Strategic Communications LLC

Strategic Communications LLC, doing business as Strategic Communications, is a Louisville, Kentucky-based women-owned small business that delivers IT hardware procurement, software licensing renewals, communications infrastructure equipment, and cloud services to federal agencies as a prime contractor on governmentwide and agency-specific vehicles, with deep concentration in Naval and Defense IT platforms.

The company is an SBA-certified women-owned small business (WOSB) and small disadvantaged business (SDB) operating as a Subchapter S corporation. Strategic Communications competes across both set-aside (total small business, woman-owned small business designations recur across 40–50% of prime awards) and full-and-open vehicles, though the majority of recent activity clusters on two massive governmentwide platforms: the Solutions for Enterprise Wide Procurement V (SEWP V) GWAC administered by NASA, and the Army Desktop and Mobile Computing 3 (ADMC-3) vehicle. The company also holds the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award IDIQ with the Missile Defense Agency, awarded December 29, 2025, with a ceiling of $151 billion and a ten-year performance period through December 2035.

Strategic Communications' concrete capability footprint centers on IT hardware commodity procurement—Dell laptops, desktops, tablets, monitors, docking stations, and ruggedized equipment dominate the award portfolio by volume. Beyond hardware, the company executes software licensing renewals (Oracle Java SE, MySQL Enterprise, SUSE Rancher, Klocwork) and specialized communications equipment procurement (microwave transmission units, IP dispatch consoles, audiovisual and video teleconferencing systems, Hatteland rugged marine displays for Naval machinery control systems). Recent representative prime work includes a $37.9 million Oracle Java SE Universal subscription delivery order for Defense Health Agency (January 31, 2025, under SEWP V), a $5.46 million LEI_LEIRS FedRAMP upgrade delivery order (March 1, 2026, under SEWP V), a $3.6 million Amazon Web Services delivery order for Defense Health Agency (September 2, 2025, under SEWP V), and a $1.57 million Naval Sea Systems Command purchase order for 141 Hatteland rugged marine displays (March 31, 2026, without parent vehicle). The company also subbids to larger defense integrators: it performed Army Global Unified Network Increment 1 work under Leidos, USSOUTHCOM cyber IT services under ManTech, and Guard Enterprise Cyber Operations support under General Dynamics Information Technology.

Customer concentration is acute. The top five funding agencies account for 34% of all awards by count, led by Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (438 awards, $1.18 billion combined potential value) and Naval Sea Systems Command (148 awards, $5.31 billion potential value)—the two Navy entities together represent $6.49 billion of the portfolio's $91.7 billion total potential value. By potential value, Naval Sea Systems Command dominates ($5.31 billion), followed by Naval Information Warfare Systems Command ($1.18 billion), Defense Health Agency ($92.9 million), Defense Information Systems Agency ($78.6 million), and Marine Corps ($56.3 million). The divergence between award-count and dollar rankings reflects the company's role as a steady supplier of routine hardware refreshes to NIWSC (high-volume, smaller-ceiling orders) while landing occasional large software and equipment modernization efforts (naval systems, AWS, Oracle licensing) with NAVSEA and DHA.

Vehicle position is dominated by SEWP V, under which Strategic Communications holds 1,257 task orders valued at $585 million combined potential value. ADMC-3 follows with 515 task orders at $99.3 million. The company also operates under Navy-specific vehicles: Indefinite Delivery Contract N6523609D5175 (371 task orders, $103 million potential value) and N6523612D4133 (106 task orders, $115.7 million potential value). Chief Information Officer Commodities and Solutions (148 task orders, $43.4 million) rounds out the primary vehicles. The SHIELD IDIQ, though newly awarded, represents Strategic Communications' first entry into broad-based national defense modernization beyond IT commodity supply.

Activity trajectory shows material deceleration. The company awarded 257 contracts in 2022, declining to 31 in the first six months of 2026. Year-over-year: 2022 (257) → 2023 (241) → 2024 (204) → 2025 (180) → 2026 YTD (31). The portfolio spans 2,856 total awards (prime plus sub) since 2004, with $91.7 billion combined potential value but only $856.3 million in obligated dollars (1% execution rate), indicating a backlog of ceiling-based task orders on multi-year vehicles rather than active billable work. Within the next 24 months, 48 awards worth $20.8 million face completion and recompete exposure.

SCI-reported federal service contract activity is minimal and declining. Strategic Communications invoiced $50.3 million across SCI-reportable contracts in FY2022–FY2024 combined: $13.8 million (FY2022), $19.8 million (FY2023), $16.7 million (FY2024). FTE trajectory (reported at contract level, not individual labor category): 0.7 FTEs in FY2022, 1.9 in FY2023, declining to 0.0 reported in FY2024. On SCI-reportable prime contracts, median government-paid rates ran around $76.94/hr, with the spectrum from $68.95/hr (10th percentile) to $84.94/hr (90th percentile), suggesting junior or mid-level IT support labor. The company shows zero sub-engagement across SCI records—100% of hours are direct Strategic Communications labor. SCI captures only service contracts above $150,000 threshold and excludes goods, micro-purchases, and classified work; the SCI dataset dramatically understates the company's federal activity, which is dominated by hardware commodity procurement outside SCI scope.

Strategic Communications operates as a pure prime across the vast majority of its portfolio (100% prime awards by count in recent years) and builds its own delivery teams for service work; across SCI-reportable contracts, it performs all labor in-house with no named subcontractors. When it does subcontract, it feeds work to large integrators (Leidos, ManTech, General Dynamics Information Technology) rather than leading teaming arrangements. This posture reflects the company's role as a niche IT hardware and software licensing supplier to the federal market: it wins task orders by maintaining positions on governmentwide vehicles (SEWP V, ADMC-3) and Navy-specific IDIQs, executes commodity procurements and licensing renewals, and occasionally subs specialized labor to larger primes when national defense integration is required.

The company's award concentration by NAICS and PSC underscores its hardware-centric business model. Top NAICS: Other Computer Related Services (1,429 awards), Electronic Computer Manufacturing (568), Telephone Apparatus Manufacturing (418), Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing (119), and Software Publishers (104). Top PSC: Telephone and Telegraph Equipment (454 awards), IT and Telecom End User (Help Desk/Workspace/Productivity Tools) (241), Information Technology Components (184), Servers Hardware/Software (157), and Radio and Television Communication Equipment (150). Strategic Communications is, in effect, a high-velocity task-order fulfillment vendor for routine Navy and Army IT refresh cycles, Oracle licensing renewals, and specialized communications gear procurement, with occasional exposure to larger modernization efforts through award vehicles like SHIELD.

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