Research & Engineering Development LLC

Research & Engineering Development LLC, a for-profit limited liability company based in California, Maryland, operates as a prime contractor (95% of recent awards) delivering human systems engineering, systems integration, and test and evaluation services to the Navy, with deep entrenched positions on multiple Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC) indefinite delivery contracts and emerging presence on department-of-defense-wide strategic vehicles including the Missile Defense Agency's SHIELD IDIQ and GSA's OASIS+ Small Business program.

RED's customer concentration is extreme and functionally Navy-centric. The Naval Air Systems Command and Naval Air Warfare Center account for 92% of awards and $1.49 billion of the combined $1.54 billion potential value across all recent awards — a concentration that has persisted across the vendor's footprint since SAM.gov registration in 2001. The Army Materiel Command contributes $46.8 million on a single award, and the Special Operations Command and Naval Sea Systems Command account for less than $4 million combined. Within the Navy portfolio, RED sustains multiple parent vehicles. The Naval Air Warfare Center's Indefinite Delivery Contract N0042110D0001 carries 26 task orders with $85.1 million combined potential value; contract N0042119D0042 carries 5 task orders for $56.3 million; SeaPort-e hosts 6 task orders worth $77.5 million; and the newly awarded Seaport Next Generation vehicle carries 2 task orders (including a $144.6 million delivery order for human systems engineering follow-on work issued April 26, 2024, extending through December 2029). The bulk of RED's work falls under NAICS 541712 (Engineering Services) and PSC Support-Professional: Engineering/Technical, with secondary R&D coding. Award trajectories show volatility — two awards in 2021, one in 2022, three in 2023, one in 2024, and six in 2025 — reflecting lumpiness typical of sole-source and limited-competition Navy delivery orders rather than consistent growth.

RED's recent entry onto government-wide vehicles signals expansion beyond Navy. In December 2025, RED was awarded a $151 billion SHIELD IDIQ seat with the Missile Defense Agency (no set-aside) with an initial delivery order for five hundred dollars, positioning RED to compete for enterprise-wide defense R&D and systems engineering work across the department. In September 2025, RED won a total small business set-aside seat on GSA's OASIS+ Small Business contract (placeholder ceiling, five-year base through September 2030), permitting task order pursuit across seven functional domains and multiple federal agencies. RED also holds the ASTRO platform-services IDIQ from GSA/FEDSIM (November 2021 award through November 2031, no set-aside, ceiling not specified in source), though recent task-order activity under ASTRO is absent from the source material.

SCI-reported invoiced revenue on federal service contracts shows contraction. RED invoiced $12.4 million across 46.2 FTEs in FY2022, declining to $11.3 million (43.4 FTEs) in FY2023 and $8.2 million (30.6 FTEs) in FY2024 — a 34 percent decline in both dollars and workforce over two fiscal years. On SCI-reportable prime contracts, RED's blended government-paid hourly rates ran a median of $128.09 per hour, with 10th and 90th percentiles at $120.90 and $144.47 per hour respectively, positioning RED in the mid-market range for Navy engineering support. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors performed 39 percent of contractor hours, averaging 28 named subs per contract — indicating a mixed delivery posture combining internal capacity with substantial sub-engagement. Named subcontractors include Eagles Point Consulting Inc., Vectrus Systems LLC, and Basic Commerce & Industries Inc. on the Seaport-NXG delivery order. As a subcontractor (5% of recent awards), RED has teamed with Smartronix LLC on SOCOM Pacific C6ISR support and with Taylor Tekla Test Partner Organization LLC on task-order creation engineering support in 2025.

No set-aside designations appear in RED's prime portfolio except the single small-business set-aside OASIS+ IDIQ. The vendor's Navy work is full-and-open competition; the SHIELD IDIQ carries no set-aside restriction. RED's recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is not separately isolated in the source, but the 45 NAWC awards represent the core recompete surface, with the oldest task orders expiring into 2023–2024 range already cycled and medium-term orders cycling through 2026–2029.