Decibel Research, Inc.

Decibel Research, Inc., a HUBZone-certified small business headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, operates as both a prime contractor and subcontractor on defense research and development, software sustainment, and systems engineering work for the Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Army, with recent activity concentrated heavily in prime awards under government-wide IDIQ vehicles and the MDA's direct support programs.

Decibel Research is a Subchapter S corporation competing across total small business set-asides and full-and-open vehicles; the source reflects a 48% prime / 52% sub split across recent awards, but prime work dominates the dollar value. The vendor's customer base is concentrated in defense with the Missile Defense Agency accounting for 42 awards ($558 million combined potential value) and the Department of the Army (including PEO Missiles and Space and Army Materiel Command Aberdeen Proving Ground) representing 20+ awards, though the dollar concentration has shifted recently toward the Department of the Air Force through a major SHIELD IDIQ award. Decibel's capability portfolio centers on radar systems research, high-frequency over-the-horizon atmospheric studies, missile defense software enhancement and sustainment, systems engineering, modeling and simulation, and technical support for classified and unclassified defense programs. Representative prime work includes a $21.9 million cost-plus-incentive delivery order from MDA for software enhancement and sustainment (November 2024, completion June 2026); a $27.8 million MDA CPIF delivery order for software development and sustainment with subcontractors including Peopletec, Inc., Teledyne Brown Engineering, and Amazon Web Services (awarded January 2022, completed January 2025); a $2.04 million SBIR Phase II contract from MDA for extension of high-frequency over-the-horizon radar atmospheric state and variability studies (awarded April 2025); and a $39.2 million cost-plus-award-fee MDA delivery order for hardware, software procurement, and materials supporting missile defense operations (completed July 2024).

Decibel Research holds three major parent vehicles: a $151 billion SHIELD multiple-award IDIQ from the Missile Defense Agency (awarded December 2025 with performance through December 2035, full and open competition, no set-aside), the OASIS+ Total Small Business IDIQ from GSA (awarded December 2024, multi-agency scope through December 2029), and the OASIS+ Unrestricted IDIQ from GSA (awarded December 2024, multi-agency scope through December 2029). The vendor also participates in the Air Force TETRAS II contract ($999 million ceiling, multiple-award IDIQ through June 2028), the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Architecture and Integration Directorate IDIQ ($900 million ceiling through November 2027), and the Eglin Wide Agile Acquisition Contract EWAAC ($46 billion ceiling, extended to September 2031). Across these vehicles, Decibel has issued or received delivery orders totaling tens of millions in near-term work, with OASIS+ vehicles generating 23 task orders and the MDA support programs driving sustained recurring orders. Place of performance is primarily Huntsville, Alabama, with work also performed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, and distributed Army facilities.

In its subcontractor role, Decibel Research delivers engineering services, modeling and simulation, systems engineering test and performance analysis, radar cross-section and boost trajectory modeling, space systems support, and technical intelligence analysis to primes including Torch Technologies, Inc. (which accounts for the majority of recent sub awards covering Future Vertical Lift engineering, hardware-in-the-loop system design, and lifecycle engineering support for AMRDEC), Modern Technology Solutions, Inc. (NOVASTAR space systems support and mission planning tools development), Northrop Grumman Systems Corp (GBSD engineering and manufacturing development), Intuitive Research and Technology Corporation (SHIELD SETA technical support), KBR Wyle Services (army tank automotive and armaments research and analysis), Cambridge International Systems (cruise missile defense systems technical support), and Range Generation Next (launch and test range cybersecurity labor services). The most active sub relationship is with Torch Technologies, spanning 2023–2025 across multiple Army S3I HWIL simulator, Future Vertical Lift, and AMRDEC lifecycle engineering task orders.

Activity has accelerated sharply — from 8 awards in 2022 to 45 in 2024 and 23 in 2025 year to date — driven by new IDIQ positions and increased MDA sustainment task order activity. Obligated dollars total $266.4 million against a combined potential value of $131.93 billion, reflecting substantial ceiling value on the newly awarded SHIELD and OASIS+ vehicles not yet drawn down. Three awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $4.7 million, representing modest recompete exposure compared to the vendor's overall pipeline. Service Contract Inventory records are minimal (9 records, 0 as prime), showing roughly 7–8 FTEs across sub engagements in FY2022–FY2024; SCI does not capture the vendor's direct MDA and Army prime contract labor deployment. GSA Schedule labor offerings span 28 categories ranging from technician roles at $58.73/hr to senior subject matter experts at $267.02/hr, with no security-cleared offerings, supporting civilian and non-critical-clearance defense work alongside higher-classification prime contracts performed under separate facility clearance.

decibel Research has extensive experience and expertise in the design, development, testing , and applications of advanced radar systems including Advanced Radar signal processing, data processing and algorithms,image interpretation, Modeling and analysis