Christopher Hoaglin

Christopher Hoaglin, doing business as Embedded Engineering, is a Massachusetts-based sole proprietorship that manufactures and repairs specialized electronic equipment for federal agencies, operating as a prime contractor exclusively on small business set-aside and full-and-open purchase orders and blanket purchase agreement calls. The company is a small business without named SBA certifications (8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or WOSB) but qualifies for total small business set-asides under NAICS 811210 (Electronic and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance) and related repair categories.

Embedded Engineering's federal footprint is heavily concentrated in NOAA weather-systems repair work. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration accounts for 121 of the vendor's 137 awards (88% of award count) and $4.8 million of the $6.1 million combined potential value across the portfolio. The company specializes in the repair, reconditioning, and calibration of Next Generation Weather Radar (NEXRAD) and Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) components—including Advanced Communication Unit processors, Synergy processors, CPU boards, optical detectors and transmitters, modem racks, pulse shaper modules, and aspirator housing units—supporting the National Weather Service's Weather Forecast Offices, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Department of Defense through NOAA's procurement. Representative work includes a $217,350 BPA call order (September 2025) for repair and reconditioning of ACU processors, Synergy processors, CPU boards, modem racks, day/night sensors, pulse shaper modules, and housing aspirators; a $33,020 purchase order (September 2025) for repair of 65 optical detectors with February 2027 completion; and a $25,400 purchase order (September 2025) for repair of 50 optical transmitters. Embedded Engineering also holds the current multiple-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with NOAA (contract 1305M225A0013, valued at $2.75 million through September 2030, awarded September 2025), which replaced an earlier BPA and enables task orders for the same electronic equipment families.

Beyond NOAA, the company has a secondary customer in the Department of the Navy. Naval Supply Systems Command placed nine awards totaling $1.2 million for printed circuit board manufacturing, including a $215,955 purchase order (April 2026) and an $89,975 purchase order (April 2026), both with performance in Middleton, Massachusetts and firm fixed-price terms. The Space and Missile Systems Center (Air Force) issued one $19,500 purchase order (June 2022) for CPU boards. Combined, Navy and Space Command work represents approximately 7% of Embedded Engineering's award count and 20% of combined potential value.

Activity has been volatile. Awards per year ran at 14 in 2022, declined through 2024 (4 awards), and recovered modestly to 7 in 2025 and 2 in 2026. The recompete cliff is minimal: four awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry a combined potential value of $364 thousand. Embedded Engineering does not subcontract; the vendor operates as a prime on all 137 awards with no sub-awards in the source data. The company operates entirely off two NOAA BPAs: the earlier agreement (1305M220ANWWG0075, 15 task orders, $202 thousand combined potential value) and the current multiple-award agreement. No GWAC, GSA Schedule, or government-wide IDIQ seats appear in the source data. Service delivery occurs predominantly in Middleton and Winchester, Massachusetts, with some work in Woburn, Massachusetts.