KBR Wyle Services, LLC

KBR Wyle Services, LLC, a professional services subsidiary of KBR, Inc., operates as a prime contractor (85% of recent awards) and subcontractor to defense and intelligence primes, delivering advanced technical, engineering, research, and professional services to the Department of Defense, intelligence community, and federal research agencies across defense, space, and cyberinfrastructure domains. The company is not designated as a small business and competes on full-and-open federal procurements without set-aside protections.

KBR Wyle Services is headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia, and provides concrete capabilities spanning intelligence analysis, space domain awareness, research and development, systems engineering, digital transformation, modeling and simulation, software development, artificial intelligence test and evaluation, and technical exploitation. Recent prime work includes a $95.1 million cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract with the Air Force Research Laboratory for digital engineering and enterprise decision support (DEEDS/STAR) through March 2031; a $176 million single-award IDC with AFRL for Advanced Space, Technology, Research and Optimization (ASTRO) operations and maintenance at the AF Maui Optical and Supercomputing facility in Hawaii through April 2030; a $149 million single-award IDC with the Air Force under the Advanced Expeditionary Data-Driven Decision-Making and Integrated Systems (ADEDDIS) program through December 2033; a $600 million single-award IDC with AFRL for the Innovative Cyberinfrastructure Threat Assessment Environment (INCITE) COPERS program for cyberinfrastructure and multidomain situational awareness through September 2026; a $510 million multiple-award IDC with the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Joint Data and Analytic Support Services through January 2031; and a $39.5 million definitive contract with AFRL for the Bringing Responsive Operations through Novel Computing On-Demand (BRONCO) research program through January 2026. The company also holds a $866.6 million multiple-award IDC awarded July 2026 by the National Air and Space Intelligence Center for Advisory Support and Technical Requirement Administration (ASTRA) through June 2031, supporting technical intelligence production and analysis across the Air Force, Department of Defense, and national-level intelligence efforts.

Customer concentration sits overwhelmingly with defense and intelligence agencies. The top five customers account for 69% of awards by count. The National Air and Space Intelligence Center anchors the prime portfolio with 139 awards valued at $2.46 billion combined potential value, predominantly under a single large IDC (FA860415D7975, 149 task orders, $362.9 million potential). The Naval Air Systems Command and Naval Air Warfare Center combined account for 112 awards and $220.3 million. The Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory carries 34 awards and $1.28 billion. The Space and Missile Systems Center holds 25 awards and $97 million. By potential value, the rankings shift dramatically: the Office of the Secretary of Defense dominates with $48.76 billion across 6 awards (primarily the Joint Data and Analytic Support Services IDC), followed by the Army Materiel Command Aberdeen Proving Ground with $37.42 billion across 4 awards, and the Naval Sea Systems Command with $10 billion across 6 awards. This divergence signals that while KBR Wyle Services maintains a high-volume transactional relationship with intelligence and Navy warfare centers through standing IDC vehicles, the largest dollar concentrations rest on a small number of transformational awards with OSD and Army strategic initiatives.

Vehicle position is central to the business model. The company places 149 task orders under the Indefinite Delivery Contract FA860415D7975 (Advanced Technical Exploitation Program II, National Air and Space Intelligence Center) with combined potential value of $362.9 million. It holds 46 delivery orders on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule totaling $54.3 million. It operates under Naval Air Systems Command IDCs N6893614D0002 (42 task orders, $38.8 million), N6893607D0001 (27 task orders, $13 million), and N6893611D0022 (20 task orders, $12.5 million). The bulk of activity flows through standing IDCs rather than competitive single-award vehicles — this posture reduces recompete risk from annual competition but concentrates revenue on a small set of incumbent relationships. The company also sits on the JAIC Test and Evaluation BPA (multiple-award, $249 million ceiling, through January 2027, now expired) and Aerial Target Systems 3 (ATS-3) multiple-award IDC with the Army Program Executive Office Simulation, Training and Instrumentation.

Activity has grown modestly — 20 awards in 2022, 12 in 2023, 24 in 2024, 32 in 2025, and 14 through July 2026 — reflecting a business in expansion rather than decline, though the 2026 count is incomplete at midyear. Eight awards with combined potential value of $123.2 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating moderate recompete exposure; however, the largest vehicles (ASTRO, ADEDDIS, INCITE COPERS, ASTRA, OSD Joint Data and Analytic Support) all run through 2030 or beyond and carry far larger ceilings, limiting near-term revenue cliff risk.

In its subcontractor role, KBR Wyle Services performs as a named sub across defense primes including The Boeing Company (Ground-Based Midcourse Defense System Integration, Test, and Readiness work), L3Harris Technologies (sustainment services and systems engineering), Booz Allen Hamilton (space systems research, analysis, and engineering for Space Systems Command), Serco Inc. (technical project management and systems engineering), Modern Technology Solutions (Air Reserve Component modernization analysis and MUOS systems engineering), and others. The company also acts as a sub-recipient on federal research grants from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Space Vehicles Research Initiative, contributing Principal Investigator expertise in space domain awareness and electro-optical technology transition.

Service Contract Inventory data (covering federal services contracts above $150,000 threshold, FY2022–FY2024) shows $10.6 million in SCI-reportable invoiced revenue as prime, with substantial decline: $6.4 million in FY2022 (44.2 FTEs), $3 million in FY2023 (9.8 FTEs), and $1.2 million in FY2024 (4.3 FTEs). This sharp contraction likely reflects migration of larger delivery orders and task orders to vehicles not fully captured in SCI reporting thresholds or contract structuring shifts away from SCI-reportable service categories. Median government-paid hourly rates on prime contracts ran $144.25/hr, with 90th percentile labor priced at $3,090/hr (indicating senior-level or specialized expertise), and 10th percentile at $97/hr. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors accounted for 15% of total contractor hours, with 13 named subs supporting individual contract work — indicating a mixed delivery model that leans on internal capacity but brings in specialized subs for specific technical domains.

Corporate structure places KBR Wyle Services as a subsidiary of Wyle Inc. (listed as a Tribal Government entity) under the parent KBR, Inc. umbrella. A named subsidiary, Dependable Global Solutions, LLC, is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation. The parent company's size and established DoD relationships provide capital, compliance infrastructure, and contract vehicle positioning that KBR Wyle Services leverages; the subsidiary structure maintains operational flexibility and distinct contract vehicles while retaining access to KBR's enterprise capabilities in systems engineering, program management, and intelligence sector expertise.