Modus Operandi, Inc.

Modus Operandi, Inc., a Melbourne, Florida-based small business, competes as a prime contractor on a $151 billion Missile Defense Agency SHIELD multi-award IDIQ and holds a $9.5 million Air Force KNITE single-award IDIQ, delivering advanced software development, artificial intelligence, and research-and-development services to defense and intelligence agencies exclusively under full-and-open competition with no set-aside designations. The vendor has received 311 total prime awards over its documented federal footprint, with combined potential value of $39.46 billion driven predominantly by a single Army Materiel Command contract carrying $37.4 billion potential value; obligated dollars across the entire portfolio total $133.3 million, reflecting a profile weighted heavily toward research, development, and prototype work rather than production or steady-state operations.

Modus Operandi's customer base spans 30 federal agencies with acute concentration in defense R&D. The Department of the Air Force leads by award count (58 awards, $1.91 billion combined potential value), followed by the Department of the Army (46 awards, $5.9 million combined potential value), the Department of the Navy (32 awards), and the Air Force Research Laboratory (24 awards, $13 million combined potential value). The top five customers by award count account for 57 percent of the vendor's recent awards; however, potential-value ranking diverges sharply: Army Materiel Command's Aberdeen Proving Ground contract ($37.4 billion across 13 awards) dwarfs all other customer relationships and represents approximately 95 percent of the vendor's combined potential value, signaling an extreme concentration risk and recompete exposure if that vehicle is not sustained or if the vendor loses position on future iterations. The Air Force's near-$2 billion slice is the second-largest but represents less than 5 percent of total portfolio value.

The vendor's concrete capability set centers on software development for defense missions, mission planning systems, and classified intelligence platforms. Representative Air Force work includes the $9.5 million KNITE IDIQ (awarded September 2022, running through August 2027), which has generated 16 documented task orders totaling $4.6 million for commercialization of the MOVIA configuration management platform and Platform 1/Party Bus onboarding software serving the 561st Weapons Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base and Air Mobility Command; individual delivery orders have ranged from $54,070 for document technology updates to $979,400 for Atlas Flight Software requirements. Army SBIR Phase II and Phase III work has included $1.9 million for performance optimization using wearables for enhanced readiness (POWER), $1.7 million for datalink-enabled AI for fires optimization, and $1 million for the Novel Enterprise Report Development System (NERDS). Navy and Missile Defense Agency SBIR Phase I and Phase II projects have focused on fraud, waste, and abuse detection tools ($1.07 million, MDA, May 2024 through May 2029), AI-enabled software submission requirements ($1.5 million, MDA, March 2023 through July 2025), and machine learning for architectural modeling. Recent 2025–2026 Air Force awards include a $363,500 delivery order for the 561st Weapons Squadron (June–December 2025), a $715,000 Phase III KNITE delivery order (April 2026, ultimate completion July 2027), and a $187,500 delivery order placed in February 2026. The vendor's R&D portfolio is characterized by substantial Navy and Air Force Research Laboratory participation, with 37 awards under R&D Electronics/Communications (Basic Research) PSC and 44 awards under R&D Defense Other (Applied Research/Exploratory Development).

GSA Schedule labor offerings span four product-support and consulting software engineer categories priced between $146.60 and $278.54 per hour, with experience requirements from two years (bachelor's degree) at the junior level to fifteen years with a doctorate for subject-matter expert roles; no security-cleared positions are offered through the schedule, aligning with the vendor's emphasis on unclassified or facility-level classified work rather than personnel-level clearance-dependent roles.

Modus Operandi's vehicle position is anchored by two major IDIQs: the $9.5 million KNITE single-award with the Air Force (13 task orders documented through June 2025) and the newly awarded $151 billion SHIELD multiple-award IDIQ with the Missile Defense Agency (awarded December 29, 2025, running through December 28, 2035). The vendor also maintains positions on five additional parent IDIQs accounting for 42 task orders across multiple contract vehicles, including Indefinite Delivery Contract W15P7T11DH241 (11 task orders, $7.1 million combined value) and FA702217D0005 (5 task orders, $7.5 million combined value). Award activity has been volatile: seven awards in 2022, ten in 2023, four in 2024, nine in 2025, and two in early 2026. The recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is minimal (one award, $715 thousand, ultimate completion July 2027); the material risk lies in the SHIELD platform lifecycle and Army Materiel Command's renewal or expansion of its existing award vehicle.

The vendor competes exclusively as a prime and carries no subcontract footprint in the source data, indicating either entirely organic delivery or subcontracting relationships not captured at the federal level. The dominance of SBIR mechanisms across the portfolio—both as IDIQ parents and as definitive contract designations—reflects a vendor profile tightly focused on innovation, proof-of-concept, and Phase III commercialization rather than production sustainment or ongoing systems integration.

Modus Operandi delivers next-generation data integration and decision support solutions for federal agencies and prime contractors. Our flagship product, Movia, accelerates multi-source data fusion, semantic enrichment, and actionable insight generation to support mission-critical operations. We reduce the complexity of integrating structured and unstructured information, enabling faster deployment of enterprise capabilities while lowering cost and risk. Backed by expertise in AI/ML, semantic technologies, and knowledge engineering, Modus Operandi empowers agencies to achieve superior information advantage across defense, intelligence, and federal civilian missions.