Federal contractor · CHARLESTON, SC

WAVE SCIENCES LLC

WAVE SCIENCES LLC received $299.1K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 1 awards (+28% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $2M. Its largest customer was Federal Bureau of Investigation ($299.1K).

Obligations · FY2026
$299.1K
New awards
1
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Other than small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 101.8KFY2017
  2. 117.8KFY2018
  3. 68KFY2019
  4. 66KFY2020
  5. 66KFY2021
  6. 326KFY2022
  7. 430.8KFY2023
  8. 267.9KFY2024
  9. 234.1KFY2025
  10. 299.1KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Federal Bureau of Investigation$299.1K100%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$299.1K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Charleston County, SC$299.1K100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $299.1K
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $299.1K
  • 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. RESEARCH CONTRACT THAT WILL DEVELOP NEW AND INNOVATIVE MATHEMATICAL ALGORITHMS.$1.1M
    Federal Bureau of Investigation· Charleston County, SC· Professional services· Jul 12, 2023 – Aug 21, 2026· 15F06723F0001181

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.

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 · $52.5K reported

  1. ATLANTIC DIVING SUPPLY, INC.$52.5K
    VIRGINIA BEACH, VA · 1 subaward · Other miscellaneous manufacturing

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

  1. REDTRACE TECHNOLOGIES INC$1.2M
    LANHAM, MD · 99.8% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Bureau of Investigation · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services
  2. JSG & ASSOCIATES LLC$1.2M+290% in FY2026
    SPRINGFIELD, VA · 99.8% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Bureau of Investigation · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services
  3. ECHELON XCELERATE JV, LLC$1.3M−114% in FY2026
    MANASSAS, VA · 99.8% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Bureau of Investigation · Management, scientific, and technical consulting 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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.