Systems Technology, Inc.

Systems Technology, Inc., doing business as STI, is a small-business manufacturer and prime contractor (100% of recent awards) that designs and delivers advanced parachute and vehicle dynamics simulators, flight-test equipment, and aerospace engineering solutions to the Department of Defense, NASA, and other federal agencies. The Hawthorne, California–based for-profit Subchapter S corporation competes full-and-open across its portfolio, with no SBA set-aside designations; over the past five years, the company has shifted from a volume-based training-aids and simulation-device footprint toward research and development work, particularly in autonomous vehicle certification and advanced air mobility.

STI's customer concentration spans defense and aerospace agencies. By award count, the Department of the Air Force leads with 98 awards ($2.2 million combined potential value), followed by the Department of the Army (53 awards, $1.4 million), the Department of the Navy (37 awards, $57 thousand), NASA Shared Services Center (36 awards, $10.9 million), and U.S. Special Operations Command (35 awards, $15.3 million) — together accounting for 42% of recent awards. By potential value, however, the Naval Air Warfare Center anchors the portfolio with 27 awards valued at $16.5 million combined, followed by USSOCOM (35 awards, $15.3 million), NASA Shared Services Center (36 awards, $10.9 million), the Office of Naval Research (7 awards, $7.9 million), and Air Mobility Command (9 awards, $4.6 million). The divergence reflects STI's shift toward higher-value research awards: Naval Air Warfare Center and ONR fund SBIR Phase II and Phase II.5 contracts at $1.5 million to $1.8 million each, while Air Force and Army orders on the GSA Schedule run $25,000 to under $400,000 per task order.

STI operates primarily through two parent vehicles: the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (254 task orders, $32.5 million combined potential value through December 2026) and a $5.28 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with U.S. Special Operations Command for parachute-simulator lifecycle support through June 2030. The GSA MAS vehicle, renewed in December 2021, supports delivery orders across Air Force, Army, Navy, and Special Operations Command for PARASIM parachute simulators (emergency egress, static line, and military freefall configurations) and STISIM Drive vehicle dynamics simulators, with order values ranging from $4,990 to $994,776. Recent GSA-derived work includes a $994,776 PARASIM Version 7.5 upgrade to Air Combat Command (September 2024), a $238,406 annual preventive-maintenance contract with Global Strike Command extending through January 2031 (February 2026), and a $176,914 PARASIM Version 8 upgrade to Air Combat Command (May 2026).

Research and development work forms STI's highest-value segment. STI has received multiple NASA SBIR Phase I and Phase II awards valued at $150,000 to $999,911 for autonomous vehicle certification methodologies, flight-test approaches, and multi-objective decision-making algorithms for advanced air mobility. Representative awards include a $999,911 NASA SBIR Phase II contract (May 2022) for certification means of compliance for advanced air mobility with increasing autonomy (completion June 2026), two NASA SBIR Phase II awards in August 2024 — one for $849,803 on certification and safety of in-flight decision-making algorithms and one for $849,929 on flight-test methodology for autonomous vehicles (both completing January 2027) — and a $1.397 million Air Force Research Laboratory contract (September 2025) for the Micro Variable In-Flight Simulation Test Aircraft (UVISTA) program. Naval Air Warfare Center SBIR Phase II work includes a $1.787 million definitive contract (June 2024) for advanced air mobility and flight-dynamics research and a $1.551 million SBIR Phase II.5 contract (April 2024) on unspecified research and development, both cost-plus-fixed-fee. STI also holds a $3.254 million Office of Naval Research SBIR Phase II contract (January 2024) under Topic N132-133 with completion through January 2029.

Activity has remained relatively flat year-to-year: 13 awards in 2022, 13 in 2023, 18 in 2024, declining to 7 in 2025 and 3 in 2026 through late September. This downturn reflects the cyclical nature of SBIR funding and delivery-order issuance; seven awards with combined potential value of $5.5 million reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete exposure concentrated in USSOCOM BPA calls and Air Force GSA Schedule orders. STI's category concentration shows 246 awards coded to Computer Training and 59 to Research and Development in Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (excluding biotechnology), with top PSC categories covering Training Aids (82 awards), Operation Training Devices (60 awards), and Education/Training Development (52 awards), alongside Space R&D Services (49 awards) and Information Technology Software (35 awards). The Service Contract Inventory dataset records zero invoiced revenue and zero FTEs across FY2022–FY2025, indicating that STI's federal work is dominated by product sales, research deliverables, and capital equipment rather than time-and-materials labor contracts above the $150,000 SCI threshold.

STI operates as a sole prime on its R&D programs with minimal subcontractor footprint and holds one documented sub-award as a named subcontractor to Asrc Federal Gulf State Constructors LLC on a base operations support contract at Vance Air Force Base (September 2024). The company also acts as a sub-recipient under a NOAA grant (via The Research Foundation for the State University of New York) on the BREEZE bioinspired ray project (November 2024) and leads a team with Bolder Flight Systems Inc. on a NOAA grant for the Firefighter Integrated Reporting System and Transponder (FIRST) wildfire situational-awareness platform (August 2025 through May 2026), demonstrating capability in emergency-response command-and-control systems alongside core aerospace simulation.