International Preparedness Associates Inc.

International Preparedness Associates Inc., doing business as IPA, is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) and Veteran-Owned Small Business headquartered in Chesapeake, Virginia, that delivers intelligence, training, and operational support services to military and special operations customers as a prime contractor across delivery orders, single-award indefinite delivery contracts, and government-wide acquisition vehicles. IPA is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation certified as both SDVOSB and VOSB through November 10, 2027, and operates exclusively as a prime — 100% of its recent awards are prime contracts or IDVs with no subcontract activity.

IPA's capability portfolio centers on Mission Deployable Intelligence Operations Center (MDIOC) support, specialized curriculum development, and hands-on training delivery for special operations and Marine Corps personnel. Representative work includes a $856 thousand SDVOSB delivery order from the Marine Corps for MDIOC 26-1 support (awarded January 2026, completed May 2026); an $851 thousand Marine Corps SDVOSB delivery order for MDIOC 26-2 support (August 2026, completed November 2026); and a $738 thousand firm fixed-price delivery order from the United States Special Operations Command for MDIOC systems support and specialized training, including curriculum development (January 2025). IPA's work spans intelligence information fusion, student-oriented curriculum design, tactical training course delivery, and operational readiness support — primarily for domestic military operations, with international scope on select OASIS+ task orders.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward U.S. Special Operations Command and the U.S. Marine Corps, which collectively account for 80% of awards by count but only about 3.8% of combined potential value. The divergence reflects the dollar dominance of two large IDV awards: the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command carries $13.96 billion in combined potential value across four awards, and the Department of State Bureau of African Affairs carries $500 million across three awards. These figures suggest that IPA holds seats on large government-wide vehicles with substantial ceiling values, though the actual dollars obligated ($16.1 million across all 56 awards) and the recent award trajectory (two to four task orders per year in 2022–2026) point to a much smaller operational footprint. The 80% coverage threshold in the top-customer ranking confirms that five agencies represent the active customer base.

IPA's parent vehicle position reflects its SDVOSB and small-business certification profile. The company was awarded a seat on the OASIS+ Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business multiple-award IDIQ (Federal Acquisition Service, awarded September 30, 2024, ceiling no dollar ceiling specified in the source, completion date September 29, 2029) and the OASIS+ Total Small Business set-aside multiple-award IDIQ (Federal Acquisition Service, awarded December 19, 2024, completion date December 18, 2029). IPA also holds a single-award indefinite delivery contract with the United States Special Operations Command valued at $14.7 million (awarded August 10, 2022, completion date August 9, 2027) for SOCS-H training program and MDIOC systems support, from which ten task orders totaling $5.1 million have been issued. Marine Corps single-award and USSOCOM delivery vehicles (IDC H9225717D0004 and H9225722D0007) account for the plurality of recent task orders — 20 combined orders across these two vehicles alone, valued at $12.7 million. IPA also holds positions on SeaPort Next Generation and SeaPort-e vehicles but with minimal activity (two and one task order respectively).

Activity has been relatively flat over the past five years, with two to four awards per year from 2022 through 2026. The recompete cliff shows minimal near-term exposure: only two awards (combined potential value $1.6 million) are scheduled to complete within the next twenty-four months. The broader vehicle ceilings on OASIS+ contracts carry no practical recompete risk given the multi-year renewal structure of government-wide acquisition vehicles, though the $14.7 million USSOCOM single-award IDC will reach its completion date of August 9, 2027, creating a recompete window in the next sixteen months.

The Service Contract Inventory dataset captures only three SCI-reportable records across fiscal years 2022–2025, all as named subcontractors to other primes — a narrow slice that does not reflect IPA's primary posture as a delivery-order prime under single-award and multiple-award IDVs. SCI-reported FTE data shows 5.6 FTEs in FY2022, 6.2 FTEs in FY2024, and 3.9 FTEs in FY2025, but these figures represent only IPA's named subcontractor engagement and are not indicative of its prime-contract workforce or total enterprise scale. IPA's award concentration in the professional services (NAICS 541990, All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services; 23 awards) and training and instruction (NAICS 611710, All Other Miscellaneous Schools and Instruction; 13 awards) categories reflects its focus on intelligence and operational training delivery. Primary Service Code activity clusters around Support – Professional: Other (18 awards) and Education/Training – Combat (9 awards), with secondary work in program management support and security training.

IPA has supported US policies worldwide in 36 countries including diplomacy, policy development, police/military special operations, global anti-terrorism/narco-terrorism, border security operations, aviation training and UAV support, advanced maritime training and operations, naval surface warfare and Naval weapons systems mission engineering. We provided professional services, assistance and training to US and foreign government personnel at the national executive and policy level and throughout the strategic, operational and tactical components including concept development & experimentation improving interagency cooperation in support of a whole-of-government approach to our rapidly emerging global security challenges.

Our experience and expertise includes human space flight mission support to NASA including operations, training & engineering for the Mars Mission and ISS and Medical System Analytics and Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) support to the US FDA.