Lynker Corporation

Lynker Corporation, a Leesburg, Virginia-based science and engineering firm, operates as a prime contractor on $18.03 billion in combined potential value across 346 awards from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and competes predominantly full-and-open rather than under set-asides, though it qualifies for HUBZone and Total Small Business designations on select NOAA delivery orders. The vendor delivers environmental science, geospatial and hydrologic services, IT infrastructure support, and fisheries and marine research data analytics to federal agencies, with overwhelming customer concentration in NOAA's ProTech Services Solution and Mission IT Services platforms.

NOAA dominates Lynker's customer footprint, accounting for 346 of 377 total awards (97% of award count) and $18.03 billion of the $23.53 billion combined potential value—a concentration that dwarfs secondary customers. The Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command contributes three awards valued at $5.28 billion, the GSA Federal Acquisition Service six awards worth $177.2 million, and the National Science Foundation a single $24 million award for data systems support at the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics. Activity has remained steady at 24–32 awards per year from 2022 through 2024, with five awards in 2025 and seven through November 2026 reflecting a recent deceleration that may reflect seasonal reporting lag rather than sustained decline. The recompete cliff shows 27 awards (combined potential value $383.7 million) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, anchored by large NOAA delivery orders expiring through mid-2027.

Lynker's capability portfolio centers on hydrologic modeling and forecasting, water prediction computing infrastructure, geospatial analysis (GIS and mapping services), scientific software development, and fisheries research operations. Representative prime awards include a $123.99 million delivery order with NOAA for National Data Buoy Center technical and management support (FY2025 invoiced $15.6 million across 101 FTEs and subcontracted 33% of hours to three named subs), a $136.9 million delivery order for National Centers for Environmental Prediction scientific support (FY2025 invoiced $29.2 million across 420 FTEs with 38% subcontracted hours), and a $9.42 million BPA call for scientific software development for hydrological data analysis and flood forecasting (FY2025 invoiced $1.5 million across 7.0 FTEs with full self-performance). A $40 million USDA Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities grant funds market expansion and climate-smart agricultural practice uptake in Hawaii; Lynker serves as prime recipient and coordinates multiple sub-awardees on technical assistance, training, and data tools. NASA's $1.14 million citizen science grant for precipitation monitoring (Mountain Rain or Snow) and a $145 thousand grant for Rossby wave characterization complete the research footprint. On EPA enforcement missions, Lynker holds three awards (combined $504 thousand) for investigative assistance and training on illegal hydrofluorocarbon trafficking at the U.S.–Mexico border.

Lynker holds two primary vehicle positions: the NOAA ProTech Services Solution IDIQ (a multiple-award vehicle under which 99 task orders carry $515.9 million in combined potential value) and the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (73 task orders, $296.7 million combined potential value). Recent vehicle wins include the OASIS+ Unrestricted multiple-agency contract (awarded December 17, 2024, with no specified ceiling) and two single-award BPAs under NOAA's Office of Water Prediction program for geospatial and hydrologic services (each $9.999 billion ceiling, awarded September 16, 2026). An $8.38 million single-award indefinite delivery contract for Exail DRIX unmanned surface vehicle maintenance, operation, and training support (awarded July 3, 2024, completion April 5, 2029) has generated three delivery orders totaling $1.62 million since inception. Lynker was also awarded a seat on the $8 billion ProTech 2.0 Satellite Domain multiple-award IDIQ on March 7, 2023 (small-business set-aside).

Across SCI-reportable federal service contracts, Lynker invoiced $318.4 million from FY2022 through FY2025, with workforce scaling from 291 FTEs in FY2022 to 420 FTEs in FY2025. Annual invoicing grew from $50.6 million (FY2022) to $98.4 million (FY2025), indicating a ninety-four percent increase over the period. Government-paid hourly rates on federal services contracts ranged from a 10th percentile of $45.44/hr to a 90th percentile of $731.43/hr, with a median around $78.83/hr, reflecting a wide mix of technical labor from economists and technicians to senior systems engineers and management advisors. Lynker engages subcontractors on approximately 10% of contractor hours across its prime service contracts, with 108 named subcontractors reported in the SCI dataset; this profile indicates the vendor primarily self-performs technical delivery while selectively supplementing with specialized subs. The GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 250 unique categories at $44.65–$445.61/hr, from entry-level economists and technicians to senior systems engineers, chief security officers, and GIS integration specialists—no security-cleared positions are offered.

Lynker's sub-award footprint shows five grant sub-awards as sub-recipient under university prime grantees: three sub-awards under University of Colorado (stakeholder engagement and dashboard prototyping for snowpack and runoff modeling initiatives, awarded February 2024, July 2024, and November 2024); one sub-award under University Corporation for Atmospheric Research for hydroclimate prediction evaluation in the Columbia River basin (June 2024); and one sub-award under Louisiana State University for Better Bycatch Reduction Devices certification testing administration (March 2025). Across contract sub-awards, Lynker names only two instances in the bounded source data: sub-work under Leidos on a $3.2 million Treasury IRS modernization cloud engineering task (November 2023) and under Booz Allen Hamilton on a $2.1 million Department of Defense cyber operations zero-trust implementation task—though the source notes these are examples within a larger universe of subs Lynker may engage.

Federal grant activity includes recent awards from NASA's Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001) for atmospheric science and citizen science precipitation monitoring, and a $40 million prime award from USDA's Farm Service Agency for climate-smart commodities market expansion in Hawaii. These grants position Lynker as a research partner with academic institutions and a vehicle for USDA's climate and agricultural resilience objectives. Lynker's corporate structure is a for-profit business entity registered in SAM with no SBA set-aside certifications listed, though the vendor qualifies for HUBZone and Total Small Business set-asides on contract solicitations and has been awarded multiple task orders under those designations on NOAA's ProTech IDIQ. The vendor's positioning on the OASIS+ Unrestricted vehicle and its GSA MAS seat position it for government-wide task-order competition, but NOAA's ProTech and NMITS platforms remain the primary revenue anchors and the dominant channel through which Lynker secures new delivery orders.

Lynker Technologies, LLC is a growing, HUBZone certified small business specializing in professional, scientific and technical services with offices in Leesburg, VA and Boulder, CO. Our continually expanding team combines scientific expertise with mature, results-driven processes to achieve innovative, cost effective solutions in Geospatial Solutions, Marine Sciences, Water Resources, IT Services, and Program, Project & Portfolio Management.