Federal contractor · PALO ALTO, CA

RHOMBUS POWER INC

RHOMBUS POWER INC received $24.3M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 5 awards (+170% vs FY2025). Since FY2018: $35M. Its largest customer was Department of the Air Force ($23.9M).

Obligations · FY2026: $24.3M
New awards: 5
Sole-source: 1.6%
Single offer: 0.0%

UEI: HP2RBXXEKFX3

Small businessMinority-owned

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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

150KFY2018
375KFY2019
1.1MFY2020
3.8KFY2021
9MFY2025
24.3MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Department of the Air Force$23.9M98%
3 awards
Department of the Army$390K1.6%
1 awards
Missile Defense Agency$5000.0%
1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Research & development$23.9M98%
IT & telecom$390K1.6%

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

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

Low competition1.6%
US 39% · $390K
Sole-source awards1.6%
US 30% · $390K
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

Department of the Army$390K
Department of Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

A8 PPBE DECISION ANALYSIS TOOL (DAT) SBIR III$27.6M
Department of the Air Force· District of Columbia, DC· Research & development· Sep 26, 2025 – Apr 30, 2026· FA701425F0351
A8 PPBE DECISION ANALYSIS TOOL (DAT) SBIR III$5M
Department of the Air Force· Bexar County, TX· Research & development· Sep 26, 2025 – Oct 30, 2025· FA701425F0355
A8 PPBE DECISION ANALYSIS TOOL (DAT) SBIR III$2.5M
Department of the Air Force· District of Columbia, DC· Research & development· Sep 26, 2025 – Feb 18, 2026· FA701425F0353
EVALUATE RHOMBUS POWER GUARDIAN PLATFORM FOR THE U.S. ARMY SPONSORED BY THE CSA UNDER PROJECT ARIA. THE GOAL IS TO SEE IF GUARDIAN CAN IMPROVE THE ARMY PPBE PROCESS. A GO OR NO GO DECISION WILL BE MADE AFTER A 3 MONTH ASSESSMENT.$390K
Department of the Army· Santa Clara County, CA· IT & telecom· Apr 2, 2026 – Apr 2, 2026· W15P7T26CA001
SCALABLE HOMELAND INNOVATIVE ENTERPRISE LAYERED DEFENSE (SHIELD) INITIAL ORDER.$500
Missile Defense Agency· Madison County, AL· Research & development· Dec 19, 2025 – Dec 19, 2025· HQ085926FF539

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: $1.7M (1 subaward)

1 prime

GENERAL DYNAMICS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INC.$1.7M100%
FAIRFAX, VA · 1 subaward

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 · $1.7M reported

ELECTRIC BOAT CORPORATION$1.7M
GROTON, CT · 1 subaward · Computer systems design and related services

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.

HPI SOLUTIONS LLC$36.6M−1.4% in FY2026
OMAHA, NE · 99% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Computer systems design and related services
NETRIST SOLUTIONS, LLC$37.4M+378% in FY2026
CHARLESTON, SC · 99% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Computer systems design and related services
ZIGABYTE CORPORATION$38.6M+5.3% in FY2026
LUGOFF, SC · 99% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Computer systems design and related 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 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Lobbying and PAC activity

Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.

Matched organizations

Rhombus Power, Inc.AI match · 100%

Lobbying · 2023: $50K; 6 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026: $100K

Lobbying by year

2023$50K
6 reports
2024$0
1 reports
2025$10K
3 reports
2026$40K
2 reports

Top issues

Defense4 reports
Government issues2 reports

Who was contacted

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES4 reports
U.S. SENATE4 reports
Office of the Secretary of Defense1 reports

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

DLA Piper LLP (US)$50K
5 reports
Etherton and Associates, Inc.$40K
2 reports
PRASAM$10K
3 reports
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP$0
2 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Sep 30, 2026.

Congress: members and bills

Through the organizations matched to this company: members of Congress whose campaigns received contributions from their PACs, and the bills their lobbying reports named. Shown beside the company's contracts as a comparison, not a cause.

Bills named in its lobbying reports

H.R. 1 · An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.1 report
119th Congress · Became law · 2025
H.R. 3838 · Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20261 report
119th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2025
H.R. 4016 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20261 report
119th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2025

1 of 12 reports (2023–2026) name at least one bill. Bills and resolutions the current reports name in their issue descriptions, by number of reports. A report names what it lobbied on, not which side it took.

Amounts, members and bills are as recorded, shown side by side. They say nothing about why a contribution was made, how a member voted or what a report sought. A bill number written in a report is read as the measure of the Congress its context points to (a law's number, the Congress written next to it, the title), else of the Congress then sitting.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.

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.