IBC Materials And Technologies, LLC

IBC Materials And Technologies, LLC, a small business manufacturer based in Lebanon, Indiana, supplies advanced materials, specialized coatings, and structural components to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor (84% of recent awards) and subcontractor, competing predominantly under total small business set-asides across defense sustainment, research and development, and weapon system component manufacturing. The company is a for-profit limited liability corporation structured as a manufacturer of goods and holds a registered federal contractor status since 2005.

IBC's customer base concentrates heavily on Air Force and Defense Logistics Agency programs. The top five funding customer organizations account for 79% of awards by count: the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation (27 awards, $21 million combined potential value), the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Air Force Sustainment Center (22 awards, $147.1 million), the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Lifecycle Management Center Wright Patterson Air Force Base (17 awards, $7.8 million), the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory (15 awards, $7.8 million), and the Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command (8 awards, $4 million). By dollar value, the rankings shift dramatically: the Department of the Air Force's $975 million Rapid Sustainment Office MAC IDIQ dominates the portfolio, followed by the Air Force Sustainment Center's $147.1 million in awards. This concentration reflects IBC's entrenchment in Air Force readiness and sustainment operations rather than Navy or joint programs.

Capability scope centers on surface engineering coatings (plasma electrolytic oxidation, diamond-like carbon, amorphous chromium carbide, cadmium and hexavalent chromium replacements), structural component manufacturing (primarily for missile launchers, aircraft, and ordnance systems), and specialized research and development. Recent prime work includes a $1.8 million Air Force Research Laboratory purchase order for advanced thermal management coatings applied to friction stir welded cold plates for directed energy weapons (awarded May 2025, completion February 2027), a $1.099 million Defense Logistics Agency definitive contract for novel amorphous chromium carbide coatings to extend military part service life under SBIR Phase II (awarded March 2026, completion August 2027), a $1.9 million Department of the Navy cost-plus-fixed-fee research and development contract (awarded December 2024, completion December 2027), a $1.46 million Air Force delivery order for structural components (awarded June 2025, completion February 2026), and multiple smaller delivery orders under IDCs for rail launcher guide components (NSN 1440017021074) and F-15 Eagle structural parts.

IBC holds several major indefinite delivery contracts anchoring its federal footprint. The $975 million Rapid Sustainment Office MAC IDIQ with the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (awarded July 2024, completion July 2033) is the largest vehicle and carries both unrestricted and small business set-aside task order capacity. An $8.9 million single-award IDC with Defense Logistics Agency Aviation for structural components (awarded July 2022, completion July 2027) has generated nine task orders. A $2 million single-award IDC with DLA Aviation for F-15 structural components (awarded June 2025, completion September 2025) carries delivery order work in March and June 2025. Two additional IDCs under Air Force Sustainment Center vehicle FA855418D0001 and DLA contract SPE4A622D0190 support ongoing sustainment task orders totaling $9.3 million and $3 million respectively.

Set-aside posture across the prime footprint skews toward total small business designations on delivery orders and definitive contracts, with set-asides present in approximately two-thirds of recent prime awards. The remaining awards compete full-and-open or without set-aside designation, particularly under the $975 million Rapid Sustainment Office MAC IDIQ, which explicitly permits both set-aside and unrestricted task orders.

In its subcontractor role, IBC performs component manufacturing, coating application, and engineering support under primes including Science Applications International Corporation (on Naval Air Warfare Center support services as of October 2025), KBR Wyle Services LLC (avionic product and lifecycle analysis for Air Force Sustainment Center's 448th Supply Chain Management Wing, ongoing since August 2023), and The Boeing Company (F-15 foreign military sales support for Qatar program, October 2024). Multiple EPSE III robotics and laser sub-awards in 2021 involved stripping and de-painting of actual DoD aircraft components at IBC's facility to demonstrate ultraviolet-assisted dry-paint removal (UADP) processes.

Award trajectory shows moderate activity with eight prime awards in 2022, nine in 2023, eleven in 2024, and nine in 2025, with three awards in 2026 year-to-date. Seven awards carrying combined potential value of $6.3 million reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, representing routine recompete exposure across structural component delivery orders and smaller SBIR phase work. The portfolio's NAICS concentration sits across research and development in physical and engineering sciences (27 awards), guided missile and space vehicle propulsion unit parts manufacturing (24 awards), and engineering services (15 awards), aligned with defense sustainment and advanced materials development strategy.

Nitriding, ion plasma nitriding, pvd coatings, solid lubrication,thermal diffusion,salt bath nitriding, salt bath nitrocarburising, thin film coatings