Federal contractor · RESTON, VA

INTELLIGENT WAVES LLC

INTELLIGENT WAVES LLC received $5.4M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 5 awards (−29% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $428.9M. Its largest customer was Department of the Air Force ($5.5M).

Obligations · FY2026
$5.4M
New awards
5
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Small businessVeteran-ownedService-disabled veteran-owned
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 51.4MFY2017
  2. 91.9MFY2018
  3. 19.4MFY2019
  4. 47.6MFY2020
  5. 37.1MFY2021
  6. 44.9MFY2022
  7. 89.5MFY2023
  8. 34.2MFY2024
  9. 7.6MFY2025
  10. 5.4MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Air Force$5.5M100%
    3 awards
  2. Defense Information Systems Agency-$97.9K0.0%
    2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. IT & telecom$5.4M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Clark County, NV$5.5M100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $5.5M
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $5.5M
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.8% · $0
  • 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. DODIN READINESS SECURITY INSPECTIONS CYBERSECURITY SUPPORT.$24.2M
    Defense Information Systems Agency· Anne Arundel County, MD· IT & telecom· Jun 24, 2019 – Nov 26, 2025· HC102819F0568
  2. ELOG FSR SUPPORT KUWAIT AOR$13.2M
    Defense Information Systems Agency· Professional services· Sep 30, 2020 – Apr 30, 2026· HC101320F0227
  3. THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PROVIDE FLIGHT TEST MISSION INSTRUMENTATION MODIFICATIONS, IMPROVEMENTS, AND OPERATIONS FOR 53RD WING TEST AIRCRAFT TEST INSTRUMENTATION PACKAGES AT NELLIS AFB, NEVADA AND OTHER OPERATIONAL FLIGHT-TESTING LOCATIONS.$7.3M
    Department of the Air Force· Clark County, NV· IT & telecom· Mar 17, 2025 – Jun 10, 2026· FA486125F0084
  4. CROWDSOURCE SUPPORT ORDERING YEAR 1 AND 2 FOR INSTALLATION SERVICES.$6.3M
    Department of the Air Force· Clark County, NV· IT & telecom· Mar 14, 2023 – Apr 1, 2026· FA486123F0102
  5. INTELLIGENT WAVES DCGS 5G PHASE II$1.8M
    Department of the Air Force· Fairfax County, VA· Research & development· Jul 31, 2024 – Dec 4, 2025· FA852724P0007

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

  • Sub-contracts: $634.9K (2 subawards)

1 prime

  1. GENERAL DYNAMICS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INC.$634.9K100%
    FAIRFAX, VA · 2 subawards

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $438.4K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $11.2M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $9.3M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $35.9M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $3.5M received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $634.9K 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 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

8 companies · $60.9M reported

  1. BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC$35.9M
    MCLEAN, VA · 26 subawards · Wired telecommunications carriers
  2. CACI, INC. - FEDERAL$18.1M
    CHANTILLY, VA · 2 subawards · Architectural, engineering, and related services
  3. ELECTRIC BOAT CORPORATION$2.7M
    GROTON, CT · 4 subawards · Computer systems design and related services

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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 3 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. SOLID STATE SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION$81M−33% in FY2026
    HOLLIS, NH · 94% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Data processing, hosting, and related servicesAir Force · Scientific research and development services
  2. DATAMINR, INC.$145.1M−77% in FY2026
    NEW YORK, NY · 95% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Data processing, hosting, and related servicesDefense Information Systems Agency · Computer systems design and related services
  3. ALASKA NORTHSTAR RESOURCES LLC$148M−35% in FY2026
    SITKA, AK · 96% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Data processing, hosting, and related servicesDefense Information Systems Agency · Computer systems design and related 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.

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

  • Intelligent Waves LLCAI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2025
$200K
4 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$700K

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$200K
    4 reports
  2. 2024$200K
    4 reports
  3. 2025$200K
    4 reports
  4. 2026$100K
    2 reports

Top issues

  1. Defense14 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES7 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE6 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. HOLLAND & KNIGHT LLP$700K
    14 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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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.