Federal contractor · AUSTIN, TX

TRANSWAVE PHOTONICS, LLC

TRANSWAVE PHOTONICS, LLC received $4.6M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 5 awards (+58% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $14.2M. Its largest customer was Department of the Army ($4.1M).

Obligations · FY2026
$4.6M
New awards
5
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. 145.3KFY2017
  2. 500.5KFY2018
  3. 1.1MFY2019
  4. 851.4KFY2020
  5. 559.5KFY2021
  6. 987.9KFY2022
  7. 1.7MFY2023
  8. 894.5KFY2024
  9. 2.9MFY2025
  10. 4.6MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Army$4.1M89%
    3 awards
  2. Department of the Navy$500K11%
    2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$4.6M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Travis County, TX$4.6M100%

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. QUANTUM COMPUTERS, CERTAIN ARRAYED QUANTUM SENSORS, AND DIRECTED ENERGY LASER WEAPONS ALL SHARE A COMMON NEED FOR SCALABLE LASER AMPLIFICATION TO SUPPORT MULTIPLE LASER BEAMS.$2.1M
    Department of the Army· Travis County, TX· Research & development· Apr 7, 2026 – May 14, 2026· W5170126CA173
  2. SBIR PHASE 2$2M
    Department of the Army· Travis County, TX· Research & development· Mar 17, 2026 – May 13, 2026· W5170126CA121
  3. STTR PHASE II: HIGH-POWER SINGLE-MODE PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR COHERENT BEAM COMBINING$1.1M
    Department of the Army· Travis County, TX· Research & development· Nov 30, 2023 – Nov 19, 2025· W911NF24C0009
  4. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT$989.4K
    Department of the Navy· Travis County, TX· Research & development· Sep 20, 2023 – May 5, 2026· N6833523C0743
  5. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT$500K
    Department of the Navy· Travis County, TX· Research & development· Oct 30, 2025 – Oct 30, 2025· N6833526C0015

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.

  1. STRATIN LLC$6.2M−79% in FY2026
    LOS ANGELES, CA · 74% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Scientific research and development servicesAir Force · Scientific research and development servicesNavy · Scientific research and development services
  2. FIELDLINE INDUSTRIES INC$11.5M+1,253% in FY2026
    BOULDER, CO · 2 entities · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Scientific research and development servicesAir Force · Scientific research and development servicesNavy · Scientific research and development services
  3. DEEPNIGHT INC.$7.6M−46% in FY2026
    SAN FRANCISCO, CA · 79% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Scientific research and development servicesAir 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 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

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.