Federal contractor · SELMA, AL

AMERICAN APPAREL, INC.

AMERICAN APPAREL, INC. received $29M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 41 awards (−38% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $376.6M. Its largest customer was Defense Logistics Agency ($29M).

Obligations · FY2026: $29M
New awards: 41
Sole-source: 0.0%
Single offer: 0.3%

UEI: H2LZE5R3RE68

Small business

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Company family

Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.

2 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $29M in FY2026 together.

AMERICAN APPAREL, INC.SELMA, AL · Family page
Reported parent$29M
AMERICAN APPAREL, INCCENTRE, AL
Reported parent$0

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

51.3MFY2017
28.6MFY2018
41MFY2019
25.1MFY2020
47.4MFY2021
26.3MFY2022
35MFY2023
45.9MFY2024
46.9MFY2025
29MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Defense Logistics Agency$29M99.7%
40 awards
Federal Prison Industries / Unicor$72.9K0.3%
1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Other equipment & supplies$29M100%

Where the work was performed

Dallas County, AL$29M100%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

Low competition0.3%
US 39% · $94.7K
Sole-source awards0.0%
US 30% · $0
Single-offer competitions0.3%
US 8.7% · $94.7K
Urgency justifications0.3%
US 5.1% · $72.9K

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Largest awards

8511954426!COAT,ALL-WEATHER$10.1M
Defense Logistics Agency· Dallas County, AL· Other equipment & supplies· Mar 6, 2026 – Mar 6, 2026· SPE1C126F2868
8512126402!COAT, ACU, TYPE III, CLASS II$3.9M
Defense Logistics Agency· Dallas County, AL· Other equipment & supplies· May 20, 2026 – May 20, 2026· SPE1C126F4345
8511519528!TROUSERS,WOODLAND,M$1.7M
Defense Logistics Agency· Dallas County, AL· Other equipment & supplies· Jul 23, 2025 – Nov 4, 2025· SPE1C125F5052
8512000728!TROUSERS, ACU, TYPE I, CLASS$1.4M
Defense Logistics Agency· Dallas County, AL· Other equipment & supplies· Mar 25, 2026 – Mar 25, 2026· SPE1C126F3325
8512077009!TROUSERS,WOODLAND,M$1.4M
Defense Logistics Agency· Dallas County, AL· Other equipment & supplies· Apr 29, 2026 – Apr 29, 2026· SPE1C126F4034
8511752903!COAT, ACU, TYPE III, CLASS II$969.7K
Defense Logistics Agency· Dallas County, AL· Other equipment & supplies· Nov 14, 2025 – Nov 14, 2025· SPE1C126F0751
8511947864!COAT, ACU, TYPE III, CLASS II$969.7K
Defense Logistics Agency· Dallas County, AL· Other equipment & supplies· Feb 27, 2026 – Feb 27, 2026· SPE1C126F2821
8512126406!BLOUSE, WDLD ,MCCUU, PERMITHE$901.2K
Defense Logistics Agency· Dallas County, AL· Other equipment & supplies· May 19, 2026 – May 19, 2026· SPE1C126F4348

Federal grants & assistance received

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

AMERICAN APPAREL, INC. received $0 in federal assistance in FY2026, on 2 actions (0 new awards).

Assistance · FY2026: $0
New awards: 0
Actions: 2
Since FY2021: $1.1M

Assistance by fiscal year

1.1MFY2021
0FY2022
0FY2024
0FY2026

Largest awards

COVID-19 DPA3 PROJECT ENTITLED, "PROTECT AND EXPAND DOMESTIC MANUFACTURING OF CLOTHING AND TEXTILE ITEMS FOR THE UNITED STATES MILITARY"$1.1M
12.777 · Defense Production Act Title Iii (Dpa Title III)· Department of the Air Force· Cooperative agreement· Dec 10, 2020 – Apr 13, 2026· FA86502125504

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 3 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

FEDERAL PRISON INDUSTRIES, INC - CTG$107.1M+20% in FY2026
WASHINGTON, DC · 81% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Cut and sew apparel manufacturingDefense Logistics Agency · Apparel accessories and other apparel manufacturing
AURORA INDUSTRIES LLC$88.7M−25% in FY2026
CAMUY, PR · 2 entities · 73% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Cut and sew apparel manufacturing
BERNARD CAP, LLC$99.5M+12% in FY2026
HIALEAH, FL · 76% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Cut and sew apparel manufacturingDefense Logistics Agency · Apparel accessories and other apparel manufacturing

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Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Lobbying and PAC activity

Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.

Across the company family of AMERICAN APPAREL, INC. (2 recipients).

Matched organizations

AMERICAN APPAREL, INC.AI match · 99%

PAC giving · 2026: $3,000; 1 PAC

PAC giving to candidates by party, 2026 cycle

Republican$3,000100%

PACs sponsored

AMERICAN APPAREL INC DEFENSE READINESS PAC$3,000 raised this cycle

PACs these organizations sponsor (connected organizations in FEC records). A PAC gives employees' and members' voluntary contributions, not the company's own money.

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Sep 30, 2026.

Congress: members and bills

Through the organizations matched to this company: members of Congress whose campaigns received contributions from their PACs, and the bills their lobbying reports named. Shown beside the company's contracts as a comparison, not a cause.

Members whose campaigns received from its PACs, 2026 cycle

Mike Rogers$3,000
R-AL-3 · House · 1 PAC

$3,000 of the $3,000 its PACs gave to federal candidates went to 1 members of Congress.

Members whose campaigns received from its PACs, 2024 cycle

Mike Rogers$3,000
R-AL-3 · House · 1 PAC

$3,000 of the $3,000 its PACs gave to federal candidates went to 1 members of Congress.

Direct and in-kind contributions the members' campaigns received (FEC), net of refunds. Party and seat are the member's current or latest.

Amounts, members and bills are as recorded, shown side by side. They say nothing about why a contribution was made, how a member voted or what a report sought. A bill number written in a report is read as the measure of the Congress its context points to (a law's number, the Congress written next to it, the title), else of the Congress then sitting.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.