Wildlife Acoustics, Inc.

Wildlife Acoustics, Inc., headquartered in Maynard, Massachusetts, manufactures autonomous recording units and acoustic monitoring software for federal wildlife research and conservation programs as a prime contractor operating entirely in open competition without set-aside designations. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation that has received 220 prime federal awards totaling $7.5 million in combined potential value since 2007, with recent activity concentrated in bioacoustic equipment procurement across the Department of Agriculture, Department of the Interior, and National Science Foundation.

Wildlife Acoustics' core capability portfolio consists of Song Meter autonomous recording units (Mini, Mini 2, SM4 variants), Song Meter Bat ultrasonic recorders, Kaleidoscope Pro software for acoustic data processing, and associated accessories such as lithium-ion battery lids and protective cables. Equipment is sold to federal agencies for non-invasive wildlife population monitoring, habitat assessments, and endangered species tracking on national forests, parks, and public lands. Representative recent work includes a $529,658 total small business award from the Bureau of Land Management's Coos Bay District (April 2026) for 745 Song Meter Mini 2 Li-ion units with batteries and cable locks; a $318,353 sole-source purchase order from the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station (August 2023) for Song Meter Mini units supporting the Non-game Species Monitoring project; a $249,963 contract from the same research station (September 2024) for Song Meter Mini2 units; and a $117,252 BPA call from the Pacific Northwest Region (October 2023) for Song Meter SM4 recorders supporting interagency monitoring programs.

Customer concentration aligns heavily with the Department of Agriculture Forest Service. The top five funding agencies account for 64% of combined potential value: the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region leads at 26 awards and $2.1 million, followed by the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station (11 awards, $1.8 million), the National Park Service Midwest Region (16 awards, $322 thousand), the USGS Office of Acquisitions and Grants (14 awards, $274 thousand), and the National Park Service Southeast Region (11 awards, $199 thousand). The USDA Forest Service dominates both volume and dollar concentration, anchored by a $3.5 million blanket purchase agreement with the Pacific Northwest Region established in September 2020 and running through September 2025. Against this BPA, Wildlife Acoustics has placed 19 task orders worth $2 million in combined potential value.

Activity has contracted significantly in recent years—13 awards in 2022, declining to 3 awards in 2025 and 4 awards in 2026 year to date—indicating potential recompete exposure or customer consolidation. Only three awards face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $33 thousand), leaving minimal near-term recompete cliff risk but also signaling a narrow active pipeline. The vendor competes entirely full-and-open across federal customers with no set-asides recorded; approximately 5% of recent awards carry total small business designations, but Wildlife Acoustics does not rely on set-aside positioning and wins primarily on sole-source technical justification (unique iPhone-app configuration capability) or competitive procurement where Song Meter is the specified equipment. The portfolio spans 52 distinct customer agencies, reflecting broad distribution across Interior, Agriculture, NSF, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Army Corps of Engineers, though concentration remains with Pacific Northwest-region land management entities. Wildlife Acoustics operates as a 100% prime contractor with no recorded subcontract activity in the source data.

Wildlife Acoustics is the leading provider of bioacoustics monitoring systems for researchers, conservationists, universities and government agencies worldwide. We offer solutions for both terrestrial and marine monitoring applications of sound and noise.