Pacific Science & Engineering Group, Inc.

Pacific Science & Engineering Group, Inc., headquartered in San Diego, California, operates as a for-profit Subchapter S corporation providing human factors engineering, systems integration, ergonomics, and human-machine interface design for Navy research and development programs, working almost exclusively as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) under total small business set-asides on SBIR and STTR research vehicles and full-and-open contracts with Naval agencies.

The vendor's customer concentration is narrow and deeply Naval. The Department of the Navy accounts for 158 of 390 total awards (89% coverage by award count) and dominates both volume and dollar rankings. Within the Navy, three sub-organizations anchor 89% of awards by count and 92% by potential value: Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (104 awards, $167.9 million combined potential value), the Office of Naval Research (62 awards, $64.2 million combined potential value), and Naval Sea Systems Command (19 awards, $32.9 million combined potential value). The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory account for the remaining 8% of value, but the footprint is Navy-dominant. Recent representative prime awards include a $1.974 million cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract from Naval Sea Systems Command for SBIRS High support (MDAP infrared sensor and display development) awarded April 7, 2026; a $2.0 million SBIR Phase II contract from the Office of Naval Research for human-machine interface research awarded July 22, 2025; and a $2.0 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from Naval Information Warfare Systems Command for display technologies and command-and-control systems awarded October 22, 2024.

Pacific Science & Engineering Group sits on multiple Naval indefinite delivery contracts serving as umbrella vehicles for repeated task orders. The five top parent IDIQs are all Navy contracts: Indefinite Delivery Contract N6600199D0050 (94 task orders), Indefinite Delivery Contract N6600104D0005 (67 task orders, $40.5 million combined potential value), Indefinite Delivery Contract N6600196D0048 (63 task orders), Indefinite Delivery Contract N6600190D0127 (26 task orders), and Indefinite Delivery Contract N6600110D0018 (13 task orders, $3.8 million combined potential value). The vendor also holds a single-award $15.1 million IDIQ with Naval Sea Systems Command for SBIR Phase III research and development in naval display and human-machine interface technologies, extending through July 31, 2027, under which two major delivery orders are running: a time-and-materials order for $6.245 million supporting the PEO IWS 20 SPEIR Future Displays program (extending to October 31, 2027) and a time-and-materials order for $1.798 million for human-machine interface design and consultation services (extending to August 4, 2027).

Award activity has declined markedly over recent years — seven awards in 2022, then one in 2023, six in 2024, and only two recorded in 2025 and 2026 to date in the source — but the relatively small recompete cliff of three awards totaling $18 million in potential value completing within the next twenty-four months suggests limited near-term pressure from expiring work. The vendor's NAICS footprint centers on research and development in physical, engineering, and life sciences (37 awards), followed by engineering services (27 awards); its PSC coding is dominated by basic research (96 awards under R&D-Other Research and Development) and general science and technology (66 awards). Service Contract Inventory data show minimal SCI activity (one FY2022 sub record with 1.6 FTEs), reflecting the vendor's research-and-development profile, which falls outside the hourly-rate-intensive service contract threshold. In its limited subcontractor role, Pacific Science & Engineering Group subcontracts to Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory on anti-submarine warfare sensor development and system engineering, and to Science Applications International Corporation on Army space-and-missile-defense command-and-control system utility analysis and software-support-activity engineering.

Human Systems Integration Framework (HSIF) software support and maintenance — developed over twelve years under prior DoD R&D investment totaling $1 million — represents an established capability within the Naval Education and Training Command portfolio, evidenced by multiple sole-source purchase orders for software updates and database modernization. The vendor's demonstrated expertise in display technologies, command-and-control system design, and Navy information warfare modernization positions it as a consistent innovation partner across Naval research priorities, with particularly strong SBIR Phase II and III pathway involvement.

Pacific Science & Engineering provides human factors engineering, ergonomic, human system integration, and user system design services, products, analysis and R&D for both government and commercial clients.