Federal contractor · HUNTSVILLE, AL

SYSTEM STUDIES & SIMULATION, INC.

SYSTEM STUDIES & SIMULATION, INC. received $40.6M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 5 awards (+2.8% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $318M. Its largest customer was Department of the Army ($34.5M).

Obligations · FY2026
$40.6M
New awards
5
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
15%
UEI
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Small businessWoman-owned

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 38.3MFY2017
  2. 36MFY2018
  3. 24.4MFY2019
  4. 23.3MFY2020
  5. 27.9MFY2021
  6. 26.1MFY2022
  7. 27.7MFY2023
  8. 34.3MFY2024
  9. 39.5MFY2025
  10. 40.6MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. 3 awards
  2. 1 awards
  3. 1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$34.5M85%
  2. Education & social services$6M15%
  3. Research & development$5000.0%

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition15%
    US 39% · $6M
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions15%
    US 8.8% · $6M
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Largest awards

  1. Department of the Army· Madison County, AL· Professional services· Jun 15, 2023 – Jun 10, 2026· W31P4Q23FD003
  2. Department of the Army· Madison County, AL· Professional services· Mar 7, 2023 – Apr 27, 2026· W31P4Q23FB003
  3. Federal Acquisition Service· Bexar County, TX· Education & social services· Sep 27, 2024 – Sep 10, 2026· 47QFWA24F0015
  4. Department of the Army· Dale County, AL· Professional services· Jul 23, 2020 – Apr 30, 2026· W9124G20F0047
  5. Missile Defense Agency· Madison County, AL· Research & development· Dec 4, 2025 – Jun 4, 2026· HQ085926FF024

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-contracts: $2.5M (5 subawards)

3 primes

  1. RESTON, VA · 2 subawards

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $36.6M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $7.8M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $1.8M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $360.8K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $2.5M received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

9 companies · $49.3M reported

  1. HOUSTON, TX · 1 subaward · Scientific research and development services
  2. HUNTSVILLE, AL · 2 subawards · Architectural, engineering, and related services
  3. ENTERPRISE, AL · 1 subaward · Architectural, engineering, and related services

Showing the top 3 of each list. Open the profile for potential partners and the full lists.

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 5 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. TACTICA SOLUTIONS LLC$96.6M−53% in FY2026
    FAYETTEVILLE, TN · 83% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Scientific research and development services
  2. PEOPLETEC, INC.$118.8M+40% in FY2026
    HUNTSVILLE, AL · 81% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Scientific research and development services
  3. NEANY, INC.$71.8M−67% in FY2026
    CALIFORNIA, MD · 63% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Scientific research and development services

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.