Federal contractor · LAUREL, MD

CUTLASS SYSTEMS ENGINEERING LLC

CUTLASS SYSTEMS ENGINEERING LLC received $8.1M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 3 awards (+11% vs FY2025). Since FY2019: $45.7M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($8.1M).

Obligations · FY2026
$8.1M
New awards
3
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. 2.6MFY2019
  2. 4.7MFY2020
  3. 5.4MFY2021
  4. 5MFY2022
  5. 4.1MFY2023
  6. 8.5MFY2024
  7. 7.3MFY2025
  8. 8.1MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Navy$8.1M100%
    3 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$8.1M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. District of Columbia, DC$8.1M100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $8.1M
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions100%
    US 8.8% · $8.1M
  • 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. BASE YEAR LABOR (PRICED)$15.6M
    Department of the Navy· District of Columbia, DC· Research & development· Oct 26, 2023 – Apr 8, 2026· N0017324F2003
  2. SEE ATTACHMENT 1 - STATEMENT OF WORK$9.5M
    Department of the Navy· District of Columbia, DC· Research & development· Nov 17, 2025 – May 28, 2026· N0017326F2400
  3. SEE BASE CONTRACT SOW - N0017325D2420$0
    Department of the Navy· District of Columbia, DC· Research & development· Mar 11, 2025 – Dec 11, 2025· N0017325F2416

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.

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

1 company · $2M reported

  1. SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION$2M
    RESTON, VA · 1 subaward · Architectural, engineering, 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 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. NAVMAR APPLIED SCIENCES CORP$23.2M−57% in FY2026
    WARMINSTER, PA · 95% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development services
  2. APPLIED TECHNOLOGY, INC.$28.9M−4.2% in FY2026
    KING GEORGE, VA · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development services
  3. NIGHTWING INTELLIGENCE SOLUTIONS, LLC$28.5M−79% in FY2026
    INDIALANTIC, FL · 4 entities · 98% 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 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.