Signal Hound, LLC

Signal Hound, LLC, a veteran-owned small business based in Battle Ground, Washington, manufactures and supplies portable and real-time spectrum analyzers, software-defined radios, and related electronic test and measurement equipment to defense, intelligence, and civilian federal agencies as a prime contractor (71% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor to major primes including General Dynamics Information Technology, Booz Allen Hamilton, BAE Systems, and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. The company operates as a limited liability partnership, competes predominantly full-and-open (no set-aside designations on roughly 60% of recent prime awards, though several Navy and Army awards carry Total Small Business set-asides), and has held federal contracts since 2004.

Signal Hound's customer concentration spans defense and intelligence agencies. The top five funding customer organizations account for 47% of recent awards, led by the Department of the Navy Office of Naval Research (11 awards, $328 thousand combined potential value) and the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation (4 awards, $364 thousand combined potential value). When ranked by dollar value rather than award count, the FBI leads the top-five tally (though the order shifts), and the Department of Homeland Security's Chief Security Officer anchors a $160 thousand purchase order for five SM435B and BB60D spectrum analyzers at Capitol Heights, Maryland, awarded September 25, 2026. Navy customer segments — the Office of Naval Research, Naval Sea Systems Command, Naval Air Systems Command, Naval Air Warfare Center, Office of Naval Intelligence, and Navy SECNAV Criminal Investigative Service — collectively dominate the portfolio. The company serves 31 distinct federal agencies across the portfolio, indicating broad but shallow customer penetration rather than concentration.

Recent prime work spans portable spectrum analyzers for electronic surveillance and law enforcement functions: a $125 thousand Total Small Business purchase order from the Office of Naval Research for spectrum analyzers (December 2024), a $221 thousand Total Small Business order from Navy SECNAV Criminal Investigative Service at Quantico for portable spectrum analyzers (January 2024), an $82 thousand Total Small Business order from the same command (August 2023), and a $156 thousand order from the Office of Naval Intelligence for portable and real-time spectrum analyzers (September 2022). A $46 thousand purchase order from U.S. Headquarters supported remote foxhunt kit development (June 2025). In its subcontractor role, Signal Hound supplies spectrum analyzers and test equipment to General Dynamics Information Technology across multiple global security engineering and supply chain services engagements, to Booz Allen Hamilton on satellite communications technical support and ESID program efforts, to BAE Systems on spectrum warfare assessment technologies, and to Johns Hopkins APL on cyber tools research and integrated command-and-control systems.

Activity shows strong growth from a baseline of two to four awards annually through 2023, jumping to twelve awards in 2024 and ten in 2025, with four awards recorded in 2026 to date. Only one award (valued at $160 thousand) faces ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal recompete pressure in that window. The portfolio's NAICS concentration centers on instrument manufacturing for measuring and testing electrical signals (31 awards), with secondary work in electronics parts wholesaling and logistics consulting. PSC coding emphasizes electrical and electronic properties test instruments, consistent with the vendor's spectrum analyzer and software-defined radio product line. Combined potential value across all awards is $2 million, though combined obligated dollars are $3.8 million (suggesting prior-year obligations exceed current ceiling values).