Shine Systems, LLC

Shine Systems, LLC, an SBA-certified HUBZone firm based in Luray, Virginia, operates as a prime contractor (83% of recent awards) and subcontractor on federal IT and defense modernization programs, competing predominantly in full-and-open solicitations without set-aside restrictions. The vendor is a sole-proprietorship limited-liability company structured for federal contracting across IT services, engineering, and defense-related R&D work.

Shine Systems holds a seat on the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) indefinite-delivery contract issued by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025. This multiple-award IDIQ carries a $151 billion ceiling with performance extending through December 28, 2035, designed to support multi-domain homeland defense capabilities including research and development, systems engineering, weapon design, test and evaluation, and cybersecurity modernization. The initial delivery order under SHIELD is valued at $500. The contract is structured to permit full and open task-order competition across classified and unclassified work, with individual orders potentially spanning multiple NAICS codes and security classification levels. Work areas emphasize artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures for detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats.

Beyond SHIELD, Shine Systems' customer concentration is distributed across defense and civilian agencies. The top five funding entities by award count account for 75% of recent awards: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (6 awards, $9.2 million combined potential value), the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command (6 awards, $1 thousand combined potential value), GSA Federal Acquisition Service (2 awards, $25.5 million combined potential value), the Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command (2 awards, $10.6 million combined potential value), and the Missile Defense Agency (2 awards, $500 combined potential value). However, the dollar rankings differ markedly. By combined potential value, United States Special Operations Command dominates with $450 million across 2 awards — likely reflecting large prototype or development contract vehicles — followed by GSA Federal Acquisition Service ($25.5 million), the Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command ($10.6 million), Immigration and Customs Enforcement ($9.2 million), and the Department of the Army Intelligence and Security Command ($3.7 million). This concentration reflects Shine Systems' participation on multiple vehicle types: the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (9 task orders, $23.4 million combined potential value), Information Technology Schedule 70 (4 task orders, $1.2 million combined potential value), and a single-award Navy IDIQ (2 task orders).

Recent capability work is distributed across custom computer programming services (9 awards), engineering services (6 awards), and administrative and management consulting (4 awards). Concrete examples include a subcontract under Booz Allen Hamilton on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Data Modernization Accelerator for CDC, where Shine Systems provides software development, configuration management, systems engineering, and system administration; field service engineer support and software solution licenses under Palantir USG on an Army capability development effort; and general services support under Leidos on trainer and related operational tasks.

Activity has accelerated recently — two awards in 2018, four in 2019, then a gap through 2020 before resuming with one award each in 2021 and 2024, followed by five awards in 2025. Combined potential value across all 24 awards totals $502.7 million, though only $22.6 million (4%) has been obligated to date, reflecting the concentration of ceiling value in the newly awarded SHIELD vehicle. In its subcontractor role, Shine Systems subs to Leidos, Booz Allen Hamilton, and Palantir USG on defense and civilian IT modernization work.

On GSA Schedule labor, Shine Systems offers 26 active categories spanning $44.79 to $260.14 per hour, from Program Support I roles (high school education, no clearance) through Subject Matter Expert positions (master's degree, 10 years experience, no clearance). SCI-reported invoicing on prime federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $3.2 million across FY2022–FY2024 ($1.6 million in FY2022, $1.4 million in FY2023, $171 thousand in FY2024), reflecting a contracting footprint that skews toward larger vehicles and ceiling values rather than small service orders. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts ranged from $36.16 per hour at the 10th percentile to a median of $109.65 per hour and $159.92 per hour at the 90th percentile. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors accounted for an average 38% of total contractor hours, with five named subcontractors reported.

SHINE provides analytical and technical services to the federal, state, and local government, as well as to educational institutions and private industry. We combine people, processes, and technologies to solve problems and enhance our customers' mission success.

In addition to supporting DHS and DoD customers across the U.S., our employees support DoD and commercial customers in Germany, Korea, Japan, Turkey, Bahrain, Djibouti, Jordan, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Our core competencies include Intelligence Community systems and operations, Military Intelligence Technical and Analytical Support, Identity Intelligence, Security, Training, Information Technology (systems and software engineering), Workflow/Business Process Engineering, Program Management, Software Product Engineering, and Intellectual Property (IP) Assessment and Management.