Tristar, Inc.

Tristar, Inc., a service-disabled veteran-owned small business headquartered in Bloomington, Indiana, operates as a prime contractor delivering engineering, program operations, and software development services to the Department of Defense and civilian agencies, with 99% of recent awards held as prime contracts across multiple government-wide vehicles and agency-specific IDIQs.

Tristar's footprint concentrates heavily with Naval Sea Systems Command, which accounts for 224 awards and $10.69 billion in combined potential value — roughly 84% of the vendor's total potential-value portfolio. The Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration represents material exposure with a single $1 billion BPA award for engineering services running through September 2029. Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command (Naval Air Warfare Center) holds $617.3 million in combined potential value across two awards; the U.S. Marine Corps carries $171 million across five awards; and Naval Information Warfare Systems Command adds $94.4 million across 32 awards. This concentration reflects Tristar's primary operating footprint at Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division in Crane, Indiana, where the vendor delivers technical and program support for maritime electromagnetic warfare systems, human resources services, facilities engineering, and enterprise personnel systems. Recent prime work includes a $44 million definitive contract (February 2025, total small business set-aside) for waterfront and alteration installation team services supporting maritime EW systems at NSWC Crane; a $68.6 million Seaport-NXG delivery order (December 2023) for program operations and field services supporting the Maritime Electromagnetic Warfare Systems Division; a $113.6 million Marine Corps delivery order (November 2021) for five-year software development and cyber engineering support for expeditionary systems; and multiple smaller HR and facilities support orders, also under Seaport-NXG, valued at $9.8 million to $10.5 million each.

Tristar holds seats on five government-wide vehicles: the Seaport Next Generation (Seaport-NXG) IDIQ, where the top five task orders total $227.6 million in combined potential value; the OASIS+ SDVOSB IDIQ (awarded April 2025, $999.999 billion ceiling, set-aside for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses, running through April 2030); the OASIS+ Unrestricted IDIQ (awarded April 2025, full-and-open, multi-domain professional and technical services); the OASIS+ Total Small Business IDIQ (awarded December 2024, set-aside for small businesses, $999.999 billion ceiling); the Naval Air Warfare Center's Product Support Management/Integration Multiple Award Contract for logistics services ($600 million ceiling, total small business set-aside, through May 2030); the Enterprise Personnel Systems Engineering (EPSE) contract under Naval Information Warfare Systems Command ($59.6 million ceiling, total small business set-aside, through September 2031); and a $1 billion FAA BPA under GSA's eFAST vehicle (awarded March 2022, single-award, through September 2029). The vendor was also awarded a spot on the Missile Defense Agency's new Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multi-domain IDIQ ($151 billion ceiling, full-and-open, through December 2035) on December 29, 2025, with an initial $500 delivery order issued the same day.

SCI-reportable invoicing on prime contracts grew from $16.5 million in FY2022 (107 FTEs) to $37.2 million in FY2024 (208 FTEs), reflecting year-over-year labor intensity growth. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts span $59.59/hr at the 10th percentile to $98.88/hr at the 90th percentile, with a median of $73.91/hr. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors account for an average of 20% of contractor hours, with 28 named subcontractors reported across the portfolio. Named subs include Simventions Inc., Gravicom LLC, Science Applications International Corporation, Technology Service Corp, Valkyrie Enterprises LLC, Warrant Technologies LLC, Driftline Technical LLC, Scientia LLC, and Alexandria Insights, Inc. Tristar also subcontracts to larger primes, with recent sub awards from Millennium LLC (Systems Engineering, Logistics, and Cybersecurity contracts) and KBR Wyle Services LLC (condition-based maintenance and advanced data analytics for NSWC Crane).

Award activity has accelerated in recent years, with seven awards issued in 2025 (compared to two to three annually from 2022–2024). Five awards with combined potential value of $207.7 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure. The vendor's NAICS footprint centers on Engineering Services (308 awards), Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing (65 awards), and Computer Systems Design Services (10 awards). PSC concentration aligns with this profile: Technical Representative roles for communication, detection, and coherent radiation equipment dominate (186 awards), followed by professional engineering and technical support (94 awards) and radar equipment work (70 awards). Tristar does not compete under set-asides on its full-and-open Seaport-NXG base work or the SHIELD IDIQ, but operates as a set-aside-eligible competitor on the OASIS+ SDVOSB, OASIS+ Total Small Business, EPSE, and NAVAIR PSMI vehicles. The legal business name changed from Tri Star Engineering, Inc. to Tristar, Inc. in 2025, reflected in recent OASIS+ awards and IDV updates.

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