Group W Inc.

Group W Inc., doing business as Group W Virginia Inc., is a Vienna, Virginia-based for-profit Subchapter S corporation that provides defense analytical and modeling services to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor on full-and-open awards (98% of recent awards) with no SBA set-aside posture. The company specializes in wargaming analysis, campaign modeling, threat assessment, strategic planning, and advanced simulation services across air, space, sea, land, and cyber domains, with a subsidiary relationship to Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc.

Group W's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward defense: the U.S. Marine Corps leads by award count with 149 awards and $258.5 million in combined potential value, followed by Air Force Headquarters District Washington with 58 awards and $137.3 million, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense with 22 awards and $176.9 million. The top five customers account for 81% of awards. However, a significant outlier appears in the potential-value ranking: Naval Sea Systems Command anchors the list with $10.01 billion combined potential value across just six awards, a concentration signal driven by one or two large-ceiling IDIQs that dwarf the operational delivery activity seen on Marine Corps and Air Force contracts.

Group W operates as a prime under multiple large defense IDIQs. The Research, Innovative, Technical, Analysis Support Services 3.0 (RITA 3.0) with the Marine Corps ($52.3 million ceiling, awarded February 2024) has spawned at least 26 delivery orders for future capabilities studies, force structure analysis, wargaming, logistics requirements analysis, and quick-turn studies, with task orders ranging from $3,500 to $1.06 million and performance through January 2029 at Quantico, Virginia. The Synthetic Theater Operations Research Model (STORM) IDIQ with the Air Force ($37.19 million ceiling, awarded November 2023) has issued task orders for campaign analysis, analyst support, and STORM enhancements across Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy, Office of the Secretary of Defense, and other defense customers through November 2028, performed in Vienna. The Campaign Analytic Tool Overhaul (CATO) IDIQ ($24.999 million ceiling, awarded April 2024, total small business set-aside) supports modernization of STORM with expanded space, cyber, and nuclear capabilities. Group W also holds a $9.999 million single-award STORM contract awarded December 2024, extending through December 2029. An OASIS+ Small Business Multiple Agency Contract awarded December 2024 was cancelled in its entirety. Recent delivery orders span firm fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee structures; a $21.6 million Office of the Secretary of Defense order for Analytic Innovation Lab data science support (awarded July 2024, labor-hour pricing, completion May 2029) and a $6.025 million Army Pacific Command joint analytical support program order for United States Forces Korea operations analysis (awarded August 2024) exemplify the geographic and functional breadth.

Activity has grown materially: 22 awards in 2022 to 40 in 2024, though FY2025 and FY2026 show 24 and 9 awards respectively in the snapshot window. Twenty-five awards with combined potential value of $108.8 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure and opportunity. SCI-reported invoicing on federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $15.9 million across FY2023–FY2024 (note: SCI is a subset excluding goods, classified work, and micro-purchases), with $4.8 million invoiced in FY2023 across 14.9 FTEs and $11.1 million in FY2024 across 31.2 FTEs; derived government-paid hourly rates on prime SCI contracts ranged from $150.90 to $169.74 per hour at the 10th to 90th percentile. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors performed an average of 40% of total contractor hours, with eight named subcontractors recorded, indicating a balanced make-or-buy posture.

Group W frequently partners with Applied Research Associates, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and DCS Corporation as subcontractors to enhance analytical depth on complex defense initiatives. The vendor also subcontracts to larger primes: Synchronon, LLC placed two sub-awards in January and July 2025 for Navy integration of capabilities and resources supporting OPNAV N8. In sub roles, Group W delivered support on a DCS Corporation multidomain modeling, simulation, and analysis (MDMSA) effort (October 2023) and a Booz Allen Hamilton CENTCOM resources analysis task (October 2022).

GSA Schedule labor categories span 24 active slots at hourly rates from $89.31 (Editor/Technical Writer, bachelor's, no clearance) through $286.27 (Principal Configuration Architect, master's, 20 years experience). Mid-range capacity includes junior and senior campaign analysts, cost analysts, program managers, and configuration architects, positioning the vendor to staff analytical delivery teams across the price and experience spectrum without security-clearance requirements.

The vendor competes predominantly in full-and-open procurements, with small-business set-aside designations appearing only on certain CATO and IMAG task orders rather than as a company-wide posture. The award history reveals deep Marine Corps and Air Force relationships anchored on long-standing IDIQs for strategic analysis and modeling support, with recent expansion into OSD-level data science and innovation lab support and Navy Sea Systems Command strategic planning vehicles. Recompete activity in the next twenty-four months will pressure renewal of both Marine Corps RITA 3.0 and Air Force STORM vehicles.