Long Wave Inc.

Long Wave Inc., a small business defense contractor headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, delivers VLF/LF/HF communication systems, antenna program support, and related infrastructure sustainment services as a prime contractor (93% of recent awards) to the Department of Defense and civilian federal agencies, competing predominantly full-and-open rather than under set-aside categories.

Long Wave operates as a Subchapter S corporation with no disclosed ownership designations in the source beyond small-business status. The vendor's concrete capability portfolio centers on very low frequency, low frequency, and high frequency broadcast communication systems; antenna assessments, replacements, and repairs; programmed depot maintenance; site surveys; tower inspections and structural assessments; and technical engineering support for military communication infrastructure. Representative prime work includes a $4.8 million Fleet Cyber Command delivery order for Clarinet Merlin Receiving System maintenance at BCA server sites in Chesapeake, Virginia (awarded April 2026, firm fixed price through October 2031); a $2.1 million Air Force delivery order for Antenna Program Support III depot maintenance repairs at Offutt Air Force Base (awarded April 2026, total small business set-aside, firm fixed price through October 2027); a $3.71 million Fleet Cyber Command delivery order for VLF/LF broadcast communication systems at Lamoure, North Dakota (awarded March 2026, cost-plus-fixed-fee through March 2027); and a $3.13 million Naval Information Warfare Systems Command delivery order for guy wire replacement on VLF/LF broadcast systems (awarded September 2023, cost-plus-fixed-fee through February 2025).

Long Wave's customer concentration is heavily weighted to Air Force and Navy logistics and communications commands. The top five funding agencies (accounting for 64% of recent award count) are led by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Lifecycle Management Center at Tinker AFB (159 awards, $342.8 million combined potential value), the Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command (70 awards, $167.3 million), the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command broadly (56 awards, $37.4 million), Fleet Cyber Command (33 awards, $50.5 million), and Naval Air Systems Command Naval Air Warfare Center (27 awards, $249.9 million). The Navy Naval Air Warfare Center dominates potential value despite lower award count, anchored by a $249.7 million single-award IDIQ awarded March 2022 for engineering design and systems engineering services under the NAVAIR RAPID MAC MA-IDIQ vehicle.

Long Wave holds three major indefinite delivery vehicles: an $85.9 million single-award Antenna Program Support III IDIQ with AFLCMC Tinker AFB (total small business set-aside, awarded September 2023, through September 2030), a $93.2 million single-award VLF/LF Broadcast Communication System IDIQ with Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (no set-aside, awarded September 2022, through September 2027), and a $249.7 million multiple-award NAVAIR RAPID MAC MA-IDIQ with Naval Air Warfare Center (no set-aside, awarded March 2022, through March 2032). Long Wave also participates in a newly awarded $151 billion multiple-award SHIELD (Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense) IDIQ with the Missile Defense Agency (awarded December 2025, through December 2035). Against these vehicles, Long Wave places delivery orders with median values between $600 thousand and $2 million, priced predominantly firm fixed price for antenna and depot work, cost-plus-fixed-fee for engineering and communication system support.

Activity has grown substantially over the past five years—26 awards in 2022 to 50 in 2024—with a softer pace in 2025 and 2026 (46 and 15 awards respectively in those years). Thirty-four awards with completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $53.1 million, representing recompete exposure concentrated on AFLCMC Tinker antenna program renewals and NIWS communication system sustainment orders.

In its subcontractor role, Long Wave provides in-service engineering labor and technical support to BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services Inc. (primary recurring sub relationship, labor funding and travel established across multiple task orders from 2022–2026), Vectrus Systems LLC (MUOS operations and maintenance work in Hawaii, 2024–2025), and CACI Inc. Federal (DSLM performance transfer, 2024). Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, Long Wave subcontracts 35% of total contractor hours to named subs, with SCI-reported invoicing of $706 thousand across FY2022–FY2024 (FY2024: $224 thousand across 1.9 FTEs), and government-paid hourly rates ranging from a 10th percentile of $42.14/hr to a 90th percentile of $165.60/hr, with median around $145.51/hr. The SCI dataset shows modest workforce scale—14.7 FTEs in FY2024 on prime reportable contracts—but this reflects only contracts above the $150,000 threshold and excludes goods, classified work, and the bulk of Long Wave's delivery-order activity under its IDIQs.

Long Wave competes predominantly full-and-open on non-set-aside vehicles (Tinker AFLCMC antenna and NIWS communication system IDIQs) and under total small business set-asides where available (AFLCMC APS III, FEMA antenna maintenance, NIWS HEMP shielded systems development). The top five NAICS categories are Engineering Services (192 awards), Power and Communication Line Construction (104 awards), All Other Telecommunications (86 awards), Temporary Help Services (86 awards), and Radio/Television Broadcasting Equipment Manufacturing (13 awards); top PSC codes track engineering and installation support ($67F and $31H equivalents). The vendor's facility footprint is concentrated in Oklahoma City for administrative and engineering headquarters work, with place-of-performance distribution across Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, Diego Garcia, Lajes Field (Portugal), Sigonella, Andrews AFB, Yokota AFB, Iceland, Australia, and Australia for global communication infrastructure sustainment.

We specialize in Engineering Services & Information Technology. We also provide Computer Services, Program Management, Message Processing - Hardware & Software, Government Accounting Services & Government Contract Administration.