Signal Hound, LLC

Signal Hound, LLC, a veteran-owned small business based in Battle Ground, Washington, manufactures spectrum analyzers and related electronic measurement equipment for federal defense and intelligence agencies, operating primarily as a prime contractor (72% of recent awards) on purchase orders for test and measurement hardware. The company has competed across both set-aside (Total Small Business) and full-and-open federal procurements, with set-asides appearing on roughly half of recent prime awards; no single set-aside category dominates the footprint.

Signal Hound's product portfolio centers on portable and real-time spectrum analyzers covering frequency ranges from 9 kilohertz to 43.5 gigahertz, supplied to support electronic surveillance, law enforcement operations, research and development, and technical intelligence missions. Recent representative prime awards include a $125,020 Total Small Business purchase order from the Office of Naval Research for spectrum analyzers (December 2024), a $221,898 Total Small Business order from Navy SECNAV Criminal Investigative Service for portable spectrum analyzers (January 2024), a $156,993 full-and-open order from the Office of Naval Intelligence for portable and real-time spectrum analyzers and measurement equipment (September 2022), a $82,388 Total Small Business order from SECNAV CID for portable spectrum analyzers (August 2023), and a $46,844 full-and-open order from an unnamed U.S. Headquarters agency for spectrum analyzers supporting a remote foxhunt kit development (June 2025). The source also cites registered awards dating to 2004.

Customer concentration clusters heavily around the Department of the Navy. The top five customers by award count account for 47% of all awards: the Office of Naval Research leads with eleven awards totaling $328 thousand combined potential value, followed by the FBI (four awards, $364 thousand), the Department of State Bureau of Diplomatic Security (four awards), Naval Air Systems Command Naval Air Warfare Center (four awards, $65 thousand), and Naval Sea Systems Command (four awards, $42 thousand). The dollar rankings diverge slightly; the FBI's four orders carry the highest combined potential value at $364 thousand, followed by ONR at $328 thousand and SECNAV CID at $304 thousand, reflecting smaller order sizes from ONR but higher individual order values from justice and law enforcement functions. Across all activity, Signal Hound has served thirty distinct federal customer agencies over the period covered by the source data.

Recent activity accelerated in 2024 and 2025, with twelve awards in 2024 and ten in 2025, after a slower 2022–2023 period (four and two awards respectively). Two awards arrived in 2026 to date. Combined potential value across all prime and sub awards totals $1.8 million, though obligated dollars across all awards reach $3.4 million, indicating significant invoicing against contract ceilings. The top parent vehicles from the source carry small order counts: two task orders each under an Indefinite Delivery Contract and the Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services vehicle, with single task orders under other Navy and Air Force vehicles, suggesting Signal Hound relies primarily on direct purchase orders rather than bulk IDIQ or GWAC seats.

Signal Hound subcontracts to major defense primes including Booz Allen Hamilton (spectrum analysis and test equipment support across multiple task orders), General Dynamics Information Technology (global security engineering and supply chain services, multiple awards), Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (integrated weapon systems and command-and-control materials), MITRE (offensive cyber capabilities support for the Air Force), BAE Systems Space and Mission Systems (spectrum warfare assessment technologies), and others. The company's primary NAICS categorization is Instrument Manufacturing for Measuring and Testing Electricity and Electrical Signals (29 of 57 awards), with secondary presence in electronic parts distribution and engineering services.