Nextgen Federal Systems LLC

Nextgen Federal Systems LLC, an SBA-certified HUBZone small business headquartered in Morgantown, West Virginia, is a minority-owned prime contractor delivering software development, AI/ML systems, weather forecasting platforms, space systems integration, and engineering services across defense, intelligence, and civilian agencies. The vendor competes predominantly under small-business set-asides (63% of prime awards carry Total Small Business or HUBZone designations) and holds a substantial position on federal vehicles including OASIS+SB, OASIS+ Unrestricted, POLARIS, SEAPORT-NXG, and multiple single-award and agency-specific IDIQs.

Nextgen's prime award footprint spans 84 awards (79% of all activity) with combined potential value of $51.72 billion, though obligated dollars total only $345.5 million (1% of potential). The vendor serves 33 distinct federal agencies, with concentration in the Department of the Army Materiel Command, the Department of the Air Force, and the Navy. By dollar potential, the Army Contracting Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground anchors the portfolio with three awards worth $37.43 billion combined — primarily a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract valued at $22.06 million for Weather Operational Effects commercial software and a $169.75 million ASTEROID program delivery order under OASIS SB through the Army Research Development and Engineering Command. The Navy Naval Sea Systems Command contributes $4 billion in potential value across the SEAPORT-NXG vehicle. The Department of the Air Force supplies nine awards worth $949.5 million, including a $28.4 million definitive contract for Weather Machine Learning Platform Operations and sustainment (awarded September 2023, running through September 2027), multiple SBIR/STTR awards for machine learning and space weather research, and task orders under the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center IDIQ.

Nextgen's capability work centers on weather systems modernization, machine learning operations and R&D, command-and-control integration, and specialized test-and-evaluation services. Recent representative awards include the $169.75 million ASTEROID program (cost-plus-award-fee, Army Research Development and Engineering Command, July 2023, through July 2028) for engineering support; a $28.4 million Air Force contract for WXMLP OPS software development and sustainment; a $19.6 million Customs and Border Protection Domain Awareness Security Support Services delivery order under OASIS SB (July 2023, through June 2028, Norfolk, Virginia); and a $33.98 million U.S. Marshals Service Tactical Operations Division contract under OASIS SB for operational support team services (April 2022, through March 2027). The vendor also pursues SBIR/STTR research funding, with a $2 million Office of Naval Research STTR Phase II award (August 2024, through September 2028) and smaller SBIR Phase I and Phase II awards from NASA, NOAA, DARPA, and the Air Force Research Laboratory.

Vehicle presence spans six significant IDIQs and one BPA. Nextgen holds awards on the OASIS+ Total Small Business Set-Aside ($999.999 trillion ceiling, December 2024 through December 2029), OASIS+ Unrestricted ($999.999 trillion ceiling, December 2024 through December 2029), OASIS+ HUBZone ($999.999 trillion ceiling, September 2024 through September 2029), POLARIS GWAC ($999.999 trillion ceiling, December 2025 through December 2030), the SEAPORT-NXG multiple-award IDIQ ($4 billion ceiling, January 2025 through January 2029), the Navy SEAPORT-NXG vehicle, the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Architecture and Integration Directorate IDIQ ($900 million, December 2022 through November 2027), the FBI ITSSS-2 BPA ($8.6 billion, June 2024 through June 2032), and the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center Test and Evaluation BPA ($249 million, January 2022 through January 2027). Most recently, Nextgen was awarded a position on the Missile Defense Agency's Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ ($151 billion ceiling, December 2025 through December 2035) under full and open competition with an initial $500 delivery order.

Award activity has grown substantially — 13 awards in 2022 to 23 in 2024 — though 2025–2026 data is partial (18 awards in 2025, 2 in 2026 YTD). Nine awards with combined potential value of $166.3 million complete in the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure concentrated in Army Communications Electronics Command and Air Force work. The top five customers by award count (Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory, Air Force, GSA Federal Acquisition Service, Army Communications Electronics Command, and Defense Information Systems Agency) account for 42% of awards; by dollar potential, the Army Contracting Command, Navy, Air Force, Office of the Secretary of Defense, and Army Research Development and Engineering Command account for 83% of combined potential value.

Service Contract Inventory reporting (FY2022–FY2024) shows $59.7 million in SCI-reportable invoiced revenue across prime contracts, with FY2022 at $19.6 million across 94.8 FTEs, declining to $18.8 million across 70 FTEs in FY2024 — a trajectory reflecting slower obligation relative to ceiling value. SCI government-paid hourly rates on prime contracts span a median of $113.12/hr, with the 10th percentile at $80.06/hr and the 90th percentile at $137.57/hr, positioning Nextgen in the moderate-cost range for federal engineering and IT labor. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subs perform approximately 28% of contractor hours, with 14 named subcontractors reported; the vendor therefore builds largely in-house delivery teams with selective subcontracting. GSA Schedule labor offerings span 95 categories from Associate Technician ($63.44/hr, high school education) through Computer and Information Systems Manager SME ($263.36/hr, bachelor's degree, 12 years experience), with no security-cleared positions offered.

Nextgen acts as a subcontractor on approximately 21% of its award footprint. Named prime contractors include Agile Defense LLC (test-and-evaluation labor and technical support across multiple task orders), J.F. Taylor Inc. (engineering and software development on joint simulation systems and training support), Radiance Technologies Inc. (data science and geospatial intelligence analysis work), Leidos Inc. (command-and-control systems integration), Systems Planning and Analysis Inc. (engineering support for Customs and Border Protection), CACI Technologies LLC, ManTech Advanced Systems International Inc., and The Survice Engineering Company LLC.

Nextgen's federal grant footprint is modest compared to contracting scale. The vendor is recipient on three research grants: a $349.932 thousand NOAA SBIR grant (CFDA 11.021, September 2023 through February 2024) for Machine Intelligence for Space Weather (MINTS) capability development; a $183.107 thousand Shared Services Center grant (July 2023 through June 2024) for multidomain-multimodal data dashboards; and a $189.923 thousand NASA Shared Services Center grant (May 2022 through May 2023) for heliophysics open-source software. All three are small-dollar R&D awards.

NextGen Federal Systems (NextGen) is an innovative HUBZone Certified Small Business that specializes in advanced Software & Systems Engineering, Enterprise Information Technology (IT), Program Office Support, and Research and Development (R&D). Our services provide expert guidance in the areas of Space, Cyber, Intelligence, and Electronic Warfare. We have extensive experience leading prime contracts for both the Army and Air Force C4ISR programs. Our strong and consistent growth over this period has led to our recognition as INC. 500's 211th fastest growing company in the US for 2016. NextGen's staff has expertise and a demonstrated record of innovation in the areas of Information Technology services. Technical services supported by NextGen are predicated on ITIL Service Management, CMMI, PMI, and PMBoK best practices.