Qtec, Inc.

Qtec, Inc., doing business as Qtec Aerospace, is an SBA-certified Women-Owned Small Business headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama that operates as both a prime contractor (24% of recent awards) and predominantly as a subcontractor (76%) on defense and aerospace engineering contracts, with recent prime work concentrated on two major government-wide vehicles: a $151 billion Missile Defense Agency SHIELD IDIQ awarded December 29, 2025, and a WOSB-set-aside OASIS+ IDIQ with GSA Federal Acquisition Service.

Qtec's federal footprint has shifted sharply toward subcontracting relationships with Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation over the past two years. The vendor holds a deep bench of sub-awards across Northrop Grumman's Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS) hardware production, Ballistic Missile Defense International Simulation (BMD I-SIM) software development and sustainment, and Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) engineering and manufacturing development programs, with the bulk of sub-awards dating from 2024 forward. Across prime contracts, Qtec has delivered condition-based maintenance plus (CBM+) and health and usage monitoring (HUMS) engineering support to the Air Force's Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex for rotary-wing aircraft platforms—a $2.5 million delivery order in June 2025 under Total Small Business set-aside for Special Operations Forces/Personnel Recovery and Rotary Wing System Program Office support, alongside earlier awards of $2.2 million (June 2024) and $2.0 million (May 2023), all structured as cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery orders.

Customer concentration by award count skews heavily toward Army acquisition: the Department of the Army Acquisition Support Center PEO Missiles and Space accounts for 51 of 123 total awards, while the DOD Missile Defense Agency (44 awards, $14.8 million combined potential value) anchors the dollar rankings alongside GSA Federal Acquisition Service ($28.1 million across 3 awards, driven by the OASIS+ and SHIELD vehicles). The Air Force Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex contributes $14.6 million across 3 awards. This divergence—high Army volume, high MDA and GSA dollars—signals reliance on small subcontracts under Army-executed IDIQs and concentrated large-ceiling prime vehicles with civilian procurement offices.

Qtec's prime vehicle position comprises the newly awarded SHIELD IDIQ ($151 billion ceiling, December 29, 2025, full and open competition with an initial $500 delivery order issued the same day), the OASIS+ WOSB IDIQ (multi-award, $999,999,999,999 placeholder ceiling, September 30, 2024 through September 29, 2029), a single-award $10.3 million CBM+/HUMS IDIQ with Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex running through May 2028, and a GSA Multiple Award Schedule vehicle (24 months through July 2027, $23 million ceiling) offering 19 labor categories spanning entry-level engineering interns at $40.38/hour to senior specialists at $237.92/hour with no security-cleared roles. Task orders against Army and other service IDIQs dominate the sub-award count: 45 task orders under an Army Indefinite Delivery Contract (W31P4Q22D0004) and 28 under another (HQ014718D0005), with 12 task orders under the GSA MAS contributing $5.7 million.

Activity trajectory shows sharp growth in 2025 (64 awards) relative to prior years, driven primarily by Northrop Grumman sub-award issuance; prior-year totals ranged from 2 to 20 awards annually since 2022. SCI reporting captures minimal service-contract activity—only 2 records as a named subcontractor in FY2022, representing 2.8 FTEs—indicating that the bulk of Qtec's federal revenue flows through prime IDIQs, delivery orders, and subcontracts above or outside the $150,000 SCI reporting threshold or in classified work.

The vendor's capability profile centers on systems engineering, logistics support, data analytics, and specialized technical consulting for defense aerospace platforms, with particular depth in rotary-wing aircraft health monitoring and condition-based maintenance for Special Operations and air logistics complexes. Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing dominates the category coding (52 awards), followed by Custom Computer Programming Services (28 awards) and R&D in physical and engineering sciences (18 awards), reflecting the IBCS, BMD I-SIM, and GBSD technical labor Qtec provides to Northrop Grumman. The SHIELD IDIQ's scope encompasses research and development, advanced prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, test and evaluation, and cybersecurity across air, missile, space, and cyber domains through 2035, positioning Qtec as a potential prime on high-value Missile Defense Agency task orders if leveraged beyond the initial $500 order.

QTEC provides Program/Project Management

Systems, Organization and Business Improvement Services; Professional/Systems and Engineering Services; Quality and Risk Management.