Federal contractor · FAIRFAX STATION, VA

APPLIED OCEAN SCIENCES, LLC

APPLIED OCEAN SCIENCES, LLC received $293K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 3 awards (−80% vs FY2025). Since FY2019: $8.1M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($293K). It also received $125K in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$293K
New awards
3
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
N2W3KSDKYR79
Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 140KFY2019
  2. 1.6MFY2020
  3. 1.3MFY2021
  4. 1.8MFY2022
  5. 1.1MFY2023
  6. 456.8KFY2024
  7. 1.5MFY2025
  8. 293KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Navy$293K100%
    3 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$293K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Fairfax County, VA$293K100%

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. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT$146.5K
    Department of the Navy· Fairfax County, VA· Research & development· Oct 8, 2025 – Oct 8, 2025· N6833526C0052
  2. 873AUTHORITY$146.5K
    Department of the Navy· Fairfax County, VA· Research & development· Nov 12, 2025 – Nov 12, 2025· N6426726C7001
  3. NAVY RECEIVED LEVEL PROPAGATION MODELING ALIGNMENT WORKING GROUP$67.3K
    Department of the Navy· Fairfax County, VA· Research & development· Aug 6, 2025 – Feb 9, 2026· N3943025C0007

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 OCEAN SCIENCES, LLC received $125K in federal assistance in FY2026, on 4 actions (0 new awards), +24% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 12.300 · Basic and Applied Scientific Research ($125K).

Assistance · FY2026
$125K
New awards
0
Actions
4
Since FY2021
$3.5M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 147.2KFY2021
  2. 601.6KFY2022
  3. 699.3KFY2023
  4. 1.8MFY2024
  5. 100.6KFY2025
  6. 125KFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$125K100%

Top programs

  1. 12.300 · Basic and Applied Scientific Research$125K100%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of the Navy$125K100%
    Department of Defense

Largest awards

  1. PURPOSE: TECHNICAL ABSTRACT VISIBILITY IS A CRITICAL FACTOR IN MARITIME OPERATIONS, IMPACTED BY VARIOUS ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS SUCH AS FOG…$650K
    11.021 · Noaa Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program· National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration· Project grant· Sep 6, 2024 – Sep 4, 2026· NA24OARX021G0038
  2. METOC AUTONOMY SYSTEMS INTEGRATION, RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION$225.6K
    12.300 · Basic and Applied Scientific Research· Department of the Navy· Project grant· Apr 9, 2025 – Aug 11, 2026· N000142512295

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–FY2026.

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: $435K (1 subaward)

1 prime

  1. UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE$435K100%
    DURHAM, NH · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $377.2K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $3.8M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $200.2K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $1.6M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $453.1K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $435K 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

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

8 companies · $6.9M reported

  1. SYSTEMS & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH LLC$4.8M
    WOBURN, MA · 6 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  2. UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE$1.4M
    DURHAM, NH · 11 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  3. METRON INCORPORATED$243.3K
    RESTON, VA · 1 subaward · Scientific research and development services

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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. VIREWIRX, INC$2.2M−100% in FY2026
    SAN DIEGO, CA · 99.7% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development services
  2. BINERA, INC.$2.2M
    ROCKVILLE, MD · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development services
  3. SCIX3 LLC$2.2M+684% in FY2026
    ALEXANDRIA, VA · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development services

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

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.