Federal contractor · SYKESVILLE, MD

APPLIED ENGINEERING CONCEPTS, INCORPORATED

APPLIED ENGINEERING CONCEPTS, INCORPORATED received $184.5K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 2 awards (−79% vs FY2025). Since FY2019: $2.3M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($184.5K).

Obligations · FY2026
$184.5K
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. 500FY2019
  2. 478.4KFY2023
  3. 793.1KFY2024
  4. 887.4KFY2025
  5. 184.5KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Navy$184.5K100%
    2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$184.5K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Carroll County, MD$184.5K100%

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. THE PURPOSE OF PHY AGILITY FOR DELIVERY OF MODULAR EXPLOITS (PADME) EFFORT WILL EVOLVE EXISTING DYNAMIC, MULTI-TENANT ELECTRONIC WARFARE (EW) ARCHITECTURES TO BETTER SUPPORT RADIO FREQUENCY (RF)-ENABLED CYBER OPERATIONS.$2.2M
    Department of the Navy· Carroll County, MD· Research & development· Jun 15, 2023 – Mar 19, 2026· N0001423C1036
  2. FUTURE ARCHITECTURE FOR HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEM TASKING (FAHST)$350.5K
    Department of the Navy· Carroll County, MD· Research & development· Apr 29, 2026 – Jun 8, 2026· N0001426C1119

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.

APPLIED ENGINEERING CONCEPTS, INCORPORATED received $0 in federal assistance in FY2026, on 0 actions (0 new awards).

Assistance · FY2026
$0
New awards
0
Actions
0
Since FY2021
$206.5K

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 0FY2021
  2. 0FY2022
  3. 206.5KFY2023
  4. 0FY2024

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · FY2021–FY2024.

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: $92.2K paid out · $0 received
  • FY2022: $46.3K paid out · $418.3K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $161.3K received
  • FY2024: $8,000 paid out · $213.7K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $265.3K 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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

2 companies · $146.6K reported

  1. CLEMSON UNIVERSITY$100.2K
    CLEMSON, SC · 3 subawards
  2. AVID SYSTEMS, INC$46.3K
    SNEADS FERRY, NC · 2 subawards

Primes that pay it

1 company · $1.1M reported

  1. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH CORPORATION$1.1M
    ATLANTA, GA · 8 subawards · Architectural, engineering, and related 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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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 1 market (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. NEARSPACE LAUNCH INC.$1.9M−100% in FY2026
    UPLAND, IN · 99% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development services
  2. DIFFERENCE A2C, LLC, THE$1.9M
    ATLANTA, GA · 2 entities · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development services
  3. DATA MACHINES CORP.$1.9M−24% in FY2026
    RESTON, VA · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · 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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.