Science & Technology Corporation

Science & Technology Corporation, a minority-owned, Subchapter S small business headquartered in Hampton, Virginia, operates as a prime contractor delivering atmospheric science research, mechanical and composite fabrication, welding and machining support, satellite engineering, and systems engineering services to federal civilian and defense agencies across a 2,306-award portfolio spanning four decades.

STC operates almost entirely as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards by count) and competes predominantly under total small business set-asides. The vendor holds a minority-owned designation and Subchapter Asian-Indian American ownership. Corporate structure includes a named subsidiary, New Horizons Aeronautics LLC, a small business joint venture.

STC's capability portfolio centers on four domains. Atmospheric and Earth science research dominates through grants and applied research contracts with NASA and NOAA on ozone mapping, climate composition analysis, and atmospheric sounding products—represented by a $660,699 grant for Community Long-Term Infrared Microwave Combined Atmospheric Product System (CLIMCAPS) atmospheric soundings and a $629,614 grant for ozone mapping and profiler suite product development. Mechanical and composite hardware fabrication for aerospace platforms flows through a $25 million single-award IDIQ with NASA Langley Research Center established October 2025 for research-oriented flight test articles and ground support equipment. Welding, machining, fabrication, and painting support at Aberdeen Proving Ground anchors a $32.1 million single-award Army IDIQ awarded January 2022, with recent task orders including a $6.85 million Year 5 delivery order for welding, fabrication, machining, and painting support and a $6.7 million Year 4 machine shop support order. Satellite and atmospheric engineering services flow through NOAA's $8 billion ProTech 2.0 - Satellite Domain IDIQ (total small business set-aside, awarded March 2023), where STC has placed delivery orders for environmental satellite radio frequency engineering ($21.2 million awarded March 2025), atmospheric science and technology applications research ($32.8 million awarded June 2024), and user engagement services for the Office of Systems of Architecture & Engineering ($8.4 million awarded March 2024).

Customer concentration is extreme and skewed toward two agencies. The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration dominates by both award count (565 awards, $17.83 billion combined potential value) and sustained engagement, while the Department of the Army Test and Evaluation Command accounts for 563 awards but only $666.9 million combined potential value, indicating a high-volume, lower-dollar-per-award footprint. The Department of the Army broadly (outside ATEC) contributed 425 awards. Together, these three entities represent 76% of awards. By potential value, however, an unnamed Army Materiel Command contracting office (Army Contracting Command Aberdeen Proving Ground) anchors $37.4 billion across 11 awards—a single-award IDIQ structure that dwarfs all other customer relationships and suggests a major indefinite-delivery vehicle baseline. NOAA's $17.83 billion is the second-largest customer value pool. GSA Federal Acquisition Service contributed $1.17 billion across 6 awards, primarily through OASIS+SB.

STC holds positions on multiple governmentwide and agency-specific IDIQs and schedules. The vendor sits on the OASIS+ Total Small Business (OAS+SB) contract (awarded December 2024, multiple-award GWAC with a no-ceiling placeholder through December 2029) and on GSA Multiple Award Schedule vehicles, particularly Information Technology Schedule 70 (410 task orders, $63.4 million) and the core Multiple Award Schedule (140 task orders, $134.4 million). An unnamed Indefinite Delivery Contract W911S606D0001 carries 518 task orders totaling $35.4 million, suggesting significant Army exposure beyond ATEC. The vendor also holds newly awarded single-award IDIQs with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ($163.1 million for atmospheric science R&D, awarded December 2025) and NASA Langley Research Center ($25 million for mechanical composite fabrication, awarded October 2025), as well as older active vehicles with Army Test and Evaluation Command (machine shop, $32.1 million, awarded January 2022), NOAA ProTech 2.0 - Satellite Domain ($8 billion, awarded March 2023), and Army Research Development and Engineering Command's STEPSS (Scientific, Technical, Engineering and Program Support Services, $869.1 million ceiling, awarded April 2022).

Activity volume has been volatile in recent years—19 awards in 2022, rising to 29 in 2023, declining to 19 in 2024, and dropping sharply to 10 in 2025 (with only 4 in 2026 through February). This trajectory suggests either pipeline lumpiness around major IDIQ award cycles or recompete challenges. The recompete cliff is modest: seven awards with ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $50.9 million, a manageable refinance risk relative to the $68.13 billion portfolio ceiling but notable given the recent activity decline.

SCI-reported invoiced revenue on federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $71.6 million across fiscal years 2022–2024 (FY2022: $23.5 million across 140 FTEs; FY2023: $23.7 million across 114 FTEs; FY2024: $24.5 million across 139 FTEs). This reflects only service contracts; it excludes goods, fabrication, R&D grants, and non-federally funded work, and thus understates total enterprise revenue. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, government-paid hourly rates ranged from a 10th percentile of $61.32/hr to a median of $100.98/hr to a 90th percentile of $221.99/hr, indicating a mixed labor portfolio spanning technical support through senior technical specialists. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors performed 5% of contractor hours on average, and 18 named subcontractors were engaged, signaling that STC builds and self-performs most delivery teams. Fedwriters, Inc. and Consolidated Safety Services Incorporated appear as recurring prime contractors on NOAA sub-work, with STC performing weather program office support, global monitoring laboratory technical support, and scientific data stewardship services.

GSA Schedule labor offerings span 72 categories at rates from $24.82/hr (electronics technician entry-level) through $265.79/hr (senior PhD consulting specialist). The portfolio includes administrative support, database administration, systems engineering, and senior analyst roles; no cleared positions are offered. This broad labor rate range and absence of clearance-gated roles align with STC's civilian and non-defense-sensitive service posture.

The vendor's federal footprint is characterized by depth in two customer relationships—NOAA and Army—sustained through large vehicle positions and multiple task order streams, a recent expansion into major NASA Goddard and NASA Langley relationships via newly awarded single-award IDIQs, and exposure to OASIS+SB as a governmentwide services platform. The recent activity decline and modest recompete cliff warrant monitoring for execution risk or market repositioning.

Technical Support Services;CB Defense;Atmospheric Sciences;Remote Sensing;Programatic Support; Science Data Processing & Modeling ;Test & Evaluation; IT Support