Federal contractor · WASHINGTON, DC

PROTAGONIST TECHNOLOGY LLC

PROTAGONIST TECHNOLOGY LLC received $4.3M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 1 awards (+949% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $10.6M. Its largest customer was Department of the Air Force ($4.3M).

Obligations · FY2026
$4.3M
New awards
1
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Parent company
PROTAGONIST TECHNOLOGY, LLC
Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. -0.3FY2017
  2. -139KFY2018
  3. 800KFY2020
  4. 747.8KFY2021
  5. 1.3MFY2022
  6. 1.4MFY2023
  7. 1.7MFY2024
  8. 408.6KFY2025
  9. 4.3MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Air Force$4.3M100%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$4.3M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. District of Columbia, DC$4.3M100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $4.3M
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $4.3M
  • 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.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. Department of the Air Force$4.3M
    Department of Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. GDA SBIR PHASE III SUPPORT$6.7M
    Department of the Air Force· District of Columbia, DC· Research & development· Feb 17, 2026 – Apr 14, 2026· FA880226C0003

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.

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

1 company · $150K reported

  1. LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$150K
    FORT WORTH, TX · 1 subaward · Scientific research and development services

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

  1. NOMINAL, INC.$7M+24% in FY2026
    AUSTIN, TX · 86% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development servicesDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency · Scientific research and development services
  2. PRECURSOR SPC$4.3M−100% in FY2026
    SEATTLE, WA · 67% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development services
  3. MAGMA SPACE INC$4.3M−74% in FY2026
    WASHINGTON, DC · 66% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development services

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.