Monterey Technologies Inc.

Monterey Technologies Inc., a for-profit small business headquartered in Park City, Utah, operates primarily as a prime contractor (77% of recent awards) delivering user-centered design, software development, systems engineering, and research and development services to Department of Defense and federal civilian agencies. The vendor competes predominantly in full-and-open competitions without set-aside designations on its largest vehicles, though it qualifies for and wins Total Small Business set-asides on some Navy task orders; it does not hold SBA 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or WOSB certifications.

Monterey Technologies' customer base is heavily concentrated in the Navy. The top five customers account for 71% of recent awards by count and 100% of combined potential value by dollar magnitude, driven overwhelmingly by Naval Sea Systems Command ($10.01 billion across nine awards), Naval Air Systems Command ($508.3 million across 36 awards), and NASA Ames Research Center ($145.8 million across 52 awards). Naval Information Warfare Systems Command follows at $82.5 million across 15 awards. This concentration masks a structural dollar-to-award disparity: Naval Sea Systems Command's nine awards represent 93% of the vendor's total combined potential value, indicating anchor contracts that dwarf the remainder of the portfolio.

Monterey Technologies' capability portfolio centers on three concrete domains. User experience and user interface design for Navy C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) systems is the largest current workstream — a $73.9 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with Naval Information Warfare Systems Command Pacific awarded May 2025 (set-aside for total small business, five-year ordering period through May 2030) has already spawned task orders for the Collaborative Mission Planning Continuum program ($999,911 user-centered design delivery order), Navy Performance Management Administration ($778,040), Multi-Objective Automated Routing for Ships prototyping ($678,682), and human-machine interface design ($716,613). Software and systems development for Naval Air Systems Command spans the PMA-281 Hardware and Software Development and Sustainment vehicle (31 task orders, $9.1 million combined value) with concrete work on Collaborative Mission Planning Continuum software development ($5.31 million delivery order awarded April 2025) and associated platform engineering. Research and development in aeronautics and aerospace forms the third pillar, anchored by a NASA Ames Research Center multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract for rotorcraft vertical lift technology development (ceiling $39.95 million, through December 2026) supporting electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft and eVTOL systems. The vendor holds additional smaller RDT&E vehicles with the Air Force Research Laboratory ($74,948 SBIR Phase I contract, completed January 2022; $1.64 million SBIR Phase II contract completed April 2024), Federal Railroad Administration (UX/UI for railroad automation, $562,990 definitive contract through January 2024), Nuclear Regulatory Commission (human decision-analysis performance monitoring strategy, $150,000 through September 2025), and Missile Defense Agency (newly awarded $151 billion multi-award SHIELD IDIQ on December 29, 2025, 10-year period through December 2035, for multi-domain defense system R&D and engineering).

Monterey Technologies operates substantially as a prime builder of its own delivery teams. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts (FY2022–FY2024), the vendor performed 0% of hours through subcontractors, indicating direct delivery with no named subs on captured service contracts. However, in its subcontractor role — which represents 23% of total recent awards by count — the vendor subcontracts to major primes Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (16 sub awards since July 2021, primarily CMPC and NGNMPS/CMPC integration engineering services), Tapestry Solutions Inc. (eight sub awards since September 2023, weapons planning software and NOMS custom software development), General Dynamics Mission Systems Inc. (two sub awards for level-of-effort goods and services), General Dynamics Land Systems Inc. (one systems technical support modification), and Boeing Aerospace Operations Inc. (one mission planning strike agile software development sub). This subcontracting footprint is concentrated in Navy aviation and strike warfare mission systems engineering and software development.

Activity has accelerated substantially. The vendor recorded 3 awards in 2022, 5 in 2023, 14 in 2024, and 30 in 2025, reflecting both expansion of existing Navy relationships and the newly awarded Missile Defense Agency SHIELD IDIQ. Six awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $10.4 million, presenting modest recompete exposure in the near term, though the $73.9 million NIWC Pacific UX/UI IDC (through May 2030) and the $151 billion MDA SHIELD IDIQ represent substantial forward pipeline through decade-end.

On GSA Schedule labor rates, Monterey Technologies maintains 22 active categories spanning software engineers ($134–$195/hr for entry and mid-level roles), program managers ($209–$219/hr), human engineering specialists ($249–$280/hr), and senior systems engineers ($346/hr), with no security-cleared labor offered and education requirements capped at high school. SCI-reported service-contract invoicing totaled $334 thousand across FY2022–FY2024 ($57 thousand in FY2022, $277 thousand in FY2023, zero in FY2024), representing a small slice of the vendor's federal services footprint; SCI-reported FTE trajectory ran 2.1 FTEs (FY2022), 0.3 FTEs (FY2023), and 3.9 FTEs (FY2024), with median government-paid hourly rates around $391.60/hr on captured service contracts.

HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING, R&D, TASK ANALYSIS,WORKLOAD ANALYSIS, USABILITY ANALYSIS,VISION RESEARCH,SIMULATION RESEARCH, TRAINING NEEDS ANALYSIS, HUMAN-SYSTEM INTEGRATION (HSI), MIL-STD-1472 COMPLIANCE ANALYSIS, HUMAN ENGINEERING PGM DEVELOPMENT