Federal contractor · NEEDHAM HEIGHTS, MA

MICROWAVE DEVELOPMENT LABORATORIES, INC.

MICROWAVE DEVELOPMENT LABORATORIES, INC. received $635.8K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 6 awards (+142% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $6.2M. Its largest customer was Defense Logistics Agency ($635.8K).

Obligations · FY2026
$635.8K
New awards
6
Sole-source
7.4%
Single offer
83%
UEI
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Small business

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 790.2KFY2017
  2. 2.1MFY2018
  3. 532.7KFY2019
  4. 283.9KFY2020
  5. 236.8KFY2021
  6. 497.4KFY2022
  7. 568.1KFY2023
  8. 250.2KFY2024
  9. 262.3KFY2025
  10. 635.8KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. 6 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$430.5K68%
  2. Other equipment & supplies$205.3K32%

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition90%
    US 39% · $573.7K
  • Sole-source awards7.4%
    US 30% · $46.8K
  • Single-offer competitions83%
    US 8.8% · $526.9K
  • 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. Defense Logistics Agency· Norfolk County, MA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Jan 29, 2026 – Jan 29, 2026· SPRMM126PKA28
  2. Defense Logistics Agency· Norfolk County, MA· Other equipment & supplies· Jun 6, 2025 – May 27, 2026· SPRRA225P0016
  3. Defense Logistics Agency· Norfolk County, MA· Other equipment & supplies· Oct 16, 2025 – Oct 16, 2025· SPE7M526P0324
  4. Defense Logistics Agency· Norfolk County, MA· Other equipment & supplies· May 13, 2026 – May 13, 2026· SPE7M126P5398
  5. Defense Logistics Agency· Norfolk County, MA· Other equipment & supplies· Dec 4, 2025 – Dec 4, 2025· SPE7M126V3266
  6. Defense Logistics Agency· Norfolk County, MA· Other equipment & supplies· Nov 10, 2025 – Nov 10, 2025· SPE7M526V0980

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: $295.9K (5 subawards)

2 primes

  1. TUCSON, AZ · 3 subawards
  2. MCLEAN, VA · 2 subawards

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $8.3M received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $1.7M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $3.9M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $5.6M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $2.2M received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $295.9K 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 · $22.1M reported

  1. TUCSON, AZ · 80 subawards · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing
  2. MELBOURNE, FL · 4 subawards · Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing
  3. FORT WORTH, TX · 1 subaward · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing

Showing the top 3 of each list. Open the profile for potential partners and the full lists.

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

  1. PLANO, TX · 85% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturingDefense Logistics Agency · Communications equipment manufacturing
  2. MICROPHASE CORP$914.4K−88% in FY2026
    SHELTON, CT · 66% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Communications equipment manufacturingDefense Logistics Agency · Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing
  3. ATEEZ CORP$1.5M−49% in FY2026
    INGLEWOOD, CA · 75% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturingDefense Logistics Agency · 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 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.