Tactical Engineering & Analysis, Inc.

Tactical Engineering & Analysis, Inc., a San Diego-based for-profit Subchapter S corporation, delivers command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems engineering, tactical data link certification, and advanced tactical systems integration as a prime contractor (95% of awards) across naval combat systems modernization and missile defense programs. The company operates in full-and-open competition without recurring set-aside designations, though a small portion of its task-order portfolio carries Total Small Business set-aside status.

TEA's customer footprint concentrates heavily within the Navy. The top two funding agencies account for substantially all recent awards: the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command (49 awards, $10.01 billion combined potential value) and the Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command (218 awards, $944.8 million combined potential value). This dual ranking reflects a significant structural split: NAVSEA anchors the dollar value through fewer, larger awards, while NAVWAR generates the volume through numerous smaller delivery orders under long-standing IDIQ vehicles. The Missile Defense Agency (13 awards, $7.2 million) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (2 awards, $3.7 million) provide secondary customer exposure. Together, these four agencies represent 100% of the combined potential value across the 309 awards in the source dataset.

TEA holds multiple seats on Navy indefinite-delivery vehicles. The top five parent vehicles include Indefinite Delivery Contract N6600108D0055 (126 task orders, $72.5 million combined potential value), N6600104D0041 (41 task orders, $16.4 million combined potential value), SSC Pacific Analysis Test and Engineering 2013–2018 (40 task orders, $85 million combined potential value), C4ISR Engineering Support Services (20 task orders, $7.9 million combined potential value), and SSC Pacific Analysis Test and Engineering 2018–2023 (20 task orders, $87.4 million combined potential value). Recent major prime awards include a $54.4 million delivery order from NAVWAR for Command and Control Processor Modernization software engineering services (Seaport-NXG, September 2025), a $29.1 million definitive contract for Multi-Tactical Data Link engineering and test support (NAVWAR, September 2023), a $22.2 million delivery order for Advanced Tactical Data Links engineering and sustainment (NAVWAR, April 2024), and a $21.2 million order for Naval Tactical Grid Integration and networking services (NAVWAR, September 2023). TEA also received a $151 billion ceiling IDIQ award from the Missile Defense Agency in December 2025 for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) vehicle, with an initial task order of $500; this vehicle is structured to support research, development, prototyping, systems engineering, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across multiple NAICS codes and classification levels, with task orders expected to span both classified and unclassified programs.

Award trajectory remained relatively flat over the past five years (seven awards in 2022, declining to two in 2026 year-to-date), with only three awards (combined potential value $29.8 million) completing in the next twenty-four months. The recompete exposure is modest relative to the total portfolio, suggesting most of TEA's long-term IDIQ seats remain in mid-contract performance phases. The company's NAICS profile is concentrated in Engineering Services (301 awards) with secondary activity in Research and Development—Defense (62 awards carrying the R&D-Defense Other Services PSC).

TEA operates predominantly through its own delivery teams rather than subcontractor leverage. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts (a partial view covering federal service contracts above $150,000), the vendor demonstrated zero sub-hours share, indicating full internal delivery. SCI-reported invoiced revenue ran $3.3 million in FY2022 (18.4 FTEs) and $8.9 million in FY2023 (51.3 FTEs), with a government-paid rate spectrum clustering tightly around $84.51/hr median (10th–90th percentile: $83.71–$85.32/hr). SCI coverage is limited to two prime records; the vendor's total federal revenue substantially exceeds this SCI-reportable subset. In its subcontractor role (16 awards, 5% of the total), TEA performs C4ISR engineering, combat systems technical support, and ship-integration labor under Lockheed Martin Corporation, Basic Commerce & Industries Inc., Mantech Advanced Systems International, Inc., and Peraton Inc.

Leader in providing systems engineering and test/analysis support for leading edge military communications systems (CEC, Link-16, Link-11, Link-4).