Pacmar Technologies LLC

Pacmar Technologies LLC, doing business as Navaket, is a minority-owned, Asian-Pacific American–owned small business based in Honolulu, Hawaii, that conducts advanced research and development, autonomous systems engineering, and maritime vehicle design and integration for the Department of the Navy and defense research agencies as a prime contractor (95% of recent awards). The company operates as a subsidiary of Navatek Capital Inc. and competes predominantly in full-and-open procurements on larger development contracts, with selective participation in small-business set-aside SBIR awards.

Naval Sea Systems Command and the Office of Naval Research dominate Pacmar's customer concentration. NAVSEA accounts for 27 awards with $998.2 million combined potential value; ONR adds 72 awards worth $269.7 million. Together these two Navy offices represent approximately 99% of the vendor's combined potential value across 155 total awards. DARPA, the Naval Air Warfare Center, and the Marine Corps round out active customers with smaller individual award footprints. The vendor serves 18 distinct federal agencies, but concentration in Navy research and development is decisive — NAICS coding breaks heavily toward applied and advanced-development research (64 awards under physical and engineering sciences R&D, 43 under the same category excluding biotechnology; 45 awards PSC-coded as "R&D Defense Other" applied research/exploratory development).

Pacmar holds two major indefinite-delivery vehicles anchoring its task-order work. The Unmanned Surface Vehicle Family of Systems (USV FoS) contract with NAVSEA carries a $982.1 million ceiling (through April 2029) covering payloads, non-payload sensors, mission support systems, autonomy and vehicle control systems, ashore and host platform elements, and logistics and sustainment for unmanned maritime platforms. The GSA ASTRO Government-Wide Acquisition Contract, awarded November 2021, carries a multi-billion-dollar ceiling through November 2031 and authorizes platform-related services including research, engineering, prototype development, and testing across autonomous systems, digital twins, AI, and electric propulsion.

Recent work characterizes the vendor's operational focus. A $71.3 million cost-plus-fixed-fee DARPA contract (awarded September 2021, extending through March 2026) supports Phase 2 development of the Manta Ray autonomous undersea vehicle program, featuring long-duration vehicle design and large-payload deployment without maintenance or refueling. A $54.4 million Office of Naval Research contract (awarded May 2022, through May 2027) addresses technologies for expeditionary advanced base operations in austere environments, with emphasis on autonomous and unmanned resupply capabilities for the Marine Corps. A $15.0 million ONR contract (awarded April 2022, through January 2027) covers development of amphibious unmanned surface vehicles for autonomous mobility. At smaller scale, a $9.5 million ONR definitive contract awarded June 2025 funds the Launch and Refueling Autonomous Small Craft in the Littorals (L RASCL) program, advancing autonomous launch and refueling capabilities for distributed naval operations. SBIR Phase I and II awards across Navy and Army programs run annually in the $200,000 to $2.0 million range, targeting infrared sensor systems, AI learning in novel scenarios, amphibious platforms for missile launch, and autonomous systems technologies.

Activity has ramped modestly over the past five years — three awards in 2022, four in 2023, nine in 2024, and ten in 2025 — with combined potential value of $1.4 billion against obligated dollars of $317 million (23% burn rate across the portfolio). Seven awards worth $86 million combined potential value face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure across NAVSEA and ONR programs.

Pacmar operates with a lean subcontract footprint on its SCI-reportable prime work, averaging 0% sub-hours share; the vendor builds much of its delivery capacity internally. On its larger DARPA and ONR research contracts, however, Pacmar engages a distributed subcontractor base: Edgetech (acoustic sensors and imaging), Pacific Shipyards International (ship repair), Seaward Services (maritime logistics), Macartney Inc. (underwater electrical-optical-mechanical systems), Deepwater Buoyancy (subsea products), and specialty materials suppliers including CMT Materials, Glenair, and Xometry reflect the multidisciplinary engineering scope of autonomous undersea and amphibious vehicle development. Additionally, Pacmar subcontracts to General Dynamics Mission Systems on fuel-bladder and drop-stitch manufacturing work, to Advanced Technology International on manufacturing-improvement efforts, to Systems & Technology Research on diving buoy platform development, and to Pennsylvania State University's Applied Research Laboratory on inflatable causeway design and interface kit development (Buoyant Roll-on/Roll-off Interface Kit connectors and subsea ramp concepts).

SCI-reported invoiced revenue carries minimal scope — $750 thousand across FY2022 on 3.2 FTEs at a median government-paid hourly rate of $112.90/hr — and reflects the vendor's portfolio concentration in research, development, and engineering contracts rather than labor-hour service work. The SCI data set excludes the vendor's substantial goods content (vessel components, materials, subsea equipment), classified work, and the full scope of federal R&D revenue, and therefore does not represent the vendor's total enterprise federal revenue or scale.

Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture, Boat Building, Boat Building and Repairing, Ship Repair, System Design & Prototyping, Autonomy & Data Science, Cyber, Power & Energy, Advanced Materials & Manufacturing