Distributed Spectrum Inc.

Distributed Spectrum Inc., a small business based in New York, New York, develops advanced radio frequency technologies, spectrum monitoring solutions, and electronic warfare payload systems for the Department of Defense and federal research agencies as a 100% prime contractor. The company holds a Department of Transportation Certified DBE designation and operates entirely on federal work, with no subcontractor footprint in recent awards.

Distributed Spectrum's capability portfolio centers on RF vision platforms, autonomous signal characterization, distributed spectrum sensing, electronic warfare payloads, and RF signature management systems. Representative work includes a $7.846 million Other Transaction Agreement awarded by the Secretary of the Air Force in December 2024 for research and engineering in RF technologies with completion targeted for December 2026; an $1.963 million SBIR Phase II definitive contract from the Department of the Army in April 2025 for an RF Vision Platform delivering comprehensive situational awareness and electronic warfare capabilities through networked sensors that autonomously characterize RF signals; a $1.25 million purchase order from the Air Force Research Laboratory in September 2023 for a Low Size, Weight, Power, and Cost radiofrequency situational awareness sensor designed for forward-deployed airmen; and a $999,645 definitive contract from the Army in September 2024 under the Broad Agency Announcement for distributed spectrum and electronic warfare payloads. The company also received a $251,904 National Science Foundation SBIR Phase I grant in January 2022 for ultra-low-cost distributed spectrum monitoring technologies, demonstrating broader commercial applications in industrial and urban RF detection and localization.

Customer concentration runs heavily toward defense research and development. The Department of the Air Force Headquarters (Secretary of the Air Force) anchors 63% of combined potential value through the single $7.8 million OTA, while the Department of the Army accounts for 24% across two awards, and the Air Force Research Laboratory carries four awards worth $1.6 million combined. The National Science Foundation rounds out a four-agency customer set that accounts for 100% of recent awards. Award activity has remained episodic — one or two awards per year except for three awards in 2024 — with three awards carrying a combined potential value of $10 million facing ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and therefore exposed to recompete. The company's work is categorized primarily under Research and Development in Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (six awards) and defense-related applied research PSCs. Set-aside posture splits between Total Small Business designations on earlier SBIR and STTR efforts and full-and-open competitive awards on more recent Army and Air Force work, including the large OTA.