Federal contractor · HAYWARD, CA

AMPEX DATA SYSTEMS CORPORATION

AMPEX DATA SYSTEMS CORPORATION received $679.4K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 17 awards (−78% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $30.4M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($427.1K).

Obligations · FY2026
$679.4K
New awards
17
Sole-source
85%
Single offer
1.3%
UEI
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Parent company
AMPEX DATA SYSTEMS CORPORATION
Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 5.4MFY2017
  2. 5.3MFY2018
  3. 3.7MFY2019
  4. 1.3MFY2020
  5. 1.7MFY2021
  6. 3.7MFY2022
  7. 731.5KFY2023
  8. 4.8MFY2024
  9. 3.1MFY2025
  10. 679.4KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Navy$427.1K63%
    15 awards
  2. Defense Logistics Agency$252.3K37%
    2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$476.6K70%
  2. IT & telecom$202.7K30%

Where the work was performed

  1. Alameda County, CA$679.4K100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition87%
    US 39% · $588.7K
  • Sole-source awards85%
    US 30% · $580.1K
  • Single-offer competitions1.3%
    US 8.7% · $8,600
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

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

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. Department of the Navy$418.5K
    Department of Defense · 1 awards
  2. Defense Logistics Agency$161.6K
    Department of Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. ECDL (USN)$868.8K
    Department of the Navy· Alameda County, CA· IT & telecom· Aug 11, 2025 – Jan 13, 2026· N6833525C0497
  2. NFS CHASSSIS,AIRCRA$356.6K
    Department of the Navy· Alameda County, CA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Jun 3, 2025 – May 27, 2026· N0038325PM046
  3. NFS CHASSIS$270.2K
    Department of the Navy· Alameda County, CA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Jan 31, 2023 – Apr 27, 2026· N0038323PM051
  4. RSM,AIRCRAFT EQUIP,$245.9K
    Department of the Navy· Alameda County, CA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Apr 16, 2024 – May 5, 2026· N0038324PM056
  5. RSM,AIRCRAFT EQUIP,$227K
    Department of the Navy· Alameda County, CA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Jun 3, 2025 – May 13, 2026· N0038325PM045
  6. REMOVABLE STORAGE ($166.1K
    Department of the Navy· Alameda County, CA· IT & telecom· Oct 16, 2025 – Oct 29, 2025· N0038326PMA09
  7. RSM,AIRCRAFT EQUIP,$161.6K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Alameda County, CA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Jan 22, 2026 – Feb 10, 2026· SPRPA126PZA17
  8. NFS CHASSSIS,AIRCRA$154.7K
    Department of the Navy· Alameda County, CA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· May 27, 2025 – Mar 26, 2026· N0038325PM044

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-contracts: $637.5K (11 subawards)

4 primes

  1. NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION$411.5K65%
    MELBOURNE, FL · 8 subawards
  2. SYSTEMS APPLICATION & TECHNOLOGIES INC$108.1K17%
    UPPER MARLBORO, MD · 1 subaward
  3. GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.$91.9K14%
    POWAY, CA · 1 subaward
  4. NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION$26K4.1%
    ROLLING MEADOWS, IL · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $2.9M received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $8.7M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $23M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $3.6M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $2.1M received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $637.5K received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

8 companies · $41M reported

  1. NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION$27.8M
    MELBOURNE, FL · 50 subawards · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  2. RAYTHEON COMPANY$7.6M
    TUCSON, AZ · 14 subawards · Commercial and service industry machinery manufacturing
  3. THE BOEING COMPANY$5M
    SAINT LOUIS, MO · 9 subawards · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing

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Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

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 14 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. HERRICK TECHNOLOGY LABORATORIES INC$4.5M+1,430% in FY2026
    MANCHESTER, NH · 2 entities · 37% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Communications equipment manufacturingNavy · Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturingNavy · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing
  2. ELBIT SYSTEMS C4I AND CYBER$6.6M−91% in FY2026
    HOLON, ISR · 13 entities · 43% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Communications equipment manufacturingDefense Logistics Agency · Communications equipment manufacturingNavy · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing
  3. GLOBECOMM SYSTEMS INC$3.4M
    HAUPPAUGE, NY · 33% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Communications equipment 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.

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.