Herren Associates Inc.

Herren Associates Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation based in Washington, DC, operates as a prime contractor (28% of recent awards) and predominantly as a subcontractor (72%) delivering engineering, program management, cost estimation, and systems integration services to the Department of Defense and related federal agencies. The vendor competes full-and-open with no set-aside designations across all customer segments and contract vehicles.

Herren Associates has accumulated over $180 million in prime contract experience and anchors its federal footprint to Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), which accounts for 51 awards and $11.29 billion in combined potential value — nearly 100% of the vendor's dollar concentration. Within that customer, Herren Associates holds three major vehicles: a $982.1 million Unmanned Surface Vehicle Family of Systems (USV FoS) indefinite-delivery contract extending through April 2029, the Seaport Next Generation (Seaport-NXG) IDIQ generating 28 task orders worth $175.3 million, and the SeaPort-e IDIQ generating 102 task orders worth $133 million. Recent prime work includes a $24.3 million Seaport-NXG delivery order for non-personal professional engineering and technical support to NAVSEA's Command and Control Directorate's Integrated Warfare Systems 6.0 program (navigation and sensor netting track management), a $24.4 million Seaport-NXG delivery order for Unmanned and Small Combatants professional support services spanning program management, systems engineering, and production planning, a $11.99 million Seaport-NXG delivery order for acquisition and technical services supporting Program Executive Office IWS 12.0 (NATO Seasparrow Program Office), and a $7.37 million definitive contract for DSM Phase 1 cost engineering and systems support. Outside NAVSEA, Herren Associates recently won a seat on the Missile Defense Agency's $151 billion Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award IDIQ awarded in December 2025 and holds a position on the General Services Administration's OASIS+ Total Small Business set-aside IDIQ awarded in April 2025.

Award activity has declined sharply — 30 awards in 2023 fell to 12 in 2024 and 6 in 2025 — reflecting a trough in new task orders. Five awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $151.3 million and face recompete exposure, anchored by the cost engineering support Seaport-NXG delivery order (August 29, 2027 completion). SCI-reported invoicing on prime federal service contracts totaled $53.3 million across FY2022–FY2024, with $20.9 million recorded in FY2024 across 99.6 FTEs; government-paid hourly rates on prime contracts run a median of $100.31/hr, with rates ranging from $86.05/hr (10th percentile) to $124.32/hr (90th percentile). Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors perform 36% of total contractor hours, with 35 named subs reported over the dataset window.

Herren Associates operates as a subcontractor to large defense contractors including Tecolote Research (cost estimating and analysis support to Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command NAVWAR 1.6 for information dominance systems, cyber warfare, and command-and-control programs; multiple sub awards from June 2022 forward), Tech-Marine Business Inc. (professional business and financial management support for PPBES and IWS BFM2 Clone programs; multiple sub awards from April 2023 forward), Delta Resources Inc. (engineering support for NAVSEA systems engineering directorate covering ship design, integration, surface combatants, and C5I systems; multiple sub awards from January 2024 forward), Booz Allen Hamilton (program management and engineering support), Mantech Advanced Systems International (surface ship lifecycle maintenance engineering and SURMEPP class maintenance planning), Science Applications International Corporation (test and evaluation support for surface combatants and carrier combat systems), and Noblis MSD LLC (program and project support with focus on technical requirements, schedule, cost, and risk management). The vendor's core engineering and management consulting capabilities span cost estimation, systems engineering, program management, acquisition support, and data analytics, with naval surface combatant systems and unmanned systems dominating the portfolio.