Iavo Research And Scientific, Incorporated

Iavo Research And Scientific, Incorporated, a small business based in Durham, North Carolina, delivers specialized research and development, geospatial intelligence software, and artificial intelligence capabilities to defense and federal science agencies as a prime contractor on 83% of recent awards and as a subcontractor on weapons-system and mission-analysis programs. The company operates as a for-profit Subchapter S corporation under primary NAICS 541511 (Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, except Biotechnology) and has competed in full-and-open, no-set-aside posture across its recent federal footprint.

Iavo's customer concentration centers on the Department of the Navy. The Naval Air Systems Command Naval Air Warfare Center accounts for 34% of all awards (20 awards, $25.8 million combined potential value), with the Secretary of the Navy Office of Naval Research adding 7 awards and $2.7 million. Together these Navy organizations represent 66% of award count and 94% of combined potential value across all customers. The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command (4 awards, $2.4 million), the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory (5 awards, $1.6 million), and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (3 awards, $183 thousand) round out the top five customer agencies. Iavo's recent prime work includes a $170,339 purchase order with Naval Air Warfare Center for the SENTIENT A3 program (May 2026), a $17,900 purchase order for STATOPIA SOFTWARE software development with Naval Air Warfare Center (August 2025), and a $182,929 SBIR Phase I award from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency for artificial intelligence-based real-time 3D reconstruction and modeling from multiple images with transport and dispersion modeling (May 2023).

The vendor places task orders under the Indefinite Delivery Contract N6893614D0019 (9 task orders, $2.8 million combined potential value), the SPRRA224D0014 IDC (3 task orders), and the Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction R&D vehicle (2 task orders). Activity has been irregular — one award in 2021, three in 2023, six in 2024, one in 2025, and two in 2026 — with no clear trajectory. The source data span back to November 2001 (55 awards across that full period). Iavo operates predominantly as a subcontractor on geospatial intelligence and weapons-system analysis programs under prime relationships with Applied Research Associates, Inc. (five sub awards across air force targeting software, combating WMD analysis and planning tools, and mission awareness capabilities) and Intuitive Research And Technology Corporation (four sub awards focused on GEOINT unified naval streaming system software and related geoscience services). SCI-reported activity remains minimal: the vendor recorded 5.4 federal service-contract FTEs in FY2024 and 0.6 FTEs in FY2025, all as a named subcontractor on service contracts above the $150,000 threshold.

Expertise and offerings in several scientific areas (each represented by DBAs, respectively), including: program evaluation, educational modeling, geoscience (remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS), and photogrammetry.