Synthetaic, Inc.

Synthetaic, Inc., doing business as Raic Labs, is a for-profit small business based in Delafield, Wisconsin that develops artificial intelligence and machine learning platforms for automated image analysis and target recognition, operating as a prime contractor on Department of Defense research and development programs (69% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor on defense engineering and modeling work. The vendor competes full and open; recent awards carry no set-aside designations across the prime footprint, though the company has historically received Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) phase awards reserved for small businesses.

Synthetaic's core capability is the Rapid Automatic Image Categorization (RAIC) platform, an automated AI system for categorizing and analyzing large imagery datasets. Representative prime work includes a $1.79 million firm fixed-price contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop an automated process for detecting potential launch activity at fixed, mobile, and sea-based launch sites (award date June 2025, completion June 2027); a $749,751 SBIR Phase II award from the Air Force Research Laboratory for rapid automated imagery categorization and automatic target recognition using next-generation AI automation (March 2022 through June 2023); and a $150,000 SBIR Phase I contract from the Strategic Capabilities Office for visual data AI and machine learning capabilities (September 2024). The vendor also supplies the RAIC platform under smaller purchase orders, including a $24,999 Naval Air Warfare Center order for cloud-based RAIC platform services to the SAFARI ATD Lab and a $50,000 Air National Guard order supporting the Joint Assistant Deployment Operations (JADO) program.

Most recently, the Missile Defense Agency awarded Synthetaic a multiple-award IDIQ contract under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling of $151 billion and ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. An initial delivery order valued at $500 issued the same day; the vehicle procures research, development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, test and evaluation, and modernization across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid defense domains, with place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama.

Customer concentration is heavily Defense-oriented. The Air Force Research Laboratory leads on both award count and potential value (3 awards, $2.6 million), followed by the Office of the Secretary of Defense (4 awards, $150 thousand). These two customers account for roughly 85% of recent awards by count and 100% of combined potential value by the portfolio metric. The Department of the Army, Department of the Navy, and Air National Guard account for the remaining smaller awards. Synthetaic also subcontracts to Parsons Government Services Inc. (multiple task order modifications on services work, October 2024) and CACI Technologies LLC (modeling and simulation, analysis, engineering, and networking support under a five-year task order, August 2025).

Recent activity has accelerated from one award in 2021 to five in 2024 and four in 2025. One award (the $1.79 million Air Force Research Laboratory contract) reaches ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and faces recompete exposure. The vendor holds positions on One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (3 task orders), Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services (1 task order), and the SHIELD IDIQ (1 task order). NAICS coding clusters the vendor in research and development in physical, engineering, and life sciences (9 awards) and engineering services (3 awards), with primary PSC coding in national defense R&D and applied research.

At RAIC Labs, formerly Synthetaic, we know that AI is difficult to build, deploy and maintain. Synthetaic grows high quality data that unlocks impossible AI. We work with leading organizations and companies to accelerate insights from multidimensional data.