Trusted Systems, Inc.

Trusted Systems, Inc., a small business manufacturer headquartered in Finksburg, Maryland, designs and manufactures GSA-approved Class 5 Information Processing System (IPS) containers, biometric authentication systems, and secured communications equipment for classified information protection across the federal government, operating as a prime contractor on the vast majority of its federal awards (98%).

Trusted Systems competes predominantly in full-and-open federal procurement, with no recurring small business set-aside posture at the prime level, though individual task orders against its vehicles frequently carry set-aside designations. The company's core capability portfolio centers on physical security infrastructure: Class 5 IPS containers in multiple configurations (spanning sizes 3, 4, and custom dimensions), SIPRGUARD biometric access control systems, secured communications centers, and specialized metal enclosures designed to safeguard classified network equipment. Representative prime work includes a $268,013 Coast Guard purchase order for a Class 5 IPS container with SIPRGUARD (awarded August 5, 2026), a $552,760 Air Forces Europe and Africa contract for Class 5 IPS containers (September 18, 2025), and a $374,711 total small-business-set-aside definitive contract with the Air National Guard for CyberSecure IPS Stoplight management hardware and operational software at Joint Base Andrews (July 10, 2025). The company also manufactures specialized secure workstations and communications furniture—an Air Force purchase order for 100 Incognito Secure Workstations equipped with SIPRGuard and Gateway Modules totaled $144,018 (September 26, 2025).

Customer concentration is extreme and anchored entirely by GSA Federal Acquisition Service, which accounts for 50 awards and $304.2 million (95% of combined potential value across all 402 awards). This overwhelming concentration flows from Trusted Systems' dominant position on a $300 million indefinite-delivery contract for GSA-approved security containers and vaults (Federal Supply Class 7110, covering approximately 1,024 National Stock Numbers across Class 5 and Class 6 configurations), awarded April 1, 2026, running through March 31, 2027 with four one-year option periods. The contract is a single-award vehicle with no set-aside designation. GSA FAS has issued 40 task orders against this IDIQ, valued at $829 thousand in combined potential. Outside GSA, customer distribution fragments sharply: the Naval Sea Systems Command (26 awards, $1.7 million), Army Materiel Command Communications Electronics Command (5 awards, $1.2 million), Marine Corps (29 awards, $932 thousand), and Air Force Air National Guard (9 awards, $709 thousand) are secondary customers but collectively represent less than 5% of dollars. Trusted Systems serves 122 distinct federal agencies, but 122 agencies placing small orders against the GSA IDIQ inflates this count; the functional customer base is GSA FAS and, secondarily, individual DoD commands.

Trusted Systems' vehicle footprint beyond the anchor GSA IDIQ is thin. The company holds a $3 million Blanket Purchase Agreement with GSA FAS awarded June 14, 2025 (running through June 13, 2026) for direct delivery to military and civilian customers outside standard FAS retail channels; 5 task orders have been placed against it to date. A prior $250,000 BPA with GSA FAS (June 2023 through June 2025) has matured and generated historical task orders. No government-wide vehicles (OASIS, Alliant, SEWP, GSA Schedule) or agency-wide IDIQs outside GSA appear in the active portfolio. This vehicle concentration—a single $300 million IDIQ at GSA FAS representing 95% of potential value—creates significant recompete risk; the vehicle runs through March 31, 2027, placing the entire prime relationship in formal recompete cycle within the next six months.

Trusted Systems operates a minimal subcontractor footprint (2% of awards by count). Named prime contractors bringing Trusted Systems aboard as a sub include Atlantic Diving Supply, Inc. (multiple Class 5 IPS container task orders, 2024–2025); Fluor Marine Propulsion, LLC (security cabinet work for Naval Nuclear Laboratory operations, May 2024); Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (Y-12 National Security Complex management and operating contract incrementals, June 2024); Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (annual site surveys and hardware migration for classified system installations, July 2023); and Serco Inc. (Combat Air Forces Distributed Mission Operations 3.0 transition goods, October 2025). Sub engagement is incidental to the prime strategy and concentrated among defense contractors managing large government facilities or infrastructure programs requiring physical security components.

Activity has grown sharply—8 awards in 2022 to 50 in the year-to-date 2026 (annualizing to approximately 100 annually)—but this growth reflects task-order velocity against the new $300 million GSA IDIQ rather than diversification of the customer base or expansion into new capability areas. Recompete exposure within the next 24 months is limited by dollar magnitude (37 awards, $1.3 million combined potential value) but existential by relationship: the GSA IDIQ ceiling represents the entire strategic footprint. Awards are coded predominantly under NAICS 332999 (All Other Miscellaneous Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing) and PSC cabinets and specialized shipping containers; the category concentration confirms Trusted Systems as a single-product-line vendor—GSA-approved Class 5 containers and related biometric/communications hardware fill the physical security niche.