Jaia Robotics Inc.

Jaia Robotics Inc., a for-profit company headquartered in Bristol, Rhode Island, manufactures micro-sized hybrid uncrewed surface and underwater vehicles (the JaiaBot product line) for autonomous oceanographic and atmospheric data collection, operating as a prime contractor on full-and-open federal procurements and as a subcontractor on select Department of Defense autonomy programs. The vendor does not hold SBA set-aside designations and competes in the commercial market with federal agencies.

Jaia's core capability centers on low-cost, multi-vehicle autonomous platforms designed to collect biogeochemical, hydrographic, atmospheric, and passive acoustic data from coastal marine systems with satellite communication. The JaiaBot platform performs profile dives to depths of up to 100 meters, capturing temperature, salinity, current vectors, wave height, and wind speed data. Recent representative prime work includes a $899,374 Office of Naval Research definitive contract (awarded May 27, 2025, completion May 26, 2028) to integrate Naval Research Laboratory sensors into Jaia's UUVs; a $430,821 Bureau of Naval Personnel purchase order (April 14, 2026) for multi-vehicle pods capable of autonomous coastal biogeochemical and hydrographic survey; and a $269,800 U.S. Geological Survey purchase order (February 2, 2024) for specialized hybrid surface-underwater vehicles for mapping and data collection. Two federal grants from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration—a $349,896 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award (CFDA 11.021, September 1, 2023) and a project grant (September 1, 2024, completion August 31, 2026)—funded development of an air-deployable JaiaBot-Storm prototype capable of collecting atmospheric data from aircraft deployment and upper-ocean data via satellite comms for hurricane forecasting and meteorological applications.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to the Department of the Navy. The Office of Naval Research accounts for five awards valued at $909,000, while the Bureau of Naval Personnel, Naval Information Warfare Systems Command, and NOAA collectively represent the remaining prime work. Jaia serves six distinct federal agencies across prime and sub engagement. As a subcontractor, Jaia integrates autonomy capabilities into the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory's Autonomous Littoral Connector (ALC) effort under Leidos (two sub awards, May 13, 2026 and April 3, 2026); performs research and development on data exfiltration technologies and aerial RF relay systems under Arete Associates (August 27, 2024); and supplies JaiaBot-Hydro vehicles under Atlantic Diving Supply, Inc. (July 24, 2024 and August 16, 2024).

Activity has accelerated from one award in both 2022 and 2023 to five awards in 2024 and three in both 2025 and 2026. Two awards—the Office of Naval Research sensor-integration contract and a Bureau of Naval Personnel purchase order—carry combined potential value of $899,000 and ultimate completion dates inside the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure. The vendor's combined obligated dollars ($4.2 million) exceed the combined potential value ($1.7 million) by 240 percent, reflecting higher invoiced performance on recent awards than initial ceiling estimates. Jaia sits on the Special Operations Equipment–Tailored Logistics Support vehicle (two task orders), a limited-scope parent vehicle.