Riverside Research Institute

Riverside Research Institute, a New York-based nonprofit research and engineering organization, operates as a prime contractor delivering specialized engineering, research and development, and technical support services across defense and national security domains, competing full-and-open without set-aside designations. The institute holds a $49.13 billion combined potential value across 853 awards, with 100% positioned as prime awards; activity over the past five years shows three to five awards annually, with two awards in 2026 and a recompete cliff of $56.3 million in the next twenty-four months.

Riverside's capability portfolio centers on aerospace engineering, embedded systems assurance, advanced sensor technologies, mission systems architecture, and specialized technical support for weapons development and Air Force logistics modernization. Representative recent work includes a $137 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order from the Office of the Secretary of Defense through the GSA Multiple Award Schedule for engineering and technical support services at the Defense Innovation Unit's Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning portfolio (with subcontractors Cambrio LLC and Graytail Consulting LLC), a $27.6 million cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract from Air Force Space Command for COBRA DANE radar system sustainment and modernization (with RF/microwave specialist L Stuart, Inc. on supportability analysis), and a series of $3.3 million to $5.9 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery orders from Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex for special projects engineering support across the Air Force's classified programs.

Customer concentration is skewed toward Air Force components. The top five customer agencies by award count represent 62% of recent awards, led by the Department of the Air Force Headquarters Air Force Air Staff National Air and Space Intelligence Center (173 awards, $197.4 million combined potential value) and the Department of the Air Force broadly (165 awards, $12.5 million), followed by DOD Missile Defense Agency (79 awards), the Department of the Army (69 awards), and the Defense Intelligence Agency (47 awards). However, the top-five ranking by potential value presents a different concentration: the Department of the Air Force Defense Finance and Accounting Service anchors $578.1 million across 15 awards, the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory (AFRL) carries $316.6 million across 27 awards, and the Aeronautical Systems Center holds $236.4 million across 41 awards, suggesting that Air Force logistics and research modernization drives the largest single programs.

Riverside holds positions on four major vehicle families. The Professional Services Schedule (GSA) provides 234 task orders valued at $830.7 million combined potential value; Federal Supply Schedule GS35F0185J carries 34 task orders for $85.9 million; and two Air Force IDIQ vehicles dominate the specialized aerospace and weapons portfolio — the Eglin Wide Agile Acquisition Contract (EWAAC), a $47 billion multiple-award IDIQ through the Air Force Lifecycle Management Center running through September 2031 for research, development, test, and evaluation of novel weapons technologies, and the Microelectronics and Embedded Systems Assurance (MESA) IDIQ under AFRL. The institute also holds positions under unnamed Air Force IDIQs for architecture and integration support (noted as $900 million) and Joint All Domain Command and Control support (noted as $950 million) through the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center.

Service Contract Inventory data covering FY2022 through FY2024 shows $25.8 million in invoiced revenue across six prime records: $7.8 million in FY2022 across 22.9 FTEs, $1.7 million in FY2023 across 4.5 FTEs, and $16.3 million in FY2024 across 26.0 FTEs. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable contracts median $176.40 per hour, with the 10th percentile at $156.12 and the 90th percentile at $419.40, positioning Riverside as a midrange to senior-labor provider on federal service contracts. SCI data shows zero subcontract hours on prime records, indicating Riverside builds its own delivery teams rather than outsourcing execution. GSA Schedule labor rates span $59.27 to $389.43 hourly across 39 categories, from organizational support (high school education, no clearance) through principal technical advisors and consulting roles requiring doctorates and fifteen years of experience, with no cleared positions offered on the schedule.

Riverside subcontracts primarily as a specialized supplier to larger defense primes. Recent sub awards include work on the SAFE DOCUMENTS program technical area support to Lockheed Martin (March 2025 and October 2024). The institute's subsidiary structure shows one named subsidiary, Riverside Research Institute (nonprofit), indicating no distinct operating divisions in the source data. NAICS concentration sits with Research and Development in Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (233 awards) and Engineering Services (53 awards), reinforcing its positioning as a research and specialized engineering provider rather than a systems integrator or IT services house. PSC concentration aligns with Support Professional Engineering/Technical (178 awards) and R&D Defense Advanced Development (127 awards), confirming the specialized, high-technical-complexity mission.