MDW Associates, LLC

MDW Associates, LLC, a McLean, Virginia–based small business prime contractor, delivers systems engineering, technical assistance, and analytical support services to the Department of Defense and federal civilian agencies, operating across 15 prime contracts and IDICs (22% of its recent award footprint) and 53 subcontracts (78%), with no set-aside designations on its prime work.

MDW Associates competes full-and-open across defense customers. The vendor's capability portfolio centers on systems engineering and technical assistance (SETA), comptroller mission support, financial management analysis, and research and development services for defense modernization and homeland defense programs. Recent prime awards include a $17.5 million firm fixed-price delivery order from the Office of the Secretary of Defense issued on February 14, 2025, for research, analytic, economic analysis, IT, and governance support services extending through February 14, 2030; an $18.1 million DARPA Comptroller SETA support order issued November 18, 2024, supporting systems engineering and technical assistance across DARPA's comptroller functions and running through November 17, 2029; and a $220 million blanket purchase agreement awarded by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense Comptroller on March 21, 2025, providing systems engineering, financial management, and strategic advisory services through March 20, 2030.

Customer concentration is extreme and defense-centric. The Department of the Navy Naval Supply Systems Command accounts for 47 awards (69% of the recent award total by count), while the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command anchors the dollar base at $10 billion combined potential value across 4 awards. The Office of the Secretary of Defense accounts for 3 awards carrying $1.74 billion in combined potential value. Together, these two Navy components and OSD cover 100% of MDW Associates' combined potential value ($11.77 billion). NASA and the GSA Federal Acquisition Service represent the only non-DoD customers in the top-five ranking, with 3 and 2 awards respectively.

MDW Associates holds four strategic vehicle positions. The Seaport Next Generation IDIQ accounts for 48 task orders (though the combined potential value is minimal at $500, reflecting Navy supply-chain work); the Office of the Secretary of Defense Analytic and Technical Support Services IDIQ carries 2 task orders worth $35.6 million; the GSA Multiple Award Schedule holds 2 task orders worth $2 million; and the OASIS+ Total Small Business set-aside IDIQ (awarded December 19, 2024, with a potential ceiling, running through December 18, 2029) and the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Multiple Award IDIQ (awarded December 29, 2025, by the Missile Defense Agency with a multi-billion-dollar ceiling extending through December 28, 2035) represent emerging vehicles. The initial delivery order under SHIELD carries a $500 ceiling with performance at the contractor's facility in Chantilly, Virginia.

Award activity grew substantially from 2021 to 2024, rising from 4 awards to 19 awards annually, with 12 awards placed in 2025. However, only $30.7 million has been obligated against the $11.77 billion in combined potential value across all awards (0.26%), signaling that most vehicle positions and delivery orders remain nascent or not yet exercised at scale.

MDW Associates operates predominantly as a subcontractor to larger defense primes. Across the 53 sub awards in the recent portfolio, the vendor subcontracts to Halvik, LLC (the dominant prime relationship, spanning acquisition and management support, pre-award and post-award contract performance tracking, and documentation services through numerous modifications from 2022 through August 2025), CACI Inc. Federal (providing labor support for NASA Consolidated Application and Platform Services, or NCAPS, through 2024), and Intuitive Research and Technology Corporation (providing strike systems engineering and technical assistance support services as of January 2025). The Service Contract Inventory dataset captures only 5 SCI records across FY2022–FY2024 as a named subcontractor (no prime SCI contracts), showing 21.1 FTEs in FY2022 and 17.6 FTEs in FY2024 — a narrow SCI slice reflecting the vendor's heavier reliance on delivery-order work and prime vehicle positions that fall outside SCI's reporting threshold. SCI-reported work is concentrated in the Halvik subcontract chain for acquisition and management support services.

The vendor operates through two named subsidiaries: MM Technologies, LLC and Vettech LLC, both registered as small business joint ventures. Corporate filings indicate MDW Associates was registered in SAM.gov since 2012 and holds demonstrated federal contracting experience spanning systems engineering, financial management, and technical support services across defense and civilian agencies.

Management and engineering services