Wavelink Inc.

Wavelink Inc., doing business as WLI, a woman-owned small business headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, operates predominantly as a subcontractor (77% of recent awards) delivering test and evaluation, systems engineering, and weapons-development support to the Department of Defense through primes including Torch Technologies Inc., Valkyrie Enterprises LLC, Leidos Inc., and Science Applications International Corporation. The company holds SBA Certified Women-Owned Small Business status and competes across full-and-open, women-owned small business set-aside, and total small business set-aside contract vehicles, with no recurrence of WOSB-only posturing on prime awards.

Wavelink's federal footprint centers on defense RD&D and test infrastructure modernization. As a prime contractor, the company holds a $151 billion ceiling IDIQ under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program through the Missile Defense Agency (awarded December 29, 2025, with completion through December 28, 2035), a $46 billion ceiling Eglin Wide Agile Acquisition Contract (EWAAC) IDIQ through Air Force Lifecycle Management Center at Eglin Air Force Base (awarded February 25, 2022, through September 9, 2031), and seats on the OASIS+ Total Small Business (OAS+SB) and OASIS+ Women-Owned Small Business (OAS+WO) government-wide MACs through GSA Federal Acquisition Service (awarded December 19, 2024, and September 30, 2024, respectively, each through 2029). As a prime on the Test and Evaluation Technologies for Ranges, Armaments and Spectrum II (TETRAS II) IDIQ under Air Force Materiel Command (awarded June 30, 2023, $999.95 million ceiling through June 29, 2028), Wavelink executed a $4.73 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order for Ground Threat Radar Signature Measurements and Exploitation (GTRSME) services at Eglin Air Force Base, involving replacement of aging G6 instrumentation radars and expansion of transceiver bandwidths to improve sensor resolution (awarded September 5, 2024, completion September 5, 2026). Wavelink also holds a Blanket Purchase Agreement through GSA Multiple Award Schedule with the Aviation and Missile Command for professional advisory and assistance support services (awarded August 16, 2025, through August 15, 2030, no ceiling specified). Recent prime delivery orders include a $22.1 thousand firm-fixed-price order from Air Force Test Center for IT and telecommunications compute servers including hardware and perpetual license software under the Eglin Wide Agile Acquisition Contract (awarded October 1, 2024, completion September 30, 2025) and a $500 delivery order under the SHIELD IDIQ (awarded December 29, 2025).

Wavelink operates on multiple vehicle platforms. The Multiple Award Schedule carries 33 task orders with combined potential value of $42 thousand. The OASIS+ Small Business vehicles (OAS+SB and OAS+WO combined) support task ordering across seven functional domains — management and advisory, technical and engineering, research and development, intelligence services, environmental services, facilities, and logistics — with task order activity spanning 2024 and 2025. TETRAS II has generated 2 task orders totaling $4.7 million in combined potential value. A Navy contract (IDV N0014004D0011) carries 11 task orders. The company also competes under GSA's broad-based multiple-award schedules for supplemental labor in engineering, systems analysis, network engineering, and subject-matter expertise roles, with published labor rates ranging from $24.11/hr for administrative support to $257.68/hr for senior subject-matter experts, requiring no security clearances but spanning educational backgrounds from high school through master's degrees.

Customer concentration heavily favors Army and Air Force missile and test programs. The top five funding agencies by award count cover 83% of all awards, led by the Department of the Army Acquisition Support Center PEO Missiles and Space (34 awards) and the Department of the Army Materiel Command Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command (16 awards). By potential value, the Air Force Lifecycle Management Center at Eglin Air Force Base anchors the portfolio with a single $46 billion EWAAC contract representing the vast majority of combined potential value; the Air Force Materiel Command totals 6 awards worth $2.02 billion. Navy awards represent 11 contracts. GSA vehicles carry $53.2 million across 3 awards. The Army Research Development and Engineering Command contributes a $3.3 million contract.

Activity trajectory shows accelerating velocity — three awards in 2019, five in 2022, five in 2023, then 53 in 2024, followed by 14 awards in 2025 year-to-date. Combined potential value across all 84 awards totals $48.08 billion, though obligations remain minimal at $40.6 million (0% of potential value), reflecting the early stage and ceiling-driven nature of IDIQ and vehicle positions. Two awards with combined potential value of $21.1 million face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months and therefore present recompete exposure. Wavelink's sub-award positioning — 77% of recent awards — reflects dependence on larger defense primes for order flow; across SCI-reportable federal service contracts, the vendor delivered approximately 6.3 FTEs in FY2024 and 7.2 FTEs in FY2022 under subcontracts, with sub-hours engagement capturing technical and engineering support for aviation missile development, weapons testing, simulation and modeling, verification and validation, and hardware-in-the-loop systems work to the Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC), the Army's Developmental Command (DEVCOM) Aviation and Missile Center, and Navy acquisition programs. Named prime relationships include Torch Technologies (recurring award pattern through 2025 for AMRDEC lifecycle engineering support and weapons development integration), Valkyrie Enterprises (weapon systems development and analysis spanning tactical missile and survivability systems), Leidos Inc. (virtual warfare munitions server engineering services), and HX5 LLC and Marvin Engineering Co (episodic sub engagement for missile systems analysis). The company's capability framing across all roles emphasizes radar modernization, sensor enhancement, guidance and fire-control systems analysis, multimode seeker development, system-of-systems simulation, and test infrastructure modernization — all within the terrestrial and airborne missile defense, counter-air, and close-in area defense mission set.