Kairos, Inc.

Kairos, Inc. (doing business as Kairos) is a SBA-certified women-owned small business based in California, Maryland, that delivers engineering support, program management, and systems integration services to the Department of the Navy as a prime contractor on Seaport-NXG and RAPID MAC MA IDIQs and as a subcontractor to major defense primes. Kairos competes predominantly full-and-open on Navy engineering vehicles; recent prime awards show no set-aside restrictions, though the vendor holds a GSA Multiple Award Schedule set aside for woman-owned small business.

Kairos's customer footprint is Navy-dominated. Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWCAD) accounts for 70 of 83 total awards (84% by count) with $385.3 million combined potential value, while Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) anchors the highest dollar magnitude at $15.28 billion across five awards — a stark concentration split between volume (NAWCAD) and potential value (NAVSEA). The remaining customer agencies (GSA Federal Acquisition Service, Department of the Army Corps of Engineers, Office of the Secretary of Defense) represent 4% of awards and less than 1% of combined potential value combined.

Prime contract work centers on Naval Air Warfare Center mission-engineering and platform-support delivery orders. Kairos holds a $249.7 million ceiling RAPID MAC MA multiple-award IDIQ (awarded March 4, 2022, running through March 2032) for rapid prototyping, engineering design, and product acquisition across six technical pools including systems accreditation, information surveillance and reconnaissance systems, shipboard combat systems, and airborne mission systems under NAICS 541330 (Engineering Services). On Seaport-NXG, Kairos has received nine task orders totaling $135.6 million in combined potential value. Named recent examples include a $36.8 million delivery order (awarded March 20, 2026, running through October 2031) for Aircraft Launch and Recovery Systems (ALRES) program support at Patuxent River, Maryland on a cost-plus-fixed-fee basis; a $29.9 million delivery order (awarded December 14, 2023, through November 2029) for Combat Integration and Identification Systems (CI/IDS) mission engineering at St. Inigoes, Maryland; and a $68.9 million delivery order (awarded January 27, 2022, through August 2027) for Naval Air Warfare Center WOLF IC2 & I Division professional, management, and technical support at St. Inigoes, which generated $7.3 million in government-invoiced labor in FY2024 across 48.2 FTEs and 100,218 contractor hours at a blended government-paid rate of $72.48 per hour. Kairos also holds a $2.6 million ceiling GSA Multiple Award Schedule contract (awarded November 22, 2021, through November 2026) spanning 23 labor categories from Engineering Technician I ($48.56/hr) through senior Computer Systems Analyst roles ($188.07/hr), with a single delivery order example of $95,943 (awarded August 2022) for customized project management training to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Support Center as a woman-owned small business set-aside.

SCI-reportable invoiced revenue across Kairos's prime service contracts totaled $22.2 million over FY2022–FY2024, with FY2023 peaking at $11 million across 44.9 FTEs and FY2024 declining to $7.3 million across 48.2 FTEs — FTE count rising while invoiced dollars fell, suggesting staffing expansion against a declining labor billing base in that prime window. Government-paid hourly rates on prime contracts median around $72.48/hr with senior labor pricing through $108.31/hr at the 90th percentile, consistent with mid-to-senior engineering and program management spectrum. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, Kairos engaged subcontractors for 30% of total contractor hours, employing nine named subcontractors; the vendor thus builds roughly 70% of its own delivery teams on tracked prime work.

Kairos operates predominantly as a subcontractor. Prime awards represent 12% of the portfolio (10 awards) while sub awards represent 88% (73 awards). Major prime contractors place task orders with Kairos across BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services Inc. (approximately 20 sub awards for engineering labor, systems engineering, and configuration management support across multiple CLIN-funding modifications), The Mil Corporation (approximately 20 sub awards for technical support services, project management, and logistics integration), J.F. Taylor, Inc. (multiple sub awards for program management support and engineering support), Parsons Government Services Inc., Mantech Advanced Systems International, Booz Allen Hamilton, KPMG LLP (data analytics and data engineering for Navy), and Rite-Solutions, Inc. (software engineering and fleet support). Recent subcontract activity has accelerated markedly — 32 sub awards in 2025 alone and 31 in 2024, versus 7 total in 2023 — indicating Kairos has shifted from a mixed prime-and-sub footprint toward sub-heavy leverage of larger prime vehicles.

Recompete risk in the next twenty-four months is concentrated in a single award: the $68.9 million NAWCAD WOLF IC2 & I Division Seaport-NXG delivery order completes August 23, 2027 and represents the only award with ultimate completion in that window across the portfolio. The vendor's recent activity trajectory shows sharp growth in sub engagement (32 awards in 2025, 31 in 2024) and muted prime expansion, suggesting Kairos is positioning as a feeder to BAE Systems, The Mil Corporation, and other tier-one defense integrators on Naval Air Warfare Center and Naval Sea Systems Command programs rather than competing for additional direct prime delivery orders.

* DAWIA/PMI certified staff, ability to tailor and provide full-life cycle planning and execution of ACAT I-IV and non-ACAT programs .

* Project Engineering and Systems Engineering technical capabilities throughout system acquisition life-cycle. Experience with requirements and solution definition, architectures, integration, test and evaluation, upgrade and sustainment of C4ISR, Net-Centric Centers, and Air-Land-Sea platforms for fixed or mobile platforms

* Experts in technical assessment of enterprise applications, requirements, use cases and technical user guides development, implementation, and training.

* Expert knowledge in Integrated Logistics Support (ILS)- Acquisition strategy, manpower and personnel analysis, metrics, obsolescence and material management, and training support plans

* Cybersecurity expertise with RMF, Pen Testing, and policy/compliance.