Prosensing Inc.

Prosensing Inc., an Amherst, Massachusetts-based for-profit Subchapter S corporation, designs, manufactures, and sustains advanced microwave instrumentation—stepped frequency microwave radiometers (SFMR), wide swath radar altimeters (WSRA), and related radar systems—for federal weather monitoring, hurricane research, and defense applications, operating as a prime contractor on 98% of its federal awards (160 of 163 total awards) without set-aside designation.

Prosensing's customer base concentrates heavily on civilian weather and oceanographic mission work. The top five customer agencies by award count represent 64% of all awards, led by the Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (52 awards, $3.1 million combined potential value), followed by the Department of the Navy (18 awards), the Air Force (16 awards, $660 thousand combined potential value), the Office of Naval Research (10 awards, $2.7 million combined potential value), and NASA (8 awards). The potential-value ranking tracks similarly but elevates the Office of Naval Research to second place at $2.7 million across ten awards, indicating larger individual task sizes from ONR relative to NOAA's smaller, more frequent orders. Recent representative prime work includes a $1.019 million firm fixed-price purchase order from NOAA for an SFMR-High Altitude system for the G550 aircraft (awarded March 2022, extended through March 2024); a $142.5 million WSRA support services contract from NOAA for hurricane season operations and maintenance (April 2022); a $74 thousand repair and calibration order from NOAA for three SFMR units (July 2025); and a $138 thousand SFMR maintenance task from the Air Force at Keesler Air Force Base (April 2025, running through March 2030). Prosensing also holds work under NOAA small business innovation research programs, having designed and developed WSRA hardware and software under prior SBIR contracts, which positions it as the sole-source supplier for complex WSRA technical support.

The vendor participates in government-wide and agency-specific vehicles including Air Force Indefinite Delivery Contract FA252120D0005 (2 task orders), GSA Blanket Purchase Agreement 40WCNR111310 (1 task order), and related IDCs. Award activity has remained flat in recent years—two awards in 2022, three in 2023, four each in 2024 and 2025—with only one award recorded in the first half of 2026. The combined potential value across all 163 awards (prime and sub) stands at $14 million, though obligated dollars total $25.7 million (183% of potential value), indicating that completion and invoicing have substantially outpaced formal ceiling values. Only one award faces recompete inside the next twenty-four months ($19 thousand combined potential value), suggesting low near-term recompete exposure.

Prosensing's primary NAICS footprint centers on Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing (24 awards) and Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing (18 awards), with supporting work in equipment repair and maintenance and research and development across physical and engineering sciences. In its minimal subcontractor role, Prosensing subcontracts to BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services Inc. on Instrumentation Range Support Program upgrades and antenna collar replacement work, and acts as a sub-recipient under The Research Foundation for SUNY on a collaborative NSF atmospheric research grant (Collaborative Research AGS-FIRP Track 3, awarded September 2025).