Federal contractor · NORTH ANDOVER, MA

6K INC.

6K INC. received $3.4M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 2 awards. Since FY2019: $14.1M. Its largest customer was Defense Logistics Agency ($3.4M).

Obligations · FY2026: $3.4M
New awards: 2
Sole-source: 0.0%
Single offer: 100%

UEI: JQDMCXKLP6X9

Small business

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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

100KFY2019
949.9KFY2020
4.5MFY2021
754.4KFY2022
4.3MFY2023
3.4MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Defense Logistics Agency$3.4M100%
2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Research & development$3.4M100%

Where the work was performed

Essex County, MA$3.4M100%

Integrity signals

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

Low competition100%
US 39% · $3.4M
Sole-source awards0.0%
US 30% · $0
Single-offer competitions100%
US 8.8% · $3.4M
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

BATTNET PROGRAM BAA AWARD TO 6K , FOR DEVELOPMENT OF SINGLE CRYSTAL NMC721 VIA UNIMELT FOR DEFENSE LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES TECHNICAL PROPOSAL$2M
Defense Logistics Agency· Essex County, MA· Research & development· Nov 24, 2025 – Jan 14, 2026· SP470126C0010
BAA 20.3, DLA TOPIC 203-004, SBIR PHASE II LOW COST DOMESTIC SINGLE CRYSTAL HIGH NICKEL NMC CATHODE FROM MICROWAVE PLASMA PROCESSING$1.5M
Defense Logistics Agency· Essex County, MA· Research & development· Apr 8, 2026 – Apr 15, 2026· SP470126C0063

Federal grants & assistance received

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

6K INC. received $0 in federal assistance in FY2026, on 2 actions (0 new awards).

Assistance · FY2026: $0
New awards: 0
Actions: 2
Since FY2023: $50M

Assistance by fiscal year

50MFY2023
0FY2024
0FY2025
0FY2026

Largest awards

BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE LAW (BIL) - PLASMA LOW-COST ULTRA SUSTAINABLE CATHODE ACTIVE MATERIALS THE PURPOSE OF THIS AWARD IS TO CONSTRUCT…$50M
81.253 · Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications· Department of Energy· Project grant· Sep 28, 2023 – Sep 15, 2026· DEMS0000021

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · FY2023–FY2026.

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 1 market (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

ICD ALLOYS AND METALS LLC$3.6M
WINSTON SALEM, NC · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Scientific research and development services
CTS CEMENT MANUFACTURING CORP$3.7M−15% in FY2026
GARDEN GROVE, CA · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Scientific research and development services
GLOBAL MATERIALS, INC$4M
LOWELL, MA · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Scientific research and development services

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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 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 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

6K Inc.AI match · 99%

Lobbying · 2025: $200K; 6 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026: $920K; $920K in its own reports

Lobbying by year

2023$360K
8 reports
2024$360K
8 reports
2025$200K
6 reports
2026$0
2 reports

Top issues

Energy and nuclear16 reports
Budget and appropriations13 reports
Science and technology11 reports
Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code5 reports
Financial institutions, investments and securities1 reports

Who was contacted

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES18 reports
U.S. SENATE18 reports
Energy - Dept of15 reports
Treasury - Dept of15 reports
White House Office12 reports
Commerce - Dept of (DOC)11 reports
State - Dept of (DOS)9 reports
Executive Office of the President (EOP)2 reports
Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM Bank)1 reports
U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)1 reports

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

Lobbying firms hired

Smith Garson$120K
10 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 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 5, 2026, loaded Oct 5, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Sep 30, 2026.

Congress: members and bills

Through the organizations matched to this company: members of Congress whose campaigns received contributions from their PACs, and the bills their lobbying reports named. Shown beside the company's contracts as a comparison, not a cause.

Bills named in its lobbying reports

H.R. 5376 · Inflation Reduction Act of 20227 reports
117th Congress · Became law · 2023–2025
H.R. 4365 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20243 reports
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2024
S. 2587 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20243 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2024
S. 4463 · A bill to terminate General License No. 8C of the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Department of the Treasury and require the application of sanctions under Executive Order 14024 to the entities listed in General License No. 8C.1 report
117th Congress · Introduced · 2023
H.R. 9495 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20271 report
119th Congress · Introduced · 2026

8 of 24 reports (2023–2026) name at least one bill. Bills and resolutions the current reports name in their issue descriptions, by number of reports. A report names what it lobbied on, not which side it took.

Amounts, members and bills are as recorded, shown side by side. They say nothing about why a contribution was made, how a member voted or what a report sought. A bill number written in a report is read as the measure of the Congress its context points to (a law's number, the Congress written next to it, the title), else of the Congress then sitting.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 5, 2026, loaded Oct 5, 2026.

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 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.