DPA Labs, Inc.

DPA Labs, Inc., a California-based minority-owned small disadvantaged business, provides semiconductor testing, qualification, and manufacturing support services to the Department of Defense and related agencies as both a prime contractor (68% of recent awards) and a subcontractor on guided missile and defense electronics programs. The company is Asian-Pacific American owned, self-certified as a small disadvantaged business, DOT-certified as a disadvantaged business enterprise, and operates as a for-profit manufacturer of goods with a primary footprint in semiconductor and guided-missile component qualification work.

DPA Labs holds a position on the newly awarded Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Multiple Award IDIQ contract issued by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, with a multi-billion-dollar ceiling and a ten-year performance period running through December 28, 2035. The SHIELD vehicle procures research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats, leveraging artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. DPA Labs received an initial delivery order under SHIELD valued at five hundred dollars on December 29, 2025. The contract uses full and open competition with no set-aside designation.

Customer concentration sits with the Department of Defense. The top five customer agencies account for 71% of recent awards by count, led by the Department of the Air Force (8 awards), the Department of the Army (7 awards), and the DOD Missile Defense Agency (6 awards, $500 combined potential value). By potential value, concentration shifts toward larger single awards: DOD Washington Headquarters Service anchors $3 million in a single award, while the Air Force Materiel Command's Aeronautical Systems Center and the Army Training and Doctrine Command round out the dollar ranking. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime places 4 awards worth $164 thousand combined. DPA Labs operates under two other parent indefinite delivery contracts — F4260088C0119 (2 task orders) and DMEA9000A0003 (1 task order) — in addition to SHIELD.

The vendor's capability footprint centers on semiconductor device testing and qualification, guided missile component manufacturing support, and defense electronics manufacturing. Top NAICS codes are Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing (9 awards), Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing (4 awards), and Research and Development in Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (3 awards). Top PSCs track to Semiconductor Devices and Associated Hardware (5 awards) and Microcircuits, Electronic (3 awards). Recent representative work includes multiple Lockheed Martin subcontracts for PATRIOT Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missile production support, including phased-array tracking radar qualification and manufacturing efforts dating from August 2022 through February 2025, and a Honeywell Federal Manufacturing subcontract for testing services supporting the National Security Campus (contract DE-NA0002839). Activity has averaged about three awards per year over the past five years, with five awards in both 2024 and 2025. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $15.8 million, exceeding the combined potential value of $5.5 million, indicating active execution and possible contract modifications or follow-on work beyond original ceiling estimates.

ELECTRONIC MICROCIRCUIT & SEMICONDUCTOR & PASSIVE DEVICES TESTING, UPSCREENING, ASSEMBLY, ANALYSIS FOR MIL. & SPACE. DLA CERTIFIED TO MIL PRF 38535, MIL STD 883, 750 LAB SUITABILITY. QMLQ, QMLV CUSTOM PACKAGING OF HERMETIC PKGS, DIE STACKING, MCM, DESTRUCTIVE PHYSICAL ANALYSIS (DPA), COUNTERFEIT ANALYSIS, X-RAY, CSAM, ENVIRONMENTAL, DMEA TRUSTED FACILITY. MICROCIRCUITS, FPGA, RF, PASSIVE DEVICES, CRYOGENIC, BURN-IN, QMLP PEM QUALIFICATIONS.