Michigan Engineering Services LLC

Michigan Engineering Services LLC, a woman-owned small business based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, operates as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards) delivering specialized engineering simulation software, finite element analysis tools, and research and development services to the Department of the Navy, the Department of Homeland Security, and NASA. The vendor competes predominantly under total small business set-asides on SBIR programs and holds proprietary software products that anchor sole-source relationships with Navy customers.

The vendor's customer concentration reflects a heavy Navy orientation. The top five funding agencies account for 86% of combined potential value across all awards, led by the Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research (11 awards, $9 million combined potential value), the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate (4 awards, $2.9 million), the Department of the Army's Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command (2 awards, $1.1 million), the Department of the Air Force's Materiel Command Research Laboratory (3 awards, $949 thousand), and NASA's Langley Research Center (3 awards, $899 thousand). The Navy dominates both award volume and dollars — ONR alone represents roughly 52% of the combined potential-value footprint. Representative prime work includes a $1.999 million ONR SBIR Phase II definitive contract awarded August 26, 2025, for development of an Intelligent Assistant for Ship Design (IASD) targeting hull forms of autonomous vessels with integrated producibility considerations, completion targeted for August 25, 2029; a $999.8 thousand DHS Science and Technology Directorate SBIR Phase II definitive contract awarded March 31, 2025, for Data Labeling and Curation at Scale for Machine Learning Algorithms through March 31, 2027; and recurring purchase orders for Energy Finite Element Analysis (EFEA) software technical support to Naval Sea Systems Command (the most recent on June 11, 2026, for $49.8 thousand, concluding December 31, 2026).

The vendor's award portfolio, grounded in physical and engineering sciences research and development, carries 47 total awards across 16 distinct customer agencies spanning the past two decades. Primary NAICS concentration sits in Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (33 of 47 awards), with secondary exposure in Custom Computer Programming Services and Scientific and Technical Consulting. Awards have been sparse in recent fiscal years — one award in 2024, two in 2025, and one in 2026 — and two awards (combined potential value $1 million) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, generating modest recompete exposure. The vendor operates on the One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services vehicle with one recorded task order. SCI-reportable invoicing totaled $562 thousand across FY2022 and FY2025 (the only years with SCI records in the source), with government-paid median hourly rates running $90.68/hr on prime service contracts. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor deployed 0% subcontractor hours, building its own delivery teams. One recorded sub award places Michigan Engineering Services under Booz Allen Hamilton on an Engineering Research and Development Services task order dated February 23, 2023. The vendor's core capability footprint centers on finite element analysis, computational modeling, augmented reality application development, and intelligent design assistant software tailored to Navy advanced-vessel design and maritime technology challenges, with secondary exposure to DHS-sponsored machine learning data curation and FEMA wildfire mitigation applications.

Research and development and software products in the areas of structural-acoustics, decision making, and blast simulations.