MODUS OPERANDI, INC.

Melbourne, FL · Defense · Private

AI/ML software system for automated verification of defense software compliance with MDA Assurance Provisions standards

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Updated Oct 23, 2026 · modusoperandi.com

Sector: Defense
Headquarters: Melbourne, FL
Total capital: $102M

Federal grants: $8.7M; 14 awards · 2015–2025; Rank in peer group#34 of 161
Private capital raised: None on recordNo Form D filings on SEC EDGAR. Some raises are not filed.
Federal contracts: $93.6M; 134 awards · Defense, NASA; Rank in Defense#88 of 1442
Granted patents: None on recordNo USPTO grants. Applications publish after 18 months.

Capital timeline

Latest events

Apr 2026Federal contractDefense · The 561ST Weapons Squadron (561 Wps) Requires The Knowledge Network For Integrated Tactical Employment (knite) Phase III SBIR Contract To Accomplish The Commercialization Of The Previous Phases Development Of Movia Commercial Software.$715K
Feb 2026Federal contractDefense · The 561ST Weapons Squadron (561 Wps)$188K
Dec 2025Federal contractDefense · Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (shield) Initial Order.$500
Jun 2025Federal contractDefense · The 561ST Weapons Squadron (561 Wps) 08 Jun To 01 Dec 2025$364K
May 2025Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Research And Development$140K
May 2025Federal contractDefense · Research And Development$140K
Mar 2025Federal contractDefense · The 561ST Weapons Squadron (561 Wps) Requires The Knowledge Network For Integrated Tactical Employment (knite) Phase III SBIR Contract To Accomplish The Commercialization Of The Previous Phases Development Of Movia Commercial Software.$250K

