Federal contractor · CAMBRIDGE, MA

AARNO LABS LLC

AARNO LABS LLC received $2.7M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 2 awards (−7.1% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $22.5M. Its largest customer was Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ($2.7M).

Obligations · FY2026
$2.7M
New awards
2
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 1.2MFY2017
  2. 1.8MFY2018
  3. 2MFY2019
  4. 4MFY2020
  5. 2.9MFY2021
  6. 1.7MFY2022
  7. 2.8MFY2023
  8. 654.5KFY2024
  9. 2.9MFY2025
  10. 2.7MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency$2.7M100%
    2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$2.7M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Middlesex County, MA$2.7M100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition0.0%
    US 39% · $0
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.8% · $0
  • 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. ENHANCED SBOM FOR OPTIMIZED SOFTWARE SUSTAINMENT (E-BOSS) PROGRAM.$3.4M
    Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency· Middlesex County, MA· Research & development· Sep 18, 2024 – May 18, 2026· HR001124C0486
  2. MACHINE LEARNING AND OPTIMIZATION-GUIDED COMPILERS FOR HETEROGENEOUS ARCHITECTURES (MOCHA) PROGRAM.$2.5M
    Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency· Middlesex County, MA· Research & development· Sep 4, 2025 – May 13, 2026· HR001125CE038

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

  • Sub-grants: $413.4K (1 subaward)

1 prime

  1. GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (THE)$413.4K100%
    WASHINGTON, DC · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $452.9K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $642.3K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $3.2M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $100.4K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $413.4K 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

3 companies · $4.8M reported

  1. SYSTEMS & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH LLC$2.4M
    WOBURN, MA · 1 subaward · Scientific research and development services
  2. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$2M
    LEXINGTON, MA · 10 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  3. GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (THE)$413.4K
    WASHINGTON, DC · 1 subaward

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 2 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. XUV LASERS, INC.$6M−100% in FY2026
    FORT COLLINS, CO · 96% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency · Scientific research and development services
  2. REACH POWER, INC.$5.7M−19% in FY2026
    REDWOOD CITY, CA · 88% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency · Scientific research and development services
  3. FIVE DIRECTIONS, INC.$5.3M−60% in FY2026
    VIENNA, VA · 77% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Advanced Research Projects 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 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

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.