Gotenna, Inc.

Gotenna, Inc., doing business as Gotenna, manufactures mobile mesh networking radios, antennas, and tactical communications equipment and delivers them to federal agencies as a prime contractor (96% of awards) on both firm fixed-price contracts and indefinite delivery vehicles. The company is a for-profit manufacturer of goods headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, and operates as a subsidiary of Robotic Research Opco, LLC (doing business as Forterra).

Gotenna's customer footprint is heavily concentrated in homeland security and defense. The Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection accounts for 19 awards and $154.1 million in combined potential value — roughly 85% of the vendor's total contract value — anchored by a single-award indefinite delivery contract valued at $99.9 million awarded in August 2023 and running through August 2027. This CBP IDIQ, set aside for small business under the SBIR Phase III program, supports procurement of mesh radios designed to work with the Team Awareness Kit (TAK), antennas, equipment, and support services. Recent delivery orders against this vehicle include $5.8 million for mesh radio equipment and services at Ashburn, Virginia (awarded September 2024, extended through September 2026); $5.3 million for the GoTenna TAK Ecosystem at Belle Isle, Florida (awarded September 2025); and $2.0 million for equipment delivery (awarded January 2025). The Air Force represents the second-largest customer by dollar value ($15.4 million across nine awards), with the Air Force Research Laboratory accounting for $5.8 million across thirteen SBIR Phase I and Phase II awards focused on tactical awareness kit workflows, mesh networking enhancements, and edge computing capabilities. Gotenna also holds a $317,420 other transaction IDV with the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command for next-generation routing protocol development and a $170,487 blanket purchase agreement with the Air Force Disbursing and Accounting Service through September 2027.

Recent representative work includes a $14.9 million SBIR Phase 2B strategic funding increase from the Air Force (awarded July 2024); a $1.2 million SBIR Phase II award from the Air Force Research Laboratory for tactical awareness kit workflows and checklists (awarded July 2023); a $1.2 million SBIR Phase II award for commercial solutions in coastal regions for Air Force Special Operations Command connectivity (awarded February 2023); a $749,907 SBIR Phase II award from AFRL for fully integrated mesh network communications (awarded May 2022); and a $357,497 sole-source purchase order from Naval Information Warfare Systems Command for next-generation active routing protocol engineering services (awarded July 2024). Gotenna received a $229,723 National Science Foundation project grant (CFDA 47.041) under the Engineering program (awarded March 2022) to develop scalable mesh routing technologies for low-power wide area IoT networks.

Activity has remained steady at 11–15 awards per year over the past four years, with 89 total awards in the source period. Seven awards (combined potential value $29.2 million) face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months and will require recompete. Gotenna operates across a GSA Multiple Award Schedule (18 task orders) and specialized vehicles including Special Operations Equipment–Tailored Logistics Support and Tactical Communications II. The vendor holds seats on the Air Force SBIR program roster and participates in multiple other transaction arrangements. Of 89 total awards, 85 are prime contracts or IDVs, and only 4 are subcontracts — three under Atlantic Diving Supply for first-responder equipment and GoTenna Pro deployment kits, and one under CACI for U.S. Africa Command operations planning and training support. Gotenna's award footprint spans 35 distinct customer agencies, but CBP's dominance of the dollar value (85%) and award count (21%) represents significant single-customer concentration. Place of performance for the CBP IDIQ is distributed across six locations: Washington, D.C. (20004 and 20229), Ashburn, Virginia, Belle Isle, Florida, Brooklyn Heights, New York, and Harrison Township, Michigan. The top NAICS categories are radio and television broadcasting and wireless communications equipment manufacturing (62 awards) and research and development in the physical, engineering, and life sciences (13 awards).