Hythe Research LLC

Hythe Research LLC, a woman-owned, HUBZone-certified small business based in Havre De Grace, Maryland, operates as a prime contractor on defense and national security indefinite delivery contracts, with a recent footprint anchored to Department of Defense CBRN defense, logistics, and advanced weapons-system development work. The vendor holds four active prime IDIQs totaling over $6 billion in ceiling value and competes predominantly in full-and-open and total small business set-aside vehicles rather than 8(a) programs, with 81% of recent awards arriving as prime contracts.

Hythe's capability portfolio centers on logistics, technical support, and equipment maintenance for chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear defense programs, complemented by emerging work in advanced systems integration and multi-domain defense architectures. Concrete recent work includes a $500 million JPEO CBRND IDIQ awarded June 10, 2025, for brand name commercial items, personal protective equipment, decontamination equipment, and situational awareness technologies at Aberdeen Proving Ground running through July 31, 2030; a $151 billion Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award IDIQ from the Missile Defense Agency awarded January 21, 2026, through December 28, 2035, covering research, development, prototyping, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, and cybersecurity modernization across classified and unclassified programs; and a 5-year $276,564 firm fixed-price Coast Guard contract awarded July 1, 2025, for on-site inspection, testing, repair, maintenance, and certification of 80 self-contained breathing apparatus systems. Within the JPEO CBRND vehicle, Hythe received a $242,990 delivery order on January 5, 2026, for Discounted Reconnaissance System Modernization Program production support and an $81,527 delivery order on February 11, 2026, for mock enclosure production, both at Aberdeen Proving Ground under total small business set-asides.

Customer concentration skews to Department of Defense and Army organizations. The top five customer agencies account for 94% of recent awards by count, with the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command leading by potential value at $4 billion (Seaport-NXG IDIQ awarded January 2, 2025), followed by the Joint PEO Chemical and Biological Defense ($1.41 billion across four awards, primarily the JPEO CBRND IDIQ and related task orders) and the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command ($869.3 million across four awards including the STEPSS IDIQ awarded April 8, 2022, and the JE-CLASS II IDIQ awarded January 3, 2023). The Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard ($277 thousand) and the Missile Defense Agency ($500 million via the SHIELD IDIQ) round out active customers. Potential-value rankings diverge sharply from award-count rankings due to SHIELD and Seaport-NXG's multi-billion-dollar ceilings; the vendor's recurring dollar exposure concentrates in Navy and Chemical-Biological Defense vehicles despite a more distributed award-count footprint across Army PEOs.

Hythe's vehicle position spans five active parent vehicles: the Brand Name Commercial items JPEO CBRND IDIQ ($500 million, three task orders including the recent production-support and mock-enclosure orders), the SHIELD IDIQ ($151 billion, one minimum-guarantee task order at $500), the Seaport-NXG IDIQ ($4 billion, one minimum-guarantee task order at $500), the JE-CLASS II IDIQ ($906.57 million, one guaranteed-minimum task order at $1,000 completed January 2, 2027), and the STEPSS IDIQ ($869 million, one task order at $2,500). Task-order activity remains low in absolute dollars — only $245 thousand in combined potential across the three JPEO CBRND task orders — indicating that the vendor's position on these vehicles is nascent or that ceiling values dominate the strategic signal rather than recent order volume.

Activity trajectory shows moderate growth: one award in 2020, two in 2022, four in 2023, five in 2025, and four in 2026 year-to-date. Only two awards ($4 thousand combined potential value) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating limited near-term recompete exposure; most work is anchored to multi-year IDIQs with performance periods extending to 2027, 2029, 2030, 2032, and 2035. Service Contract Inventory data capture is minimal — one SCI record in FY2022 as a named subcontractor, showing 0.9 FTEs — and does not reflect the vendor's full federal services footprint, which is dominated by goods procurement, equipment, and IDIQ vehicles outside SCI's reporting scope.

Hythe operates predominantly as a prime contractor (81% of awards) with limited subcontractor exposure. In its sub role, the vendor has performed support services to Program Executive Office Soldier (PEO Soldier) headquarters as a subcontractor to Janus Research Group, LLC, with sub awards in March 2023 and October 2023 for additional funding and program support; the source does not name other primes or subcontractors. Hythe maintains a named subsidiary, HNS Ventures LLC, a self-certified HUBZone joint-venture limited liability company designated as woman-owned business, though the source does not specify the strategic role or operational structure of the subsidiary within the parent's delivery model.

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