Federal contractor · MADISON, VA

APPLIED RESEARCH IN ACOUSTICS LLC

APPLIED RESEARCH IN ACOUSTICS LLC received $5M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 5 awards (+14% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $30.8M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($4.1M).

Obligations · FY2026
$5M
New awards
5
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
17%
UEI
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Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 1.5MFY2017
  2. 2.7MFY2018
  3. 2.9MFY2019
  4. 2.8MFY2020
  5. 3.3MFY2021
  6. 3.4MFY2022
  7. 2.1MFY2023
  8. 2.8MFY2024
  9. 4.4MFY2025
  10. 5MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Navy$4.1M83%
    4 awards
  2. Department of the Army$850.6K17%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$5M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Madison County, VA$5M100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition17%
    US 39% · $850.6K
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions17%
    US 8.7% · $850.6K
  • 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 PH II AWARD TOPIC N191-016$3M
    Department of the Navy· Madison County, VA· Research & development· Jan 5, 2026 – Mar 20, 2026· N0002426C3016
  2. SMALL BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER PHASE II SELECTED UNDER TOPIC A22B-T002 FOR VERIFICATION, VALIDATION, ASSURANCE AND TRUST OF MACHINE LEARNING MODELS AND DATA FOR SAFETY CRITICAL APPLICATION IN ARMAMENTS SYSTEMS$2M
    Department of the Army· Madison County, VA· Research & development· May 29, 2024 – May 27, 2026· W15QKN24C0038
  3. BASE$1.7M
    Department of the Navy· Madison County, VA· Research & development· May 7, 2024 – Mar 23, 2026· N0002424CS057
  4. BASE AWARD FOR A SBIR PHASE II TOPIC #N221-062.$1.2M
    Department of the Navy· Madison County, VA· Research & development· Mar 10, 2025 – Mar 23, 2026· N0002425CS030
  5. FEW-SHOT LEARNING FOR RARE SONAR CONTACTS VIA DOMAIN ADAPTATION OF MODELED SONAR DATA$402.1K
    Department of the Navy· Madison County, VA· Research & development· Dec 23, 2020 – Mar 18, 2026· N0001421C2006

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-contracts: $194.4K (1 subaward)

1 prime

  1. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$194.4K100%
    SEATTLE, WA · 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 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

1 company · $194.4K reported

  1. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$194.4K
    SEATTLE, WA · 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 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 3 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. AEROSPACE MASS PROPERTIES ANALYSIS INC$9M+12% in FY2026
    NORTH WALES, PA · 74% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development services
  2. UNITED MESH SOLUTIONS LLC$8.9M−102% in FY2026
    WATERFORD, VA · 73% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development services
  3. LUMIMOVE INC$9.3M−100% in FY2026
    OAK CREEK, WI · 74% 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 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.