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Inertialwave

HQ Manhattan Beach, CaliforniaFounded 20141-10 employeesUpdated

Inertialwave develops and manufactures high performance microelectronics, test equipment, and navigation units for Commercial and Aerospace markets.

StartupAircraft and aeronauticsPositioning, navigation, timing and spectrum resilience+1
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Federal Obligations by Year (All USAspending, as Reported at the Time)

Inertialwave federal obligations by fiscal year
Fiscal yearDirect: contracts
FY2025$140K
FY2023$150K
FY2022$600K
FY2021$1.2M
FY2020$549K
FY2019$1.4M
FY2018$582K
FY2017$478K
FY2016$49K
FY2015$100K

Direct is the company's own reviewed UEIs. Reported by USAspending is subsidiaries as reported by USAspending: recipients that name this company as their parent, not yet reviewed ownership.

Directly matched recipients (up to 12)

UEIs matched to this organization, largest obligations first. Subsidiary recipients are not included in this list; their attributed obligations can appear in the company totals above.

Each action is credited by the ownership basis shown in its column. Reported-parent rows count for Inertialwave only for the period a subsidiary reported Inertialwave as its parent; reviewed links follow their reviewed dates. Net of de-obligations; these are obligations, not ceilings. They come from the whole USAspending baseline (every recipient size, contracts and assistance) and are a separate view from the curated contract totals on this page. FY2026 and later are partial, as on Markets.

Capabilities3

  • Aircraft and aeronautics
    Developer
    classify_sectors run 37, haiku, taxonomy 2026-10-18b: Makes navigation units and microelectronics for 'Commercial and Aerospace markets'; no defense use is stated.
    —Reported
  • Positioning, navigation, timing and spectrum resilience
    Developer
    classify_sectors run 37, haiku, taxonomy 2026-10-18b: Makes navigation units and microelectronics for 'Commercial and Aerospace markets'; no defense use is stated.
    —Reported
  • Semiconductors and microelectronics
    Developer
    classify_sectors run 172, haiku, taxonomy 2026-10-19: Makes navigation units and microelectronics for commercial and aerospace markets; the aerospace customer is stated, but no military use is named.
    —Reported

Maturity and TRL describe this organization's work; the field-wide maturity is on each technology's page.

People1

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People
PersonRole
A. Dorian ChallonerPresident & Founder

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Sources6

Profile5

  1. 1
    DatabaseInertialwave - PitchBook company profile

    PitchBook · Supports Organization · country, Organization · founded year, Organization · x url

    “country: US”
  2. 2
    DatabaseSixth-Domain public startups directory

    Sixth-Domain · Supports Organization · kind

    “{"group": "startups", "id": "ac2eabd4-98ce-4172-8583-1f9a9b5bb301", "name": "Inertialwave"}”
  3. 3
    DatabaseInertialwave - Crunchbase company profile

    Crunchbase · Supports Organization · country, Organization · employee range, Organization · hq city, Organization · linkedin url, Organization · x url

    “country: US”
  4. 4
    CompanyInertialwave – Leading the way where GPS cannot

    Inertialwave · Supports Organization · description, Organization · name, Organization · website

    “Inertialwave develops and manufactures high performance microelectronics, test equipment, and navigation units for Commercial and Aerospace markets. We are bringing to market the most accurate global navigation products with the best inertial and electromagnetic wave solutions.”
  5. 5
    DatabaseINERTIALWAVE, INC company profile

    Octen Business Search · Supports Organization · hq region

    “hq_region: California (profile: Manhattan Beach, California 90266, US)”

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  1. 6
    CompanyInertialwave - team page

    Inertialwave · Supports Role

    “A. Dorian Challoner President & Founder”

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