Stonewall Defense LLC

Stonewall Defense LLC, doing business as Certus Innovations, operates as a prime contractor on federal defense research, development, and integration programs, holding a veteran-owned small disadvantaged business designation and competing predominantly under total small business set-asides and full-and-open mechanisms. The Troy, New York–based limited liability company generated $103.2 million in combined potential value across 30 awards in recent years, with 80% as prime contracts and 20% as subcontractor work.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on research and development, systems integration, and operational logistics optimization for defense applications. Representative prime work includes a $36.6 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Electronic Systems Center for the Defender Mobile Situational Awareness Tool (DMSAT)—a tactical communications and situational awareness platform—awarded September 26, 2025 and extending through September 2030, with four task orders issued to date totaling $25.6 million for back-end support, implementation, help desk operations, and deployment provisioning. A $25 million Small Business Innovation Research Phase III IDV with Air Mobility Command (established December 2022, extending through December 2027) funds the Rapid Execution for Aerial Port Efficiencies and Readiness (REAPER) program; seven delivery orders against this vehicle total $6.2 million and address aerial port operations optimization, logistics systems advancement, and related research across Air Force commands and the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Additional work includes a $1.76 million SBIR Phase II contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory for Tactical Employment of Audio with Mobile Machine Learning (TEAM-ML), a $2.02 million Air Force Research Laboratory contract for the Accelerating Predictive Operational Logistics via Learning and Optimization (APOLLO) program, and a $2.54 million firm fixed-price delivery order from the Office of the Secretary of Defense (awarded March 12, 2026) for Remote Awareness Control Kit (RACK) aerial port and airfield protection capabilities in agile combat environments.

On December 29, 2025, the Missile Defense Agency awarded Stonewall Defense a multiple-award IDIQ under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, a multi-billion-dollar vehicle spanning research, development, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity modernization, and protection against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats; performance extends through December 28, 2035, with an initial delivery order of $500 issued the same date.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to Air Force entities. The Electronic Systems Center (8 awards, $62.9 million) and Air Force Headquarters District Washington (3 awards, $25 million) together account for 83% of awards by count and 99% of combined potential value. The Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory (9 awards, $9.5 million), the Office of the Secretary of Defense (3 awards, $4.4 million), and the Air Education and Training Command (1 award, $729 thousand) complete the customer base. The split between two top customers reflects distinct vehicle types: Electronic Systems Center awards are nearly all DMSAT BPA calls issued since late 2025, while District Washington awards represent the older Air Mobility Command SBIR Phase III IDV with delivery orders spanning 2022–2026.

Stonewall Defense holds positions on five parent vehicles: the DMSAT Blanket Purchase Agreement (4 task orders, $25.6 million), the Air Mobility Command SBIR Phase III IDV (9 task orders, $9.3 million), the SHIELD IDIQ (1 initial delivery order, $500), and single task orders on Alliant II and Network-Centric Solutions II. The vendor also maintains a $500,000 multiple-award GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract (awarded October 4, 2022, extending through October 3, 2027) offering IT professional services, software development, and research and development roles under nine labor categories priced from $98.03 to $141.18 per hour, requiring bachelor's degrees (or master's for specialized roles) with three to five years of experience and no security clearances.

Activity has accelerated significantly: one award in 2022, three in 2023, four in 2024, twelve in 2025, and four through March 2026. Only three awards (combined potential value $4.9 million) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting limited near-term recompete exposure. The vendor's recent contract work spans research and development in physical, engineering, and life sciences (11 awards), custom computer programming services (10 awards), and other computer-related services (5 awards).

On the subcontractor side, Stonewall Defense works under Booz Allen Hamilton on AFRL SHADOW RAPTOR software and cloud engineering (February 2026), NIMBUS intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance (July 2025), and ISR FIORE information technology services (August 2024), as well as under RTX BBN Technologies on Learning in Agile Networks with TAK Enabled Robust Nodes (April 2023 and November 2024). The Service Contract Inventory dataset records minimal activity—0.8 FTEs on a single named-subcontractor record in FY2024—reflecting the vendor's primary orientation toward fixed-price research and development contracts rather than labor-hour service vehicles above the $150,000 reporting threshold.

Technology firm providing service and support, and R&D to Federal and non-Federal agencies and entities.