Federal contractor · LARKSPUR, CO

AQWEST, LLC

AQWEST, LLC received $654.9K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 2 awards (−76% vs FY2025). Since FY2019: $9.8M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($654.9K).

Obligations · FY2026
$654.9K
New awards
2
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
100%
UEI
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Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 500KFY2019
  2. 1.7MFY2020
  3. 375KFY2021
  4. 500KFY2022
  5. 289.9KFY2023
  6. 3.1MFY2024
  7. 2.7MFY2025
  8. 654.9KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Navy$654.9K100%
    2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$654.9K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Douglas County, CO$654.9K100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $654.9K
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions100%
    US 8.7% · $654.9K
  • 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 873AUTHORITY$3M
    Department of the Navy· Douglas County, CO· Research & development· Apr 22, 2024 – Mar 17, 2026· N6833524C0166
  2. SBIR PHASE II.$999.9K
    Department of the Navy· Douglas County, CO· Research & development· May 7, 2024 – Mar 25, 2026· N6833524C0267

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.

AQWEST, LLC received $0 in federal assistance in FY2026, on 1 actions (0 new awards), −100% vs FY2025.

Assistance · FY2026
$0
New awards
0
Actions
1
Since FY2021
$2.5M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 0FY2021
  2. 200KFY2022
  3. 1.1MFY2023
  4. 0FY2024
  5. 1.1MFY2025
  6. 0FY2026

Largest awards

  1. WAVELENGTH-TUNABLE VISIBLE PICOSECOND LASER$2.5M
    81.049 · Office of Science Financial Assistance Program· Department of Energy· Project grant· Feb 14, 2022 – Jun 23, 2026· DESC0022466

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.

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. CYAN SYSTEMS, INC.$6.4M−31% in FY2026
    SANTA BARBARA, CA · 97% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development servicesAir Force · Scientific research and development services
  2. SYNAPSEMX, INC$6M
    NEWNAN, GA · 92% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development servicesAir Force · Scientific research and development services
  3. JAXON, INC.$6.7M−100% in FY2026
    LINCOLN, MA · 95% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development servicesAir Force · 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.