Kinnami Software Corporation

Kinnami Software Corporation, a small business based in Braintree, Massachusetts, operates as a prime contractor on Department of Defense research and development programs, delivering secure data infrastructure, biometric systems, and resilient computing solutions for defense applications across Air Force, Navy, and Missile Defense Agency customers. The company competes full-and-open on defense research vehicles and holds no SBA set-aside designations in its prime contract footprint, though it qualifies as a Total Small Business awardee on several SBIR and STTR research programs.

Kinnami's capability portfolio centers on resilient data infrastructure, secure biometrics, localization in GPS-denied environments, and multi-level data security for tactical and edge computing systems. Representative work includes a $2.8 million SBIR Phase II contract from Air Force Research Laboratory awarded July 2022 for data management and multi-level security solutions supporting the Compass Call electronic warfare program, a $1.998 million SBIR Phase III Action from Aeronautical Systems Center awarded November 2024 for advanced resilient data infrastructure and secure biometric systems, and a $750,000 STTR Phase II contract from AFRL awarded September 2023 for collaborative localization and secure data management enabling combat search and rescue in GPS-denied environments.

The vendor's customer concentration is heavily defense-weighted and bifurcated by dollar magnitude. The top five customer entities account for 100% of awards: Air Force Research Laboratory dominates by award count with ten research contracts totaling $6.9 million in combined potential value, but the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command and the Department of the Air Force anchor most of the contract value through two large indefinite-delivery vehicles. Naval Sea Systems Command awarded a $4 billion Seaport Next Generation (SeaPort-NxG) multiple-award indefinite-delivery contract on January 2, 2025, and the Air Force holds a $950 million Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) IDIQ awarded to Kinnami. Kinnami also received a $151 billion Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award indefinite-delivery contract from the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, supporting multi-domain defense systems across research, prototyping, systems engineering, and operational support work. These three IDIQs dwarf the research contract base and represent Kinnami's entry into large-scale task-order competition across Navy and Air Force operations.

Activity shows volatility — six awards in 2021 declining to one award each in 2023 and 2024, then four awards in 2025 as the large vehicles executed. Two awards (combined potential value $4.8 million) face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and trigger recompete exposure. Kinnami operates exclusively as a prime contractor; no subcontract footprint is present in the source data. The company's primary NAICS alignment is 541712 (Research and Development in Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences), with 15 of 17 awards falling under that code and most work procurement under National Defense R&D Services PSC codes for applied research and experimental development in defense applications.

Kinnami provides a secure and resilient hybrid data fabric for the computing edge on devices like IoT, sensors, satellites, drones, and autonomous systems, as well as data centers and the cloud. Our distributed peer-to-peer data management and security software platform protects data everywhere even in contested or low bandwidth networks and foreign-owned devices.