Show 140 earlier federal awards

Mar 2025Federal contractDefense · The 561ST Weapons Squadron (561 Wps) Requires The Knowledge Network For Integrated Tactical Employment (knite) Phase III SBIR Contract To Accomplish The Commercialization Of The Previous Phases Development Of Movia Commercial Software.$120K
Mar 2025Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Research And Development$500K
Mar 2025Federal contractDefense · Research And Development$1.0M
Mar 2025Federal contractDefense · 561 Wps Task Order 13 Knite Phase III For The Continued Platform 1/PARTY Bus/odin Sipr/jwics$63K
Jan 2025Federal contractDefense · The 561ST Weapons Squadron (561 Wps) Requires The Knowledge Network For Integrated Tactical Employment (knite) Phase III SBIR Contract To Accomplish The Commercialization Of The Previous Phases Development Of Movia Commercial Software.$104K
Jul 2024Federal contractDefense · The 561ST Weapons Squadron (561 Wps) Requires The Knowledge Network For Integrated Tactical Employment (knite) Phase III SBIR Contract To Accomplish The Commercialization Of The Previous Phases Development Of Movia Commercial Software.$273K
May 2024Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase III, Fraud, Waste, And Abuse Tool/due Diligence$642K
May 2024Federal contractDefense · The 561ST Weapons Squadron (561 Wps) Requires The Knowledge Network For Integrated Tactical Employment (knite) Phase III SBIR Contract To Accomplish The Commercialization Of The Previous Phases Development Of Movia Commercial Software.$512K
Jan 2024Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Kick-off Briefing Materials & Fwa Cert.$175K
Jan 2024Federal contractDefense · Kick-off Briefing Materials & Fwa Cert.$175K
Oct 2023Federal contractDefense · Continued Development And Transition Of Technology With Tier 1- Minimum Movia Configuration Software.$65K
Sep 2023Federal contractDefense · SBIR Ph II Project$972K
Sep 2023Federal contractDefense · Small Business Innovation Research Phase II To Further Efforts Under Phase I W51701-23-C-0078 Topic A224-025.$1.9M
Sep 2023Federal contractDefense · Direct To Phase II SBIR - Innovative Technology To Automatically Build/update Required Acquisition Milestone Documentation$1.8M
Jul 2023Federal contractDefense · 561 Weapons School Continued Platform 1 And Party Bus Onboarding Software.$557K
May 2023Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Prediction of Outcomes for Missions using Machine Learning (POMML)$1.2M
May 2023Federal contractDefense · Task Order 5 For Atlas Flight Software Requirement On The Knite Phase III Small Business Innovation And Research Program Contract.$979K
Apr 2023Federal contractDefense · Performance Optimization Using Wearables For Enhanced Readiness (power)$150K
Mar 2023Federal grantDefense · Phase II · ASSURE (AI for Software SUbmission REquirements)$1.5M
Mar 2023Federal contractDefense · Task Order 4 For Platform 1/PARTY Bus Onboarding Requirement On The Knite Phase 3 Small Business Innovation And Research Program Contract.$192K
Nov 2022Federal contractDefense · Knowledge Network For Integrated Tactical Employment (knite) Idiq - Order For Updating Document Technology$54K
Sep 2022Federal contractDefense · Small Business Innovative Research Phase II - Computer-assisted Declassification Review$750K
Sep 2022Federal contractDefense · Knite Services And Licenses For Lemay Center For Doctrine$64K
Sep 2022Federal contractDefense · Order Off Knite Idiq For Qualitative Coding Requirements.$150K
Jun 2022Federal contractDefense · Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Direct To Phase II, Topic A214-044: Datalink-enabled AI For Fires Optimization, Requirement For Shot: Scenario-driven Hypotheses For Optimization Of Targets.$1.7M
May 2022Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Logistics Enterprise Enhancement Platform (LEEP)$1.0M
Nov 2021Federal contractDefense · Sbir/sttr Phase I Research & Development Assure (AI For Software Submission Requirements)$150K
Nov 2021Federal contractDefense · Sbir/sttr Phase I Research & Developmentmaam (ML Automated Architectural Modeling)$150K
Nov 2021Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Computer Vision Assisted Declassification Review (CVADeR)$50K
Oct 2021Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Logistics Enterprise Enhancement Platform (LEEP)$150K
Sep 2021Federal contractDefense · 561 Wps Knite$770K
Sep 2021Federal contractDefense · The Purpose Of This Action Is To Award A Five (5) Month, Ffp SBIR Phase I Contract$200K
Jun 2021Federal contractDefense · STTR Phase 1$140K
May 2021Federal contractNASA · Vehicle Crew Operations And Maintenance Assistant$125K
Jan 2021Federal contractDefense · Advanced Battle Management System$3K
Jan 2021Federal contractDefense · Army Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I Effort Entitled, "optimist (optimize Missile Sustainment With AI)"$111K
