KBR Wyle Services, LLC

KBR Wyle Services, LLC, a professional services subsidiary of KBR, Inc., provides advanced technical and engineering services to the Department of Defense, intelligence community, and civilian agencies as a prime contractor (84% of recent awards), competing on full-and-open procurements without set-aside protections. The firm specializes in space domain awareness, intelligence analysis, systems engineering, research and development, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence test and evaluation across multiple large-value indefinite delivery contracts and definitive awards.

KBR Wyle Services operates from Chantilly, Virginia under parent Wyle Inc., a tribal government entity, with a corporate structure that includes subsidiary Dependable Global Solutions, LLC. The vendor is not an SBA-designated small business and competes in unrestricted markets. Recent federal award volume has grown substantially—from 20 awards in 2022 to 32 in 2025—with 484 total awards tracked in the source data spanning prime and sub work across 45 distinct customer agencies.

Customer concentration sits heavily with the Air Force intelligence and research community. The top five customers by potential value account for 98% of combined award dollars and include the Office of the Secretary of Defense ($48.76 billion combined potential value, 5 awards), the Army Materiel Command ($37.42 billion, 4 awards), Naval Sea Systems Command ($10 billion, 6 awards), the National Air and Space Intelligence Center ($2.46 billion, 140 awards), and Air Force Research Laboratory ($1.35 billion, 36 awards). The National Air and Space Intelligence Center dominates by award count but represents a smaller portion of total dollars; the discrepancy signals that NASIC awards tend to be moderate-sized delivery orders against indefinite delivery vehicles, while OSD and Army awards anchor the dollar concentration with large IDC ceiling values. The Navy segment (Naval Air Warfare Center and Naval Air Systems Command combined) carries 111 awards valued at $220.3 million, reflecting substantial but secondary exposure.

Vehicle positioning is extensive. KBR Wyle Services holds positions on six major parent IDCs and IDIQs. The largest is Indefinite Delivery Contract FA860415D7975 (National Air and Space Intelligence Center), which carries 149 task orders worth $362.9 million—the vendor's heaviest vehicle concentration. The vendor also operates under the Air Force's Advanced Expeditionary Data-Driven Decision-Making and Integrated Systems (ADEDDIS) single-award IDC ($149 million ceiling, Jan 1, 2026 through Dec 30, 2033), the Air Force Research Laboratory's Advanced Space, Technology, Research and Optimization (ASTRO) single-award contract ($176 million ceiling, operations and maintenance at AF Maui Optical facility, Kihei, Hawaii through Apr 15, 2030), the INCITE COPERS program ($600 million single-award IDC for cyberinfrastructure and multidomain situational awareness, Wright-Patterson AFB), the Aerial Target Systems 3 (ATS-3) multiple-award IDIQ ($95.1 million ceiling, PEO Simulation Training and Instrumentation through Sept 2029), and the $510 million Joint Data and Analytic Support Services multiple-award IDC (Office of Secretary of Defense, Jan 30, 2026 through Jan 29, 2031). The vendor also holds a $249 million multiple-award Blanket Purchase Agreement for Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) Test and Evaluation services (Jan 28, 2022 through Jan 27, 2027). These vehicles represent the core of KBR Wyle Services' prime delivery mechanism and position it to pursue task orders across Air Force, Navy, Army, and OSD programs.

Recent representative work illustrates capability scope. A $95.1 million definitive contract with Air Force Research Laboratory for Digital Engineering and Enterprise Decision Support (DEEDS/STAR) program (awarded Mar 17, 2026, through Mar 17, 2031) supports the STAR program's research and technology portfolio. A $176 million ASTRO single-award IDC with AFRL (Apr 7, 2025) funds operations, maintenance, research, and modernization at the AF Maui Optical and Supercomputing facility in Hawaii; task orders under this vehicle total roughly $111.6 million to date, including a $35 million dome replacement task order (cost-no-fee, Apr 20, 2026), a $38.5 million maintenance task order (cost-plus-fixed-fee, Apr 7, 2025, with women-owned small business Metis Technology Solutions as subcontractor), and operations support ($16.5 million, Apr 7, 2025, with 8(a) Native Hawaiian Organization subcontractor Pololei Solutions). An $8.061 million delivery order under the Aerial Target Systems 3 IDIQ (awarded Sept 26, 2025, through Sept 2029) procures tow target flight support services for DoD users at Huntsville, Alabama, with Phoenix Air Group (veteran-owned) as subcontractor. A $600 million INCITE COPERS program IDC with AFRL supports cyberinfrastructure and multidomain situational awareness; task orders include a $58.8 million delivery order for multidomain situational awareness (INCITE COPERS TO04, awarded June 23, 2025, through Sept 20, 2029) with subcontractors Alliance Solutions Group (SDVOSB), Holistic Hardening Industries, System Technical Management Group, and Boutin Aviation Consulting. Additional representative work includes a $58.383 million delivery order for Resilience and Assurance for Mission Effectiveness and C4ISR under AFRL (TO05, awarded June 30, 2025, through Sept 20, 2029) with subcontractors BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration, Darkblade Systems, Resonant Sciences, L3 Technologies, Testequity, and W5 Technologies, and a $58.458 million Space Situational Awareness and Mission Assurance delivery order under SBIR Phase III (awarded Aug 1, 2025, through Sept 20, 2029) with Exigo Corporation as subcontractor. On the data and analytics side, a $510 million multiple-award IDC for Joint Data and Analytic Support Services (OSD, Jan 30, 2026 through Jan 29, 2031) positions KBR Wyle Services to deliver complex analytical support and strategic services to Washington Headquarters Services. Additional work spans systems engineering for the Air Force Materiel Command's Counter Air Missile Program (CAMP), data architecture and connectivity solutions for the Air Force, and technical intelligence production support through the new $866.6 million ASTRA multiple-award contract with the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (awarded July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2031).

