PC Krause & Associates Inc.

PC Krause & Associates Inc., headquartered in West Lafayette, Indiana, is a small business subchapter S corporation competing as a prime contractor (87% of awards) across the federal research and development landscape, with the vast majority of its portfolio concentrated in SBIR and STTR vehicle work under total small business set-asides. The company specializes in advanced engineering, power electronics, thermal management, autonomous controls, digital engineering, and modeling and simulation for defense and aerospace agencies.

PC Krause & Associates operates almost exclusively under small-business reserves, drawing 70% of its award count from five customer agencies. The Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory and the Air Force collectively account for $129.7 million of the combined potential value across the top five customers by dollars—roughly 65% of all potential value in the portfolio. The Navy's Naval Air Systems Command Naval Air Warfare Center ranks third with 41 awards and $28.2 million combined potential value, while NASA's Shared Services Center and the Navy's Office of Naval Research round out the primary set. The portfolio spans 27 distinct customer agencies, indicating broad defense-and-aerospace customer reach but heavy concentration in Air Force and Navy research laboratories.

The vendor's customer concentration by dollars and by volume align closely. Air Force Research Laboratory leads at 71 awards worth $68.4 million; the Air Force as a whole (including Air Force Material Command and other components) tops the potential-value rankings at $129.7 million across 22 awards. Naval Air Warfare Center, Navy Office of Naval Research, and NASA Shared Services Center collectively account for $43.6 million. This concentration in Air Force and Navy research labs and technology development offices is the defining signal in the portfolio.

PC Krause & Associates holds positions on five named parent vehicles. The largest is Indefinite Delivery Contract FA865004D2409 through Air Force Research Laboratory, with 22 task orders totaling $37.8 million combined potential value. Four other IDCs and one Basic Ordering Agreement (N6833512G0006 with Naval Air Warfare Center for SBIR Phase III work, carrying three task orders and $4.4 million potential value) support ongoing task order issuance. The BOA with Naval Air Warfare Center, awarded March 15, 2023 with an ultimate completion date of March 15, 2028, serves as a vehicle for competitive SBIR Phase III delivery orders.

Representative prime contract work demonstrates the portfolio's depth in SBIR phases across thermal, power, and aircraft technologies. A $19.95 million Air Force cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract awarded August 27, 2022 funds advanced aircraft modeling, simulation, and digital engineering (AAMSADE) through December 14, 2027. A $2.998 million Office of Naval Research SBIR Phase II contract awarded July 18, 2023 for power and thermal system research carries a cost-plus-fixed-fee structure extending through July 17, 2028. A $1.753 million Naval Sea Systems Command SBIR Phase II contract awarded December 20, 2024 targets submarine shipboard power supply bridge technology. A $1.798 million Air Force Research Laboratory contract awarded April 21, 2025 funds energy-aware autonomy for air vehicles. PC Krause & Associates also holds an Other Transaction Agreement with Air Force Research Laboratory (awarded October 21, 2021 for a rapid trade study toolset for propulsion systems) valued at $1.5 million. The recent pipeline includes a $1.266 million Definitive Contract from the Air Force for SBIR Phase II electric aircraft health management algorithms awarded September 21, 2026. Across the portfolio, firm fixed price and cost-plus-fixed-fee structures are both prevalent, reflecting the mix of SBIR phases and research task orders.

Activity has remained stable at 12 to 15 awards per year over the past four years (2022–2025), with four awards recorded so far in 2026. The recompete cliff presents material near-term exposure: fourteen awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $54.3 million, representing nearly 27% of the total portfolio by potential value.

PC Krause & Associates operates as a subcontractor to three named prime contractors. Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation has engaged the vendor on six named sub-awards since January 2022, primarily for tactical range extender-enhancer engineering services, DARPA research program support, and energy well power generation project work. Linquest Corporation has awarded four sub-awards for SBIR Phase III IDEAAS task order engineering services. University of Dayton and Lockheed Martin Corporation each appear on the sub-award list for research and development support services and expanded multidiscipline analysis design optimization work. Sub work spans aircraft propulsion systems, energy management, and advanced engineering program support to major defense primes, consistent with the company's core power electronics and thermal management capability set.

SCI-reported service contract activity is negligible and not representative of the company's federal presence. The SCI dataset captures only four prime records spanning FY2022–FY2025, with total invoiced revenue of approximately $402 thousand and a workforce trajectory ranging from 0.6 to 0.8 FTEs. SCI does not capture SBIR contract work, R&D deliverables priced on a cost-plus basis, or other research program structures that dominate PC Krause & Associates' portfolio; these figures should not be construed as the company's federal revenue or workforce scale. Government-paid hourly rates on the sparse SCI-reportable service contracts ran around a median of $120.92/hr. The vendor performed 0% of hours through subcontractors on its SCI prime records, indicating captive delivery on the small set of service contracts captured in the inventory.

PC Krause & Associates competes in NAICS categories centered on physical and engineering research and development (138 awards across the two leading R&D NAICS codes), with secondary presence in engineering services (10 awards). The PSC profile aligns: national defense R&D services for applied and basic research (76 awards combined) and space R&D services (19 awards) dominate the procurement set. The vendor's competitive posture is entirely within small-business set-asides — all recent prime awards carry "Total Small Business" or "SBIR Program Phase X" designations with no full-and-open competition. This set-aside concentration and the vendor's three-decade operational history as an SBIR/STTR performer position PC Krause & Associates as a specialist in federal research and technology development pipelines rather than a broad-market defense or IT services provider.

Specializes in modeling, simulation, analysis, and design, of power systems and power system components with particular emphasis on power-electronic-based systems being used in or designed for ships, ground vehicles, aircraft and spacecraft.