Scitec Innovations LLC

Scitec Innovations LLC, operating under its Scitec, Inc. Division, is a small business prime contractor headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey, that delivers advanced sensor systems, data processing algorithms, and defense technology solutions to the Department of Defense, Missile Defense Agency, and Air Force across missile defense, space architecture, electronic warfare, and artificial intelligence domains. Scitec competes predominantly full-and-open (no set-asides characterize the prime footprint), though the vendor holds multiple total small business set-aside SBIR Phase II and Phase III awards alongside unrestricted prime contracts.

Scitec operates as a subsidiary of Firefly Aerospace Inc., a manufacturer and aerospace company based in Leander, Texas. The vendor's capability portfolio centers on infrared countermeasures, multi-spectral targeting simulation systems, overhead persistent infrared (OPIR) processing, battle management software, space data exploitation, and geospatial intelligence systems. Representative prime work includes a $6.056 million Air Force Research Laboratory definitive contract for advanced algorithm research and development architecture (awarded April 2026, performing through July 2030), a $48.2 million Missile Defense Agency total small business set-aside for wideband processing enhancements for space data exploitation (awarded September 2022, performing through September 2027), a $35.4 million Space and Missile Systems Center total small business set-aside for Global Data Integration engineering and analytics support to U.S. Strategic Command (awarded August 2022, performing through February 2028), and a $24.5 million Air Force delivery order for Advanced Battle Management System CBC2 Tracker Fusion under the $950 million ABMS multiple-award IDIQ (awarded February 2024, performing through August 2027).

Customer concentration reflects heavy defense-agency penetration. The top five funding agencies account for 79% of awards by count: the Department of the Army (122 awards), the Army Materiel Command (98 awards, $46.4 million combined potential value), the Missile Defense Agency (88 awards, $135.7 million), the Department of the Air Force (69 awards, $981.6 million), and the Office of the Secretary of Defense (24 awards, $290.4 million). However, potential-value ranking diverges sharply due to two large vehicle awards: the Air Force Lifecycle Management Center's Enterprise Wide Agile Acquisition Contract (EWAAC) fourth on-ramp carries $46 billion in combined potential value, and Naval Sea Systems Command's Seaport Next Generation (Seaport-NxG) multiple-award IDIQ carries $4 billion. These two vehicles alone account for approximately 96% of the vendor's combined potential value across all awards.

Scitec's vehicle position includes placement on the $950 million Air Force Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) multiple-award IDIQ (2 delivery orders placed to date), the $26.6 million single-award Office of the Secretary of Defense IDC for Joint Mobile Infrared Countermeasures Simulator Test Systems and Multi-Spectral Sea and Land Target Test Simulators (18 task orders totaling approximately $13.2 million), the $249 million Joint Artificial Intelligence Center Basic Ordering Agreement for data readiness and AI development support (awarded March 2022, performing through March 2027), the $46 billion Air Force EWAAC at Eglin Air Force Base (fourth on-ramp, awarded March 2025), the $4 billion Naval Sea Systems Command Seaport-NxG multiple-award IDC (awarded January 2025), and the $151 billion Missile Defense Agency Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award IDIQ (awarded December 2025, performing through December 2035). The top parent vehicles by task-order count are Army IDC W9124Q17D0001 (40 task orders, $16.3 million potential value), Army IDC W9124Q12D0002 (34 task orders, $2.4 million), and Army IDC W9124Q09D0800 (27 task orders, $5.4 million).

Activity has grown from 16 awards in 2022 to a peak of 38 in 2025, though 2026 data is still incomplete (3 awards year-to-date as of April 2026). The vendor faces a notable recompete cliff: 16 awards with ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $503.9 million, representing significant recompete risk and recompete opportunity for competitors.

On federal service contracts captured in the Service Contract Inventory (a partial view excluding goods, products, and classified work), Scitec reported invoiced revenue of $321 thousand in FY2022 across 0.9 FTEs, $12 million in FY2023 across 22 FTEs, and $13.1 million in FY2024 across 26.5 FTEs, reflecting ramp-up of effort on core service contracts. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, median government-paid rates run around $168/hour, with senior labor pricing reaching $312/hour and entry-level labor pricing near $113/hour. Scitec reports an average sub-hours share of 28% on SCI prime contracts, with five named subcontractors engaged across the dataset, indicating a mixed delivery model—the vendor performs core technical work but engages subs for roughly one-quarter of reported labor.

In its subcontractor role, Scitec delivers software development labor, sensor exploitation algorithm development, and OPIR processing support to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (the largest prime relationship, with sub awards spanning July 2023 through January 2026 focused on ballistic missile defense, overhead persistent infrared architecture, and enterprise sensors lab software development), General Dynamics Mission Systems Inc. (Mobile User Objective System ground sustainment and Space Development Agency Tranche 1 operations support), Radiance Technologies Inc. (High Interest Target Processing Algorithm Development, Space-Based Infrared System processing and sensor characterization, and National Air and Space Intelligence Center analytical support), Bluehalo LLC (Overhead Persistent Infrared Model support and Command, Acquire, Track, Assess, Engage, and Analyze cloud development), and Millennium Space Systems Inc. (DARPA mission data processing platform development). Subcontract work spans missile defense, satellite operations, intelligence analysis, and advanced algorithm development in support of defense-agency and intelligence-community missions.

Scitec's award portfolio skews heavily toward research and development and engineering services: the top NAICS categories are Research and Development in Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (104 awards), Engineering Services (69 awards), and Custom Computer Programming Services (4 awards). The corresponding PSC framing emphasizes support for professional engineering and technical work (120 awards under PSC Support-Professional: Engineering/Technical) and R&D in defense systems electronics and communications (61 awards under R&D-Defense System: Electronics/Communication Equipment Advanced Development). The vendor's strategic focus on missile defense, space architecture, and AI/ML capabilities positions it as a core technical provider to defense and intelligence agencies competing predominantly on technical merit and past performance rather than set-aside categories.