Federal contractor · BRIGHTON, MI

DARKFLITE INC.

DARKFLITE INC. received $1.3M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 2 awards (+0.5% vs FY2025). Since FY2024: $2.7M. Its largest customer was Immediate Office of the Secretary of Transportation ($1.3M).

Obligations · FY2026
$1.3M
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. 178.6KFY2024
  2. 1.3MFY2025
  3. 1.3MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Immediate Office of the Secretary of Transportation$1.3M100%
    1 awards
  2. Department of the Air Force$00.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$1.3M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Livingston County, MI$1.3M100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $1.3M
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions100%
    US 8.8% · $1.3M
  • 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. DARKFLITE INC. PHASE II SBIR AWARD UNDER TOPIC 24-NH5: PREHOSPITAL BLOOD TRANSFUSION SYSTEMS IMPROVEMENT: EXPANDING ACCESS THROUGH INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND TOOLS$1.3M
    Immediate Office of the Secretary of Transportation· Livingston County, MI· Research & development· May 27, 2026 – Jul 29, 2026· 6913G626C100004
  2. ACCELERATING FRONTLINE SURVIVAL: A NEXT-GENERATION DRONE FOR RAPID MILITARY MEDICAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE$1.2M
    Department of the Air Force· Livingston County, MI· Research & development· Aug 28, 2025 – Jan 7, 2026· FA864925P0432

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. HAAS, INC.$1.9M−100% in FY2026
    CHICAGO, IL · 72% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development servicesImmediate Office of the Secretary of Transportation · Scientific research and development services
  2. LEGACY INNOVATION INC.$1.4M−99% in FY2026
    BOISE, ID · 54% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveImmediate Office of the Secretary of Transportation · Scientific research and development services
  3. INFRASENSE, INC.$1.5M−99% in FY2026
    WOBURN, MA · 54% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveImmediate Office of the Secretary of Transportation · Scientific research and development services

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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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

  • darkflite, Inc.AI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2026
$20K
2 reports
Lobbying · 2025–2026
$40K

Lobbying by year

  1. 2025$20K
    3 reports
  2. 2026$20K
    2 reports

Top issues

  1. Transportation2 reports

Who was contacted

  1. Transportation - Dept of (DOT)1 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. EXECUTIVE STRATEGIES, LTD. CO.$40K
    5 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 5, 2026, loaded Oct 5, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 5, 2026, loaded Oct 5, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: AI name judgments (entity-match@1, jev-1.13.0), updated Sep 30, 2026.

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.