Bigbear.ai Federal, LLC

Bigbear.ai Federal, LLC (doing business as Big Bear.al Analytics, LLC) is a for-profit limited-liability company headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, that delivers AI-powered decision intelligence, modeling and simulation, data analytics, systems engineering, and advanced technological solutions to federal defense agencies and civilian departments as a prime contractor (55% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor on strategic defense initiatives. The vendor holds no SBA set-aside designations and competes exclusively in full-and-open markets across all customer categories.

Bigbear.ai Federal operates as a subsidiary of parent company Bigbear.ai, LLC, alongside named subsidiaries Open Solutions Group, LLC and Promodel Government Solutions Inc. The parent vendor structure signals expansion into specialized domains — Promodel Government Solutions positions the company in modeling and simulation software licensing, which aligns with the vendor's core delivery against Army and Navy workloads.

The vendor's recent contract and IDV footprint reflects dominant positioning in Department of Defense modernization and decision-support missions. The two largest awards dominate the portfolio by potential value: a $4 billion multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with Naval Sea Systems Command under Seaport Next Generation (SeaPort-NXG) awarded January 2, 2025, and a $900 million multiple-award IDIQ with Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Architecture and Integration Directorate awarded December 9, 2022. A third major vehicle, a $151 billion multiple-award IDC under the Missile Defense Agency's Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program awarded December 29, 2025, extends the vendor's reach into next-generation air and missile defense systems engineering. A governmentwide OASIS+ Unrestricted contract awarded December 17, 2024, provides access to civilian agencies without set-aside restrictions. Against these vehicles, Bigbear.ai Federal has issued delivery orders and initial task orders: a $6.058 million definitive contract from Washington Headquarters Service on March 3, 2025, for the Orion Decision Support Platform; a $164.8 million follow-on production contract from the Department of the Army on September 30, 2024, for Global Force Information Management; and a $1.32 million Other Transaction Agreement from the Office of the Secretary of Defense on September 27, 2024, for the VANE Phase 3 prototype. On the civilian side, a $3.38 million delivery order from the Export-Import Bank of the US on June 20, 2022, under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule demonstrates reach into trade finance and export support missions.

Customer concentration splits sharply between volume and dollar value. By award count, the Export-Import Bank of the US (8 awards, $34.1 million combined potential value), the Department of the Army Forces Command (8 awards), and DOD Washington Headquarters Service (7 awards, $6.1 million) anchor the top tier, covering 57% of recent awards. By potential value, Naval Sea Systems Command and the Air Force dominate — together they carry $4.9 billion of the $5.16 billion total portfolio (95%). This divergence reflects the vendor's ability to hold large, multi-year IDIQs with major Navy and Air Force commands while sustaining a steady stream of smaller task orders and purchase orders across Army, OSD, and civilian agencies. The four awards reaching completion within the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $10.8 million — a modest recompete exposure relative to the long tail of IDIQ ceiling values through 2029 and 2035.

Bigbear.ai Federal subcontracts predominantly to Booz Allen Hamilton on Department of Defense analytics, training readiness, and enterprise data initiatives. Named sub-awards to Booz Allen span from December 2022 through July 2025 and cover Emergent Threat Training and Readiness Capability (ET2RC), the Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Officer's Technology Synchronization of Business Operations (TSYBO), the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center's open-architecture technical services, and Custom Data Analytic Operations (CDAO) analytics support — signaling deep embedding in DoD's AI modernization and workforce development agenda. A February 2024 sub-award to Lockheed Martin for Influence Campaign Awareness and Sensemaking (INCAS) represents the vendor's secondary teaming relationship. Grant work includes sub-recipient roles under National Center for Manufacturing Sciences Phase II and Phase III awards for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Applications for Data Analytics (December 2023 and April 2024). Service Contract Inventory data reflect minimal SCI-reportable invoiced revenue across FY2022–FY2024, with scattered FTE activity (7.3 in FY2022, zero in FY2023, 1.0 in FY2024), indicating that most Bigbear.ai Federal work operates at or above the SCI reporting ceiling (captured in IDIQs and large prime contracts rather than individually reportable SCI records). The vendor's sub-engagement across SCI prime contracts shows zero percent sub-hours share, suggesting that where the vendor does perform as SCI-prime, it builds its own delivery teams rather than layering subcontractors.

The vendor's primary NAICS and PSC framing centers on Engineering Services (13 awards), Computer Systems Design Services (12 awards), and Custom Computer Programming Services (10 awards), with secondary presence in R&D and software publishing. Defense R&D Services (National Defense R&D Services; Department Of Defense - Military; Experimental Development) and IT and Telecom facility operation and business application services drive the modal PSC categories, reinforcing the vendor's position as a prime systems integrator and decision-support platform developer for mid-tier to large defense modernization programs.