Federal contractor · ROCKVILLE, MD

CARTRIDGE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC

CARTRIDGE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC received $58.2M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 805 awards (+13% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $368.6M. Its largest customer was Defense Logistics Agency ($53.8M).

Obligations · FY2026
$58.2M
New awards
805
Sole-source
1.0%
Single offer
18%
UEI
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Other than small business

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 9.5MFY2017
  2. 15.1MFY2018
  3. 20.7MFY2019
  4. 23MFY2020
  5. 36.1MFY2021
  6. 47.6MFY2022
  7. 52.5MFY2023
  8. 54.6MFY2024
  9. 51.3MFY2025
  10. 58.2MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. 527 awards
  2. 81 awards
  3. 2 awards
  4. 111 awards
  5. 7 awards
  6. 3 awards
  7. 12 awards
  8. 3 awards
  9. 5 awards
  10. 1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Equipment maintenance$37.7M65%
  2. Other equipment & supplies$19.4M33%
  3. IT & telecom$681.9K1.2%
  4. Professional services$377.5K0.6%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition19%
    US 39% · $11.1M
  • Sole-source awards1.0%
    US 30% · $592K
  • Single-offer competitions18%
    US 8.8% · $10.5M
  • 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.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. Department of Defense · 4 awards
  2. Department of Defense · 4 awards
  3. Department of Defense · 11 awards
  4. U.S. Agency for Global Media · 1 awards
  5. Department of Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. Defense Logistics Agency· Honolulu County, HI· Other equipment & supplies· Dec 21, 2020 – Oct 27, 2025· SP700021F0051
  2. Defense Logistics Agency· San Diego County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Apr 19, 2021 – Mar 6, 2026· SP700021F0157
  3. National Institutes of Health· Montgomery County, MD· Equipment maintenance· Sep 26, 2019 – Aug 3, 2026· 75N93019F00375
  4. Defense Logistics Agency· Montgomery County, MD· Other equipment & supplies· Apr 28, 2021 – Apr 27, 2026· SP700021F0164
  5. Defense Logistics Agency· Beaufort County, SC· Other equipment & supplies· May 28, 2021 – May 19, 2026· SP700021F0273
  6. Defense Logistics Agency· Tarrant County, TX· Other equipment & supplies· May 29, 2021 – Apr 22, 2026· SP700021F0270
  7. Defense Logistics Agency· San Diego County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· May 4, 2021 – Mar 31, 2026· SP700021F0200
  8. Office of the Secretary· District of Columbia, DC· IT & telecom· Nov 1, 2021 – Feb 5, 2026· 1331L522F13ES0014

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

  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $418.1K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $80.1K 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 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 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 · $498.1K reported

  1. ALEXANDRIA, VA · 3 subawards · Computer systems design 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 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 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 67 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. TRIDENT E&P, LLC$56.5M+43% in FY2026
    POTTSTOWN, PA · 34% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Commercial and industrial machinery and equipment rental and leasingDefense Logistics Agency · Electronic and precision equipment repair and maintenance
  2. JTF BUSINESS SYSTEMS CORPORATION$46.3M−0.7% in FY2026
    SPRINGFIELD, VA · 10% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Commercial and industrial machinery and equipment rental and leasing
  3. KOTO-KU, JPN · 6.6% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Commercial and industrial machinery and equipment rental and leasing

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 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Lobbying and PAC activity

Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.

Matched organizations

  • Cartridge Technologies, LLCAI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2026
$120K
1 reports

Lobbying by year

  1. 2026$120K
    1 reports

Top issues

  1. Defense1 reports

Who was contacted

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

  1. CHECKMATE GOVERNMENT RELATIONS$120K
    1 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Sep 30, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026.