Ampersand Solutions Group Inc.

Ampersand Solutions Group Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, holds prime contracts on major defense research-and-development and systems-engineering vehicles serving the Department of Defense and GSA, structured as a for-profit Subchapter S corporation competing predominantly under full-and-open (non-set-aside) designations.

Ampersand's recent award footprint centers on three anchor IDIQs representing 50 billion dollars in combined ceiling value. The Missile Defense Agency awarded Ampersand a $151 billion multiple-award IDIQ titled Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) on December 29, 2025, supporting research, development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, test and evaluation, and modernization across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid defense domains using artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Work is performed at various locations with initial performance identified in Huntsville, Alabama, and supports both classified and unclassified programs. The Air Force Lifecycle Management Center at Eglin Air Force Base awarded Ampersand an IDIQ on the Eglin Wide Agile Acquisition Contract (EWAAC) vehicle, a $46 billion multiple-award contract running through September 2031 under a Lowest Price Technically Acceptable source-selection method. The Naval Sea Systems Command awarded Ampersand a $4 billion multiple-award SeaPort-NXG IDIQ through January 2029, supporting task orders across Navy system commands including NAVAIR, NAVWAR, and NAVFAC. Ampersand also holds a $24 million GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract (May 2024 through May 2029) covering seven Special Item Numbers spanning engineering, research and development, program management, and cybersecurity and IT services.

The GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 62 unique categories with hourly rates from $59.14 to $292.92 across the five-year term. Entry-level program analysts and junior scientists start around $59–$95 per hour with high school equivalent or bachelor's-level education. Mid-career technical positions (program analysts, project leads) run $124–$157 per hour; senior positions span $186–$212 per hour; subject matter experts reach $292.92 per hour. No security-cleared positions are offered on the schedule, and education requirements scale from high school equivalent through bachelor's degree with experience requirements ranging from zero to thirty years.

Customer concentration clusters around defense and defense research agencies. The top four customers—the Air Force Materiel Command Lifecycle Management Center at Eglin AFB, Naval Sea Systems Command, GSA Federal Acquisition Service, and the Missile Defense Agency—account for 90% of recent awards and collectively represent $50.024 billion in combined potential value. The Air Force EWAAC vehicle and Navy SeaPort-NXG IDIQ dominate the dollar footprint ($46 billion and $4 billion respectively), while Ampersand's two Missile Defense Agency awards carry only $500 in combined ceiling value, indicating initial task-order positioning on a much larger vehicle. Ampersand's top parent vehicles by potential value are the EWAAC IDIQ ($46 billion), SeaPort-NXG ($4 billion), GSA Multiple Award Schedule ($24 million), SHIELD ($151 billion placeholder ceiling), and the Test and Evaluation Technologies for Ranges Armaments and Spectrum vehicle (two task orders, dollar value not specified in source).

Activity has accelerated sharply in 2025, with six awards issued or finalized in that year compared to one per year in 2020, 2022, 2023, and 2024. Combined potential value across all awards sits at $50.024 billion, though obligated dollars to date total only $4.8 million (0% of potential value), reflecting the early-stage, ceiling-limited nature of the vehicle awards and minimum-guarantee delivery orders issued to date.

Ampersand operates as a subcontractor on two technical and engineering service tasks under Intuitive Research and Technology Corporation: cyber threat acquisition for test and evaluation (C-TATE) work (August 2023) and threat systems management office operational test and evaluation services (September 2022). Service Contract Inventory reporting shows minimal SCI-captured activity—two records as a named subcontractor spanning FY2022 and FY2024, representing roughly 2–2.7 FTEs across that window—indicating either that Ampersand's primary federal services work sits above or outside the SCI reporting threshold, or that the vendor concentrates on goods, products, or R&D deliverables rather than labor-intensive service contracts.

Ampersand Solutions Group (AMPERSAND) provides leading technical and engineering services to our Government and Commercial partners.

Our current capabilities include:

Cybersecurity

- Threat Intelligence

- Threat Reconnaissance

- Threat Hunting

- Insider Threat

- Defensive Cyber Operations

- Industrial Control, SCADA, and OT cybersecurity

Software Engineering

- Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V)

- Software Assurance

- Dynamic / Static Testing

- Embedded Systems Software

- Code Analysis

- DevSecOps

IT Architecture and Engineering

- CLASS/UNLCASS Labs

- Risk Management Framework (RMF)

- Vulnerability Management

- Hybrid Multi-Cloud Architecture

Weapon System Support

- Aviation and Missile systems

- Radars

- Software Safety/Airworthiness

Current customers

- US Army DEVCOM AvMC

- US Army Threat Systems Management Office

- PEO Missiles and Space

- PEO Aviation

- Missile Defense Agency