Mayachitra, Inc.

Mayachitra, Inc., a minority-owned, Subcontinent Asian American-owned small business based in Goleta, California, operates as a prime contractor delivering research and development services in advanced algorithms, machine learning, and autonomous systems to Department of the Navy components and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Mayachitra competes exclusively under small business set-asides (Total Small Business designations) across its federal footprint and holds no sub awards; all thirty awards in the source data are prime contracts or IDVs.

Mayachitra's customer base concentrates heavily within the Navy's research ecosystem. The top five customer entities account for 80% of recent awards by count and 85% by combined potential value. The Office of Naval Research leads by award volume (9 awards, $4.9 million combined potential value), followed by the Naval Air Warfare Center (6 awards, $2.9 million), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (5 awards, $2.6 million), Naval Air Systems Command (2 awards, $4.6 million), and Naval Sea Systems Command (2 awards, $1.9 million). This concentration reflects Mayachitra's focus on naval aviation modernization and sensor processing research rather than across-agency or civilian-facing work.

Mayachitra's capability portfolio centers on applied research, exploratory development, and basic research in defense domains. Representative work includes a $1.5 million cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract awarded by Naval Air Warfare Center on February 2, 2026 (ultimate completion May 18, 2028) for R&D; a $1.7 million STTR Phase II contract from Naval Sea Systems Command (awarded November 9, 2021) for autonomous systems and sensor processing; and a $179,865 STTR Phase I contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory (awarded December 9, 2024) for the GUARDIAN project applying machine learning to naval aviation directed-energy detection. Mayachitra recently secured a five-year SBIR Phase III Basic Ordering Agreement from Naval Air Warfare Center (awarded July 29, 2025, completion July 29, 2030) with no predetermined ceiling value, establishing the vehicle for future task orders in defense research and development. Across all awards, 18 fall under NAICS code 541712 (Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences except Biotechnology), with primary PSC codes in R&D–Defense Other (Applied Research/Exploratory Development) and Basic Research categories. Only one award faces recompete within the next twenty-four months ($1.5 million), leaving minimal near-term competitive exposure.