Metron Incorporated

Metron Incorporated, a for-profit scientific consulting firm headquartered in Reston, Virginia, is a small business prime contractor on defense research, development, and engineering programs across the Department of the Navy, the Air Force, and DARPA, competing predominantly under full-and-open procurement rather than small business set-asides despite its small business status.

Metron operates almost exclusively as a prime contractor (93% of 743 recent awards) and has built a $3.82 billion federal contracting footprint centered on autonomous systems, advanced data analytics, decision support systems, and signal processing for naval and defense applications. The vendor holds four named large-value indefinite delivery vehicles with Naval Sea Systems Command and the Air Force: a $982.1 million Multiple Award IDIQ for Unmanned Surface Vehicle Family of Systems (69 task orders issued to date), a $347.8 million Indefinite Delivery Contract (69 task orders), a $237.6 million NAVSUP Analytic Engineering position, and a $950 million Air Force Advanced Battle Management System IDIQ. Recent prime awards include a $57.384 million Other Transaction Agreement with Naval Sea Systems Command for the Combat Autonomous Maritime Platform (CAMP) effort through April 2029, a $49.4 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with Naval Sea Systems Command for anti-submarine warfare signal processing and undersea systems engineering through September 2030, a $48.7 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) for AI and machine learning enabling technologies under Project Caliber through August 2029, and a $9.95 million cost-plus-fixed-fee Office of Naval Research contract for mission planning research and development through September 2030.

Metron's customer concentration tilts heavily toward the Navy: Naval Sea Systems Command leads by potential dollar value at $1.16 billion across 94 awards, followed by Naval Information Warfare Systems Command at $759.3 million across 86 awards, and the Office of Naval Research at $322.6 million across 131 awards. These three Navy entities account for 90% of combined potential value across the vendor's award portfolio. Distinct customer agencies served total 45, but Navy dominance is structural — the Air Force, DARPA, and Army programs represent the secondary tier. The top parent vehicle rankings align with the dollar concentration: Naval Sea Systems Command's contracts anchor the largest delivery-order streams.

Metron's SBIR and STTR footprint is substantial and recurrent. The vendor holds Phase I, Phase II, Phase II Scope Expansion, and Phase III SBIR and STTR awards spanning Naval Sea Systems Command, Naval Air Warfare Center, Office of Naval Research, Air Force Research Laboratory, and DARPA. Representative recent SBIR work includes a $2.199 million Phase II maritime autonomous response and recovery contract with Army Research Development and Engineering Command (February 2026), a $1.382 million Phase II Naval Air Warfare Center contract (July 2025), and a $1.625 million Phase II SBIRS High maturation effort with Naval Sea Systems Command (September 2024). Metron also holds a $306,646 federal grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for developing software to analyze cascading climate hazards and extreme weather impacts in collaboration with George Mason University.

Capability delivery centers on four technical pillars grounded in award scopes: autonomous systems and maritime autonomy (reflected in the CAMP OTA, USV FoS IDIQ, and multiple naval contracts), signal processing and radar detection algorithms (BLIP radar processing, SBIRS High infrared signal processing, electronic intelligence classification), decision support and mission planning systems (Joint Mission Planning System, Executable Architecture Management System enhancements, tactical meteorological and oceanographic research), and Bayesian inference and machine learning applied to planning and perception (robust multi-intelligence perception, advanced algorithm development for autonomous marine systems, AI-ML enabling technologies under Project Caliber). The vendor's GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans nine categories priced from $131.19/hour for entry-level analysts to $364.38/hour for senior managers with master's degrees and up to 22 years' experience; no security-cleared roles are listed.

Metron functions as a specialized subcontractor to large primes on a small scale: recent sub awards show work under Lockheed Martin on Naval combat systems engineering and ICP Build support, under CACI on Naval Undersea Warfare Center modernization and digital engineering, under General Dynamics Mission Systems on systems-level goods and services, under Applied Physical Sciences on DARPA research projects, and under Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory on maritime technology research. The sub-award footprint spans acoustic systems, maritime technology, counter-UAS research, radar clutter mitigation, and tactical sensor integration—roles that leverage Metron's signal processing and autonomous systems expertise without requiring Metron to establish independent program management across those domains.

Activity has tracked uneven across the period: 25 awards in 2022, declining to 14 in 2023, recovering to 33 in 2024, and 24 in 2025. Fourteen awards carrying $117.2 million in combined potential value reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating near-term recompete exposure across SBIR Phase II completions, Naval Sea Systems Command task orders, and Office of Naval Research research contracts. The vendor's Service Contract Inventory footprint is minimal (three records, FY2022–FY2024, all zero reported invoicing or sub-hours), indicating that Metron's federal revenue is concentrated in research, engineering, and R&D vehicles rather than labor-hour service contracts captured in SCI reporting.

Over 100 highly experienced personnel: 2/3rds possess MS or PhDs. Specializes in statistical representations of uncertainly for DoD / DHS: threat detection, tracking, determinmation; ops analysis for acquisition; adv. M&S.