The vendor maintains a strong subcontracting footprint under major defense primes, reflecting a balanced prime-and-sub strategy. Named sub primes include The Boeing Company (ground-based midcourse defense system engineering, readiness operations, and sustainment across multiple task orders), L3Harris Technologies (sustainment services, combat mission systems, software development and infrastructure support), Booz Allen Hamilton (space systems engineering, research and analysis across multiple task orders), Modern Technology Solutions (advanced government simulation capabilities support, air reserve component modernization), Serco Inc. (program management support, technical project management), DCS Corporation (advanced high-speed operations analysis and research—modeling and simulation support), Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (bomber low-observable operational inspection), and smaller specialized primes including Science Applications International Corporation (position, navigation, and timing systems engineering integration), Tecolote Research (acquisition advisory and sustainment management support), Strategic Alliance Business Group (architectural development and ISR support), and others. The pattern shows KBR Wyle Services operating as both lead prime on substantial single-award and multiple-award vehicles and as a technical specialist subcontractor delivering systems engineering, modeling and simulation, software development, and advanced analysis to larger defense integrators.

SCI-reported service-contract activity (covering invoiced federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold, FY2022–FY2025) shows declining prime invoicing across the reporting window. Prime-contract invoiced revenue totaled $12.1 million over four fiscal years—$6.4 million in FY2022 (44.2 FTEs), declining to $3 million in FY2023 (9.8 FTEs), $1.2 million in FY2024 (4.3 FTEs), and recovering to $1.5 million in FY2025 (4.8 FTEs). However, FTE trajectory shows the opposite pattern when subcontractor engagement is included: FY2022 combined 3 prime and 4 sub records (38.8 FTEs); FY2023 dropped to 3 prime records only (8.7 FTEs); FY2024 climbed to 1 prime and 6 sub records (34.3 FTEs); and FY2025 surged to 1 prime and 17 sub records (109 FTEs). This divergence indicates that KBR Wyle Services is increasingly delivering work through subcontract arrangements (particularly heavy sub engagement in FY2025) rather than standalone prime service contracts captured in SCI. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors performed roughly 13% of total contractor hours, with 14 named subs reported. Government-paid hourly rates on prime contracts ranged from a 10th percentile of $103.94/hr to a median of $146.59/hr, with senior labor priced to $2,502.90/hr at the 90th percentile, reflecting a mix of technical staff and specialized subject-matter experts.

Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months stands at eight awards (combined potential value $121.6 million) reaching ultimate completion. This represents moderate near-term recompete risk for the vendor but lower dollar concentration relative to the broader portfolio, given the substantial ceiling values on evergreen IDCs like ADEDDIS ($149 million), ASTRO ($176 million), INCITE COPERS ($600 million), and the newly awarded ASTRA ($866.6 million) and Joint Data and Analytic Support Services ($510 million) vehicles, which extend through 2030–2031 and are not at near-term recompete cliff.

Federal grant work is minimal in the source data. KBR appears as sub-recipient under Georgia State University Research Foundation's Fiscal Year 2024 and 2025 Small Business Innovative Research Univerity Institutes (SURI) awards supporting transition of space domain awareness concepts from academic research to Air Force applications. Work involves space vehicles, directed energy technology development, electro-optical hardware and software, and liaison with AFRL Space Vehicles and Directed Energy research teams, leveraging the vendor's historical expertise in space domain awareness and optical systems.

The vendor operates in full-and-open competitive spaces without SBA set-aside designations and maintains no corporate identity as minority-owned, women-owned, or veteran-owned. Its core competitive positioning centers on established relationships with Air Force (particularly AFRL and intelligence agencies), proven delivery on large-value systems engineering and research infrastructure contracts, and specialized expertise in space domain awareness, multidomain situational awareness, intelligence analysis, and advanced technical services to the defense and intelligence sectors.