Janus Research Group, LLC

Janus Research Group, LLC, an Evans, Georgia-based for-profit limited liability company, generates over $115.9 billion in combined potential federal contract value as a prime contractor (92% of awards) and subcontractor across the Department of Defense, the National Institutes of Health, and 58 other federal agencies, competing primarily under full-and-open procurements without set-aside designations. The company specializes in systems engineering, professional services, research and development, training and curriculum development, and program management support, with a workforce exceeding 600 employees and over 20 years of federal contracting tenure.

Janus holds a dominant position in defense training and naval engineering work. The top five customer agencies by potential value account for 98% of combined dollars: the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command leads with 20 awards worth $72.64 billion, followed by the Army Materiel Command Army Contracting Command Aberdeen Proving Ground ($37.4 billion across 6 awards), the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command ($1.42 billion across 9 awards), the Army Training and Doctrine Command ($1.35 billion across 36 awards), and the Army Acquisition Support Center PEO Command Control Communications-Tactical ($864.1 million across 11 awards). The Army accounts for approximately 60 awards and $1.87 billion in potential value within the reported portfolio, concentrated in TRADOC mission support services, tactical network technical support, and joint modernization initiatives.

Recent capability work exemplifies Janus's scope across defense modernization and space domains. A $28.2 million Phase III SBIR award from TRADOC (September 2025, extending through September 2030) provides expert analysis, planning, assessments, and execution services for the Joint Modernization Command's accelerated delivery of advanced network capabilities at Fort Bliss, Texas. A $9.1 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory (January 2026, extending through April 2029) focuses on space domain awareness and satellite protection technologies under the Geospace Environment Technologies and Science program, performed in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The most substantial recent award is a $303.1 million delivery order from PEO Command Control Communications-Tactical under the Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services (RS3) IDIQ (October 2024, extending through October 2029), for business operations, programmatic, and technical support services across the entire Project Manager Tactical Network portfolio. A $6.66 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order from Naval Education and Training Command (April 2025, extending through April 2026) provides ready relevant learning support services for NETC learning centers in Pensacola, Florida.

Janus holds a multi-billion-dollar IDV portfolio anchored by three foundational vehicles. The OASIS+ Unrestricted Multiple Award IDIQ from GSA's Federal Acquisition Service (awarded December 2024, extending through December 2029) carries no specified dollar ceiling and operates on full and open competitive basis across federal agencies. The Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) from the Missile Defense Agency (awarded December 2025, extending through December 2035) carries $151 billion in stated ceiling value and encompasses research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, and modernization across air, missile, space, and cyber defense domains with an initial $500 delivery order. A $610 million Training Support Systems Enterprise (TSS-E) IDIQ from TRADOC (awarded July 2023, extending through July 2028) provides mission support, combat training center support, and soldier training services across 35 Army installations CONUS and OCONUS. Janus also seats on an Air Force Life Cycle Management Center $900 million IDIQ for multi-domain systems engineering and development (awarded December 2022, extending through November 2027), a $249 million Joint Artificial Intelligence Center test and evaluation BPA (awarded January 2022, extending through January 2027), and a $152.8 million Naval Training Products and Services IDIQ from NETC (awarded July 2025, extending through January 2031) covering curriculum planning, analysis, development, and training material conversion. Two GSA ASTRO platform-related services IDIQs with no specified ceiling (awarded November 2021, extending through November 2031) round out the major vehicle portfolio.

Activity has remained steady year over year—19 awards in 2022 through 23 in 2024—with 9 awards (combined potential value $98.8 million) facing ultimate completion inside the next 24 months, creating near-term recompete exposure. Service Contract Inventory data shows Janus's federal services invoicing scaled from $19.6 million across 104 FTEs in FY2022 to $30.7 million across 121 FTEs in FY2024, with median government-paid rates around $99.51/hr and a spectrum extending from $55.56/hr for entry-level administrative roles through $123.82/hr for senior technical specialists. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, subcontractor labor represented approximately 22% of total contractor hours on average across prime records, with 43 named subcontractors reported across the portfolio.

Janus operates a mixed teaming model. As prime on the vast majority of work, the company self-performs across systems engineering, training development, and program management; on SCI-reportable prime contracts, it subcontracts approximately 22% of labor to named partners including Insight Global LLC (staffing and IT support), Applied Information Sciences Inc., Pragmatica Innovations LLC (enterprise architecture and business optimization), Riosadvantage LLC (service-disabled veteran-owned small business), Gotham Government Services LLC (SDVOSB), and Meridian Technologies I LLC (HUBZone joint venture). In its subcontractor role, Janus delivers systems engineering, training analysis, digital engineering, and technical support to major primes including L3Harris Technologies, Booz Allen Hamilton, Science Applications International Corporation, Reed Integration Inc., Caci Inc., Valkyrie Enterprises LLC, Cubic Defense Applications Inc., and Marinette Marine Corporation. Recent sub awards target naval training curriculum labor, frigate manning and Human Information Services, and systems software lifecycle engineering. Janus also acts as a grant sub-recipient, supporting Colorado State University and WoodsHole Oceanographic Institution on climate and oceanographic research sub-awards.

GSA Schedule 70 IT labor rates span 88 categories, ranging from $44.06/hr (entry-level administrative roles) through $194.53/hr (PhD-level engineering scientist roles), with no security-cleared positions offered. Representative spectrum includes IT System Administrator at $110.91/hr (bachelor's degree, 4 years experience), Senior Training Specialist at $94.19/hr (bachelor's degree, 4 years experience), and Senior Hardware Engineer at $128.69/hr (bachelor's degree, 2 years experience). Janus holds active seats on GSA Schedule 70 (62 task orders, $47.9 million combined value) and Professional Engineering Services Schedule (21 task orders, $4.1 million combined value).

Janus also received a $3.8 million cooperative agreement from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (awarded June 2022, extending through December 2024) for augmented reality interface development supporting wildfire mitigation for public safety organizations, reflecting the company's R&D capability in emerging technologies and commercial technology transition. The company frequently partners with veteran-owned, minority-owned, and women-owned enterprises as subcontractors, signaling a deliberate small-business utilization posture across defense modernization and training initiatives.