Poplicus Incorporated

Poplicus Incorporated, doing business as Air, sells software-as-a-service (SaaS) data analytics platforms and supply chain risk illumination tools to the federal government primarily as a prime contractor, competing full-and-open across multiple vehicle types and federal agencies without reliance on small business set-asides.

The company is a for-profit corporate entity headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, operating under primary NAICS 541512 (Computer Systems Design Services) and aligned to PSC codes emphasizing professional IT support and business application SaaS delivery. Poplicus Incorporated's flagship product is Ark.ai, a cloud-based platform providing data integration, analysis, and visualization capabilities tailored to defense acquisition, logistics, operational decision-making, and IT modernization. The vendor does not hold SBA certifications and competes on commercial merit across the full federal market.

Poplicus Incorporated operates predominantly as a prime contractor—94 percent of recent awards carry prime status—and builds its own delivery teams rather than relying on subcontractors; across SCI-reportable contracts, the vendor performed 0 percent of total hours through named subcontractors. The company serves a broad defense and civilian customer base, though concentration is pronounced within the Department of Defense. The Office of the Secretary of Defense dominates by both award count and potential value, accounting for 32 awards worth $602 million combined. The Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command follows with 21 awards valued at $103.2 million, while the Department of the Army represents the third-largest potential value concentration at $499.9 million across three awards—a single $499 million indefinite delivery contract awarded August 2025, a $31.6 million Air Force Materiel Command contract for ICBM industrial base supply chain assessment (June 2026), and supporting task orders. The top five customers account for 73 percent of combined potential value across the portfolio. The Office of the Secretary of Defense concentration and Naval Sea Systems Command volume reflect the vendor's deep positioning within Navy platform modernization and enterprise-level defense analytics initiatives.

Poplicus Incorporated holds multiple significant parent vehicles anchoring its federal delivery. A $399.999 million single-award indefinite delivery contract (HQ003420D0002) with the Office of the Chief Management Officer carries 114 task orders worth $487.8 million in combined potential value and represents the largest vehicle by far, supporting data mining SaaS platform and analytics solutions across Department of Defense components. A $499 million single-award indefinite delivery contract (W9128Z25DA002) with the Department of the Army issued August 2025 carries 18 task orders for Ark SaaS platform subscriptions, worth $49.2 million combined. An indefinite delivery contract (HQ003425DE006) with the Office of the Secretary of Defense worth $49.95 million holds 13 task orders valued at $20.7 million. The vendor also holds an $18.891 million BPA call and broader access under the General Services Administration's $100 million Supply Chain Risk Illumination Professional Tools and Services (SCRIPTS) multiple-award blanket purchase agreement (March 2025 through March 2030), which supports Department of Defense and federal civilian agencies. A GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract (March 2023 through March 2028, $500,000 ceiling) provides additional ordering authority for commercial SaaS licenses and data analytics services. These vehicles enable task order issuance at scale across the defense enterprise.

Award activity has grown markedly—from 21 awards in 2022 to 42 in 2025—with 21 awards recorded to date in 2026. The combined potential value across 182 total awards (prime and sub) stands at $1.8 billion, with $381.9 million obligated to date (21 percent of potential). Eighteen awards totaling $57.9 million in combined potential value complete within the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete opportunity for competitors and recompete exposure for the vendor.

Service Contract Inventory captures SCI-reportable invoicing of $114 million across FY2023–FY2024 on the prime side (the source reflects FY2025 SCI data as not yet available). FY2024 shows $71.3 million invoiced, with FY2023 at $42.7 million. The SCI dataset shows minimal federal FTE activity—approximately 0.8 FTEs in FY2024 and 0.5 FTEs in FY2025—reflecting the vendor's licensing and subscription-oriented delivery model rather than labor-intensive service delivery. SCI-reported invoicing is a subset of the vendor's federal services revenue and substantially smaller than the combined potential value across the full award portfolio, indicating that the majority of Poplicus Incorporated's federal revenue derives from SaaS subscription delivery orders and platform license task orders that do not require significant on-site labor.

The vendor subcontracts selectively under major primes. Recent sub-award activity includes Ark SaaS license delivery to Booz Allen Hamilton (cyber-supply chain risk management support, March 2025 and September 2025), HII Mission Technologies (technology-integrated services for naval strategic operations, September 2024 and June 2026), BAE Systems (ICBM systems engineering and integration, August 2023 through August 2025), and CACI (Navy digital engineering and transformation research, September 2024). A single sub-grant award appears under National Center For Manufacturing Sciences Inc. (alternative supply source evaluation, September 2025). The sub-award footprint is modest relative to prime work and reflects the company's positioning as a SaaS platform provider integrated into broader defense systems engineering and modernization efforts rather than as a feeder for larger defense integrators.

Poplicus Incorporated has also received a $151 billion multiple-award indefinite delivery contract under the Missile Defense Agency's Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program (December 2025 through December 2035), alongside an initial $500 delivery order. This vehicle represents a 10-year strategic contract for multi-domain defense capabilities, including disruptive technologies and modernization across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. The significance of this award lies in its scope—not in immediate dollar flow—and positions the vendor for long-term participation in MDA's next-generation defense procurement initiatives.

Recent representative work illustrates the vendor's core delivery model. Air Force Materiel Command awarded $31.62 million (June 2026) for integrated ICBM industrial base supply chain assessment. Naval Strategic Systems Programs issued a $37.95 million delivery order (June 2024) for SaaS platform delivery. Space and Missile Systems Center procured $18.683 million (September 2024) for software platform licenses. Defense Logistics Agency ordered $30.15 million (September 2024) for a SaaS platform. Program Executive Office Aviation placed a $4.5 million pilot order (September 2025) for the Ark platform. These awards span firm-fixed-price delivery orders and are concentrated in the $1 million to $40 million range per order, with completion dates typically one to five years out. Civilian agency penetration is limited; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded $7.56 million (July 2026) for supply chain risk intelligence under Executive Order 14398, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded $1.5 million (July 2024) for semiconductor industry data portal access. The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy placed a $900,000 order (September 2025) for SaaS analytics licenses.