VES LLC

VES LLC, a tribally owned and minority-owned limited liability company based in Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, operates as a defense software engineering and vehicle systems integration contractor, delivering Ground Vehicle Operating System (GVOS) software sustainment and development services primarily to the Army and Navy as both a prime contractor (32% of recent awards) and subcontractor to larger defense primes (68% of recent awards). The company competes full-and-open on all federal awards with no set-aside designations applied across its footprint.

VES LLC's customer base concentrates heavily on the Department of Defense. The top five funding entities by potential value account for 100% of combined potential value and are anchored by the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command (2 awards, $4 billion combined potential value) and the Department of the Army Acquisition Support Center PEO Ground Combat Systems (4 awards, $88.2 million combined potential value). The Defense Finance and Accounting Service holds a $50 million single-award indefinite-delivery contract for end-to-end software engineering lifecycle support on GVOS capabilities through July 2031, while the Army's PEO Command Control Communications-Tactical has issued 7 awards valued at $12.1 million combined, including a recent $12.125 million Other Transaction Agreement for Artillery Execution Suite prototype software development through June 2028. VES LLC's primary capability portfolio centers on vehicle operating system software design, coding, cybersecurity activities, testing, systems integration, and electronic systems sustainment, particularly for military ground and maritime platforms. Representative prime work includes a $43.194 million single-award IDIQ with PEO Ground Combat Systems for GVOS software production support (November 2023 through November 2028), under which three delivery orders worth $1.816 million, $738 thousand, and $591 thousand have been issued for core OS engineering, GVOS Task 2, and GVOS Task 3 respectively. VES LLC also holds a $4 billion multiple-award Indefinite Delivery contract under Navy Seaport Next Generation (Seaport-NxG) awarded January 2025, where a $500 minimum guarantee task order has been issued to date.

In its subcontractor role, VES LLC primarily serves DCS Corporation, which has engaged the vendor on nine sub-awards since January 2024 for technical and engineering services supporting Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Ground Vehicle Systems Center projects, including GVOS integration with the Maintenance and Training Module for Stryker vehicles and E-Vetronics digital containerization and crew-station reconfiguration work. VES LLC also subcontracts to Booz Allen Hamilton on ground systems technology and laboratory development for the Army Ground Vehicle Systems Center (four sub-awards, 2022–2023) and to Parsons Government Services on incremental funding and general services support (four sub-awards, January 2022). The Service Contract Inventory dataset, which covers federal service contracts above the $150 thousand reporting threshold, captures only 5 SCI records—all sub-contract activity—with 1.7 FTEs reported in FY2022 and 0.5 FTEs in FY2024, reflecting partial coverage of the vendor's federal services footprint and no SCI-reported prime service contracts in the dataset.

VES LLC's award activity peaked in 2024 with ten awards and has moderated to five in 2025 and two in 2026, with a combined potential value of $4.15 billion heavily skewed by the Navy Seaport-NxG platform. One award valued at $12.1 million (the PEO Command Control Communications-Tactical OTA for Artillery Execution Suite) reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating focused recompete exposure. The vendor's position on the $4 billion Navy Seaport-NxG multiple-award vehicle and the $50 million DFAS IDIQ establish substantial long-term platform footprint through 2029 and 2031 respectively, positioning VES LLC for sustained task-order competition across Navy and Army ground combat systems modernization priorities.