Federal contractor · BOSTON, MA

MERLIN LABS INC

MERLIN LABS INC received $500 in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 2 awards (−100% vs FY2025). Since FY2022: $16.9M. Its largest customer was Missile Defense Agency ($500).

Obligations · FY2026: $500
New awards: 2
Sole-source: 0.0%
Single offer: 0.0%

UEI: RSMGNMETUQX9

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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

969KFY2022
0FY2023
6.7MFY2024
9.2MFY2025
500FY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Missile Defense Agency$500100%
1 awards
U.S. Special Operations Command$00.0%
1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Research & development$500100%

Where the work was performed

Madison County, AL$500100%

Integrity signals

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

Low competition0.0%
US 39% · $0
Sole-source awards0.0%
US 30% · $0
Single-offer competitions0.0%
US 8.7% · $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

PDR & CDR$16M
U.S. Special Operations Command· Suffolk County, MA· Professional services· Jul 31, 2024 – Jun 2, 2026· H9240824F0010
SCALABLE HOMELAND INNOVATIVE ENTERPRISE LAYERED DEFENSE (SHIELD) INITIAL ORDER.$500
Missile Defense Agency· Madison County, AL· Research & development· Dec 4, 2025 – Jun 10, 2026· HQ085926FE898

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.

OCCAM SOLUTIONS, INC.$15.1M−73% in FY2026
HERNDON, VA · 96% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Special Operations Command · Computer systems design and related services
IT CONSULTING PARTNERS, LLC$12.4M−100% in FY2026
JACKSON, WY · 77% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Special Operations Command · Computer systems design and related services
CIPHER TECH SOLUTIONS INC$19.3M−62% in FY2026
VIENNA, VA · 94% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Special Operations Command · 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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

Merlin LabsAI match · 100%
MERLIN, INC.AI match · 92%

Lobbying · 2025: $620K; 8 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026: $1.8M

Lobbying by year

2023$370K
6 reports
2024$510K
8 reports
2025$620K
8 reports
2026$270K
4 reports

Top issues

Defense14 reports
Aerospace12 reports

Who was contacted

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES26 reports
U.S. SENATE26 reports
Defense - Dept of (DOD)4 reports

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

Lobbying firms hired

Invariant LLC$1.3M
14 reports
Hogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (FKA Hogan Lovells US LLP)$490K
12 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

PACs sponsored

MERLIN, INC. PAC$0 raised this cycle

PACs these organizations sponsor (connected organizations in FEC records). A PAC gives employees' and members' voluntary contributions, not the company's own money.

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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Oct 5, 2026.

Congress: members and bills

Through the organizations matched to this company: members of Congress whose campaigns received contributions from their PACs, and the bills their lobbying reports named. Shown beside the company's contracts as a comparison, not a cause.

Bills named in its lobbying reports

H.R. 8774 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20253 reports
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2024
S. 4921 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20252 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2024
H.R. 4016 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20262 reports
119th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2025
S. 2572 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20262 reports
119th Congress · Reported by committee · 2025
H.R. 4365 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20241 report
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2023
S. 2587 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20241 report
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2023
H.R. 8800 · National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20271 report
119th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2026
S. 4784 · National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20271 report
119th Congress · Reported by committee · 2026

7 of 26 reports (2023–2026) name at least one bill. Bills and resolutions the current reports name in their issue descriptions, by number of reports. A report names what it lobbied on, not which side it took.

Amounts, members and bills are as recorded, shown side by side. They say nothing about why a contribution was made, how a member voted or what a report sought. A bill number written in a report is read as the measure of the Congress its context points to (a law's number, the Congress written next to it, the title), else of the Congress then sitting.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.

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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.