Tekla Research, Inc.

Tekla Research, Inc., a service-disabled veteran-owned small business headquartered in Lexington Park, Maryland, operates as a prime contractor (80% of recent awards) delivering test and evaluation, program management, engineering analysis, and technical support services to the Department of the Navy and defense agencies. The company competes across set-aside categories — service-disabled veteran-owned small business, total small business — and full-and-open vehicles, with SDVOSB designations recurring across roughly one-third of recent prime awards and total-small-business set-asides anchoring a significant portfolio of Naval Air Warfare Center delivery orders.

Tekla Research's federal customer concentration is heavily weighted toward Navy commands. The Naval Air Warfare Center accounts for 100 awards (combined potential value $1.28 billion), followed by U.S. Fleet Forces Command (Atlantic) with 34 awards ($138.4 million), the Naval Air Systems Command with 22 awards ($1.39 billion), and the Naval Sea Systems Command with 15 awards ($10 billion combined potential value). These five top customer organizations represent 86% of all recent awards. However, the two largest dollar concentrations sit elsewhere: Naval Sea Systems Command dominates by potential value at $10 billion across 15 awards, and the GSA Federal Acquisition Service carries $10 billion in combined potential value across six awards on the newly secured OASIS+ vehicles and the SHIELD IDIQ.

Tekla Research holds positions on multiple high-value parent vehicles that anchor task-order activity. The company was awarded a seat on the $151 billion Missile Defense Agency SHIELD Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract (full-and-open, ten-year term through December 2035) on January 21, 2026. It also holds places on three GSA OASIS+ vehicles: the Unrestricted IDIQ (no set-aside, ceiling of $999.999 billion, awarded April 15, 2025), the Total Small Business Set-Aside IDIQ (ceiling $999.999 billion, awarded December 19, 2024), and the Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business IDIQ (ceiling $999.999 billion, awarded September 30, 2024). In the Navy, Tekla Research positions on the Naval Air Warfare Center's $600 million NAVAIR Sustainment Group Product Support Management/Integration Multiple Award Contract (Total Small Business set-aside, through May 2030), Seaport Next Generation for program management and engineering support, and multiple Naval Air Warfare Center single-award or limited-distribution IDIQs supporting test and evaluation and program management across PMA-257, PMA-259, and PMA-208. Recent task-order work includes a $25.3 million cost-plus-fixed-fee order for PMA-259 program management support (through August 2030), a $24 million order for PMA-208 program management contractor support services (through July 2030), and a $7.9 million Naval Air Warfare Center delivery order for PMA-257 program management support (through November 2030).

Activity has accelerated sharply. Tekla Research recorded 19 awards in 2022, 17 in 2023, 21 in 2024, and 50 in 2025, with six awards already captured in the first quarter of 2026. Nineteen awards with combined potential value of $268 million carry ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months and therefore face recompete exposure. Concrete recent prime awards span chemical and biological defense support (a $261,581 service-disabled veteran-owned small business delivery order from Joint PEO Chemical and Biological Defense for PCAD program, completed July 2026, and a $177,638 order for CSC2, completed August 2026), naval systems test and evaluation (a $131,551 full-and-open delivery order from U.S. Fleet Forces Command for AVCAD analytical support, completed July 2026, and multiple orders supporting Fleet Forces Command's DRAKE program, LIONFISH LUUV unmanned underwater vehicle, and chemical-biological decontamination and isolation systems), and presidential helicopter sustainment (a $35.7 million cost-plus-fixed-fee order under the NAVAIR PSMI MAC for VH-92A logistics support, through February 2028).

On the subcontractor side, Tekla Research operates as a sub to Science Applications International Corporation on Tomahawk missile engineering development and IMDC2 technical support, to Taylor Tekla Test Partner Organization, LLC on multiple task order creation and engineering support efforts, to Fleet JV LLC on H-53 and F-16 engineering labor, to Avian, LLC on curriculum development and training, and to KBR Wyle Services and Precise Systems on program management and training support. Recent sub work centers on engineering, test support, and program management across fixed-wing and rotorcraft platforms. The company also operates as a prime with notable subcontractor reliance: across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors account for an average of 43% of contractor hours, with 72 named subs engaged.

SCI-reported invoicing on federal service contracts (a strict subset of federal work) ran $22.4 million in FY2022 across 85.5 FTEs, $28.3 million in FY2023 across 91.3 FTEs, and $34.6 million in FY2024 across 129 FTEs, showing growth in both revenue and staffing scale. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, median government-paid hourly rates ran around $85.06 per hour, with senior labor and program-management resources pricing through $121.92 per hour and entry-level technical labor at $77.25 per hour. Tekla Research's capability footprint as evidenced by award history centers on naval systems test and evaluation, integrated warfare system support, program management and contractor support services across Naval Air Systems Command portfolios, chemical and biological defense analysis, logistics planning and sustainment (particularly the VH-92A Presidential Helicopter), and integrated product support across multiple air, surface, and subsurface platforms.

Tekla Research is at the forefront of aviation defense technology. Founded in 1995, we are a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business composed of talented individuals. Who, on avg have 20 yrs of mil/gov exp. on mil avionics integration and testing.