Gird Systems Inc.

Gird Systems Inc., a small business defense contractor headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, operates primarily as a prime contractor (97% of awards) delivering signal processing, communications, electronic warfare, and advanced networking research and development to the Department of Defense, with recent work spanning SBIR Phase I through Phase III efforts and multiple indefinite delivery vehicles. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation that competes across full-and-open and small-business set-aside designations, with a portfolio skewed heavily toward total small business set-asides across SBIR programs.

Gird Systems holds a formidable position on six major indefinite delivery vehicles anchoring over $51.8 billion in combined potential value. The largest by ceiling is the recently awarded Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award IDIQ from the Missile Defense Agency ($151 billion, December 2025 through December 2035), followed by the Eglin Wide Agile Acquisition Contract (EWAAC) with the Air Force ($46 billion through September 2031), a $4 billion SeaPort Next Generation (SeaPort-NXG) multiple-award contract with Naval Sea Systems Command (through January 2029), a $982.1 million Unmanned Surface Vehicle Family of Systems (USV FoS) multiple-award contract with Naval Sea Systems Command (through April 2029), a $900 million Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC/XA) multiple-award IDIQ (through November 2027), and a single-award SBIR Phase III Basic Ordering Agreement with Naval Air Warfare Center (through November 2029). Representation on these vehicles is recent; the SHIELD contract and SeaPort-NXG seats were awarded in late 2024 and early 2025, placing Gird Systems in position to compete for task orders across Navy and Air Force research, development, and rapid prototyping requirements.

Customer concentration tracks across Navy warfare systems development and Air Force test and evaluation. The top five customer elements by award count account for 61% of awards: Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (18 awards, $13 million combined potential value), Naval Air Warfare Center (11 awards, $6.2 million), Naval Sea Systems Command (11 awards, $4.99 billion), Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory (11 awards, $2.3 million), and Army Materiel Command Aberdeen Proving Ground (7 awards, $2.2 million). By dollar value, the rankings diverge sharply: Air Force AFLCMC Eglin (1 award, $46 billion ceiling from EWAAC) and Naval Sea Systems Command ($4.99 billion across 11 awards) dominate, reflecting ceiling values on the IDVs rather than task order volume. Nearly 65% of the combined potential value is vehicle ceiling value; actual obligated dollars total $51 million across the portfolio.

Recent representative prime work spans SBIR Phase I through Phase II.5 awards: a $246,339 Phase I definitive contract with Naval Air Warfare Center (SBIR, awarded September 2025, through July 2026) on signal processing research; a $2.019 million Phase II definitive contract with Missile Defense Agency (awarded July 2025, through July 2027) on passive sensing for distributed radars with cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing; two $1.999 million cost-plus-fixed-fee Phase II contracts with Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (September 2024, through January and March 2027); a $1.999 million Phase II Army contract (September 2024, through September 2026) on continuous-time digital signal processing using reconfigurable devices; a $1.7 million Naval Sea Systems Command cost-plus-fixed-fee research and development contract (March 2023, through September 2026); and a $1.499 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order with Naval Air Warfare Center under the SBIR Phase III BOA (awarded February 2026, through February 2028). Award trajectory shows growth from three awards in 2022 to eleven in 2024, with six awards in 2025 and one award to date in 2026.

The recompete cliff presents nine awards completing within the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $18.1 million), representing primarily Phase I and Phase II SBIR awards reaching contract end dates rather than vehicle-ceiling expiration.

Gird Systems serves as a subcontractor on three named defense primes: Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (two sub-awards in 2024 on Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet—DEUCSI—engineering services and multi-band satellite communications experiments) and Leidos (one sub-award in March–September 2024 on Multi-Domain Radar in a Contested Environment—MUDRACE—procured goods and services). The subcontract footprint is minimal relative to prime work. Primary NAICS coding concentrates on research and development in the physical, engineering, and life sciences (40 awards), with secondary emphasis on engineering services and professional scientific services. Top PSCs align with defense R&D classifications (electronics/communications equipment, applied research and exploratory development, experimental development, and national defense R&D services).

GIRD Systems, Inc. specializes in research and development of communications and digital signal processing systems and software/hardware components. Two strong R&D components of the company are interference mitigation and geolocation technologies.