GBL Systems Corporation

GBL Systems Corporation, doing business as GBL Systems Corp, is a Camarillo, California–headquartered small-business prime contractor delivering systems engineering, software development, artificial intelligence, and mission planning capabilities to the Department of Defense and related defense agencies on full-and-open competition contracts without set-aside designation. The company operates as a for-profit Subchapter S corporation and competes as a prime on 94% of its recent awards, with minimal subcontractor activity.

GBL's customer footprint is heavily concentrated in the Department of Navy. The top five customers by potential value account for 100% of combined dollars, with the Office of the Secretary of Defense anchoring $249 million in potential value through a single Basic Ordering Agreement, and the Naval Air Systems Command Naval Air Warfare Center leading by award count at 16 awards valued at $247.7 million combined potential value. The Navy's Naval Sea Systems Command, the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory, and the GSA Federal Acquisition Service round out the active set. This concentration reflects GBL's deep positioning in Navy test and evaluation and Air Force AI and weapons planning initiatives rather than broad civilian or multi-agency reach.

GBL holds three major vehicle positions. The company recently entered the Missile Defense Agency's Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program as a multiple-award IDIQ with a ceiling through December 28, 2035 and an initial delivery order valued at $500 issued in December 2025. GBL also carries a seat on the GSA OASIS+ Small Business multiple-award IDIQ (awarded December 19, 2024, through December 18, 2029) across seven functional domains including Management and Advisory, Technical and Engineering, and Research and Development. The third major vehicle is a $249 million Data Readiness Artificial Intelligence Development Basic Ordering Agreement with the Office of the Secretary of Defense (through March 10, 2027) supporting the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center. GBL places task orders under multiple Navy vehicles including Seaport Next Generation ($50.5 million delivery order to Naval Air Warfare Center, December 2023, through December 2028) and SeaPort-e (five task orders, $130.2 million combined potential value). Additional vehicle work flows through GSA Schedule GS35F0655K (five task orders) and a $36.5 million portfolio under Basic Ordering Agreement N6833515G0026.

GBL's concrete capability delivery centers on weapons planning systems, mission planning software, and artificial intelligence applications for strike aircraft and multi-domain defense. Representative recent work includes a $1.5 million Air Force definitive contract (December 2024 through December 2027) for weapons planning capabilities development in the Next Generation Open Mission System (NOMS) environment, with potential JMPS legacy-software modification work; a $388 thousand Air Force Research Laboratory SBIR Phase II award (June 2025) for NOMS weapon integration support; and a $50.5 million Naval Air Warfare Center delivery order for C4I and software-intensive systems engineering support under the Central Test and Evaluation Investment Program. Earlier SBIR work includes a $1.5 million Air Force Phase II contract (April 2022) for a Weapons Automated Artificial Intelligence Planner and a $239 thousand Naval Air Warfare Center SBIR Phase I award (July 2023). GBL also holds an active $50 thousand Office of Naval Research Other Transaction Agreement for a Direct-X Seedling Agreement (R&D phase, expired March 2025). The capability portfolio emphasizes systems engineering, artificial intelligence planning, data readiness architecture, and test and evaluation support grounded in DoD acquisition categories and major programs including the Mission Planning System Major Automated Information System.

Activity levels have remained modest and flat — two to four awards per calendar year from 2022 through 2025 — with only one award recorded in the first month of 2026. The combined potential value across all 54 prime and sub awards is $513.2 million, with $145.2 million obligated to date (28% of potential value). Only one award ($1.5 million in ceiling value) faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing minimal near-term recompete exposure. GBL's recent subcontractor activity appears limited to three sub-awards: engineering and technical program management support to Scientific Research Corporation on a Test Resource Management Center recompete (November 2024) and a Test Capability Development program (January 2026), and software development and licensing work to Saalex Corp on Tactical Air Range Integration Facility contractor support (October 2025).

GBL maintains active GSA Schedule labor categories spanning junior-to-senior ranks, with hourly rates from $60.58 (junior analyst/technical specialist with high school education and two years' experience) through $199.62 (senior computer and information research scientist with bachelor's degree and ten years' experience). The rate spectrum reflects a staffing model oriented toward defense-technical roles, with security-clearance requirements across categories and bachelor's-level education thresholds for senior software engineering and research scientist roles. SCI-reported service contract activity is minimal: the vendor shows 1.4 FTEs in FY2024, all in a named subcontractor capacity, indicating that GBL's federal revenue footprint captured in SCI is small relative to its prime-contract ceiling values and reflects work threshold or classification reporting gaps rather than a low-revenue company profile.

Provides full range systems and software engineering services, system/subsystem architecture (DoD architecture framework artifacts) and design, systems integration, test and evaluation studies, automated testing and program management. Expertise supporting the Research Development Test and Evaluation (T&E) Community and Test Resources Management Center's C4I and Software Intensive Systems Test technology area to advance T&E through new technologies. GBL supports Navy and other agencies in warfighter system T&E through infrastructure operations, test planning, execution, and reporting to include interoperability/net-centric (NR-KPPs), information assurance, and cyber security assessments; across a distributed live, virtual, constructive environment. GBL test tools development IAW DoD acquisition cycle. GBL has developed advanced electronic warfare capabilities for unmanned EW payloads, cognitive electronic attack, and reactive electronic attack measures.