Federal contractor · MELBOURNE, FL

CRITICAL FREQUENCY DESIGN LLC

CRITICAL FREQUENCY DESIGN LLC received $520.8K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 7 awards (−93% vs FY2025). Since FY2020: $17.2M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($520.8K).

Obligations · FY2026
$520.8K
New awards
7
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
18%
UEI
E2DHYME6B1T6
Small businessWoman-owned
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 251.3KFY2020
  2. 100KFY2021
  3. 2MFY2022
  4. 3.4MFY2023
  5. 3.7MFY2024
  6. 7.1MFY2025
  7. 520.8KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Navy$520.8K100%
    5 awards
  2. Department of the Army-$0.100.0%
    2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$520.8K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Brevard County, FL$520.8K100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition18%
    US 39% · $95.3K
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions18%
    US 8.8% · $95.3K
  • 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 PHASE III$3M
    Department of the Army· Brevard County, FL· Research & development· Apr 20, 2023 – May 14, 2026· W56KGU23C0006
  2. SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH (SBIR) PHASE II SEQUENTIAL, TOPIC A21-107, CHIP-SCALE OPTICAL RECEIVERS FOR COMMUNICATIONS. THIS CONTINUES THE EFFORTS CONDUCTED UNDER PREVIOUSLY ISSUED PHASE II SBIR CONTRACT: W56KGU-23-C-0020.$1.9M
    Department of the Army· Brevard County, FL· Research & development· Jul 14, 2025 – May 5, 2026· W5170125CA183
  3. REFEREE$1.5M
    Department of the Navy· Brevard County, FL· Research & development· Apr 2, 2024 – Dec 31, 2025· N0001424C1134
  4. BASE$1.3M
    Department of the Navy· Brevard County, FL· Research & development· Sep 13, 2024 – Nov 7, 2025· N0002424CS198
  5. SBIR PHASE II TOPIC: N241-D01$1.1M
    Department of the Navy· Brevard County, FL· Research & development· Dec 19, 2024 – Mar 26, 2026· N6893625C0002
  6. SBIR 2 N231-010$999.9K
    Department of the Navy· Brevard County, FL· Research & development· Oct 22, 2024 – Feb 5, 2026· N6893625C0009
  7. JAMMER HAMMER$510K
    Department of the Navy· Brevard County, FL· Research & development· Mar 27, 2025 – Jan 23, 2026· N0001425C1112

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. QUESTEK INNOVATIONS LLC$11.2M−67% in FY2026
    EVANSTON, IL · 91% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development servicesArmy · Scientific research and development services
  2. COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE GROUP OF FLORIDA, LLC$8M−23% in FY2026
    PORTSMOUTH, VA · 70% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development servicesArmy · Scientific research and development services
  3. NANOVOX, LLC$10.7M−27% in FY2026
    CORVALLIS, OR · 79% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development servicesArmy · 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 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

  • Critical Frequency Design, LLCAI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2025
$65K
7 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$225K

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$80K
    4 reports
  2. 2024$80K
    4 reports
  3. 2025$65K
    7 reports
  4. 2026$0
    3 reports

Top issues

  1. Defense11 reports
  2. Budget and appropriations1 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES12 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE11 reports

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

Lobbying firms hired

  1. Strategic Marketing Innovations$220K
    11 reports
  2. SMITH & ASSOCIATES$5,000
    7 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.