Spectric Labs, Inc.

Spectric Labs, Inc., a Chantilly, Virginia–based small business subchapter S corporation, operates primarily as a subcontractor (63% of recent awards) delivering advanced defense electronics, signals intelligence support, and systems engineering to major primes while holding two high-ceiling IDIQs as a prime contractor — one anchoring a $4 billion multi-year Navy vehicle and the other a $151 billion Missile Defense Agency strategic-defense program vehicle awarded in late 2025.

Spectric's capability portfolio centers on electronic warfare payload development, signals-intelligence support, military communications systems design, and systems engineering for defense platforms. Recent prime work includes a $1.7 million SBIR Phase II award from the Army (March 2022) to develop an LC/LPD waveform for the Copperhead radio system, and a $180 thousand purchase order from the Air Force Research Laboratory (April 2026) for METEOR, a modular low-cost electronic warfare payload. As a subcontractor, Spectric has delivered signals-intelligence support to Leidos on multiple sensing-capability and SIGINT task orders spanning May 2025 through January 2027, high-altitude balloon support for Air Force Research Laboratory Project ROSS to HII Mission Technologies, Big Safari aircraft manufacturing work to L3Harris Technologies, and Army ISR Task Force integration and program-management support to Sigma Defense Systems.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command, which accounts for $4 billion (nearly 100% of combined potential value) through the Seaport-NXG IDIQ awarded January 2, 2025. The Department of the Army anchors 5 awards valued at $1.9 million combined potential value across SBIR and system support efforts. The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command (Research Laboratory and Aeronautical Systems Center) holds 4 awards. The Missile Defense Agency placed two awards, including the $151 billion SHIELD IDIQ (December 29, 2025) representing the largest single vehicle in Spectric's current portfolio. The top five customers account for 74% of award count by agency.

Vehicle position shows Spectric holding seats on two high-ceiling IDIQs: the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program through the Missile Defense Agency with a $151 billion ceiling and December 28, 2035 completion date, and the Seaport Next Generation (Seaport-NXG) contract through Naval Sea Systems Command with a $4 billion ceiling through January 1, 2029. Spectric also competes under multiple Air Force Basic Ordering Agreements (FA862016G3027 and FA862021G4027, two task orders each) and participates in the ASTRO and Information Analysis Center Multiple-Award Contract vehicles. Only minimum-guarantee task orders ($500 each) have been issued against both major IDIQs to date.

Activity has accelerated notably, with ten awards in 2025 compared to one in 2021 and four in 2022. The source does not identify a recompete cliff; the two high-ceiling IDIQs run through 2029 and 2035 respectively, and the Army SBIR Phase II completed in October 2023. SCI reporting captures minimal federal service-contract activity — 0.1 FTEs as a named subcontractor in FY2025 with no invoiced revenue threshold exceeded — indicating that Spectric's federal work is predominantly goods-based, classified, or routed through subcontracts on task orders not yet SCI-reportable. Across its subcontract footprint, Spectric leans heavily on Leidos (three task orders in signals-intelligence and sensing-capability domains) and L3Harris Technologies (aircraft manufacturing support under Big Safari); other notable primes include Sigma Defense Systems, HII Mission Technologies, Parsons Government Services, CACI, and KBR Wyle Services. The vendor does not maintain a disclosed subsidiary or parent company; its award concentration and vehicle holdings position it as a specialized defense-technology feeder for large primes on Army and Air Force programs, with significant upside exposure through the newly awarded Navy and MDA strategic vehicles pending initial task order activity.