Useful Fiction LLC

Useful Fiction LLC is a self-certified small disadvantaged business limited liability company based in McLean, Virginia, that specializes in fictional narrative development, strategic communications, and writing services for federal defense agencies. Registered with SAM.gov since December 18, 2020, the company focuses on supporting complex military concepts, training initiatives, and strategic communication objectives across the Department of Defense and its various service branches. The firm's core competency centers on leveraging creative storytelling and fictional narratives to make abstract military doctrines, operational concepts, and intelligence communication more relatable and comprehensible to military personnel and defense stakeholders.

Useful Fiction LLC has demonstrated extensive capability through a robust portfolio of federal contract awards totaling approximately $2.27 million across eleven prime federal contracts and three subcontract awards since 2021. The company's prime contract work spans multiple Department of Defense agencies, including the Department of the Navy (Naval Information Warfare Systems Command and Marine Corps), the Department of the Army (Training and Doctrine Command, Army Materiel Command, Army Special Operations Command, and Office of the Chief of Staff), United States Special Operations Command, the Secretary of the Air Force, and the Navy Expeditionary Combat Command. Services provided have included fictional narrative development for Army Field Manual 3-0, visualization series and book development for Navy information warfare initiatives, Large-Scale Combat Operations (LSCO) books and accompanying videos for TRADOC, wargame and event support services, strategic narrative development for Next Generation Combat Vehicle initiatives, fictional intelligence support for Army Special Operations Command, professional writing workshops, and Foreign Intelligence and Counterintelligence (FICINT) support services. All prime contract awards have been firm fixed-price purchase orders, definitive contracts, delivery orders, or other transaction agreements with no set-aside designations, with contract values ranging from $6,300 to $399,919. Useful Fiction LLC has also served as a subcontractor to HII Mission Technologies Corp and Massachusetts Institute of Technology on projects involving Air Force strategic foresight curriculum development through science fiction workshops, military deception operational planning and analysis, and operational services.

Useful Fiction LLC currently holds one Indefinite Delivery Contract awarded by the U.S. Marine Corps on July 28, 2025, valued at $876,455.55 with a five-year performance period extending through July 27, 2030. The contract, structured as a single-award IDV with no set-aside designation, is designed to provide specialized narrative development and strategic communications services in support of Marine Forces Special Operations Command (MARFORSOC) Foreign Intelligence and Counterintelligence (FICINT) requirements. Under this IDV, the contractor has already received a delivery order valued at $132,492.54 on September 29, 2025, for MARFORSOC FICINT Support services to be performed in Jacksonville, North Carolina. The indefinite delivery vehicle structure enables the Marine Corps to issue flexible task orders throughout the five-year period, leveraging Useful Fiction LLC's documented expertise in visualization materials, concept development, wargame support, and strategic narrative development to support military intelligence and counterintelligence communication objectives.