Rosenthal, Brock

Rosenthal, Brock, doing business as Ocean Innovations, is a La Jolla, California–based sole proprietorship that supplies specialized oceanographic sensors, underwater cables, connectors, and marine equipment to federal agencies as a prime contractor (97% of recent awards), predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides. Ocean Innovations competes nearly exclusively within small-business set-aside vehicles; across its 121 total awards, only a handful carry no set-aside designation.

Ocean Innovations' customer base concentrates heavily in Navy and civilian oceanographic research. The top five customer offices by award count account for 64% of all recent awards: NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (32 awards, $668 thousand combined potential value) leads by volume, followed by Navy Information Warfare Systems Command (16 awards, $437 thousand), Naval Sea Systems Command (13 awards, $512 thousand), Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Walla Walla (9 awards, $3.6 million), and the Secretary of the Navy's Office of Naval Research (7 awards, $1.1 million). The potential-value ranking diverges sharply — the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Walla Walla anchors 44% of the combined potential value across the portfolio at $3.6 million, while NOAA's higher award count translates to smaller per-order values. Ocean Innovations' recent work spans Doppler Velocity Logger sensors ($37.2 thousand Navy purchase order, April 2026), SeapHOx ocean CT sensors for water quality research ($65 thousand USGS award, September 2025), SubConn underwater cables and connectors for NOAA moorings ($11.6 thousand to $23.9 thousand per order), Sonardyne USBL tracking systems ($41.9 thousand), glass instrument housing spheres ($141 thousand and $250 thousand Office of Naval Research orders), and vibracoring sediment-sampling systems ($30.4 thousand Army Corps).

Ocean Innovations holds a single named parent vehicle: Indefinite Delivery Contract W912EF11D0006 with the Army Corps of Engineers, under which it has placed 8 task orders worth $995 thousand combined potential value. The vendor's capability portfolio concentrates in Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing (NAICS 382213, 70 awards), with secondary strength in electrical apparatus and equipment wholesaling (9 awards) and electronic connector manufacturing (7 awards). Recent procurement categories span wire and cable electrical (12 awards), electrical connectors (10 awards), underwater sound equipment (9 awards), and miscellaneous ship and marine equipment (8 awards). Activity has remained flat at four to five awards per year through 2022–2025, with two awards recorded in 2026 year-to-date. As a subcontractor, Ocean Innovations delivers DART buoy transducer cables, flotation spheres, and related hardware to Science Applications International Corporation on the NOAA DART System Recapitalization Project (May 2025 and earlier 2025 sub-awards), and previously supplied materials to Pacmar Technologies on a DARPA research project. The vendor's prime-award dominance and small-business-set-aside posture position it as a niche supplier of specialized maritime sensor and component products rather than a systems integrator or large-scale program player.

suppliers of underwater and oceanographic equipment