Gearjump Technologies LLC

Gearjump Technologies LLC, a Massachusetts-based small business limited liability company, delivers advanced surveillance and detection systems for invasive species and vector control to federal civilian and defense agencies as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards), with a portfolio anchored in research and development, engineering services, and specialized hardware procurement. The vendor competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides on Department of Agriculture and Department of Navy programs.

The vendor's customer concentration is split between two distinct federal portfolios. The Department of Agriculture accounts for 81% of recent award count (13 awards, $163 thousand combined potential value) across multiple sub-offices of the Agricultural Research Service and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, while the Department of the Navy accounts for 100% of combined potential value across recent awards (2 awards, $1.4 million combined potential value). The Navy awards — a $1.2 million Total Small Business definitive contract from Naval Strategic Systems Programs awarded March 30, 2026, and a $246,497 Small Business Innovation Research Phase I contract from the same office awarded May 24, 2024 — represent the vendor's highest-dollar recent work. A third Navy award, a $48 thousand no-set-aside purchase order from the Chief of Naval Operations for gear delivery to the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences (February 2023), rounds out defense engagement.

Gearjump's capability portfolio centers on autonomous detection and surveillance systems for agricultural and public-health threats. The Remote Autonomous Detection System (RADS) — a compact, microfluidics-integrated platform for detecting red imported fire ants — anchors the vendor's recent grant work. Gearjump received a $175 thousand Small Business Innovation Research Phase I award from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (July 2022 through February 2023) to demonstrate proof-of-concept detection and identification of fire ants using custom digital algorithms, with Phase II objectives including a fully functional prototype for large-scale field trials and a commercialization plan. Related grant work includes a cooperative agreement from the Department of Agriculture's Central Program Planning Coordination and Support for mosquito-detection particles (September 2022 through September 2025) and a Defense Health Agency project grant (September 2022 through May 2027) for advanced wearable controlled-release devices protecting against ticks and mosquitoes. The vendor also holds a September 2023 project grant from the Department of Agriculture's Institute of Food Production and Sustainability focused on RADS platform expansion and deployment readiness.

Activity has been uneven — one award in 2020, three in 2022, two in 2023, one in 2024, and one in 2026 — though the vendor's combined dollars obligated ($5.8 million) exceed its combined potential value ($1.7 million) by a material margin, suggesting significant prior completion and funding concentration. Two awards (combined potential value $1.2 million) reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and face recompete exposure. The vendor's NAICS footprint emphasizes Engineering Services (8 awards) and Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (3 awards), with PSC concentration in R&D–Defense Other Services (Engineering Development) (8 awards).