Oct 2020Federal contractDefense · Metis II Task Order 0005 Support Including Expert Technical Services For Document Data Capture, Conversion To Digital Format, Optical Character Recognition (ocr),and Content Enhancement.$1.4M
Aug 2020Federal contractDefense · Talon Atlas$1.2M
Jun 2020Federal contractDefense · COVID-19 Dib Adaptive Ttp Management (adept)$150K
Jan 2020Federal contractDefense · This Is A Small Business Innovative Research Effort. This Effort Will Be Raising The Current Baseline For Overall Security.$108K
Nov 2019Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Runnable Environment for Team Effectiveness and Assessment Metrics (re-TEAM)$1.0M
Oct 2019Federal contractDefense · Services$1.4M
Jul 2019Federal contractDefense · Cyber Information Management And Mission Impact Analysis System (cim-mias)$150K
Jul 2019Federal contractDefense · USDR&E-18-BAA-RIF-JCTD-0001$1.5M
Mar 2019Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase III R&d Base Year; Fraud, Waste, And Abuse Tool$500K
Jan 2019Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Advanced Development of Inception Technologies for Requirements Management (ADIT-RM)$1.5M
Jan 2019Federal contractDefense · Sbir/sttr Phase II R&d - Advanced Development Of Inception Technologies For Requirements Management (adit-rm)$2.5M
Jan 2019Federal contractDefense · Seaport Nxg Minimum Obligation Task Order$500
Dec 2018Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Runnable Environment for Team Effectiveness and Assessment Metrics (re-TEAM)$150K
Oct 2018Federal contractDefense · This Task Order Is Established To Meet The Minimum Guarantee In Accordance With Clause H.2 Of The RS3 Base Contract.$500
Oct 2018Federal contractDefense · Services$1.6M
Sep 2018Federal contractDefense · STTR Phase II Contract; Proposal A2-7302 For Runnable Environment For Plug And Scrape Technology (repast)$1.0M
Aug 2018Federal contractDefense · SBIR I - Computer-assisted Declassification Review$150K
Apr 2018Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf$125K
Oct 2017Federal contractDefense · This Contract Will Provide The Air Force Technical Applications Center (aftac) With: (1) Expert Technical Services For Document Data Capture, Conversion To Digital Format, Optical Character Recognition (ocr), And Content Enhancement. (2) Enhancement And Maintenance Of Software Tools And Applications For File Display And Publishing Products To Specific Customers As Well As The Cloud, Needed During The Life Of The Contract.$1.5M
Apr 2017Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Research&development$1.5M
Aug 2016Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Self-Healing ISR Ecosystem (SHIRE)$100K
Aug 2016Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Phase I STTR$150K
Aug 2016Federal contractDefense · Igf::ct::igf Operation And Maintenance (o&m)$100K
Apr 2016Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Award Of SBIR Phase I.$100K
Mar 2016Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Multi-source Aggregation (fusion) of Semantic Tiered Data (MAST)$150K
Mar 2016Federal contractDefense · Phase I SBIR Effort Igf::ot::igf (other Functions)$100K
Nov 2015Federal contractDefense · Igf::ct::igf SBIRSOL2015.2$80K
Nov 2015Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Services - R&d Labor Advisory And Assistance Services$3.8M
Sep 2015Federal contractDefense · Igf::cl::igf Pattern Of Life Integrated System (polis)$748K
Aug 2015Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Awarding A Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR I) For "cobra: Cyber Ontology Based Reasoning Architecture", Topic A15-036.$100K
Aug 2015Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf CEC3 Cognitively Enhanced Cyber Command&control$150K
Aug 2015Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Operation And Maintenance (o&m)$100K
May 2015Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Fluxus: Innovative Technology for Secure Cloud Computing$1M
Apr 2015Federal contractDefense · Scalable Semantic Enablement R&d Igf::ct::igf$3M
Dec 2014Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase I Research&development, Proposal Number: B142-010-0010, Proposal Title: Bmds Aggregate Semantic Store (bass) Igf::ot::igf$125K
Aug 2014Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf$330K
Aug 2014Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase I Contract$100K
Aug 2014Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf STTR Phase II Topic N11A-T018$1.5M
Jul 2014Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Catalist Workflow Modules For Full Spectrum Targeting$1.5M
May 2014Federal contractDefense · SBIRSOL2014.1$150K
