Cyclokinetics, Inc.

Cyclokinetics, Inc., a for-profit corporation headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, holds a seat on the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Multiple Award IDIQ contract awarded by the Missile Defense Agency on January 21, 2026, with a $151 billion ceiling and ten-year performance period running through December 2035. The SHIELD vehicle is full-and-open competed with no set-asides and structures task and delivery orders across the Department of Defense for advanced multi-domain defense systems, including research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, and cybersecurity modernization across classified and unclassified security domains leveraging artificial intelligence, machine learning, and digital engineering. Cyclokinetics has placed one initial delivery order against SHIELD valued at five hundred dollars as of January 2026.

Beyond SHIELD, Cyclokinetics holds a second prime IDV — a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Other Transaction contract awarded December 13, 2024, under DARPA's Biological Technologies Office SWITCH program, carrying a $300 thousand ceiling for biological technologies products and services. Recent prime federal work spans research and development in the physical, engineering, and life sciences (NAICS 541712), with award concentrations in the Missile Defense Agency and DARPA. Cyclokinetics also operates as a subcontractor; it performed advanced materials and processes engineering services as a sub to the University of Dayton on a November 2024 award and as a sub recipient on an Air Force Research Laboratory directed research project under the Bioindustrial Manufacturing and Design Ecosystem on an October 2022 grant.

The vendor's federal footprint is nascent but growth-oriented. Five awards in recent history (2022, 2024, 2026) across four distinct federal customer agencies — the Missile Defense Agency, DARPA, Army Materiel Command TACOM Life Cycle Management Command, and DOD Washington Headquarters Service — collectively carry combined potential value of $301 thousand, though $21.6 million in obligated dollars against those same awards reflects significant execution. The large ratio of obligated to potential value (over 7,000 percent) signals that initial task orders or modifications against the SHIELD IDIQ and other vehicles have substantially exceeded stated ceiling values or that obligated amounts represent full contract drawdown rather than incremental task order placement. Cyclokinetics competes as a prime on full-and-open DoD and defense-agency vehicles without set-aside protections and as a sub on university and ecosystem-led awards.