Xiphos Partners, Inc.

Xiphos Partners, Inc., Xiphos Partners, LLC Division, a small business headquartered in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, delivers research and development services, advanced training technologies, and software engineering support to the Department of the Navy and Department of Defense as both a prime contractor (36% of recent awards) and a subcontractor (64% of recent awards). The company operates as a for-profit Subchapter S corporation without formal SBA set-aside designations on its prime contracts, though the Naval Air Warfare Center and Office of Naval Research have designated several awards as total small business set-asides; recent prime work emphasizes full-and-open competition on large defense vehicles rather than reserved categories.

Xiphos's prime capability portfolio centers on small business research initiatives, naval aviation technology, and systems engineering support. The company holds two significant vehicle positions: a $4 billion SeaPort-NXG multiple-award IDIQ with Naval Sea Systems Command running through January 2029, from which Xiphos has received at least a minimum guarantee delivery order, and a $151 billion Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award IDIQ with the Missile Defense Agency running through December 2035, with a nominal $500 initial delivery order issued December 2025. Xiphos also holds a single-award Basic Ordering Agreement with the Office of Naval Research through November 2028 for research and development services. Named prime awards include a $5.52 million SBIR Phase III cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order from the Office of Naval Research for naval aviation R&D (completion September 2029) and a $3.1 million Small Business total small business set-aside delivery order from the Naval Air Warfare Center for an SBIR kickoff briefing (completed January 2024).

Customer concentration flows entirely through the Department of the Navy. The top five customer organizations account for 86% of awards by count, with Naval Sea Systems Command anchoring 100% of combined potential value across just two awards ($4 billion). The Office of Naval Research places seven awards worth $7.1 million combined potential value, and the Naval Air Warfare Center places three awards worth $3.3 million. The Missile Defense Agency and Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support round out the active set with small volumes. Activity spiked in 2023 (twelve awards) after a single 2022 award, contracted to six awards in 2024 and five in 2025, reflecting the episodic maturation of SBIR phases and task order placement cycles rather than sustained growth trajectory. Combined potential value is $4.01 billion, but only $14.5 million (0% of potential) has obligated to date, indicating most value sits in unexercised IDV ceilings.

In its subcontractor capacity, Xiphos supplies software licenses, engineering services, and training technology support. The company subcontracts primarily to Lockheed Martin Corporation (multiple delivery orders for next-generation expeditionary training technologies and the streamlined marine after-action review tool spanning 2023–2024) and Atlantic Diving Supply (software instance support, multi-year software suite support, and related systems work across twelve sub-awards clustered in December 2023). Booz Allen Hamilton has awarded two sub tasks (March 2026 and April 2025) for commercial software engineering and strategic analysis support. Xiphos's primary NAICS profile clusters under research and development in physical, engineering, and life sciences (13 awards) and all other miscellaneous manufacturing (10 awards), with primary PSC coding in national defense R&D services and exploratory development.