Apr 2014Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf 1. The Purpose Of This Task Order 0010 Is To Provide Systems Engineering Support. The Contractor Shall Provide Systems Engineering Support To The Program Manager, Sensor Aerial Intelligence Systems To Extend, Integrate And Test, And Support The SBIR Technologies As Described In The Attached Performance Work Statement. This Effort Is For Severable Services. 2. Performance Shall Be In Accordance With The Performance Work Statement Listed As Attachment 1 In Section J. 3. The Period O$998K
Sep 2013Federal contractDefense · Task Order 0009- Sat$691K
Sep 2013Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase II Research&development: Tiltled- Inception. Igf::ot::igf$1.6M
Aug 2013Federal contractDefense · Army/dla Sbir/sttr Phase 1$100K
Aug 2013Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Nublu: Assured Information Sharing In Clouds$750K
Jul 2013Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase II Enhancement Research&dev Titled Inferential Intergration Of Normalized Knowledge (12NK) Phase II. Igf::ot::igf$998K
Jun 2013Federal contractDefense · DOD STTR 13.A$80K
Apr 2013Federal contractDefense · Igf::cl::igf, DOD 2013.1 SBIR Solicitation$80K
Feb 2013Federal contractDefense · Task Order Award Under Harmony SBIR Phase III W15P7T-11-D-H241$715K
Feb 2013Federal contractDefense · Task Order Award Under SBIR III W15P7T-11-D-H241$890K
Dec 2012Federal contractDefense · SBIR III Task Order 0006$995K
Nov 2012Federal contractDefense · Clear Heart: Recognizing Adversarial Intent From Multi-int Data$2M
Sep 2012Federal contractDefense · Rif Program - Enterprise Level Shared Sit Awareness Elssa$912K
Sep 2012Federal contractDefense · Rif: R&d Ied Human Network Interdiction$1.5M
Sep 2012Federal contractDefense · Rdt&e SHOOTER2DIB - In Accordance With Broad Agency Announcement HQ0034-11-BAA-RIF-0001, Requirement Number SOCOM-11-BAA-RIF-0007, Contractor Shall Provide All Facilities, Labor, And Materials To Design, Build, Test, Demonstrate, And Deliver The SHOOTER2DIB Computer Software Configuration Items (cscis). Modus Operandi, Inc. Shall Support Three Trips To Government Facilities In Tampa, Florida Or Ft Meade, Maryland During The Period Of Performance In Accordance With The Statement Of Work, Dated Se$1.7M
Aug 2012Federal contractDefense · Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)$1.5M
Jun 2012Federal contractDefense · To 0005$800K
Mar 2012Federal contractDefense · Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)$575K
Mar 2012Federal contractDefense · Nublu: Assured Information Sharing In Clouds$100K
Feb 2012Federal contractDefense · Ph I Research&development$150K
Feb 2012Federal contractDefense · "space Situation Experiment Environment"$244K
Feb 2012Federal contractDefense · Backsweep: Seeing Anomalous Events In Context$750K
Jan 2012Federal contractDefense · SBIR Ph II For Topic # N102-185, Titled Humint->multi-int Fusion Tool (hmft).$993K
Nov 2011Federal contractDefense · Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)$749K
Sep 2011Federal contractDefense · Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)$2.1M
Aug 2011Federal contractDefense · Space Superiority Experiment Environment Support$19K
Aug 2011Federal contractDefense · Task Order Awarded For Support Emarss$270K
Jul 2011Federal contractDefense · Awarded For T0 0003 Harmony SBIR III$500K
Jun 2011Federal contractDefense · 6MO - SBIR Phase 1, Topic #OSD10- L02$100K
Jun 2011Federal contractDefense · Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)$150K
May 2011Federal contractDefense · Ffp SBIR 1 W15P7T-11-C-A026$150K
May 2011Federal contractDefense · Smashup Framework For Secure Mashups$745K
Apr 2011Federal contractDefense · To Awarded To Evaluate Tactical Softaware$124K
Apr 2011Federal contractDefense · Task Order 1 Awarded$801K
Feb 2011Federal contractDefense · Automatic Identification Of Information Relevant To Anomalous Events$100K
Jan 2011Federal contractDefense · Report$100K
Dec 2010Federal contractDefense · Award Of Phase II SBIR$777K
Sep 2010Federal contractDefense · Research And Development$68K
Sep 2010Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase II Enhancement-blackstone$500K
Sep 2010Federal contractDefense · Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)$100K
Aug 2010Federal contractDefense · The SBIR Phase I Acquisition Is For The Development Of Percepts, An Innovative Intelligent Agent Framework Improving Sensor Deployment And Surveillance For Military, Maritime And Force Protection Operations. The Contractor S Approach Shall Integrate Proven Existing Technologies With New Innovative Approaches. The Use And Leverage Of Proven Technology Provides A Sound Foundation For Their Technical Approach, Reducing Technical Risk, And Providing A Platform For Key Innovations. The Overall Phase $70K
Jun 2010Federal contractDefense · Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)$1.6M
