Federal contractor · SEATTLE, WA

ZENO POWER SYSTEMS INC.

ZENO POWER SYSTEMS INC. received $500 in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 2 awards. Since FY2019: $17.1M. Its largest customer was Missile Defense Agency ($500). It also received $174.9K in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026: $500
New awards: 2
Sole-source: 0.0%
Single offer: 0.0%

UEI: H3C5EJV1XTM1

Small business

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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

1.1MFY2019
150KFY2020
99.2KFY2021
7.9MFY2022
4MFY2023
3.8MFY2024
500FY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Missile Defense Agency$500100%
1 awards
Department of the Air Force$00.0%
1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Research & development$500100%

Where the work was performed

Madison County, AL$500100%

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 8.7% · $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

(RPS) RADIOISOTOPE POWER SYSTEM$15M
Department of the Air Force· St. Louis County, MO· Research & development· Aug 16, 2022 – Apr 28, 2026· FA945322CA019
SCALABLE HOMELAND INNOVATIVE ENTERPRISE LAYERED DEFENSE (SHIELD) INITIAL ORDER.$500
Missile Defense Agency· Madison County, AL· Research & development· Dec 19, 2025 – Jun 3, 2026· HQ085926FG380

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.

ZENO POWER SYSTEMS INC. received $174.9K in federal assistance in FY2026, on 1 actions (1 new awards). Its largest program was 43.012 · Space Technology ($174.9K).

Assistance · FY2026: $174.9K
New awards: 1
Actions: 1

Assistance by fiscal year

174.9KFY2026

By type

Grants$174.9K100%

Top programs

43.012 · Space Technology$174.9K100%

Awarding agencies

National Aeronautics and Space Administration$174.9K100%

Largest awards

THE NASA INNOVATIVE ADVANCED CONCEPTS (NIAC) PROGRAM FOCUSES ON EARLY-STAGE FEASIBILITY STUDIES OF VISIONARY CONCEPTS THAT ADDRESS NATIONAL…$174.9K
43.012 · Space Technology· National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Project grant· Jun 22, 2026 – Jun 22, 2026· 80NSSC26K0832

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 · FY2026.

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.

EXPLORATION LABORATORIES LLC$3.9M−100% in FY2026
LONG BEACH, CA · 100.0% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development services
PTERODYNAMICS INC.$3.9M
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO · 100.0% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development services
DIRECT KINETIC SOLUTIONS INC$3.9M−100% in FY2026
EL PASO, TX · 100.0% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development 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 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.

Matched organizations

Zeno Power Systems, Inc.AI match · 95%

Lobbying · 2025: $323.8K; 10 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026: $1.4M

Lobbying by year

2023$360K
8 reports
2024$270K
9 reports
2025$323.8K
10 reports
2026$420K
6 reports

Top issues

Energy and nuclear25 reports
Defense14 reports
Budget and appropriations9 reports

Who was contacted

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES31 reports
U.S. SENATE31 reports
Defense - Dept of (DOD)4 reports
Energy - Dept of3 reports
Natl Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA)2 reports
Executive Office of the President (EOP)1 reports
Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP)1 reports
State - Dept of (DOS)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

Invariant LLC$530K
8 reports
K&L GATES LLP$370K
14 reports
Icebreaker Strategies, LLC$310K
7 reports
Miller Strategies, LLC$130K
2 reports
NEW HILL CONSULTING LLC$33.8K
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 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 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. 6544 · Atomic Energy Advancement Act5 reports
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2023–2024
H.R. 8774 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20255 reports
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2024
H.R. 8997 · Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20254 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2024
H.R. 4394 · Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20243 reports
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2023–2024
H.R. 8070 · Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20253 reports
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2024
S. 2443 · Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20243 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2023–2024
S. 4921 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20253 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2024
S. 4927 · Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20253 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2024
H.R. 3838 · Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20263 reports
119th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2025
H.R. 4553 · Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20263 reports
119th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2025–2026

14 of 33 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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.