The QT Company

The QT Company, doing business as The QT Co, is a foreign-owned software vendor that supplies cross-platform application development frameworks, testing tools, and subscription licenses to Department of Defense agencies as a prime contractor (75% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor to major defense primes. The vendor operates overwhelmingly outside set-aside programs, competing on a full-and-open basis across its federal footprint.

Based in San Jose, California, The QT Company specializes in QT software development frameworks and related tools (NAICS 511210 — Software Publishers; primary PSC "Information Technology Software"), with a federal presence dating to at least 2011. The vendor has accumulated more than $700 thousand in federal prime contract awards since 2011, with combined potential value across all current awards totaling $1.5 million and combined obligated dollars reaching $3.2 million. Recent activity shows a concentration in purchase orders for QT software licenses, subscriptions, and Squish floating-tester testing tools. Representative prime awards include a $93,252 purchase order from Air Force Materiel Command for QT software licenses (awarded September 2023, completion September 2025), a $100,450 purchase order from the Federal Aviation Administration for seven QT application development enterprise annual subscription licenses (awarded January 2023), and a $54,315 purchase order from Air Force Materiel Command for QT software (awarded September 2024, completion September 2027).

Customer concentration sits heavily with naval command structures. The Naval Air Warfare Center dominates the prime footprint with 35 awards totaling $493 thousand combined potential value, and the Naval Sea Systems Command ranks second with 21 awards for $238 thousand. Together these two naval customer organizations account for 66% of recent awards by count and 83% of combined potential value. Air Force Materiel Command ranks second by potential value with three awards totaling $280 thousand, followed by the Federal Aviation Administration with four awards worth $171 thousand. The vendor serves 24 distinct customer agencies in total. The QT Company carries a two-award presence on the General Services Administration's "One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services — Small Business" (OASIS+) vehicle and sits on a Basic Ordering Agreement with Naval Air Systems Command (two task orders) and another with the Office of Naval Research. Activity has fluctuated significantly — peaking at 20 awards in 2023, declining to 10 awards each in 2024 and 2025, with one award recorded in 2026 to date. Only two awards carry completion dates within the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $68 thousand).

In its subcontractor role, The QT Company delivers QT software licenses, development tools, and integration services to major defense primes including Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Technologies, General Dynamics Land Systems, General Atomics, Leidos, Applied Research Associates, CAE USA, and Sierra Nevada Company. Representative sub work spans F-22 avionics systems engineering (Applied Research Associates), DDG 1000 destroyer class mission systems support (Raytheon), B-2 training system software (CAE USA), MQ-8C unmanned aircraft systems cybersecurity (Peraton Labs), and Stryker vehicle production software (General Dynamics). Sub awards represent approximately 25% of the total federal footprint by count, and the vendor has held consistent sub relationships with defense integrators over the past three years.