GVD Corp

GVD Corp, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based small business specializing in chemical vapor deposition coating technologies and advanced materials research, operates as a prime contractor (97% of recent awards) on Department of Defense and civilian research contracts and as a grant recipient with the Department of Energy and the Department of Health and Human Services. The company competes predominantly under small-business set-asides on SBIR and STTR Phase I and Phase II contracts, with recent work split between defense applied research and early-stage energy innovation grants.

GVD's concrete capability portfolio centers on advanced coatings and materials engineering. On the defense side, the company delivered a $1.7 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to the Air Force Research Laboratory (award date October 2024, completion October 2027) for aerospace particle coatings research for improved environmental protection. In January 2022, the Army's Research Development and Engineering Command awarded GVD a $1.15 million SBIR Phase II contract for self-healing, self-cleaning optical coatings under total small-business set-aside. On the civilian innovation front, the Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) awarded GVD $499,926 in March 2026 under the IGNIITE 2025 competitive cooperative agreement (CFDA 81.135) to develop high-stability PFAS-free membranes using chemical vapor deposition for flow applications through March 2028. More recently, the Shared Services Center awarded GVD a $224,816 SBIR Phase I contract in September 2026 for biocidal coatings to enhance regenerative fuel cell longevity, with completion scheduled for March 2027, and an earlier $150,000 STTR Phase I award (September 2025) for conformal coatings to enhance biocarriers in biofilm reactors.

Customer concentration spreads across defense and civilian research agencies. The top five customers by award count — the Department of Energy Office of Science (5 awards), the National Institutes of Health (4 awards), Naval Sea Systems Command (4 awards), Naval Air Systems Command (3 awards), and the Army Research Development and Engineering Command (3 awards) — account for 49% of awards. By potential value, the picture tilts toward defense: DARPA and the Army Research Development and Engineering Command lead at $3.3 million each, followed by Naval Sea Systems Command ($2 million), the Air Force Research Laboratory ($1.8 million), and Naval Air Systems Command ($1.7 million), representing 90% of combined potential value across the portfolio.

Activity has remained sparse in recent years, with two awards in 2022, two in 2023, one in 2024, one in 2025, and two in 2026. Four awards totaling $2.1 million in combined potential value reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore face recompete. GVD's award portfolio spans 39 federal actions since 2003 with a combined potential value of $13.3 million, though obligated dollars ($28.2 million) exceed the potential value ceiling, reflecting cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing structures on SBIR Phase II and research contracts. The company functions almost exclusively as a prime research recipient; a single sub-award appears in the source, a Missouri State University cooperative agreement subcontract for coating process development and optimization awarded in October 2023.