Trident Systems LLC

Trident Systems LLC, doing business as Trident Systems Inc., is a veteran-owned small business subsidiary of Owl Cyber Defense Solutions LLC that manufactures secure communications hardware and provides research and development services to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor (97% of recent awards) competing predominantly in full-and-open procurements with no recurring set-aside posture. Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, Trident Systems operates as a manufacturer of goods and provider of engineering and R&D services, with primary NAICS spread across R&D in physical, engineering, and life sciences (120 awards), electronic computer manufacturing (33 awards), and engineering services (38 awards).

Trident Systems' capability portfolio centers on secure communications hardware—particularly Mini Secure Communications Controllers (Mini-SCC) and related secure communications controller systems—cross-domain data transfer solutions, and advanced technology research and development. Recent representative prime work includes a $30.58 million definitive contract awarded by the Air Force in December 2025 for Enhanced Regional Situational Awareness (ERSA) System Support Follow-On Services extending through December 2030, a $23.78 million Air Force contract for National Capital Region Integrated Air Defense System support awarded in December 2022 and running through February 2026, and a $3.57 million Secret Service contract for preventative maintenance of the Enhanced Radar Airborne Intrusion Detection System (ERAIDS) with completion through September 2025. Trident also carries a substantial SBIR portfolio: a $2.05 million SBIR Phase II contract from Naval Air Warfare Center for research and development (completed February 2025), a $1.46 million SBIR Phase II from Missile Defense Agency for automated system architecture generation (completed February 2025), and a $1.76 million SBIR Phase III from Office of Naval Research for design and development of the Enhanced Data Acquisition, Processing, and Offboarding (EDAPO) system (completed July 2024).

Customer concentration sits heavily with Navy organizations. The Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command Naval Air Warfare Center leads by potential value (31 awards, $160 million combined potential value), followed by the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory (45 awards, $101.7 million) and the Department of the Air Force (19 awards, $68 million). The Marine Corps (36 awards, $44 million) and Naval Sea Systems Command (46 awards, $16.1 million) round out the top five. Together these five customers account for 53% of awards by count and 68% of combined potential value. Navy and Air Force work dominates the pipeline; the top customer rankings show that while NAVSEA leads by award count, NAWC carries substantially more dollars per order, indicating larger task orders and delivery contracts from that command.

Trident Systems holds five named parent vehicles: a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Marine Corps (8.6 million ceiling, awarded August 2023, running through August 2028) for purchase, support, and training of Mini-SCC systems with five delivery orders totaling approximately $4.7 million issued to date; an Army Other Transaction IDV for SBIR Phase II R&D ($1.67 million ceiling, awarded September 2021); and three Marine Corps and Air Force indefinite delivery contracts (Contracts N6660492DB063, M6785410D2203, and FA875014D0037 collectively carrying $49 million in combined potential value and supporting 69 task orders). Additionally, Trident Systems maintains a GSA Information Technology Schedule 70 position with 34 task orders and $12.7 million combined potential value. These vehicles represent the primary paths to task order work in the Marine Corps, Navy, and Air Force.

Activity has grown modestly over the past five years—6 awards in 2021 escalating to 13 in 2024, with 11 awarded in 2025 year-to-date—with 515 total awards (prime and sub combined) and a combined potential value of $570.8 million across 62 distinct customer agencies. The recompete cliff is minimal: only one award (valued at $1.7 million) reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating a well-distributed portfolio with staggered completion dates and limited near-term recompete exposure.

Trident Systems operates predominantly as a prime contractor with minimal subcontractor activity. Sub awards comprise only 3% of the recent award portfolio (18 of 515 awards), with recent subcontract work routed through Noblis MSD LLC, Booz Allen Hamilton, Serco Inc., and KBR Wyle Services on Navy and Air Force engineering and integration tasks including production support for CANES submarines (SSN-814, SSN-815), NCR Integrated Air Defense System support, and condition-based maintenance initiatives for Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division. SCI-reportable invoicing (covering federal service contracts above $150,000 threshold) totaled $18.2 million across prime records from FY2022–FY2024, with FY2024 invoicing of $7 million across 17.2 FTEs. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor reported zero percent average sub-hours share, indicating delivery teams built internally rather than through subcontractor leverage. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI contracts ranged from a 10th percentile of $143.78 per hour to a median of $218.61 per hour and a 90th percentile of $402.13 per hour, positioning Trident at mid-tier rates for engineering and R&D delivery.

Corporate structure shows Trident Systems as a subsidiary of Owl Cyber Defense Solutions LLC (Columbia, Maryland–based parent holding its own significant federal contracting footprint and IDV positions with the Missile Defense Agency and Air Force Research Laboratory). The parent company also owns Cubic Aerospace, LLC, another manufacturer of goods, indicating a portfolio approach to defense technology manufacturing and systems integration across secure communications, aerospace, and advanced technology domains.