment.

Vehicle position is material across three parent IDIQs and one GWAC. SEWP V (the GSA IT and communications vehicle) carries 229 task orders valued at $834.5 million combined potential value—the largest volume and dollar concentration. The Maritime Acquisition Advancement Contract, a $10 billion Naval Supply Systems Command multiple-award IDIQ awarded May 2025, hosts 137 delivery orders valued at $426 million obligated. The Army's C5ISR Gateway to Sustainment (G2S), a $3.2 billion IDIQ for command-control-communications sustainment, carries 85 task orders valued at $456.2 million combined potential value. The vendor also recently achieved seat on SEWP VI and SHIELD, positioning it for sustained access to federal IT procurement and homeland defense integration work. Across all vehicles, Fairwinds holds $61.18 billion in combined potential value with $1.78 billion obligated (3% realization rate), reflecting the fresh award footprint and the long-tail nature of IDIQ and GWAC ceiling values.

Activity trajectory shows steep growth. Awards per year rose from 63 in 2022 to 171 in 2025, with 88 awards in the partial-year 2026 dataset (through November 1). This acceleration reflects expanded vehicle positioning and increased SEWP V task order volume. The recompete cliff is material—126 awards (combined potential value $687.6 million) carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, creating significant recompete exposure and opportunity for competitors on active vehicles.

Teaming posture is narrow. The vendor operates predominantly as a direct-delivery prime with minimal subcontractor engagement; across SCI-reportable prime contracts in the source, average sub-hours share is 0%, indicating the vendor builds and executes its own delivery teams. Sub-award activity (2% of total awards) names Fairwinds as a subcontractor to Science Applications International Corporation on system software lifecycle engineering (August 2026), QED Systems on MCM-1 modernization engineering (December 2025), and Serco on homeland defense and antiterrorism support services (2024–2025). Fairwinds subcontracts to named OEM suppliers for specialized components—General Dynamics Mission Systems for circuit card assemblies and power supplies, Northrop Grumman for navigation and maritime systems components, GE Energy Power Conversion (Converteam) for marine electrical infrastructure, and Omega Engineering for pressure transmitters—but does not operate as a feeder to large prime integrators; instead, it primes and sources specialized parts through vendor relationships.

SCI data captures a small slice of activity. Seven SCI-reportable service contracts appear in the dataset (3 as prime, 4 as named sub). Fairwinds reported zero invoiced revenue in SCI for FY2022 and FY2025, indicating most of its federal work routes through goods procurement and delivery orders rather than time-and-material or labor-hour service contracts above the $150,000 threshold. FTE trajectory from SCI records shows 4.5 FTEs in FY2022, 7.7 in FY2024, and 0.0 in FY2025, a reflection of SCI's partial coverage and the vendor's equipment-procurement-focused business model rather than traditional staffing-intensive services.

The vendor specializes in systems integration and engineering services for satellite, wireless, and ground communications networks. Recent work demonstrates focus on RF equipment, microwave systems, naval equipment supply, and tactical communications solutions across defense and civilian federal agencies, with established supply chain relationships enabling rapid procurement and delivery of specialized maritime and defense electronics across the naval and Army customer base.