The Mathworks, Inc.

The Mathworks, Inc., headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts, is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation that supplies MATLAB and Simulink software licenses, maintenance services, toolbox packages, training, and technical consulting to the federal government as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards) competing on a full-and-open basis without SBA designations. The vendor operates across 257 distinct federal customer agencies with a federal contract footprint exceeding eight thousand awards spanning three decades, generating combined potential value of $626.4 million with $405.5 million obligated to date.

The Mathworks dominates federal mathematical and technical computing software supply. Its capability portfolio centers on MATLAB and Simulink platforms—core tools for research, development, engineering, and scientific computation across NASA, the Department of Defense, and civilian research agencies. Representative work includes a $43 million single-award NASA Blanket Purchase Agreement (established May 1, 2026, through April 30, 2031) supplying MATLAB and Simulink software, maintenance, toolboxes, and technical consulting across NASA field centers; a $8.396 million Office of Naval Research enterprise license agreement (through June 30, 2028) providing MATLAB and Simulink software licenses, maintenance, training, and consulting; a $2.555 million Naval Sea Systems Command purchase order (May 23, 2025) for 725 MATLAB enterprise desktop licenses, 4 server activations, and Parallel Server with 600 worker instances; a $5.27 million Air Force Research Laboratory MATLAB software license (January 1, 2026, through January 31, 2029); and a $1.902 million Naval Sea Systems Command enterprise desktop and server program award (June 25, 2025). The vendor also holds a $750 thousand Army Corps of Engineers single-award blanket purchase agreement (February 1, 2024, through March 13, 2029) enabling MATLAB software acquisition across federal agencies.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to the Navy and NASA. The top five customer organizations by award count—Naval Sea Systems Command (1,042 awards, $94.4 million), Naval Air Systems Command Naval Air Warfare Center (878 awards, $137.7 million), NASA Shared Services Center (848 awards, $90.4 million), Office of Naval Research (785 awards, $26.5 million), and Air Force Research Laboratory (385 awards, $25.3 million)—account for approximately 48% of all awards. By potential value, Naval Air Systems Command Naval Air Warfare Center anchors the portfolio at $137.7 million across 878 awards, followed by Naval Sea Systems Command at $94.4 million, NASA broadly at $92.3 million (across 159 awards), and NASA Shared Services Center at $90.4 million. The Navy customer set drives roughly 60% of combined potential value, reflecting both volume and the scale of enterprise license agreements negotiated with NAVSEA and Naval Air Systems Command.

Vehicle positioning shows task order volume concentrated under five indefinite-delivery contracts: N6893611D0014 (475 task orders, $9.8 million), NNX15MC76B (451 task orders, $26.2 million), 80NSSC21D0001 (401 task orders, $32.7 million), N6893606D0007 (269 task orders, $5.5 million), and N6660415D0596 (197 task orders, $3.3 million). The Mathworks also holds the NASA $43 million BPA awarded May 2026, which has already generated at least 26 BPA calls across multiple NASA field centers (Johnson Space Center, Goddard Space Flight Center, Kennedy Space Center, Ames Research Center, Glenn Research Center, Marshall Space Flight Center, Langley Research Center) with individual call values ranging from $1,200 to $1.165 million for perpetual licenses, maintenance renewals, and Polyspace software verification tools.

Activity trajectory shows stable to moderate growth over five years: 151 awards in 2022, 189 in 2023, 202 in 2024, 189 in 2025, and 85 awards recorded through October 2026. Ninety-eight awards with combined potential value of $34.5 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure on a portfolio where renewal and maintenance contracts dominate. Recent activity skews toward smaller individual task orders and purchase orders under parent IDVs rather than new large prime vehicles, consistent with the company's incumbent status at major Navy and NASA accounts.

Subcontract footprint is minimal (2% of awards) but spans defense primes including Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (multiple LINK 16 UH-1Y/AH-1Z software integration task orders, July 2025), Raytheon Company (KSA FMS transportable radar surveillance software, September 2025), BAE Systems Technology Solutions (ICBM systems engineering and program management support, July 2025), Peraton Inc. (sub-orbital payload design and space environment research, May 2026), and General Dynamics Information Technology (Strategic Command IT lifecycle support, December 2025). Subcontract work typically involves MATLAB software licensing, Simulink, and specialized toolboxes (Signal Processing, Curve Fitting, Mapping, Statistics and Machine Learning) embedded in broader engineering, test, and integration efforts rather than standalone software supply.

The Mathworks competes on a full-and-open basis across all work categories without set-aside designations. NAICS primary classification is 513210 (Software Publishers), with secondary categories including Computer and Office Machine Repair (174 awards) and Computer-Related Services (159 awards). PSC concentration runs 4,726 awards under Information Technology Software (7A21 and related codes), 567 under IT Data Conversion, and 517 under Maintenance and Repair of ADP Equipment and Software. Pricing across the portfolio is uniformly firm fixed-price. The vendor holds no parent company or named subsidiaries in the source; the entity is independently held as a for-profit Subchapter S corporation.