Qualis, LLC

Qualis, LLC, a Huntsville, Alabama-based limited liability company, operates as a prime contractor on defense and federal agency test, engineering, and systems analysis work, with significant exposure to the Missile Defense Agency and Army test commands. The vendor holds a multi-billion-dollar-ceiling IDIQ with the Missile Defense Agency (SHIELD program, awarded December 2025) and seats on the OASIS+ Small Business and OASIS Small Business vehicles alongside single-award vehicles with Army and Air Force test centers. Qualis competes predominantly in small-business set-asides (Total Small Business across OASIS SB and OASIS+ SB) and full-and-open competitions; recent IDV awards include a Woman-Owned Small Business OASIS+ vehicle award (since cancelled) and unrestricted full-and-open defense IDIQs and BPAs. The company also operates through three named subsidiaries: Bonham Technologies, Inc. (minority-owned, woman-owned small business), Intrack Radar Technologies, Inc., and Tektonux LLC.

Qualis delivers test documentation support, systems engineering, technical advisory services, and analytical expertise in space and missile defense domains. Representative prime work includes a $19.4 million ceiling delivery order with Army Test and Evaluation Command for test documentation support services at Dugway, Utah (OASIS SB, through December 2026), an $8.7 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order with Air Force Space Command's 4th Test & Evaluation Squadron for test and evaluation analytical, engineering, cyber, and space support (OASIS SB, awarded July 2023 and completed January 2026), and a $4.275 million delivery order with the Air Force for Space Based Missile Warning program support in El Segundo, California (AFOTEC Test Services vehicle, completed August 2025). The recent SHIELD IDIQ award carries potential for multi-domain defense system capabilities spanning research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, test and evaluation, and cybersecurity across multiple classification levels.

Customer concentration centers on the Missile Defense Agency (71 awards, though representing only $1.9 million combined potential value across numerous small subs) and the Army Materiel Command, which anchors the footprint with 6 awards carrying $1.15 billion combined potential value. When ranked by dollar exposure, the Army Materiel Command Contracting Command Detroit Arsenal dominates with $1.15 billion, followed by Air Force Materiel Command Test Center ($170.5 million across 4 awards), GSA Federal Acquisition Service ($57.2 million across 5 awards), and the broader Department of the Air Force ($42.6 million across 5 awards). The Missile Defense Agency concentration by award count reflects the vendor's deep subcontractor engagement beneath Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation on ballistic missile defense simulation and positioning, navigation, and timing resiliency work, alongside subs to Science Applications International Corporation, Radiance Technologies, and Intuitive Research and Technology Corporation on Army space and missile defense initiatives.

Qualis operates as a subcontractor on two-thirds of recent awards (83 of 125 total). Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation is the dominant prime, with Qualis subcontracted on dozens of task orders supporting ballistic missile defense international simulation, missile defense space warning tools, and threat modeling center software engineering services. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, Qualis averages 18% sub-hours, drawing on two named subcontractors for Army space and test support. Sub engagement with Radiance Technologies covers space and missile defense command system engineering support and program directorate development. Qualis subs to SAIC on Army system software lifecycle engineering, to Booz Allen Hamilton on Air Force nuclear weapons enterprise research and analysis, to HII Mission Technologies on Missile Defense Agency technical support, to Intuitive Research and Technology on Army DEVCOM Aviation and Missile Center STRIKE project support, and to CQ JV on Air Force Test Center technical management and advisory services.

Vehicle position is dominated by an unrestricted full-and-open Indefinite Delivery Contract (HQ014718D0005, 67 task orders) with Army Materiel Command, which carries the $1.15 billion concentration. Qualis also places task orders under OASIS Small Business (15 task orders, $56.7 million combined potential value), the AFOTEC Test Services IDIQ (6 task orders, $43 million), Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Services 2012–2017 (5 task orders, $19.7 million), and the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (3 task orders, $559 thousand). The recent OASIS+ Small Business IDIQ award (December 2024, ceiling no dollar specified, through December 2029) and OASIS+ Woman-Owned Small Business award (now cancelled, September 2024) expand addressable space across management, advisory, technical, engineering, and research domains; no recent task order activity is shown under these vehicles.

SCI-reported invoicing shows $14.5 million across prime records in FY2022–FY2024 (FY2022: $8 million, FY2023: $3.3 million, FY2024: $3.3 million), with the SCI dataset capturing only 5 of Qualis' 42 prime awards and 9 named-subcontractor records. On federal service contracts reported in SCI, government-paid hourly rates run median around $99.33/hr, with 10th percentile at $50.41/hr and 90th percentile reaching $143.57/hr. The SCI trajectory shows workforce scaling from 132 FTEs across three prime records in FY2022 to 17.8 FTEs in FY2023, then recovering to 100 FTEs in FY2024 across one prime and four subcontractor records, reflecting task order timing and labor mix variation rather than sustained staffing levels. Activity has accelerated sharply in recent years (2 awards in 2022 to 50 in 2025) driven by subcontractor volume beneath tier-one primes; only one award (the Army test documentation support order) faces ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, carrying $19.4 million recompete exposure.

Engineering, Aerothermodynamics, Thermal Analysis, Exhaust Plumes, Structures, Propulsion, Instrumentation, Launch Vehicle Systems Eng, Materials Testing, Weapons Design and Support, Software Eng. - Simulation, Digital Video, Program Support