Federal contractor · PASADENA, CA

MERIDIAN RAPID DEFENSE GROUP LLC

MERIDIAN RAPID DEFENSE GROUP LLC received $1.7M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 8 awards (+1,815% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $2.2M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($975.3K).

Obligations · FY2026
$1.7M
New awards
8
Sole-source
3.4%
Single offer
75%
UEI
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Small business

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 78.1KFY2017
  2. 125.4KFY2019
  3. 90.2KFY2022
  4. 179.9KFY2023
  5. 86.2KFY2025
  6. 1.7MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. 1 awards
  2. 2 awards
  3. 3 awards
  4. 1 awards
  5. 1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$975.3K59%
  2. Other equipment & supplies$675K41%

Where the work was performed

  1. Pima County, AZ$56.2K3.4%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition78%
    US 39% · $1.3M
  • Sole-source awards3.4%
    US 30% · $56.2K
  • Single-offer competitions75%
    US 8.7% · $1.2M
  • 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 · 1 awards

Exclusions in SAM.gov

Records of the SAM.gov exclusions list (parties debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment or otherwise excluded) matched to this recipient by its Unique Entity ID or CAGE code.

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Largest awards

  1. Department of the Navy· Los Angeles County, CA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Apr 10, 2026 – Apr 10, 2026· M6700126F0036
  2. Federal Acquisition Service· Los Angeles County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Jan 15, 2026 – Jan 15, 2026· 47QSWA26F0E98
  3. Department of Veterans Affairs· Los Angeles County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 3, 2026 – Sep 24, 2026· 36C24126N0898
  4. Department of Veterans Affairs· Santa Clara County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 22, 2026 – Sep 22, 2026· 36C26126F0434
  5. Federal Acquisition Service· Los Angeles County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Nov 13, 2025 – Nov 13, 2025· 47QSWA26F03F3
  6. Department of the Air Force· Pima County, AZ· Other equipment & supplies· Jun 29, 2026 – Jun 29, 2026· FA487726P0074
  7. Federal Bureau of Investigation· Los Angeles County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Apr 3, 2026 – Apr 3, 2026· 15F06726F0000483
  8. Department of Veterans Affairs· Clark County, NV· Other equipment & supplies· Aug 19, 2026 – Aug 19, 2026· 36C26126F0358

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

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Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

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

  1. LA MIRADA, CA · 56% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Communications equipment manufacturing
  2. TIM PRICE INC.$1.1M−100% in FY2026
    WINCHESTER, VA · 56% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Communications equipment manufacturing
  3. INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED$1.4M−100% in FY2026
    SAN DIEGO, CA · 56% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Communications equipment manufacturing

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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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.

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Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.