Praeses, LLC

Praeses, LLC, a small-business technology services company based in Shreveport, Louisiana, operates as a prime contractor providing software development, data analytics, artificial intelligence, and advanced geospatial and mission-planning platforms exclusively to the Department of Defense, with no subcontractor footprint. The vendor competes under total small business set-asides on SBIR and STTR awards and full-and-open competition on larger indefinite-delivery vehicles, reflecting a portfolio split between innovation-stage research and production-oriented command-and-control contracts.

Praeses' customer concentration is heavily weighted toward Air Force Research Laboratory, which accounts for 25 awards and $126.4 million of the vendor's combined potential value across all agencies. The Department of the Air Force (separate from AFRL) anchors $950 million in potential value through a single award to the Joint All Domain Command and Control Support IDC, a multiple-award vehicle supporting Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) and broader joint all-domain command and control (JADC2) capabilities. The Missile Defense Agency accounts for $500 in combined potential value through the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award IDIQ vehicle. Across 35 total awards, the top five customer entities represent 100% of combined potential value; Air Force entities dominate 89% of award count. The AFRL pipeline is characterized by multiple SBIR and STTR Phase II awards in the $1.2 million to $1.45 million range addressing specific mission-planning and battlespace-awareness platforms (ROOK Platform for B-52 AgilePod, Rapid Standoff Munitions, Rapid Global Mobility, Missile Field Battlespace Awareness, and WATCHTOWER variants for forecasting and munitions health analytics), alongside larger definitive contracts such as a $10.5 million Future Oriented Rook Geospatial Engine (FORGE) development award (September 2025, ultimate completion August 2027) and an $11.3 million WATCHTOWER Phase II contract (awarded March 2022, completion August 2025).

Praeses holds three primary indefinite-delivery vehicles: a $950 million Joint All Domain Command and Control Support IDC (multiple award, Air Force, award date June 2022, completion May 2030) from which a $1.8 million delivery order was placed in July 2022; a $79.2 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract for Integrated Information Technology Fusion (IITF) SBIR III (AFRL, award date September 2026, completion September 2031) supporting advanced information-technology fusion and sensor data processing; and a $151 billion multiple-award SHIELD IDIQ (Missile Defense Agency, award date December 2025, completion December 2035) for multi-domain defense systems, on which Praeses received a $500 initial delivery order in December 2025. The vendor also holds a delivery order under GSA Information Technology Schedule 70 with a $248 thousand potential value.

Activity has declined in recent years — five awards in 2022 to two awards in 2026 — but recent awards carry significantly higher individual ceilings than the earlier SBIR/STTR baseline. Two awards (combined potential value $14.6 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete exposure. Across category concentration, 25 awards fall under NAICS 541712 (Research and Development in Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences), reflecting Praeses' positioning as an innovation-stage vendor within the AFRL ecosystem. The vendor's capability portfolio centers on real-time data fusion, edge processing, geospatial analysis, mission planning optimization, and advanced command-and-control decision support — work performed primarily in Shreveport with subordinate site operations in Colorado (Peterson Space Force Base) and Alabama (Huntsville, for SHIELD work). Combined dollars obligated represent 5% of combined potential value, indicating early-stage execution on large ceiling contracts and continued heavy reliance on task-order issuance.

Praeses provides solutions focusing on software and database development, mobile computing, data migration, system integration and process automation. Praeses provides reporting development and Internet/intranet/extranet application development.