Pacific Defense Strategies, Inc.

Pacific Defense Strategies, Inc., based in El Segundo, California, is a defense contractor specializing in electronic warfare, open-architecture systems integration, and radio frequency payload development for the Department of Defense and intelligence community, competing as a prime contractor on 58% of recent awards and as a subcontractor on the remainder. The company is a for-profit manufacturer of goods and business organization with no named SBA designations; it competes predominantly in full-and-open procurements across the defense industrial base.

Pacific Defense Strategies' customer concentration is heavily skewed toward the Air Force and Army. The top five funding agencies account for 73% of awards by count but 99% by potential value, led by the Department of the Air Force (4 awards, $950.2 million combined potential value), anchored by a $900 million multiple-award IDIQ with the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Architecture and Integration Directorate for multi-domain systems capabilities development, rapid prototyping, and synthetic environment development. The Army's Program Executive Office for Intelligence, Electronic Warfare & Sensors dominates award count (8 awards) through CMOSS-related work. The Office of Naval Research follows with three awards totaling $45.9 million in potential value. The Air Force Research Laboratory contributes three additional awards worth $40.3 million, focused on Systems Open Architecture (SOSA) radio frequency payload development for space domain awareness.

Capability work centers on modular, open-architecture electronic warfare and C5ISR systems. Recent representative prime awards include a $13.5 million Other Transaction Agreement from the Army Research Development and Engineering Command (January 2026) for CMOSS Electronic Warfare prototype development through January 2028; an $18.4 million cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract from the Office of Naval Research (June 2025) for CMOSS development extending through December 2026; and a $31.26 million cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory (November 2023) for a SOSA radio frequency payload supporting space domain awareness. An additional $9.08 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory (November 2022) addresses SOSA radio frequency payload development for networked command, control, and communications. Pacific Defense Strategies also holds a $6.2 million Other Transaction IDV with the Army's Program Executive Office for Intelligence, Electronic Warfare & Sensors supporting CMOSS prototype development.

Activity has grown steadily from three awards in 2022 to eight in 2025; the source records one award in 2026 year-to-date. Five awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $85.7 million and face recompete. As a subcontractor, Pacific Defense Strategies delivers SOSA-based hardware systems and mission systems integration to SRC Inc. on multiple C-UAS (counter-unmanned aerial systems) FS-LIDS (Fixed Site Low, Slow, Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Integrated Defeat System) task orders under Army indefinite-delivery contract W31P4Q20D0032, with awards dated January 2024 through April 2025 covering 3U VPX 100GbE switches and systems procurement. The vendor also supports Leidos on mission systems open architecture prototyping and experimentation (April 2025) and program assessment work for Program Executive Office Aviation (February 2025 sub via KBR Wyle Services).

The $900 million Air Force IDIQ represents the vendor's largest parent vehicle holding; one $1,000 task order has been issued against it for AFLCMC/XA capabilities briefing support (November 2023). Service Contract Inventory data shows minimal federal services activity captured at the $150,000-and-above threshold, with only 0.1 FTEs reported in FY2024 on a named subcontractor role, indicating Pacific Defense Strategies' federal revenue is dominated by product development, engineering, and prototype delivery rather than recurring services.