White River Technologies, Inc.

White River Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Newton Upper Falls, Massachusetts, delivers advanced geophysical detection and underwater surveying systems to the Department of Defense and Department of the Army as a prime contractor (68% of recent awards) under small business set-asides, with a secondary subcontractor footprint in environmental remediation and munitions detection support.

White River Technologies is a for-profit small business specializing in advanced geophysical technologies and research and development services for defense applications. The vendor competes predominantly under total small business set-asides on SBIR and STTR Phase II programs with the Navy, while competing full-and-open on Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) demonstrations and cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contracts with the Army Corps of Engineers.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to naval and Army engineering commands. The top five funding agencies account for 71% of recent awards by count and 89% by potential value, led by the Army Corps of Engineers Humphreys Engineer Center Support Activity (11 awards, $8.2 million combined potential value), the Naval Air Warfare Center (8 awards, $6.2 million), Naval Sea Systems Command (5 awards, $5.7 million), Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command (6 awards, $3.5 million), and Naval Facilities Engineering Command (14 awards). The rankings reflect Naval Facilities' volume advantage while the Army and Navy R&D commands anchor dollar value through larger SBIR, STTR, and ESTCP awards.

Representative prime work includes a $1.99 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from Naval Sea Systems Command (awarded April 2026) for innovative simultaneous localization and mapping techniques for unmanned underwater vehicles under total small business set-aside, a $1.00 million ESTCP definitive contract from Humphreys Engineer Center Support Activity (awarded August 2025) for live underwater munitions detection and classification at Maine Bombing Range, a $1.71 million STTR Phase II contract from Naval Sea Systems Command (awarded March 2024) supporting the Space-Based Infrared System High Major Defense Acquisition Program, and a $742,821 ESTCP definitive contract from Humphreys Engineer Center Support Activity (awarded March 2026) for the Underwater Advanced Geophysical Classification Performance Calculator and Prediction Software Environment. White River Technologies also holds a single-award Basic Ordering Agreement from Naval Air Warfare Center (awarded August 2024) for SBIR Phase III research and development with no specified ceiling.

Activity has accelerated year over year — from two awards in 2022 to ten in 2025 — with four awards (combined potential value $3.8 million) reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months. The vendor subcontracts on environmental remediation and explosive ordnance cleanup work to Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., AECOM Technical Services, Inc., Ch2M Hill Inc., and USA Environmental Inc., delivering geophysical surveying and mapping services, equipment rental, data processing, and munitions response services across Navy CLEAN (Comprehensive Long-Term Environmental Action Navy) contracts, Army Corps of Engineers FUDS (Formerly Used Defense Sites) and MMRP (Military Munitions Response Program) task orders, and miscellaneous military construction and facility engineering projects. Work is performed at Newton Upper Falls, Massachusetts (administrative and development) and subordinate military installations across the continental United States and U.S. territories, including Maine Bombing Range, Pearl Harbor, Lualualei Annex, Guam, and Puerto Rico.