Vannevar Labs, Inc.

Vannevar Labs Inc., a Palo Alto-based defense technology company, operates as a prime contractor specializing in artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions for advanced battle management systems, command-and-control capabilities, and joint all-domain operations. The vendor competes on full-and-open basis across the Department of Defense with no set-aside designations; all named recent awards carry "No Set-Aside Used" designations, and the vendor holds no SBA certifications.

Vannevar Labs delivers production-stage engineering and technical services grounded primarily in AI-driven information processing, data caching, video streaming, and geographic blocking technologies that support military command and control integration. Representative work includes a $27.7 million Other Transaction Agreement with the Office of Naval Research's ARCHER program (awarded April 2024, performance through December 2026) for advanced information environment operations, a $11.25 million OTA with the Office of the Secretary of Defense (awarded June 2024, through December 2026) focused on command and control modernization, and a $15 million Small Business Innovation Research STRATFI VELOCITY contract with Air Force Research Laboratory (awarded January 2025, through February 2029) for advanced military technologies at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The vendor also delivers foreign text analysis and workflow platform capabilities called "Decrypt" to support intelligence operations across defense agencies.

Customer concentration is extreme and narrowly DoD-focused. The Department of the Air Force anchors 96% of combined potential value across all awards, driven by a single $950 million multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract under the Advanced Battle Management System program (awarded September 2022, through May 2030). The Air Force Air Mobility Command, while a distinct funding line, represents a secondary concentration point with $306.1 million in combined potential value across five awards—itself anchored by a $99 million Other Transaction Agreement (awarded September 2024, through September 2027) through which twenty-five task orders have been issued to subordinate Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and Army commands. By award count, the Office of the Secretary of Defense places the most orders (ten awards, $16.6 million combined potential value), but these are individually small. The top five customer lines account for 53% of award count but 96% of potential dollars, signaling highly concentrated, high-value vehicle dependency rather than distributed customer relationships.

Vannevar Labs holds two major IDVs that drive the majority of activity. The $950 million ABMS multiple-award IDC with the Department of the Air Force (established 2022) has generated task orders ranging from $49,661 to $7.89 million across Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy, and Army subordinate commands, with services performed in Palo Alto, California. The $99 million Air Mobility Command OTA (established September 2024) serves as a secondary distribution vehicle for task orders to Defense agencies, with notable orders including a $10 million USAF DFAS order (March 2025), a $7.67 million Marine Corps order (September 2025), and a $4.7 million Air Combat Command order (September 2025). Beyond these vehicles, Vannevar Labs holds the Transparent Ocean OTA with Washington Headquarters Service ($6.7 million, through December 2027, awarded January 2026) and an Office of Naval Research ARCHER OTA ($27.7 million through December 2026, awarded April 2024).

Activity has grown sharply after a gap in source data visibility—two awards in 2021, three in 2022, then a jump to twenty-five awards in 2024 and fifteen in 2025. This growth trajectory reflects rapid scaling under the ABMS and Air Mobility Command vehicles. Eighteen awards (combined potential value $174.1 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing significant recompete exposure across subordinate Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy, and Army commands, though the parent ABMS vehicle does not expire until May 2030. Combined obligated dollars across all awards total $214.4 million against $1.38 billion in combined potential value (15% obligation rate), typical of IDC vehicles with flexible task order drawdown.

Vannevar Labs' subcontractor footprint is minimal. Three sub-awards appear in the source: a technical support services subcontract to General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. (October 2025); a software modification task to HII Mission Technologies Corp (October 2024); and special operations forces emerging threats support to CACI NSS, LLC (March 2024). All three are recent and individually modest in scope, indicating the vendor operates predominantly as a prime rather than as a traditional sub-tier supplier.

The vendor qualifies as a Total Small Business under SBIR, holding a $15 million SBIR STRATFI VELOCITY contract and a $749,898 SBIR Phase II Action with the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (September 2024), though general contracting posture remains full-and-open and prime-heavy. Place of performance is predominantly Palo Alto, California, with one Air Education and Training Command order executed at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, and State Department research work performed in Mexico.