Federal contractor · HERNDON, VA

OPTIMAL SATCOM, INC.

OPTIMAL SATCOM, INC. received $60K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 2 awards (−0.8% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $2.6M. Its largest customer was Federal Aviation Administration ($60K).

Obligations · FY2026
$60K
New awards
2
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
100%
UEI
XCC8A61DUET8
Parent company
OPTIMAL SATCOM INC.
Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 558.9KFY2017
  2. 596.9KFY2018
  3. 287.2KFY2019
  4. 287.2KFY2020
  5. 269.7KFY2021
  6. 159.2KFY2022
  7. 170.1KFY2023
  8. 164.3KFY2024
  9. 60.5KFY2025
  10. 60KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Federal Aviation Administration$60K100%
    1 awards
  2. U.S. Agency for Global Media$00.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. IT & telecom$60K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Fairfax County, VA$60K100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $60K
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions100%
    US 8.8% · $60K
  • 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. OPTIMAL SATCOM$208.7K
    U.S. Agency for Global Media· Fairfax County, VA· IT & telecom· Jun 6, 2023 – Jul 20, 2026· 95170023C0203
  2. OPTIMAL SATCOM, INC. SEND TO ATTEN.: BARRY BRUNO - [name removed] EMAIL ADDRESS: [email removed] RENEWAL/UPGRADE OF SOFTWARE PACKAGE USED TO MODEL SATELLITE SPACE SEGMENT, BIANNUAL SUN OUTAGES, AND BANDWIDTH USE. PER FAA ORDER 1370.$60K
    Federal Aviation Administration· Fairfax County, VA· IT & telecom· Feb 10, 2026 – Feb 10, 2026· 6973GH26P00765

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. ETQ, LLC$166.4K−46% in FY2026
    BURLINGTON, MA · 61% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Aviation Administration · Software publishers
  2. AVENIR TECHNOLOGIES, INC.$248.1K+4% in FY2026
    PORT SAINT LUCIE, FL · 59% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Aviation Administration · Software publishers
  3. AIREON LLC$367.2K+2% in FY2026
    MC LEAN, VA · 63% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Aviation Administration · Software publishers

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.

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.