Federal contractor · SUNNYVALE, CA

AOSENSE, INC.

AOSENSE, INC. received $1.2M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 6 awards (−65% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $40.2M. Its largest customer was Department of the Army ($1.7M).

Obligations · FY2026
$1.2M
New awards
6
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. 8.3MFY2017
  2. 8.6MFY2018
  3. 2.7MFY2019
  4. 2.4MFY2020
  5. 7.1MFY2021
  6. 448.1KFY2022
  7. 1.6MFY2023
  8. 4.5MFY2024
  9. 3.4MFY2025
  10. 1.2MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Army$1.7M100%
    1 awards
  2. Department of the Navy$37.1K3.2%
    1 awards
  3. Department of the Air Force$00.0%
    1 awards
  4. National Aeronautics and Space Administration-$569K0.0%
    3 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$1.1M97%
  2. Other equipment & supplies$37.1K3.2%

Where the work was performed

  1. Alameda County, CA$1.1M96%
  2. District of Columbia, DC$37.1K3.2%
  3. Santa Clara County, CA$14K1.2%

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 8.7% · $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. SBIR PHASE III AWARD. PHASE I/II AWARDED UNDER NNX13CG02C COLD ATOM GRAVITY GRADIOMETER FOR GEODESY: THE CONTRACTOR SHALL DESIGN, CONSTRUCT, AND OPTIMIZE A HIGH-PERFORMANCE GRAVITY GRADIOMETER BASED ON LIGHT-PULSE ATOM INTERFEROMETRY. THE CONTRACTOR SHALL BUILD AND TEST A SECOND PROTOTYPE ZERO-DEAD-TIME (ZDT) ABSOLUTE GRAVIMETER. THE INSTRUMENTS IN THIS PHASE III EFFORT TAKES ADVANTAGE OF TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPED UNDER NASA SBIR PHASE I AND PHASE II PROGRAMS.$8.1M
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Santa Clara County, CA· Research & development· Oct 27, 2016 – Jul 17, 2026· NNG14CR61C
  2. SBIR PHASE III - QUANTUM GRAVITY GRADIOMETER (QGG) ATOMIC PHYSICS PACKAGE (APP) TECHNOLOGY MATURATION AND DESIGN USING FREE-SPACE ULTRA-COLD RB SOURCE$2.4M
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Alameda County, CA· Research & development· Aug 23, 2024 – Jun 23, 2026· 80NSSC24CA189
  3. SF241-D025 ALTERNATIVE POSITION, NAVIGATION AND TIMING. AOSENSE PROPOSES TO DEVELOP AN ADVANCED LASER-PUMPED ATOMIC CLOCK ARCHITECTURE. ALPACA IS A COMPACT, HIGH-PERFORMANCE, VAPOR-CELL ATOMIC CLOCK WITH LONG-TERM STABILITY TO VAPOR-CELL CLOCKS.$1.9M
    Department of the Air Force· Alameda County, CA· Research & development· Jul 15, 2024 – Oct 14, 2025· FA254124CB016
  4. SBIR PHII OSD232-006, HIGH-EFFICIENCY LOW-POWER MICROWAVE OSCILLATOR FOR RUBIDIUM (HELPMOR) DEVELOP NOVEL TECHNOLOGIES TO INCREASE THE EFFICIENCY OF AND REDUCE THE POWER REQUIREMENTS OF LOW NOISE MICROWAVE SOURCES.$1.7M
    Department of the Army· Alameda County, CA· Research & development· Apr 1, 2026 – May 14, 2026· W5170126CA165
  5. SBIR I ADVANCED NARROW-LINEWIDTH TUNABLE LASER FOR RYDBERG SENSORS (ANTLRS)$149.9K
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Alameda County, CA· Research & development· Aug 27, 2025 – Dec 15, 2025· 80NSSC25C0140
  6. 448 NM ECDL LASER SYSTEM FOR SR LATTICE CLOCKS.$37.1K
    Department of the Navy· District of Columbia, DC· Other equipment & supplies· Jun 12, 2026 – Jun 12, 2026· N0018926PL148

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 · $120K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $28.1M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $50.9K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $151.7K 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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 · $28.4M reported

  1. ASSURANCE TECHNOLOGY CORP$28.1M
    CARLISLE, MA · 9 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  2. TELEDYNE BROWN ENGINEERING, INC.$291.8K
    HUNTSVILLE, AL · 3 subawards
  3. AERODYNE-SGT ENGINEERING SERVICES, LLC$30.8K
    CAPE CANAVERAL, FL · 1 subaward · Scientific research and development services

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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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 6 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. ADVANCED RESEARCH, INC.$5.5M+226% in FY2026
    BOZEMAN, MT · 57% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Scientific research and development servicesArmy · Scientific research and development servicesNavy · Scientific research and development services
  2. QUALTECH SYSTEMS, INC.$6.7M−30% in FY2026
    ROCKY HILL, CT · 59% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Scientific research and development servicesNavy · Scientific research and development servicesArmy · Scientific research and development services
  3. A10 SYSTEMS INC$10M−38% in FY2026
    LOWELL, MA · 66% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Scientific research and development servicesArmy · Scientific research and development servicesNavy · 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.