The Marlin Alliance, Inc.

The Marlin Alliance, Inc., an SBA-certified women-owned small business based in San Diego, California, operates as a prime contractor (74% of recent awards) delivering software development, systems engineering, robotic process automation, and naval information warfare technical services to the Department of the Navy and the Department of Defense, with significant exposure to Navy indefinite-delivery vehicles and GSA OASIS+ multi-agency contract platforms.

The Marlin Alliance competes predominantly under small-business set-asides — woman-owned small business designations dominate its prime footprint, with total small business set-asides on vehicles like Seaport Next Generation and OASIS+ Total Small Business. The vendor holds six prime indefinite-delivery contracts and basic ordering agreements anchoring its federal work. The most material vehicles are the Naval Air Systems Command's $249.9 million LIIS CMDS MAC (Logistics Information Integration Systems Continuous Modernization, Deployment, and Sustainment), awarded June 2026 and reserved for partial small business; a $98.35 million Seaport-NXG delivery order from Naval Information Warfare Systems Command for Joint Tactical Networking Center technical, management, and administrative support (cost-plus-fixed-fee, ultimate completion November 2031); a $21.99 million single-award IDIQ from Naval Information Warfare Systems Command for robotic process automation bot development (woman-owned small business set-aside, April 2026); a $200 million total small business PEO C4I Software Development Multiple Award Contract from Naval Information Warfare Systems Command for software development and AI/machine learning systems engineering solutions (July 2023, 10-year ordering period); and GSA's OASIS+ women-owned and total small business IDIQs (both June 2025, multi-agency vehicles with no specified dollar ceiling, covering integrated professional services across management, technical, R&D, and other functional domains).

The Navy dominates customer concentration, accounting for 97% of recent awards by count and 100% by combined potential value. Naval Information Warfare Systems Command leads with 16 awards and $365.6 million combined potential value; Naval Air Systems Command contributes 2 awards totaling $249.9 million; Naval Sea Systems Command accounts for 7 awards with $4 thousand combined value. The Office of the Secretary of Defense anchors a single $249 million basic ordering agreement for AI data readiness services (data science, data quality, synthetic data generation, and enterprise data governance) running through March 2027. GSA Federal Acquisition Service provides reach through the OASIS+ vehicles, with 3 awards totaling $29.4 million combined potential value. This concentration reflects a specialized Navy and DoD customer base rather than broad federal civilian exposure.

Recent activity has accelerated — one award in 2022, three in 2023, four in 2024, four in 2025, and five in 2026 — with combined potential value across all 31 awards (prime and sub) reaching $893.9 million, though only $49.3 million (6%) has been obligated to date, indicating substantial ceiling runway on new vehicle awards. Only $1 thousand of obligations flows from the vendor's oldest major vehicle, the PEO C4I Multiple Award Contract, suggesting task orders have not yet been heavily exercised on that $200 million IDIQ.

As a subcontractor, The Marlin Alliance delivers cybersecurity technical authority engineering services to Booz Allen Hamilton, technical engineering support for Naval Information Warfare Command's Chief Technology Office to Alexandria Insights, Inc., professional support services for the Joint Tactical Networking Center to G2 Software Systems, Inc., and executive and program management support to Accelint Mission Solutions. Across SCI-reportable sub-awards, the vendor supported roughly 16–23 FTEs annually from FY2022 through FY2025, all as a named subcontractor on Navy programs; no SCI prime-contract invoicing appears in the source data, consistent with the vendor's recent emergence as a prime on large Navy vehicles.

The vendor's capability portfolio spans software development and integration, AI and machine learning systems engineering, robotic process automation, naval logistics information technology modernization, data science and analytics, and cybersecurity technical support. Representative work includes the $98.35 million Seaport-NXG delivery order for JTNC technical and administrative support, the $249.9 million LIIS CMDS MAC contract for Navy logistics modernization across modernization, operations support, and afloat installation, and the $200 million PEO C4I contract for AI/ML-enabled software development. The vendor also holds placement on two GSA OASIS+ vehicles open to all federal agencies, positioning it for civilian IT and professional services task orders beyond its core Navy customer base.

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