Karagozian & Case, Inc.

Karagozian & Case, Inc., headquartered in Glendale, California, is a science and engineering consulting firm and manufacturer of goods that operates as a prime contractor (95% of recent awards) and subcontractor, delivering blast effects analysis, structural engineering, weapons systems analysis, protective design, and modeling and simulation services to defense and civilian federal agencies. The firm competes under full-and-open and small business set-asides, with small business set-aside work anchoring a substantial portion of its SBIR and STTR research portfolio.

The vendor's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Department of Defense enterprise. The top five funding agencies account for 64% of awards by count but the potential-value ranking is driven by a single massive vehicle: the Missile Defense Agency's Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award IDIQ, awarded December 29, 2025, carries a placeholder ceiling of $151 billion and accounts for the bulk of the vendor's combined potential value. Beneath that vehicle, the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command at Eglin Air Force Base anchors the portfolio through the Eglin Wide Agile Acquisition Contract (EWAAC), a $46 billion multiple-award IDV through September 2031. By award count, Defense Threat Reduction Agency (56 awards, $13.5 million potential value), Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory (43 awards, $26.2 million), and the Air Force proper (30 awards, $33.1 million) dominate, supplemented by Naval Sea Systems Command ($5.29 billion potential value) and Naval Air Warfare Center ($14.8 million). Recent representative work includes a $3.75 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order from the Air Force on Algorithm Development and Optimization for Lethality Applications (ADOLA), a $2.99 million Air Force delivery order for Digital Engineering Weapon Design, a $2.97 million small-business-set-aside definitive contract from the Bureau of Diplomatic Security for concrete anchor blasting and testing, a $1.7 million SBIR Phase II from Naval Sea Systems Command for research and development, and a $1.7 million SBIR Phase II from the Army for medical research on underwater blast lung modeling. The vendor also holds a $5 million single-award IDC with GSA Public Buildings Service for blast and structural engineering services (small business set-aside, through August 2028) and a $5 million single-award BOA with Naval Air Warfare Center for SBIR Phase III work (through September 2029).

Activity has remained relatively flat over the past five years — 15 awards in 2022, 15 in 2023, 20 in 2024, 15 in 2025, and 2 to date in 2026 — with 13 awards (combined potential value $21.6 million) reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and therefore facing recompete risk. The vendor's award portfolio splits heavily toward R&D across the physical and engineering sciences, with 73 awards under NAICS 541711 (Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences) and 37 under the broader NAICS 541710; research-oriented PSC codes dominate, with 41 awards in R&D defense applied research and exploratory development and 19 in weapons basic research.

SCI-reported invoicing (covering service contracts above $150,000 and excluding goods, products, and classified work) totaled $719 thousand across FY2022–FY2024, with $454 thousand in FY2022, $265 thousand in FY2023, and zero in FY2024. SCI captured only four prime service-contract records over this span, representing a small slice of the vendor's actual federal services activity, which is dominated by research contracts and product sales. The SCI data shows roughly 1.1 FTEs in FY2022 and 0.7 FTEs in FY2023; government-paid hourly rates on those records ranged from $36.87/hr at the 10th percentile to a median of $184.35/hr, with senior labor rates through $189.80/hr. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor performed 100% of work in-house with no subcontractor hours reported; two named subcontractors appear in the SCI data, suggesting minimal sub-engagement on reportable service contracts.

The vendor operates predominantly as a prime across its portfolio, with subcontract work representing only 5% of recent awards. Where subcontracting occurs, the vendor delivers specialized technical support — blast characterization, composite materials testing, weapons effects analysis, protective facility design, and timber panel development — to primes including Applied Research Associates (air force targeting software, weapons effects testing and analysis), Auburn University (mass timber panel research under Air Force BAAs), Southwest Research Institute (dust generation device development for DTRA), and N.K. Bhandari Architecture & Engineering (anti-terrorism and force protection design for federal courthouse hardening). The vendor also holds a subsidiary, Gozian Inc., also structured as a for-profit manufacturer.

The federal award footprint rests on deep technical expertise in weapons lethality, vulnerability assessment, and blast effects documented across decades of SBIR, STTR, and applied R&D work; recent growth in the SHIELD vehicle positioning signals expanded appetite from the missile defense and integrated air defense customer set. Recompete exposure over the next twenty-four months is moderate at $21.6 million potential value but localized to a small number of individual awards given the vendor's reliance on large umbrella vehicles with multi-year performance periods.

Karagozian & Case provides blast consultant engineering services: blast threat assessments, designs to resist blast and debris from an explosion, validation testing support. K&C also provides conventional structural engineering design services.