Federal contractor · ARLINGTON, VA

INNOVATIVE DEFENSE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC

INNOVATIVE DEFENSE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC received $109.8M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 15 awards (−5.9% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $705.9M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($106.1M).

Obligations · FY2026
$109.8M
New awards
15
Sole-source
64%
Single offer
15%
UEI
QEHMNH93DYH6
Parent company
INNOVATIVE DEFENSE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Small business

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 26.6MFY2017
  2. 20.9MFY2018
  3. 45.9MFY2019
  4. 59MFY2020
  5. 45.8MFY2021
  6. 50.7MFY2022
  7. 113.1MFY2023
  8. 117.5MFY2024
  9. 116.6MFY2025
  10. 109.8MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. 11 awards
  2. 2 awards
  3. 2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$95.8M87%
  2. Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$14M13%

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition78%
    US 39% · $85.9M
  • Sole-source awards64%
    US 30% · $69.8M
  • Single-offer competitions15%
    US 8.8% · $16.1M
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Largest awards

  1. Department of the Navy· Arlington County, VA· Research & development· Nov 25, 2020 – Jun 1, 2026· N0002421C5100
  2. Department of the Navy· Arlington County, VA· Research & development· Apr 1, 2022 – Jun 11, 2026· N0001422C1042
  3. Department of the Navy· Arlington County, VA· Research & development· Sep 27, 2023 – May 29, 2026· N0003923C1000
  4. Department of the Navy· Arlington County, VA· Research & development· Mar 23, 2023 – Mar 13, 2026· N0001423C1006
  5. Department of the Navy· Bristol County, MA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Jan 23, 2025 – Jun 3, 2026· N0002425C6113
  6. Department of the Navy· Arlington County, VA· Research & development· May 20, 2026 – May 20, 2026· N0001426C1127
  7. Missile Defense Agency· Arlington County, VA· Research & development· Jul 2, 2024 – Dec 3, 2025· HQ086024F0002
  8. Department of the Navy· Arlington County, VA· Research & development· Apr 7, 2026 – Apr 7, 2026· N0002426C3048

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $25.5M received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $7.6M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $2.6M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $1.9M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $993.7K received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

4 companies · $38.6M reported

  1. FORT WORTH, TX · 119 subawards · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing
  2. PASCAGOULA, MS · 1 subaward · Scientific research and development services
  3. TUCSON, AZ · 7 subawards · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing

Showing the top 3 of each list. Open the profile for potential partners and the full lists.

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 10 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. CALIFORNIA, MD · 78% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development services
  2. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$416.3M−35% in FY2026
    AUSTIN, TX · 15 entities · 78% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development services
  3. CASTELION CORPORATION$257.1M+201% in FY2026
    TORRANCE, CA · 54% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development servicesMissile Defense Agency · Scientific research and development servicesArmy · Scientific research and development services

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Lobbying and PAC activity

Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.

Matched organizations

  • Innovative Defense TechnologiesAI match · 99%
Lobbying · 2025
$400K
8 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$1.4M

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$400K
    8 reports
  2. 2024$400K
    8 reports
  3. 2025$400K
    8 reports
  4. 2026$200K
    4 reports

Top issues

  1. Defense28 reports
  2. Budget and appropriations13 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES28 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE28 reports

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

  1. S-3 Group$700K
    14 reports
  2. MORAN GLOBAL STRATEGIES, INC.$650K
    13 reports
  3. Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough$50K
    1 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Oct 5, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026.