Dynamic Motion Control Inc.

Dynamic Motion Control Inc., doing business as DMC, is a Chicago-based for-profit Subchapter S corporation that delivers engineering, automation control systems, and custom software services to federal agencies, operating primarily as a subcontractor (71% of recent awards by count) with recent entry into prime contracting on a multi-billion-dollar defense vehicle. DMC has no SBA set-aside certifications and competes full-and-open across its portfolio.

DMC's customer base is heavily concentrated in defense and space. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Marshall Space Flight Center accounts for ten awards, the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation for three awards ($475 thousand combined potential value), the Department of the Navy for three awards, and the Department of Defense's Missile Defense Agency for two awards ($500 combined potential value). This concentration reflects DMC's primary role as a subcontractor on NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) Booster Production and Operations Contract (BPOC), where the vendor has provided custom computer programming services, metal fabrication and welding, and cables and wiring harnesses in seven tasks spanning 2022 through 2026. On the civil side, DMC delivers SCADA system upgrades and test-equipment modernization: a $323.7 thousand purchase order from the Bureau of Reclamation for TSC-5 universal testing machine controls upgrades (awarded September 2023, completion September 2025), a $119.7 thousand small-business set-aside purchase order for CRSP SCADA sandbox system components targeting Rockwell Automation platforms (July 2025), and earlier assessment work on the same testing machine line. DMC also subcontracts to ATK Launch Systems LLC on SLS production work and to Chickasaw Defense Group LLC on a Building 1190 renovation project involving SCADA development, PLC software, control panels, and field commissioning.

DMC's prime contracting footprint is nascent but strategically significant. In December 2025, the Missile Defense Agency awarded DMC a multiple-award indefinite delivery contract under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, a multi-domain air and missile defense initiative with a $151 billion ceiling extending through December 2035. The contract carries full-and-open competition with no set-aside designation and calls for systems engineering, prototyping, research and development, test and evaluation, and modernization support for advanced defense capabilities incorporating artificial intelligence and digital engineering. An initial $500 delivery order was issued on the same date for SHIELD initial order work in Huntsville, Alabama. This represents DMC's entry into prime status on a defense platform with multi-year recompete and task-order scaling potential.

Activity has remained modest by count—two to six awards per year from 2022 through 2026—but the dollars obligated ($21.3 million) substantially exceed the combined potential value ($485 thousand), indicating that most task orders under the SLS BPOC and other vehicles are being exercised and funded significantly above their initial ceiling values. SCI reporting captures minimal activity: one subcontractor record in FY2024 reflecting 2.5 FTEs, showing DMC's federal service contract presence above the $150 thousand threshold is small relative to its engineering and production work on NASA and Navy contracts. The vendor's NAICS profile tilts to guided missile and space vehicle propulsion unit parts manufacturing (nine awards), reflecting its embedded role in SLS production, with secondary concentration in computer systems design and engineering services. DMC operates as a feeder to larger primes in the space and defense industrial base—Teya Enterprises LLC on engineering and support tasks, ATK Launch Systems LLC on SLS work, and 381 Constructors on Portsmouth Naval Shipyard dry dock automation projects—while beginning to position itself as a prime on MDA's long-duration SHIELD vehicle.

DMC offers high-caliber engineering and software development services for manufacturing, testing, and product development organizations. DMC's expertise typically falls into the following categories: Manufacturing Automation and Intelligence, Test and Measurement Automation, Custom Software and Hardware Development, and Microsoft Consulting Services.