Apr 2010Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase I, "services For Proactive Automatic Information Request(spair)" Topic A09-146$70K
Mar 2010Federal contractDefense · Smashup: A Formal Framework Secure Mashups$100K
Feb 2010Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase II JC3 Time Event And Temporal Reasoning Ontology$1.2M
Feb 2010Federal contractDefense · Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)$100K
Dec 2009Federal contractDefense · Basic - New Award On TOPIC:N08-183 Modus$600K
Apr 2009Federal contractDefense · Darpa SBIR Phase I$99K
Apr 2009Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase II Cpff Contract. Title "persistent Vigilance". Modus Operandi, Inc. Total Value: $729,999.97. This Is Incremental Funding For $361,541.00 Under Slin 0001AA.$730K
Mar 2009Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase 1 Topic A08-168, V-isr$70K
Nov 2008Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase I Topic NO.A08-082 For "JC3-TIME: Event And Temporal Reasoning Ontology"$120K
Sep 2008Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase II - Orchestration Of Reusable Components For Iv&v, Topice Number A06-123$1.8M
Sep 2008Federal contractDefense · First Status Report$100K
Jun 2008Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase I$100K
Feb 2008Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase I - Modus Operandi R&d Effort$120K
Jan 2008Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase II - Blackstone$730K
Nov 2007Federal contractDefense · Phase II SBIR For Harmony:tools For Metadata Harmonization And Mediation", Topic Number A06-098.$1.9M
Jul 2007Federal contractDefense · Mda SBIR Phase II / Basic Effort$1.3M
May 2007Federal contractDefense · Decision Exploitation Engine Platform$1.9M
Apr 2007Federal contractDefense · Community Ontology Refinement With Adaptive Learning (coral)$1.9M
Sep 2006Federal contractDefense · 200612!007590!2100!W15P7T!USA Communications-electronics !W15P7T06CR201 !a!n! !n! ! !20060928!20080928!130550262!130550262!130550262!N!MODUS Operandi, Inc !122 4TH Ave !indialantic !FL!32903!33375!009!12!INDIALANTIC !brevard !florida !+000000359848!N!N!000000000000!AC61!RDTE/ELECTRONICS & Communication Eq-basic RESEARCH!A7 !electronics And Communication Equip !000 !not Discernable !541710!E! !3! ! ! ! ! !999$730K
Feb 2006Federal contractDefense · 200605!001114!2100!W15P7T!USA Communications-electronics !W15P7T06CP403 !a!n! !n! ! !20060209!20071230!130550262!130550262!130550262!N!MODUS Operandi, Inc !122 4TH Ave !indialantic !FL!32903!33375!009!12!INDIALANTIC !brevard !florida !+000000389999!N!N!000000000000!AC61!RDTE/ELECTRONICS & Communication Eq-basic RESEARCH!A7 !electronics And Communication Equip !000 !not Discernable !541710!E! !3! ! ! ! ! !999$730K
Jul 2005Federal contractDefense · 200510!500611!9700!HQ0006!MISSILE Defense Agency !HQ000605C7242 !a!n! !n! ! !20050726!20070726!130550262!130550262!130550262!N!MODUS Operandi, Inc !122 4TH Ave !indialantic !FL!32903!33375!009!12!INDIALANTIC !brevard !florida !+000000750000!N!N!000000750000!AC21!RDTE/MISSILE And Space Systems-basic Research !A2 !missile And Space Systems !caa !mda Support !541710!E! !3! ! ! ! ! !202$750K
Aug 2004Federal contractDefense · 200411!007646!2100!W15P7T!USA Communications-electronics !W15P7T04CK444 !a!n! !y! ! !20040802!20090730!130550262!130550262!130550262!N!MODUS Operandi, Inc !122 Fourth Avenue !indialantic !FL!32903!33375!009!12!INDIALANTIC !brevard !florida !+000000146990!N!N!000000000000!AC61!RDTE/ELECTRONICS & Communication Eq-basic RESEARCH!A7 !electronics And Communication Equip !000 !* !541710!E! !3! ! ! ! ! !999$7.8M

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Defense · Software

Federal grants#34 · top 21%

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Regulatory activity · Defense

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11 Jun 2026Danger Zone; Waters of Carr Creek and Whitehall Bay in the Vicinity of the Naval Support Activity AnnapolisEngineers Corps
13 Mar 2026Federal Acquisition Regulation; Federal Acquisition Circular 2026-01; IntroductionNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
13 Mar 2026Federal Acquisition Regulation: Trade Agreements ThresholdsNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
13 Mar 2026Federal Acquisition Regulation; Federal Acquisition Circular 2026-01; Small Entity Compliance GuideNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
27 Aug 2025Federal Acquisition Regulation; Federal Acquisition Circular 2025-06; Small Entity Compliance GuideNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
27 Aug 2025Federal Acquisition Regulation; Federal Acquisition Circular 2025-06; IntroductionNational Aeronautics and Space Administration

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