Grey Matters Defense Solutions, LLC

Grey Matters Defense Solutions, LLC, a minority-owned, veteran-owned small disadvantaged business based in Centennial, Colorado, operates as a prime contractor on defense research and development, systems engineering, and multi-domain defense programs awarded by the Missile Defense Agency, Navy, and Air Force, with secondary subcontractor activity under major defense primes. The company competes predominantly in full-and-open procurements rather than set-asides, though it holds an 8(a) certification and participates in the 8(a) STARS III GWAC.

Grey Matters' recent activity shows dramatic growth in vehicle awards, climbing from one prime award in 2022 to seven in 2025. The company holds three strategic vehicle positions: a $151 billion multiple-award indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract with the Missile Defense Agency under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program (awarded December 29, 2025, with ultimate completion December 28, 2035); an 8(a) STARS III GWAC with the General Services Administration (awarded February 23, 2022, expiring July 1, 2026); and an Other Transaction vehicle with Naval Sea Systems Command valued at $45.8 million (awarded September 17, 2021). The SHIELD contract, while carrying a multi-billion-dollar ceiling and ten-year scope, has issued only an initial delivery order valued at five hundred dollars as of the source date. Task orders flow primarily through the company's SHIELD vehicle, though the source indicates three additional task orders under a multiple-award schedule and one under an Air Force OT vehicle.

Customer concentration sits heavily with defense. The top five customers by award count (DOD Missile Defense Agency, Department of the Air Force Defense Finance and Accounting Service, GSA Federal Acquisition Service, Naval Sea Systems Command, and Department of the Air Force) account for 81% of awards. However, the dollar rankings diverge sharply from volume: the GSA's single STARS III GWAC award ($50 billion ceiling) dominates potential value at 100% of combined awards, while the Missile Defense Agency's seven awards carry only five hundred dollars in combined potential value — reflecting the SHIELD vehicle's status as a contracting framework with minimal task-order takedown to date. Navy and Air Force R&D work anchors the remaining billion-dollar exposure.

Capability framing centers on integrated defense R&D, systems engineering, prototyping, and production for multi-domain defense systems. The SHIELD contract procures research and development, ballistic missile defense, hypersonic and cruise missile intercept capabilities, weapon system design, test and evaluation, cybersecurity enhancements, digital engineering, artificial intelligence and machine learning integration, and open systems architecture implementation. Ancillary work includes software development labor to Northrop Grumman (five awards, July 2025) under a custom computer programming services vehicle, logistics and services support to KBR Wyle Services (three awards, October 2023–November 2024), and Bold Venture Services delivery to Parsons Government Services (April 2026). The company's service contract inventory (SCI) footprint is minimal: one SCI record registered in FY2022 as a named subcontractor, with no FTE workforce reported in that data stream — indicating that most of Grey Matters' federal revenue flows through fixed-price R&D and vehicle contracts not captured in SCI's service-labor reporting.

Recompete exposure is limited. The 8(a) STARS III GWAC expires July 1, 2026, representing potential recompete in the next twelve months. The SHIELD vehicle runs through December 2035 and anchors the company's vehicle strategy going forward. The company's sub engagement places it beneath Northrop Grumman and KBR Wyle Services as a software development and services provider, with at least nine subcontract awards across the recent footprint. Teaming strategy emphasizes vehicle participation as a prime rather than feeder-sub model; the 56% sub-award share in the portfolio reflects short-term sub work rather than a structural dependence on prime relationships.

Grey Matters Defense Solutions, LLC is a small business focused on applied intelligence subject matter expertise, software development, and custom big data analytics for the intelligence community, Department of Defense, and national agencies. We are leaders in innovation and we strive to provide surgical solutions to the most challenging strategic defense and intelligence problems. Grey Matters provides subject matter expert level capabilities in the following areas:

Operational Intelligence

Electronic Warfare

SIGINT

Space Control

Special Technical Operations

Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks

Custom Software Development