Got an Idea? We Cut Years Off Its Launch.
Every good piece of EOD kit started as an operator's workaround. Bring us yours — a tool, a fixture, a training aid, a better way to do the job — and it gets what no inventor has on their own: sketch-to-part manufacturing under one roof in Franklin, Tennessee, plus an active GSA schedule, ISO 9001:2015 certified production, ITAR registration, a buyer list 10,000+ strong, and proven sales channels with global reach. Assembling that alone takes years. Your idea inherits it on day one.
And your idea stays yours. NDAs welcome, IP respected. We'll tell you straight whether it's buildable, what it takes, and whether it's worth building — we've productized our own ideas, including a patent-pending breaching tool, so we know the difference between a good idea and a good product. Both answers are free.
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Who this is for
Inventors and builders
You've got the drawing, the prototype, or the idea that won't leave you alone — and you need a shop that can engineer it, build it, and protect it. We sign NDAs, we respect IP, and we've taken our own inventions from sketch to patent-pending. Your name stays on your idea.
Operators and technicians
You have field-modified something with tape and a Dremel, it works, and now you want it made right, repeatably, out of the correct material.
Program and training managers
You need an inert trainer, a kit, or a fixture that does not exist yet — and close enough is wrong.
Contracting officers
You have a requirement and you need a manufacturer who can actually produce it. Manufactured by EOD Gear, not a resold import.
You would not be the first
We are already building tools for other companies — manufacturing their products, and in some cases marketing and selling them through our channels. You haven't heard about it because we don't name our product-development clients, ever. Their ideas came to us under NDA and they stay that way. Which tells you exactly how yours will be treated: the discretion you can't see is the proof.
Here's where the years go — and how you skip them
Here's what a great idea needs before the first government buyer can even legally purchase it — and what each piece costs an inventor going it alone:
- A federal contract vehicle. Winning your own GSA schedule takes most companies one to two years and a stack of past performance you don't have yet. Ours is active: GS-07F-148GA. Government buyers can purchase your product through it the day it's ready.
- A certified quality system. Serious buyers — and every prime — want ISO 9001:2015 behind the product. Building and certifying a QMS from scratch is a year-plus of process work. Your product is built inside ours from unit one.
- ITAR registration. If your idea touches the defense world, you can't lawfully play without it. We're registered, with the compliance discipline that goes with it — which also means international defense markets are handled correctly, not avoided.
- An audience that already buys. Over 10,000 operators, bomb techs, and buyers on our list, active accounts across military, federal, and law enforcement, and a marketing and sales operation that launches products across every channel in a single day. Alone, you'd spend years building an audience that trusts you. Here, you inherit one.
- Global reach. We exhibit and sell worldwide — NATO events, international EOD and demining conferences, allied programs. Your product travels on credentials and relationships that already exist.
Add it up and it's years: the contract vehicle, the quality certification, the export compliance, the audience. Going alone, that's your idea's adolescence spent in paperwork. Through this door, it's already built.
What your idea gets that you can't get alone
Nobody fills out a form because a shop owns machines. You fill it out because of what comes out the other side:
Week one: a straight answer
Buildable or not, what it takes, and — the part most shops won't touch — whether it's worth building. We've killed our own ideas on that question and productized the ones that survived it. The answer is free, and it comes in writing.
A prototype you can hold, fast
Design and additive live under the same roof, so the first version of your idea gets printed here — not quoted out to three vendors over a quarter. You iterate while the idea is still hot, which is when ideas survive.
A path to market you don't have on your own
If it proves out, the same building takes it to production — machined, molded, foam-fitted, marked — and puts it in front of buyers we already serve: military, federal agencies, and law enforcement, on a GSA schedule, under a brand bomb techs already trust. Your invention, our shelf, terms in writing.
The machines behind all of it — HAAS CNC, industrial additive in plastics and carbon fiber, fiber and CO2 lasers, custom foam, inert training aid production — matter for exactly one reason: they're all under one roof, which is why weeks here replace quarters elsewhere.
Your idea stays yours
The number one reason a good idea dies in a drawer is fear that the shop will walk off with it. So let's kill that here: we sign NDAs before detailed technical exchange, your IP remains your IP, and if the path forward involves licensing, royalties, or us manufacturing under your name, that goes in writing before we cut a single chip. We hold our own patent-pending work, so we protect inventors' rights the way we protect our own.
What happens after you submit
- Logged. Every submission is recorded and answered in writing, so you have documented correspondence for your contract file.
- Reviewed. It goes to the people who run the machines, not into a sales queue.
- Answered. You get a yes, a no, or an honest accounting of what it would take.
- Scoped. If it is a fit, we move to a written agreement — NDA included — before any detailed technical exchange.
What we will not do
We will not promise to build everything. Some ideas fall outside what we manufacture, and we would rather tell you that in week one than in month six.
We will not provide instructional content on constructing devices. Training aids we build are inert, and energetic material moves only through approved channels.
We will not quote from a concept sketch alone. Real pricing needs specifications, quantity, and an end use.
Tell us the problem
The problem statement is the field that matters most. Describe what is failing in the real world, not just the part you want made. That is what lets us tell you whether we can help, and how fast. Every submission is logged and answered in writing.
Questions
How do I know you won't take my idea?
Because we put it in writing before you show us anything sensitive. NDAs are signed before detailed technical exchange, your IP remains yours, and any manufacturing, licensing, or royalty arrangement is documented up front. We hold our own patent-pending work — we treat inventors' rights the way we expect ours to be treated.
Do you already build products for other companies?
Yes. EOD Gear manufactures tools and products for other companies today, and in some cases markets and sells them through our channels as well. We never name our product-development clients — their work came to us under NDA and stays confidential, which is the same treatment your idea receives.
How does EOD Gear cut years off getting a product to market?
Because the infrastructure your product needs already exists here: an active GSA schedule (GS-07F-148GA) so government buyers can purchase without you winning your own contract vehicle, ISO 9001:2015 certified production, ITAR registration for lawful defense and international work, a buyer list of over 10,000 operators and agencies, and proven marketing and sales channels with global reach. Going alone, assembling that takes years. Here, your idea inherits it on day one.
Do I have to be a government or military customer?
No. Inventors, operators, agencies, training programs, and companies all use this form. The intake asks about your status so we can route your idea correctly, not to screen you out.
What if all I have is a sketch on a napkin?
Send it. The problem statement carries more weight than the drawing. If we need dimensioned drawings later, we will ask for them.
Do we sign an agreement before I share details?
For anything past a general concept, yes. We move to a written agreement — NDA included — before detailed technical exchange. Say so in your problem statement and we will start there.
Can you build something outside your current product lines?
Often, yes. In-house we run HAAS CNC, additive in plastics and carbon fiber, custom foam and kitting, and fiber and CO2 laser. If your idea needs a process we do not have under this roof, we will say so rather than quietly farm it out.