Gotenna, Inc.

Gotenna, Inc., headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, manufactures mobile mesh networking radios, antennas, and tactical communications equipment for federal defense and homeland security agencies as a prime contractor (95% of recent awards) and serves as a subsidiary of Robotic Research Opco, LLC (doing business as Forterra). The company is a small business competing predominantly under total small business set-asides and SBIR Phase II and Phase III programs, with occasional full-and-open awards for specialized communications systems where Gotenna holds proprietary manufacturing rights.

Gotenna's federal footprint is heavily concentrated in Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection work. CBP accounts for 21 awards totaling $196.7 million in combined potential value — roughly 88% of Gotenna's total federal contract value of $223 million — anchored by a $99.9 million single-award indefinite delivery contract awarded in August 2023 and running through August 2027 for mesh radios designed to work with the Team Awareness Kit (TAK) ecosystem, including antennas, equipment, and support services. Under that parent IDIQ, Gotenna has placed 15 delivery orders ranging from $50 thousand for cell phone cases and belt clips to $37.6 million for equipment procurement, with recent orders supporting CBP's border security, Non-Intrusive Inspection, INVNT, and AMO programs across multiple operational locations spanning Washington D.C., Ashburn Virginia, Belle Isle Florida, and Brooklyn Heights New York. The Department of the Air Force places the second-largest customer share, with 9 awards totaling $15.4 million, split between the Air Force Research Laboratory (13 awards, $5.8 million) focused on SBIR research and development of mesh networking capabilities and the Air Force proper for equipment procurements including a $14.9 million SBIR Phase 2B strategic funding increase awarded in July 2024.

Gotenna holds three federal contract vehicles: the $99.9 million CBP single-award IDIQ for mesh radios and TAK ecosystem support; a $317,420 Other Transaction IDV from the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command for efficient on-demand routing protocol development; and a $170,487 Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Air Force Disbursing and Accounting Service under SBIR Phase III for integrated mesh network communications. In addition, Gotenna maintains an 18-award footprint on the General Services Administration Multiple Award Schedule generating $665 thousand in combined potential value across task orders for deployment kits and training services placed by the Air Mobility Command, Navy Expeditionary Combat Command, and federal corrections facilities.

Recent representative capability work includes a $5.8 million Customs and Border Protection delivery order awarded in September 2024 for mesh radio equipment and services in Ashburn, Virginia (extended through September 30, 2026); a $5.3 million CBP delivery order for the GoTenna TAK Ecosystem at Belle Isle, Florida (awarded September 2025, modified for battery pack production delays); a $1.9 million CBP delivery order for mesh radios equipment and support services for INVNT and AMO operations at Washington D.C. (awarded September 2024, extended through May 31, 2027); a $1.25 million Air Force Research Laboratory SBIR Phase II contract for commercial solutions in coastal regions supporting Air Force Special Operations Command connectivity (awarded February 2023); and a $749 thousand Air Force Research Laboratory SBIR Phase II contract for a decoupled network operations platform for secure decentralized mesh communications (awarded July 2022). Gotenna also received a $229,723 National Science Foundation grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) from March through November 2022 to develop scalable mesh routing technologies for low-power wide area IoT networks, including embedded-control routing protocols and reinforcement learning algorithms to extend LoRaWAN coverage and throughput.

Activity has ranged between 7 and 15 awards annually across the past five years, with 7 awards in 2026 year-to-date. Seven awards totaling $51.1 million in combined potential value reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure. Gotenna subcontracts to Science Applications International Corporation on system software lifecycle engineering for air and surface trackers and edge relay equipment (awarded August 2026), CACI Federal for USAFRICOM operations planning and training support (awarded March 2026), and Atlantic Diving Supply on first responder equipment and deployment kits supporting Ice Office of Firearms and Tactical Programs training (three awards between August 2024 and December 2024). The company also subcontracts to U.S. Marshals Service and Immigration and Customs Enforcement as direct ordering agencies on purchases for communication systems training ($36 thousand, ICE, July 2025) and mesh networking radios ($21.4 thousand, U.S. Marshals, September 2026).