Federal contractor · BOULDER, CO

OPTIMIZATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

OPTIMIZATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC. received $3.4M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 4 awards (+20% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $24.3M. Its largest customer was Missile Defense Agency ($2.5M).

Obligations · FY2026
$3.4M
New awards
4
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 1.2MFY2017
  2. 1.1MFY2018
  3. 2.7MFY2019
  4. 1.7MFY2020
  5. 2.1MFY2021
  6. 4.2MFY2022
  7. 3.8MFY2023
  8. 1.2MFY2024
  9. 2.8MFY2025
  10. 3.4MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Missile Defense Agency$2.5M75%
    3 awards
  2. Department of the Army$850K25%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$3.4M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Boulder County, CO$3.4M100.0%
  2. Madison County, AL$5000.0%

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 8.8% · $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. SBIR/STTR PHASE II R&D OPERATIONAL DEFENSE EFFECTIVENESS ASSESSMENTS FOR MISSILE RAID SCENARIOS$4M
    Missile Defense Agency· Boulder County, CO· Research & development· Feb 8, 2023 – Dec 18, 2025· HQ086023C7103
  2. STTR PHASE II AWARD FOR VERIFICATION, VALIDATION, ASSURANCE, AND TRUST OF MACHINE LEARNING MODELS AND DATA$2M
    Department of the Army· Boulder County, CO· Research & development· Jun 28, 2024 – May 29, 2026· W15QKN24C0042
  3. SBIR PHASE II - BENCHMARKING SIMULATIONS FOR MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEMS ANALYSIS$2M
    Missile Defense Agency· Boulder County, CO· Research & development· Sep 17, 2025 – Oct 16, 2025· HQ086025CE030
  4. SCALABLE HOMELAND INNOVATIVE ENTERPRISE LAYERED DEFENSE (SHIELD) INITIAL ORDER.$500
    Missile Defense Agency· Madison County, AL· Research & development· Dec 19, 2025 – Jun 9, 2026· HQ085926FG434

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

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $396K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $126.2K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $16.2M 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

4 companies · $16.7M reported

  1. PARSONS GOVERNMENT SERVICES INC.$16.2M
    CENTREVILLE, VA · 2 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  2. THE PERDUCO GROUP, INC.$271K
    BEAVERCREEK, OH · 1 subaward · Architectural, engineering, and related services
  3. ELECTRIC BOAT CORPORATION$126.2K
    GROTON, CT · 1 subaward · 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 4 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. MANTIS COMPOSITES INC$5M−100% in FY2026
    SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA · 66% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveMissile Defense Agency · Scientific research and development services
  2. SECMATION LLC$6.3M−100% in FY2026
    CARY, NC · 69% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveMissile Defense Agency · Scientific research and development servicesArmy · Scientific research and development servicesNavy · Scientific research and development services
  3. ENGENIUSMICRO LLC$7.6M−100% in FY2026
    HUNTSVILLE, AL · 73% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveMissile Defense Agency · Scientific research and development servicesArmy · Scientific research and development servicesNavy · Scientific research and development 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.

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.