K3 International, Inc.

K3 International, Inc., doing business as Talon Defense Mission Solutions, is a women-owned small business based in Tampa, Florida that provides background investigation, security processing, intelligence analysis, and technical support services to the Department of Defense, intelligence community, and federal law enforcement as a prime contractor. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime (100% of recent awards), competing predominantly in full-and-open procurements with no set-aside designations across its active vehicle portfolio.

K3's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward defense intelligence and security agencies. The top five customers by potential value account for 100% of the combined potential-value base: the Department of the Army Intelligence and Security Command dominates with three awards carrying $2.16 billion in combined potential value, followed by the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation Headquarters Division ($258 million on a single BIAS Blanket Purchase Agreement awarded August 29, 2025), the Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command (five awards, $99.8 million), the GSA Federal Acquisition Service ($6.1 million), and the Department of the Navy United States Fleet Forces Command Atlantic ($887 thousand). This ranking differs sharply from award-count concentration: while Army INSCOM and Navy IWS account for eight of the 17 customer-named awards, the FBI's single BIAS BPA represents nearly 10% of the vendor's combined potential value, signaling a major vehicle win in late 2025. The Department of the Army Space and Missile Defense Command and United States Special Operations Command round out the active customer set across the remaining awards.

K3 holds two major parent vehicles. The BIAS Blanket Purchase Agreement — a multiple-award BPA with the FBI Headquarters Division carrying a ceiling of $258 million and a performance period through February 28, 2031 — launched August 29, 2025. The vendor also holds a GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract (Multiple Award Schedule, awarded April 18, 2024, ceiling $6 million, expiring April 17, 2029) that covers management and financial consulting, deployment and logistics services, and background investigation services. On the GSA Schedule, K3 offers twelve labor categories spanning support services, security processing, analysis, and subject matter expertise, with hourly rates ranging from $53.13 per hour for entry-level Support Services Technician II roles (requiring a bachelor's degree and three years of experience) through $264.56 per hour for Subject Matter Expert V positions (requiring a master's degree and fifteen years of experience). No security-cleared labor is offered on the GSA Schedule.

K3's work is concentrated in engineering services and computer facilities management, with intelligence support and background investigation services as secondary concentrations. The vendor's NAICS distribution shows nine awards in Engineering Services, eight in Computer Facilities Management Services, four in All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services, two in Investigation and Personal Background Check Services, and one in Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities. PSC coding reflects this mix, with six awards in Support—Professional: Engineering/Technical, three in IT and Telecom—Other IT and Telecommunications, three in Maint/Repair/Rebuild of Communication/Detection/Coherent Radiation Equipment, three in Support—Professional: Intelligence, and two in Information Technology Software. Recent representative work includes task orders under the Army INSCOM Global Intelligence Support Services and SSC LANT Decision Superiority Support vehicles.

Award activity has been episodic rather than sustained. The vendor records 25 total prime awards across seventeen years (first award July 16, 2008), with activity levels spiking at seven awards in 2014, then falling to two annually in 2015 and 2016, then dormant through 2023, and resuming with single awards in 2024 and 2025. The August 2025 BIAS BPA award represents the most recent transaction and carries the highest individual ceiling value. The vendor's Service Contract Inventory footprint is small — six SCI records spanning FY2022 through FY2024, all as a named subcontractor rather than a prime on reportable contracts, with an FTE trajectory from 16.3 FTEs in FY2022 to 13.8 FTEs in FY2024 on those specific sub-awards. This SCI activity does not reflect K3's full delivery capacity, which is substantially larger on its prime vehicles; SCI reporting covers only service contracts above $150,000 and excludes goods, products, and classified work.

K3 International is a skill based staff augmentation service provider in the areas of Project Management, Consulting, Logistics, and Training. K3 solves skill gaps and reduces costs.