Federal contractor · EVANSTON, IL

QUESTEK INNOVATIONS LLC

QUESTEK INNOVATIONS LLC received $1.4M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 8 awards (−67% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $49.2M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($1.2M).

Obligations · FY2026
$1.4M
New awards
8
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. 3MFY2017
  2. 6.2MFY2018
  3. 4.1MFY2019
  4. 3.4MFY2020
  5. 11.1MFY2021
  6. 4.9MFY2022
  7. 5.2MFY2023
  8. 5.8MFY2024
  9. 4.1MFY2025
  10. 1.4MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Navy$1.2M89%
    4 awards
  2. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$150K11%
    2 awards
  3. Missile Defense Agency$5000.0%
    1 awards
  4. Department of the Army$00.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$1.4M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Cook County, IL$1.3M100.0%
  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 8.7% · $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

  1. THE PURPOSE OF THIS EFFORT IS TO ADVANCE ADDITIVE FRICTION STIR DEPOSITION (AFSD)/COLD SPRAY (CS) MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES TO PROVIDE A TURNKEY SOLUTION FOR ENHANCED WARFIGHTER SUSTAINMENT AND PERFORMANCE BY ACCELERATING ADOPTION OF NEWER ADVANCED$3.9M
    Department of the Navy· Cook County, IL· Research & development· May 23, 2024 – May 12, 2026· N0001424C1512
  2. SBIR PHASE III- RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT$3.5M
    Department of the Army· Cook County, IL· Research & development· Jul 5, 2023 – Dec 22, 2025· W911QY23C0077
  3. 873AUTHORITY$999.8K
    Department of the Navy· Cook County, IL· Research & development· Dec 4, 2025 – Dec 4, 2025· N6833526C0008
  4. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT$246.5K
    Department of the Navy· Cook County, IL· Research & development· Jul 9, 2025 – Apr 22, 2026· N6833525C0465
  5. KICK-OFF BRIEFING MATERIALS & FWA CERT.$246.4K
    Department of the Navy· Cook County, IL· Research & development· Apr 30, 2025 – Jan 12, 2026· N6833525C0344
  6. SBIR I MULTI-SCALE LOCATION-SPECIFIC FATIGUE LIFE PREDICTION FOR ADDITIVE PROPULSION COMPONENTS$150K
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Cook County, IL· Research & development· Sep 11, 2025 – Apr 22, 2026· 80NSSC25C0319
  7. FY26 SBIR PHASE I IGNITE - I01.02-0045 - ALLOY SIMULATION TOOLKIT FOR ROBUST OPTIMIZATION IN LOW GRAVITY (ASTRO-GRAV)$150K
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Cook County, IL· Research & development· May 26, 2026 – Jun 11, 2026· 80NSSC26C0057
  8. SCALABLE HOMELAND INNOVATIVE ENTERPRISE LAYERED DEFENSE (SHIELD) INITIAL ORDER.$500
    Missile Defense Agency· Madison County, AL· Research & development· Dec 19, 2025 – Dec 19, 2025· HQ085926FF743

Federal grants & assistance received

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

QUESTEK INNOVATIONS LLC received $0 in federal assistance in FY2026, on 4 actions (0 new awards).

Assistance · FY2026
$0
New awards
0
Actions
4
Since FY2021
$6.2M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 2.7MFY2021
  2. 1.5MFY2022
  3. 159.2KFY2023
  4. 2MFY2024
  5. -10.3KFY2025
  6. 0FY2026

Largest awards

  1. QUESTEK INNOVATIONS LLC: NEW AWARD CONTROL NUMBER 2338-1507 ULTIMATE SBIR/STTR DE-FOA-0002338 PROJECT TITLE: “CONCURRENT DESIGN OF A…$3.1M
    81.135 · Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy· Department of Energy· Cooperative agreement· Aug 30, 2021 – Aug 3, 2026· DEAR0001436

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.

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-grants: $115K (1 subaward)

1 prime

  1. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE$115K100%
    IRVINE, CA · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $450K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $2.1M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $200K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $152.4K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $115K 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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

5 companies · $3.1M reported

  1. RAYTHEON COMPANY$1.3M
    TUCSON, AZ · 3 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  2. NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$600K
    EVANSTON, IL · 3 subawards
  3. STEEL FOUNDERS SOCIETY OF AMERICA$500.3K
    CRYSTAL LAKE, IL · 3 subawards · Scientific research and development 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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 5 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. CRITICAL FREQUENCY DESIGN LLC$11.4M−93% in FY2026
    MELBOURNE, FL · 92% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development servicesArmy · Scientific research and development services
  2. NANOVOX, LLC$10.7M−27% in FY2026
    CORVALLIS, OR · 80% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development servicesArmy · Scientific research and development services
  3. ARCHITECTURE TECHNOLOGY INC$14.2M−88% in FY2026
    EDEN PRAIRIE, MN · 87% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development servicesArmy · Scientific research and development servicesNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.