Qinetiq Inc.

QinetiQ Inc., a foreign-owned defense technology contractor based in Lorton, Virginia, delivers engineering, modeling and simulation, systems integration, sensor development, rapid prototyping, and research and development services to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor (95% of recent awards) and occasionally as a subcontractor. The company is a subsidiary of QinetiQ US Holdings, Inc., and operates alongside named subsidiaries Foster Miller Inc. and Operational Intelligence, LLC. QinetiQ competes full-and-open with no set-aside designation across its prime footprint, positioning it as a mainstream defense contractor rather than a designated-category vendor.

QinetiQ's customer concentration is heavily skewed toward Army and Navy platforms. The top five customers by award count account for 63% of awards, led by Naval Sea Systems Command (85 awards, $253.8 million combined potential value) and Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command (64 awards, $2.36 billion combined potential value). However, the potential-value ranking reveals a stark divergence: Army Contracting Command Aberdeen Proving Ground anchors 83% of combined potential value at $39.43 billion across just 5 awards—a pattern driven by QinetiQ's seat on the multi-year Warrior Enabling Broad Sensor Support Services (WEBSS) vehicle, which carries 62 task orders valued at $558.6 million. QinetiQ also holds positions on the Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services (RS3) IDIQ (20 task orders, $501.4 million), Naval Sea Systems Command rapid-prototyping indefinite-delivery contracts (31 task orders under contract N0017818D4006 alone, $29.1 million), and the NSWC Dahlgren Rapid Prototyping 2013–2018 vehicle (36 task orders, $18.9 million). Recent named work includes a $45.36 million Army Research Development and Engineering Command delivery order for digital counter-UAS technology and software integration (cost-plus-fixed-fee, through August 2028), a $52.1 million Army RS3 delivery order for countermine technology research and development (cost-plus-fixed-fee, through December 2028), a $51.47 million PEO Soldier firm fixed-price order for Next Generation Armored Ballistic Shield production (through May 2026), and a $34.15 million Naval Sea Systems Command delivery order for digital night vision technology sensor and system interoperability integration (cost-plus-fixed-fee, through September 2030).

QinetiQ was awarded a seat on the multi-billion-dollar SHIELD (Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense) multiple-award IDIQ issued by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. The company also holds the OASIS+ Unrestricted GWAC (awarded December 17, 2024, ceiling value unspecified in the source), the GSA ASTRO GWAC ($3.5 billion ceiling through November 2031, multiple award), a Joint Artificial Intelligence Center BPA for test and evaluation ($249 million ceiling through January 2027, multiple award), a JAIC BOA for data readiness AI development ($249 million ceiling through March 2027, multiple award), an Army PEO Aerostats indefinite-delivery contract ($4.2 billion ceiling through March 2030, multiple award), a PEO Soldier NGABS production IDC ($99 million ceiling through May 2029, single award), an Army Digital Night Vision Technology IDC ($92.7 million ceiling through March 2027, single award), an Army OPFOR Sighting Kit enhancement IDC ($49.5 million ceiling through August 2029, single award), a Naval Sea Systems Command supplies and rapid-prototyping IDC ($30.3 million ceiling through August 2026, multiple award), an Army STEPSS vehicle ($869 million ceiling through April 2032, multiple award), and a PEO Simulation, Training and Instrumentation Aerial Target Systems 3 contract ($95.1 million ceiling through September 2029, multiple award).

Activity has been episodic—11 awards in 2022, declining to 8 in 2023, then growing to 20 in 2024 and 14 in 2025, with 2 awards recorded through March 2026. Seven awards (combined potential value $147.9 million) face recompete within the next twenty-four months. On a Service Contract Inventory basis, QinetiQ reported $38.5 million in invoiced federal services revenue across FY2023–FY2024 ($27.7 million in FY2023 on 44.8 FTEs, $10.8 million in FY2024 on 34.3 FTEs). Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-captured prime contracts ranged from $128/hr at the 10th percentile to $599/hr at the 90th percentile, with a median of $214/hr, reflecting a mixed skill-level delivery model. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors performed an average of 23% of contractor hours, with 26 named subs appearing across the dataset, including Innovative Intuitive Technology, Inc., Dynetics, Inc., Caci Technologies, Parsons Government Services, Mantech Advanced Systems International, Assured Information Security, and others—indicating QinetiQ builds hybrid delivery teams rather than operating as a pure prime or pure feeder.

As a subcontractor, QinetiQ supplies engineering services to Booz Allen Hamilton (AFRL Shadow Raptor professional engineering services and NIMBUS ISR/fielding missions), General Atomics (CVN 81 EMALS pre-production planning), Dhpc Technologies (Sensor Compute Environment and Integrated Sensor Architecture engineering), Amentum Services (C5ISR Prototyping Integration Facility support), Parsons Government Services (shared cyber and information capabilities, COCOM cyber mission support), Assured Information Security (Full Spectrum Cyber Capabilities tooling and technologies for the Air Force), and others. The company holds a federal grant as recipient through the Office of Naval Research on the Spectral Optical Tags for Tracking (SPOTTR) cooperative agreement (awarded November 2022, completed November 2023). QinetiQ's award portfolio spans 46 distinct customer agencies, with concentration in Army Materiel Command and Naval Sea Systems Command platforms; the predominant work categories align with research and development in physical and engineering sciences (77 awards), hardware manufacturing (71 awards), and printed circuit assembly (31 awards), alongside support for weapons-system hardware (66 PSC awards) and professional engineering and technical support (31 PSC awards).