Federal contractor · WARRENTON, VA

SPARC RESEARCH LLC

SPARC RESEARCH LLC received $1.8M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 6 awards (−95% vs FY2025). Since FY2021: $42.1M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($744.9K).

Obligations · FY2026
$1.8M
New awards
6
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
19%
UEI
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Parent company
SPARC RESEARCH LLC
Small business
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Company family

Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.

2 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $1.8M in FY2026 together.

  1. SPARC RESEARCH LLCWARRENTON, VA · Family page
    $1.8M
  2. DESIGN INTEGRATED TECHNOLOGY, INC.WARRENTON, VA
    $8,479

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 932.3KFY2021
  2. 543.3KFY2022
  3. 1.7MFY2023
  4. 683.9KFY2024
  5. 36.3MFY2025
  6. 1.8MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Navy$744.9K41%
    1 awards
  2. Department of the Air Force$739.8K40%
    3 awards
  3. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$349.9K19%
    1 awards
  4. Missile Defense Agency$5000.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$744.9K41%
  2. Research & development$740.3K40%
  3. Equipment maintenance$349.9K19%

Where the work was performed

  1. Fauquier County, VA$1.8M100.0%
  2. Madison County, AL$5000.0%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition19%
    US 39% · $349.9K
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions19%
    US 8.7% · $349.9K
  • 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 OBJECTIVE OF THIS EFFORT IS THE STUDY AND EVALUATION OF PROPULSION TECHNOLOGIES THAT SUPPORT THE ERAAM OBJECTIVE OF LONG RANGE AND DERIVE COMPONENT REQUIREMENTS.$4.5M
    Department of the Air Force· Fauquier County, VA· Research & development· Sep 12, 2024 – Apr 27, 2026· FA865124FB055
  2. AFRL PROPULSION DESIGN AND ANALYSIS SUPPORT$3.8M
    Department of the Air Force· Fauquier County, VA· Research & development· Aug 3, 2023 – May 29, 2026· FA865123FB008
  3. BUILD LOAD ADAPTERS$1.6M
    Department of the Navy· Fauquier County, VA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Feb 10, 2025 – May 6, 2026· N6893625F0210
  4. UNIVERSAL LOAD ADAPTER 2.0 TOTAL ULA 2.0 QUANTITY: 11 (CLIN 0001: 10 QUANTITY AND CLIN 0002: 1 QUANTITY)$357K
    Department of the Air Force· Fauquier County, VA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Sep 29, 2025 – Mar 23, 2026· FA821325FB036
  5. UPPER WING AND ELEVON HEATER CARRIAGE HARDWARE$349.9K
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Fauquier County, VA· Equipment maintenance· Mar 24, 2026 – Aug 11, 2026· 80NSSC26P0385
  6. SCALABLE HOMELAND INNOVATIVE ENTERPRISE LAYERED DEFENSE (SHIELD) INITIAL ORDER.$500
    Missile Defense Agency· Madison County, AL· Research & development· Dec 19, 2025 – Jun 4, 2026· HQ085926FF323

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.

SPARC RESEARCH LLC received $0 in federal assistance in FY2026, on 2 actions (0 new awards), −100% vs FY2025.

Assistance · FY2026
$0
New awards
0
Actions
2
Since FY2025
$162.2K

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 162.2KFY2025
  2. 0FY2026

Largest awards

  1. DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT TITLE III CLOSED BOMB / CLOSED COMBUSTION CHAMBER IMPROVEMENTS$162.2K
    12.777 · Defense Production Act Title Iii (Dpa Title III)· Department of the Air Force· Cooperative agreement· Dec 5, 2024 – Apr 30, 2026· FA86502525518

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 · FY2025–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-contracts: $83.3K (1 subaward)

1 prime

  1. RAYTHEON COMPANY$83.3K100%
    TUCSON, AZ · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $1.7M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $771K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $408.2K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $2.7M received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $83.3K 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 · $5.8M reported

  1. SIERRA LOBO INC$2.9M
    FREMONT, OH · 6 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  2. NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION$2.7M
    MELBOURNE, FL · 1 subaward · Architectural, engineering, and related services
  3. LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$90.1K
    FORT WORTH, TX · 1 subaward · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing

Showing the top 3 of each list. Open the profile for potential partners and the full lists.

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

  1. DEFENSE ENGINEERING CORP$36.7M−18% in FY2026
    BEAVERCREEK, OH · 93% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development services
  2. VARDA SPACE INDUSTRIES, INC.$39M−29% in FY2026
    EL SEGUNDO, CA · 93% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development services
  3. GENEVA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.$33.1M+65% in FY2026
    MONUMENT, CO · 84% 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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.

Across the company family of SPARC RESEARCH LLC (2 recipients).

Matched organizations

  • SPARC ResearchAI match · 96%
Lobbying · 2023
$93.5K
4 reports

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$93.5K
    4 reports

Top issues

  1. Budget and appropriations4 reports
  2. Aerospace2 reports
  3. Defense2 reports
  4. Intelligence and surveillance2 reports
  5. Science and technology2 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES4 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE4 reports

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

Lobbying firms hired

  1. Velocity Government Relations, LLC$93.5K
    4 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Oct 5, 2026.

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.