Rincon Research Corporation

Rincon Research Corporation, a for-profit Subchapter S manufacturer based in Tucson, Arizona, delivers radio frequency and digital signal processing hardware, space domain awareness systems, and advanced battle management research to the Department of Defense and federal space agencies as a prime contractor on 63% of its recent awards and as a subcontractor to major defense primes.

Rincon operates in full-and-open competition with no set-aside designations across its federal prime footprint. The company's capability portfolio centers on software-defined radios (RAPTOR and ASTRO product lines), RF sensing and geolocation technologies, passive satellite surveillance prototypes, wideband RF recorders, and systems engineering for multi-domain defense architectures. Representative prime work includes a $49.4 million cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) for Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) development awarded in October 2022, an $11.2 million AFRL contract for Radio Frequency Awareness with Geolocation and Edge Processing (RAGE) through August 2027, a $1.58 million AFRL small-business-set-aside definitive contract for geosynchronous satellite surveillance prototype development using passive RF sensors awarded in July 2023, and a $499 thousand delivery order from the Space and Missile Systems Center for Counter Communications System software porting awarded in January 2026. Rincon also holds a seat on the newly awarded Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award IDIQ through the Missile Defense Agency with a $151 billion ceiling and performance extending through December 2035; an initial $500 task order was issued in December 2025.

Customer concentration is heavily defense-oriented. The top five funding agencies account for 100% of the combined potential value across all awards, led by the Department of the Air Force (5 awards, $950 million combined potential value), the Space and Missile Systems Center (8 awards, $200.6 million), GSA Federal Acquisition Service (2 awards, $190 million), AFRL (12 awards, $105.7 million), and the Office of the Secretary of Defense (10 awards, $6.9 million). The Air Force dominates the dollar-value ranking — driven by the ABMS contract — while AFRL leads by award count. Rincon sits on multiple parent vehicles: the One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS) contract with 9 task orders, the Conceptual Studies for Offensive/Defensive Space Control and Space Domain Awareness IDIQ with 3 task orders ($553 thousand combined value), the GSA Multiple Award Schedule with 3 task orders, and the ASTRO product-line framework with 3 task orders.

Recent activity shows acceleration through 2024 — 2 awards in 2022, 6 in 2023, and 20 in 2024 — followed by a drop to 5 awards in 2025 and 5 in the first quarter of 2026. Three awards carrying $62.2 million in combined potential value face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete opportunity. The combined potential value across all 64 awards (40 prime, 24 sub) totals $1.46 billion; actual obligations to date stand at $103.8 million (7% of potential). Service Contract Inventory captures minimal activity — 2 SCI-reportable subcontracts across FY2022–FY2024 with roughly 3.8 to 13.8 FTEs delivered; this subset does not represent Rincon's total federal services footprint, as the bulk of its work flows through hardware development, R&D contracts, and products rather than SCI-reportable service labor.

In its subcontractor role, Rincon provides RF components, signal processing, and geolocation analysis to Science Applications International Corporation on Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities (AF TENCAP) HOPE 20 work, delivers combat mission systems support and engineering to L3Harris Technologies, performs advanced analysis and research to HII Mission Technologies, and provides RF services to KBR Wyle Services and Parsons Government Services. The source identifies 24 sub-award actions across multiple primes; the Parsons relationship shows the deepest engagement with multiple funding modifications spanning FY2024.

WE PERFORM ENGINEERING AND SYSTEM DESIGN STUDIES, ESPECIALLY SIGNAL PROCESSING AND PROPAGATION. HAVE BOTH SOFTWARE SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENTAL CAPABILITIES. HAVE DESIGNED AND BUILT EXPERIMENTAL HARDWARE.