Research Innovations Incorporated

Research Innovations Incorporated, an Alexandria, Virginia-based for-profit Subchapter S corporation, delivers systems engineering, software development, geospatial research, data analytics, and advanced R&D services to Department of Defense, Department of the Army, and intelligence community customers as a prime contractor (67% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor to Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, Parsons Government Services, Science Applications International Corporation, and Radiance Technologies. The company competes in full-and-open procurement across defense and civilian agencies with no SBA set-aside designations; its small-business certification status, if held, does not characterize its prime footprint, which is anchored to unrestricted competition.

Research Innovations' award portfolio is dominated by Department of Defense customers, particularly the Department of the Army, which accounts for the largest concentration by potential value. The Army's Materiel Command Army Contracting Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground awards two contracts representing $37.4 billion combined potential value—the $151 billion Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award IDIQ awarded December 29, 2025, and the $9.999 billion single-award Capability Program Executive Command and Control Information Network (CPE C2IN) indefinite-delivery contract awarded June 1, 2026—both missile defense and command-and-control vehicles with no set-aside designations. The broader Department of the Army customer base (15 awards) carries $603.1 million potential value. The Department of the Air Force (2 awards) holds $950 million in potential value, anchored to the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) multiple-award contract. By award count, the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Geospatial Center leads with 17 awards ($77.3 million combined potential value), followed by the Department of the Army (15 awards), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (15 awards, $33 million), and the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory (8 awards, $95.4 million). The portfolio spans 24 distinct customer agencies, with top-five customers representing 62% of recent awards and 99% of combined potential value—a significant concentration skew driven by the SHIELD and ABMS vehicles.

Research Innovations' primary parent vehicles are the Geospatial Research Integration Development Support II (GRIDS II) multiple-award IDIQ with 16 task orders ($29 million combined potential value), the GSA Multiple Award Schedule with 10 task orders ($67.7 million), the Geospatial Research, Integration, Development and Support III Small Business Set-Aside (GRIDS III SB) multiple-award IDIQ with 9 task orders ($36.5 million), the $54 million single-award Air Education and Training Command Research and Development IDV with 3 task orders, and the Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services vehicle with 8 task orders. Research Innovations also holds newly awarded prime positions on SHIELD and the $249 million Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) AI Data Readiness Basic Ordering Agreement with the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and an Other Transaction IDV for DARPA's Rapid Resilience Responses (R3) - Reverse Engineering and Vulnerability Research (REVER) program.

Recent concrete prime work includes a $9.664 million delivery order from PEO Command Control Communications-Tactical for PRIISM software licenses and support services under the C2NOW program (June 1, 2026, completion May 31, 2027); a $1.999 million Department of the Army Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contract for XTechPacific Open Topic A254-P026 (March 16, 2026, completion September 16, 2027); a $8.774 million GSA Multiple Award Schedule delivery order for MLARS DA Services to the Criminal Division (November 16, 2025, completion November 15, 2030); a $6.992 million delivery order under GRIDS IV for Air Force Central Command's Joint All-Domain Warfare System (September 19, 2025, completion September 18, 2030); a $11.995 million GRIDS III SB delivery order for Canadian Joint Warfare Center engineering and integration services (June 10, 2025, completion July 9, 2029); and a $95.355 million Other Transaction Agreement with the Air Force Research Laboratory for the LOUIS XIII program covering research, development, test, evaluation, and transition of technologies for mission coordination and cyberspace operations (September 29, 2022, completion September 28, 2027). Past DARPA contracts include a $4.258 million ITHAQUA TA4 cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract (February 20, 2024, completion July 19, 2026), an $11.043 million RED OAK cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract (January 31, 2022, completion July 31, 2025), and an $11.695 million MESSINA cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract (December 13, 2021, completion September 30, 2026).

Activity has been volatile: 14 awards in 2022, declining to 8 in 2023, recovering to 22 in 2024, then falling to 12 in 2025 and 3 year-to-date in 2026. Four awards with ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months carry $112.2 million in combined potential value and face recompete exposure. Research Innovations' award portfolio is concentrated in R&D services: 57 awards fall under "Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)" NAICS, and 32 awards sit under "Computer Systems Design Services." PSC distribution shows R&D-focused work across applied research, exploratory development, and experimental development codes, with smaller clusters in IT and telecommunications.

In subcontractor roles, Research Innovations delivers systems engineering, cyber security, and lifecycle logistics research and development under Lockheed Martin on the Influence Campaign Awareness and Sensemaking (INCAS) program (multiple modifications through September 2025), command-and-control systems and infrastructure support under Parsons on the Tactical Applications (TACAPPS) core infrastructure and Command 2 LSI programs (activity through April 2024), cyber security and system modernization support under Science Applications International Corporation on the C5ISR Center Dragonfly Sensor System (September 25, 2025), and labor support under BAE Systems on the Resilience Initiatives program (activity through December 2024). Historical sub-engagements include vulnerability analysis and reverse-engineering tool development under Radiance Technologies on the NEUROSPAR and DAIHSS programs (September 28, 2022) and technical support under Serco (February 21, 2023).

Service Contract Inventory data, limited to reportable federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold, captured $83 thousand invoiced in FY2024 across 3.3 FTEs and no invoicing in FY2022, FY2023, or FY2025. SCI government-paid rates show a single-point median of $2,038/hr. These figures represent a small slice of the vendor's federal services activity and exclude goods, products, classified work, and the vast majority of the vendor's enterprise revenue. GSA Schedule labor rates span $91.80/hr for entry-level engineering support (Associates, no experience required) through $387.59/hr for PhD-level subject-matter experts with 15 years' experience, with journeyman and principal engineer roles in the $193–$275 range. No cleared labor categories are offered on the Schedule.

Research Innovations operates across defense, intelligence, and emerging-technology mission areas with technical depth in Joint All-Domain Command and Control, command-and-control networks, geospatial systems engineering, artificial intelligence and data readiness, cyberspace operations, missile defense, and advanced research and development. The vendor's near-term recompete exposure sits within the $112.2 million of awards completing in the next twenty-four months, while its strategic positioning is anchored to the recently acquired $151 billion SHIELD and $9.999 billion CPE C2IN platforms, both of which extend into the 2030s and represent material upside for follow-on task-order activity.

RII develops cutting-edge software for the government and military. We use agile development practices and user-centered design to create innovative software solutions for complex real-world problems.

Products in support of Joint Command and Control from planning to assessment, including deliberate and dynamic targeting. Cutting-edge mobile apps and frameworks that address the integration and security challenges of mobile command and control. Cloud-based Platform as a Service (PaaS) hosting collaborative workspaces that enable rapid development of flexible, functional workflows. Our INNOVATE platform provides a customizable cloud deployment of proven big data technologies. We bridge organizational echelons by providing collaborative capabilities reaching mobile and web-based geospatial users.