Neya Systems LLC

Neya Systems LLC, a subsidiary of Applied Research Associates Inc., is a DoD-focused autonomous ground vehicle and robotics cybersecurity contractor operating primarily as a prime on full-and-open Other Transaction Agreements and defense research contracts, with secondary subcontract activity supporting ground vehicle systems integration work.

Neya Systems is a for-profit limited liability company headquartered in Warrendale, Pennsylvania. The vendor holds no SBA set-aside designations and competes exclusively in full-and-open procurements. As a subsidiary of Applied Research Associates Inc., a Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Neya Systems leverages ARA's technical expertise in modeling, simulation, software development, and test and evaluation to support autonomous vehicle and robotics programs. Neya's capability portfolio centers on autonomous driving systems, mission planning software, sensor integration, obstacle detection and avoidance, ROS-2 (Robot Operating System) development, unmanned vehicle control systems, and cybersecurity hardening for ground vehicle robotics platforms. The vendor's NAICS concentration skews heavily toward research and development: 21 of 41 prime awards fall under NAICS 541714 (Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences), with secondary weight on engineering services and medical R&D.

Customer concentration is heavily DoD-skewed across both volume and dollars. The top five customer components account for 58% of awards by count but 81% of combined potential value, driven by a single large outlier: the $22.1 million Other Transaction Agreement from the Office of the Secretary of Defense for the Ground Expeditionary Autonomy Retrofit Systems (GEARS) Program awarded December 13, 2023. Below that anchor, the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center carries three awards worth $10.4 million combined, the Department of the Navy Office of Naval Research holds three awards for $8.1 million, TACOM Life Cycle Management Command (Army) leads by volume with 15 awards totaling $5 million, and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency carries three awards for $2.4 million. Nineteen distinct customer agencies appear across the portfolio, but the DoD ecosystem accounts for the vast majority of activity.

Neya Systems holds two primary parent vehicle positions: Indefinite Delivery Contract W56HZV23D0017 carries six task orders, and W56HZV21DL042 carries three task orders. Beyond these IDCs, the vendor operates under Army Other Transaction IDVs awarded by the Engineer Research and Development Center (November 18, 2024, $6.2 million ceiling) and the Department of the Army (March 24, 2023, $364,889 ceiling), both supporting the Defense Innovation Unit's Ground Vehicle Autonomous Pathways Project. Recent prime work includes a $2.97 million March 2026 purchase order from TACOM Life Cycle Management Command for ground vehicle robotics cybersecurity (completion April 5, 2027) and the aforementioned $22.1 million GEARS OTA with a December 12, 2025 ultimate completion date.

Activity has accelerated sharply in the past two years: two awards per year in 2021 and 2023, eight in 2024, four in 2025, and one in 2026 year-to-date. Only one award (combined potential value $3 million) faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating a low recompete cliff through mid-2027. In its subcontractor role, Neya works primarily under DCS Corporation on recurring ROS-2 development and ground vehicle robotics engineering support to the Combat Capabilities Development Command Ground Vehicle Systems Center, with sub awards spanning March 2024 through April 2025 and typically involving 3.5 full-time engineer equivalents per engagement. The vendor also subs to Asrc Federal Professional Services on testing and evaluation services (three sub awards from January through March 2024). Service Contract Inventory captures one SCI record — a 5.7 FTE sub engagement in FY2022 — and does not reflect the vendor's R&D contract footprint, which dominates Neya's federal profile. The vendor operates predominantly as a prime (77% of awards) and brings subcontractors into delivery; teaming is most visible through its parent-company relationship with ARA rather than through formal prime-sub partnerships at Neya's level.