Vivsoft Awarded $100 Million Air Force Deal to Modernize Aircrew Scheduling

The Herndon, Virginia, IT integrator secured a firm-fixed-price agreement for the Aerospace Readiness Enterprise System, its first federal award topping $100 million, with work due by July 2030.

First Published: July 28, 2026, 1:14 PM ET

HERNDON, VIRGINIA — Vivsoft Technologies LLC, a Herndon, Virginia, small-business IT integrator, was awarded a $100 million Air Force agreement to modernize how the service schedules and trains its aircrews, as announced on war.gov.

The firm-fixed-price other transaction agreement covers the Aerospace Readiness Enterprise System, which upgrades aircrew scheduling, training management, and standardization and evaluation capabilities. The competitive acquisition drew three offers. Fiscal 2026 research and development funds of $3.5 million are obligated at award, with the balance to follow as work proceeds.

The award marks the largest contract on record for Vivsoft, which had received about $83.9 million in federal contracts across its history before this deal, according to highergov.com. The company describes itself as a small-business IT systems integrator specializing in open-source and emerging technologies in cloud environments, according to highergov.com.

Winners and losers sharpen once the money starts flowing. Vivsoft gains a marquee prime contract that dwarfs its prior annual totals, which peaked near $19.7 million in 2025, according to highergov.com. The Air Force stands to gain faster, more integrated tools for managing pilots and flight crews. Competitors that bid on the requirement walk away empty-handed after a contest that drew three offers.

The contractor holds an SBA 8(a) certification effective through December 2029 and operates as a protege firm under a joint venture with Amyx Inc., according to highergov.com. Its largest awarding customer to date has been the Department of the Air Force, according to highergov.com. The Small Business Administration operates the 8(a) program to steer federal work to disadvantaged small firms, according to sba.gov.

For the average reader, the deal touches the machinery behind military readiness rather than a household budget. Aircrew scheduling and training software determines how quickly the Air Force can field ready pilots, a factor that shapes response times in a crisis. Taxpayers fund the work, and the firm-fixed-price structure caps the government’s exposure at the agreed amount.

This has happened before. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts routinely awards enterprise software modernization deals to small and midsize integrators, and Vivsoft already executes work on the service’s Platform One software environment, according to highergov.com. What differs here is scale. The agreement ranks as the smallest Air Force award logged so far in 2026, yet it stands as the biggest single deal in Vivsoft’s ledger.

The next decision rests with the contracting activity at Hanscom, which will oversee performance milestones through the expected completion date of July 22, 2030. No date for the first major task order review has been announced.

Small federal contractors climbing into the nine-figure tier is a well-worn path in the Washington suburbs. Herndon and its Fairfax County neighbors have anchored the government-technology corridor since the 1990s, when firms such as America Online scaled from the same office parks and helped seed a contractor economy that now spans thousands of companies, according to highergov.com. Vivsoft, founded in August 2011 and federally registered in November 2014, follows that trajectory from an 8(a) startup toward a prime vendor, a leap that has minted and broken firms across Northern Virginia for three decades.

This contract represents the 1st contract awarded to Vivsoft Technologies LLC, in 2026, bringing the company’s total contract value for the year to $100,000,000. It is also the 19th Department of Defense contract awarded in Virginia during 2026. Because this is the first award to Vivsoft Technologies LLC recorded in the database, it establishes the company’s initial benchmark within the Air Force portfolio. Specifically, it is not the largest Air Force contract awarded in 2026, with the year-to-date maximum reaching $343,201,556, but it is the smallest Air Force contract awarded so far this year, with the year-to-date minimum recorded at $100,000,000. Overall, this award was announced among 2 Department of Defense contracts issued nationwide on July 28, 2026.