Defense Contracting Inc.

Defense Contracting Inc., doing business as DCI Solutions, operates as a for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, and competes predominantly as a subcontractor (81% of recent awards by count) to major defense primes, with selective prime positions on small-business set-aside IDIQs and civilian agency delivery orders. DCI Solutions is a small business with no SBA designations in the source; recent activity spans research and development services, cybersecurity and systems engineering, and intelligence software sustainment, with the largest customer concentration in Army programs and a secondary footprint in civilian health IT modernization.

The vendor's award portfolio skews heavily toward subcontract work on defense R&D and intelligence programs. Across the past five years, DCI Solutions has held 36 total awards (prime and sub combined) worth $4.6 million in combined potential value, though obligated dollars total $71.1 million — a 1549% ratio that reflects heavy task-order activity against parent vehicles. The Department of the Army accounts for 17 awards (47% of the portfolio by count), anchored by work under the Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services vehicle (21 task orders across the portfolio), Distributed Common Ground System–Army programs (2 task orders), and Army Capability Drop 2 Data Fabric and Analytics work. Secondary customers include the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (3 awards, $3.9 million combined potential value), the Missile Defense Agency (3 awards, $150 thousand combined potential value), and GSA's Federal Acquisition Service (2 awards, $500 thousand combined potential value). Top NAICS concentration runs through R&D in Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (23 awards) and Computer Systems Design Services (5 awards).

As a prime contractor, DCI Solutions holds two government-wide vehicles established in the past eighteen months. On December 29, 2025, the Missile Defense Agency awarded DCI Solutions a $151 billion multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract, the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD), running through December 28, 2035, covering research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and operational deployment of layered defense systems. An initial $500 delivery order under SHIELD was issued on the same date, with performance at Huntsville, Alabama. On December 19, 2024, GSA's Federal Acquisition Service awarded DCI Solutions a seat on the OASIS+ Total Small Business Multiple Award Contract (OAS+SB), a five-year-base-plus-one-option vehicle spanning seven functional domains (Management and Advisory, Technical and Engineering, Research and Development, Intelligence Services, Environmental Services, Facilities, and Logistics) and running through December 18, 2029. In addition to these vehicles, DCI Solutions holds a GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) position and has delivered two orders under that schedule with CMS — a $3.6 million Investigations Project Performance Tracker re-compete delivery order (ultimate completion September 23, 2027) and a $364 thousand IPPT group-level management dashboard order (completed October 24, 2022). DCI Solutions also holds a completed $149 thousand Small Business SBIR Phase I contract from the Missile Defense Agency for AI/ML augmentation of cyber risk reduction (completed April 4, 2025).

The vendor's subcontractor footprint spans intelligence, defensive cyber operations, and Army intelligence-analytics sustainment work. DCI Solutions subs to Parsons Government Services on multiple Intelligence Development Enabled Awareness & Solutions (IDEAS) task orders for research, development, integration, and sustainment of intelligence software systems (starting July 21, 2023, with recurring modifications through September 2024); to Palantir USG and Palantir Technologies on Army Capability Drop 2 and Drop 1 field service engineer support and software license sustainment (March 2024, October 2023); to Booz Allen Hamilton on F-35 Lightning II Program Office cybersecurity and systems engineering work (November 2024) and Network Exploitation Research and Development software and systems engineering (July 2025); to CACI Technologies on CATS2 engineering, systems engineering, and technology insertion for RTI (June 2025) and on incremental labor support (September 2024); to Mantech Advanced Systems International on Titus Engineering Services (May 2026); to Peraton Technology Services on RS3 engineering and technical assistance (SETA) support for the Electronic Warfare Air/Ground Survivability Division (March 2026); to General Dynamics Information Technology on Medicare Secondary Payment Systems services (September 2024); to Octo Metric on Defensive Cyber Operations Program Management support services (January 2022); and to Mag DS Corp on programmatic and business management, engineering, and acquisition support for Electronic Warfare and Cyber (July 2022).

SCI-reported invoiced revenue on prime contracts totaled $1.8 million across FY2022–FY2024 ($304 thousand in FY2022, $723 thousand in FY2023, $777 thousand in FY2024), with median government-paid hourly rates around $106/hr on prime service contracts. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, DCI Solutions subcontracts roughly 25% of total contractor hours to three named subcontractors. The vendor's GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 13 categories ranging from Project Control Specialist at $21.75/hr through Program Manager at $189.54/hr, covering development, testing, cybersecurity, and subject-matter-expert roles with education requirements from high school through master's degree; no security-cleared positions are offered on the Schedule. Activity has declined from twelve awards in 2023 and eleven in 2024 to five in 2025 and two in 2026 year-to-date; one prime award ($3.6 million combined potential value) faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, triggering recompete exposure in FY2027.

DCI Solutions provides engineering, IT, and program management services that are tailored to the needs of the client and their missions. DCI has extensive technical domain knowledge in AI/ML; Cybersecurity; High Performance Computing; C5ISR; and healthcare systems. DCI works with leading edge software and hardware technologies to perform modernization, system buildouts, systems integration and maintenance, software development and to secure systems.