Jasco Applied Sciences (Canada) LTD.

Jasco Applied Sciences (Canada) LTD., doing business as Jasco Research LTD., is a foreign-owned Canadian acoustics firm headquartered in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia that supplies specialized underwater acoustic equipment, marine monitoring systems, and acoustic analysis services to the U.S. Navy as a prime contractor. The vendor operates without SBA set-aside designations and competes full-and-open across all recent federal awards.

Jasco's capability portfolio centers on the design, manufacturing, and delivery of sophisticated acoustic monitoring hardware and services for naval research, marine environmental assessment, and underwater detection. Representative prime contract work includes a $299,909.50 purchase order from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) for design and development of a 16-channel vertical acoustic array (awarded September 2023, performed in Ottawa, Ontario), a $78,385 ONR order for components of a low and mid-frequency coherent acoustic source system (April 2025), and a $50,740 ONR purchase order for JASCO AMAR-G4 8-channel acoustic data recorders and associated assemblies (August 2024). The vendor also holds smaller Navy supply orders for pressure vessel testing, anchor stem assemblies, and custom battery diagnosis and repair. A single $14,521.50 purchase order from the Department of the Interior's Office of Acquisitions and Grants covers sound data collection services in Utqiagvik, Alaska.

Customer concentration is nearly absolute with the Department of the Navy, which accounts for 12 awards (80% of total award count) valued at $574 thousand in combined potential value across ONR, Naval Supply Systems Command, and related Navy offices. The Department of the Interior accounts for the remaining activity, including a single Bureau of Ocean Energy Management award. Activity has grown recently—one award each in 2022 and 2023, then six awards in 2024 and three in 2025—with combined obligated dollars ($2.2 million) running 186% above combined potential value, signaling higher-than-ceiling performance on Navy purchase orders.

In its subcontractor role, Jasco delivers acoustic data analysis, equipment design, and ocean sensor package development to the University System of New Hampshire and Portland State University as a sub-recipient on federal research grants. Work includes directional acoustic data processing, whale species detection and tracking analysis, ambient sound modeling support, and design and build of underwater listening station equipment with shore-based server infrastructure for Gulf of Maine oceanographic research.