Federal contractor · SANTA BARBARA, CA

UMBRA LAB, INC

UMBRA LAB, INC received $964.5K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 6 awards (−83% vs FY2025). Since FY2020: $11.2M. Its largest customer was National Aeronautics and Space Administration ($502.9K).

Obligations · FY2026
$964.5K
New awards
6
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
48%
UEI
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Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 50KFY2020
  2. 2.1MFY2021
  3. -1.9MFY2022
  4. 1.3MFY2023
  5. 3.1MFY2024
  6. 5.6MFY2025
  7. 964.5KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$502.9K52%
    1 awards
  2. Department of the Army$461.1K48%
    1 awards
  3. Missile Defense Agency$5000.1%
    1 awards
  4. Department of the Navy$00.0%
    3 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$502.9K52%
  2. Research & development$461.6K48%

Where the work was performed

  1. Santa Barbara County, CA$964K99.9%
  2. Madison County, AL$5000.1%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition48%
    US 39% · $461.1K
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions48%
    US 8.8% · $461.1K
  • 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. BASE AWARD FOR SBIR PHASE II TOPIC #N232-D09.$1.3M
    Department of the Navy· Santa Barbara County, CA· Research & development· Mar 26, 2025 – Feb 24, 2026· N0002425CS013
  2. BASE AWARD FOR SBIR PHASE II TOPIC #N232-D08$1.3M
    Department of the Navy· Santa Barbara County, CA· Research & development· Apr 16, 2025 – Feb 9, 2026· N0002425CS040
  3. SBIR PHASE II PROPOSAL F2D-9070 IN RESPONSE TO DARPA TOPIC AFX236-DPCS01 FOR "SELF-TIPPING RF COLLECTION."$1.2M
    Department of the Army· Santa Barbara County, CA· Research & development· Dec 20, 2024 – Dec 9, 2025· W912CG25C0004
  4. BASE AWARD FOR SBIR PHASE II TOPIC NO. N232-101$1.2M
    Department of the Navy· Santa Barbara County, CA· Research & development· May 29, 2025 – Apr 30, 2026· N0002425CS064
  5. COMMERCIAL SATELLITE DATA ACQUISITION (CSDA) PROGRAM. TASK ORDER FOR DISASTER RESPONSE SATELLITE DATA$502.9K
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Santa Barbara County, CA· Professional services· Nov 25, 2025 – Nov 25, 2025· 80HQTR26FA015
  6. SCALABLE HOMELAND INNOVATIVE ENTERPRISE LAYERED DEFENSE (SHIELD) INITIAL ORDER$500
    Missile Defense Agency· Madison County, AL· Research & development· Dec 5, 2025 – Jun 4, 2026· HQ085926FE938

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.

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $30.2K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $98.8K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $761.9K 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 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 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

3 companies · $890.9K reported

  1. VANTOR SERVICES INC.$761.9K
    HERNDON, VA · 1 subaward · Computer systems design and related services
  2. AMENTUM SERVICES, INC.$98.8K
    CHANTILLY, VA · 1 subaward · Architectural, engineering, and related services
  3. MAXAR MISSION SOLUTIONS INC$30.2K
    CHANTILLY, VA · 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 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 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 4 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. RANK ONE COMPUTING CORPORATION$6.4M−99% in FY2026
    DENVER, CO · 55% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development servicesArmy · Scientific research and development services
  2. TORREY PINES LOGIC, INC.$7M+3.9% in FY2026
    SAN DIEGO, CA · 55% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development servicesArmy · Scientific research and development services
  3. MONDE WIRELESS INC$4.4M−21% in FY2026
    SANTA BARBARA, CA · 45% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development servicesArmy · 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 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 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

  • Umbra Lab, Inc.AI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2025
$220.5K
7 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$690.1K

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$93.5K
    4 reports
  2. 2024$108K
    4 reports
  3. 2025$220.5K
    7 reports
  4. 2026$268.1K
    7 reports

Top issues

  1. Aerospace20 reports
  2. Defense17 reports
  3. Budget and appropriations15 reports
  4. Intelligence and surveillance15 reports
  5. Science and technology8 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES22 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE20 reports
  3. Defense - Dept of (DOD)2 reports
  4. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)1 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$407.6K
    15 reports
  2. CR Federal$202.5K
    5 reports
  3. KEAST STRATEGIC SOLUTIONS, LLC$80K
    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 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

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

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026.