SETAC (System Engineering and Technical Assistance Contract) is an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) Task Order contract using Fixed-Price Labor Categories.  The purpose of the contract is to procure systems engineering and technical assistance to the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/U.S. Army Forces Strategic Command (USSMDC/ARSTRAT).

Users include the Program Executive Office - Missiles and Space (PEO-MS), the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense Joint Project Office (GMD JPO) and other related US, air, space and missile defense organizations.  

SMDC/ARSTRAT manages the Army's research and development effort, advances the technologies of ballistic missile defense, air and space technology, and provides a system technology base for a range of future defense applications.

These programs revolve around ten major functions:

1.      Requirements Definition, Integration, and Planning

2.      Technology Development, System Development, Assessment, & Validation

3.      Threat Estimation/Projections

4.      Weapons Lethality and Effects Estimation

5.      Modeling, Simulation, and Interfacing

6.      Program/Project Analysis, Evaluation, Experimentation, and Support

7.      Production and Fielding Support

8.      Homeland Defense and Homeland Security

9.      Warfighter Support

10.  Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear