Coact Inc.

Coact Inc., a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) based in Columbia, Maryland, operates primarily as a subcontractor (58% of recent awards) delivering missile defense systems engineering, simulation software development, and facilities support services to the Department of Defense and civilian agencies. The vendor holds SBA Certified Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business and Veteran-Owned Small Business certifications expiring October 2027, competing predominantly in full-and-open procurements without set-aside restrictions on its major prime vehicles.

Coact's recent activity centers on two large prime IDIQs awarded in late 2025: the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program through the Missile Defense Agency, a multi-billion-dollar multiple-award IDIQ with a $151 billion ceiling and performance through December 2035 focusing on research, development, prototyping, systems engineering, and test and evaluation for advanced air-and-missile defense; and the Seaport Next Generation (Seaport-NXG) multiple-award vehicle through Naval Sea Systems Command, carrying a $4 billion ceiling through January 2029 and designated for facilities support services (NAICS 541330). Both IDIQs were awarded on a full-and-open basis with no small business set-asides. An initial $500 delivery order under SHIELD was awarded December 29, 2025, with performance at Huntsville, Alabama; a $500 minimum guarantee task order under Seaport-NXG was awarded March 6, 2025. These two vehicles dominate Coact's dollar pipeline: the Navy vehicle represents the entire $4 billion potential value in the top-customers-by-potential-value ranking, while SHIELD carries the initial $500 ceiling value.

Coact's subcontractor footprint is concentrated under Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, where the vendor provides software engineering and operations support for ballistic missile defense simulation and training tools—specifically maintenance, sustainment, and development of the Ballistic Missile Defense International Simulation (BMD I-SIM), the Missile Defense Space Warning Tool (MDST), and the Threat Modeling Center (TMC)—across dozens of task orders awarded from August 2025 through January 2026. Sub work encompasses both production software engineering and warfighter exercise support, including AEGIS shipboard console certification and early warning training leveraging real-world operational ballistic missile defense system verification and validation. Coact also holds a $40,000 SDVOSB Sole Source purchase order from the Defense Information Systems Agency (August 2021) for SCAP 1.3 testing and validation.

Award volume has accelerated sharply: one award in 2016, ten in 2020, twenty-four in 2021, and seventy in 2025—predominantly task orders flowing against the two new IDIQ vehicles. The combined potential value of $4.02 billion is driven almost entirely by the Navy Seaport-NXG ceiling; obligated dollars are minimal at $14.9 million (0.37% of potential value), indicating these are newly awarded vehicles with limited task order execution to date. Customer concentration by award count tracks heavily to the Missile Defense Agency (102 awards of 172 total, or 59%), followed by the Department of Treasury Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (27 awards, $7.1 million), and smaller civilian agencies (USDA, GSA). The gap between award-count ranking and potential-value ranking reflects the high volume of small Missile Defense Agency task orders ($500 each on minimum guarantees and initial orders) against the two large Navy and MDA IDIQs.

Coact places work against the Federal Supply Schedule GS35F0625S (34 task orders, $7.4 million) and Treasury-specific vehicles including IDC TCC08HQD0079 (27 task orders, $2.8 million). A named subsidiary, J5 Systems, carries matching SDVOSB and VOSB certifications. SCI-reported activity is minimal: four service contracts above the $150,000 threshold across FY2022–FY2024, all as a named subcontractor rather than prime, with roughly 4.8 to 5.9 FTEs reported across those records. This limited SCI visibility reflects Coact's concentration on classified or below-threshold missile defense work routed through Northrop Grumman and new IDIQ vehicles where task order execution is still ramping.

COACT, Inc. is a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) and an accredited FedRAMP Third-Party Assessment Organization (3PAO). For over 25 years COACT has provided consulting, Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V), engineering and compliance support services to government and commercial clients to guide them in understanding and fulfilling their security and risk management needs. COACT is dedicated to delivering services that meet our customers' needs and exceed their expectations by incorporating knowledge of best practices, understanding of compliance requirements, and quality assurance concepts. We are results-driven and focused on

supporting and enhancing the security and compliance strategies of our customers by leveraging our high standard of ethics and integrity.