Federal contractor · BREA, CA

APPLIED COMPOSITE STRUCTURES, INC.

APPLIED COMPOSITE STRUCTURES, INC. received $2.5M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 9 awards (−18% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $24.2M. Its largest customer was Defense Logistics Agency ($2.5M).

Obligations · FY2026
$2.5M
New awards
9
Sole-source
2.7%
Single offer
97%
UEI
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Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 2.6MFY2017
  2. 5.9MFY2018
  3. 903KFY2019
  4. 62KFY2020
  5. 86.8KFY2021
  6. 5.5MFY2022
  7. 3.3MFY2023
  8. 166.5KFY2024
  9. 3.1MFY2025
  10. 2.5MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Defense Logistics Agency$2.5M100%
    9 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$2.5M98%
  2. Other equipment & supplies$40.5K1.6%

Where the work was performed

  1. Orange County, CA$2.5M100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition99.9%
    US 39% · $2.5M
  • Sole-source awards2.7%
    US 30% · $68.4K
  • Single-offer competitions97%
    US 8.8% · $2.5M
  • 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. Defense Logistics Agency$68.4K
    Department of Defense · 3 awards

Largest awards

  1. 8512154475!IRS SHELL ASSY,AIRC$2.4M
    Defense Logistics Agency· Orange County, CA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Jun 8, 2026 – Jun 8, 2026· SPE4A726C0092
  2. 8511113139!AFT NACELLE ASSY,AI$496.6K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Orange County, CA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Jan 10, 2025 – Dec 4, 2025· SPE4A725P4147
  3. 8511929985!TRAILING ASSEMBLY,L$37.7K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Orange County, CA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Feb 19, 2026 – Feb 19, 2026· SPE4A726F3211
  4. 8511832335!BRACKET,STRUCTURAL$21.1K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Orange County, CA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Dec 29, 2025 – Jan 20, 2026· SPE4A626PA653
  5. 8512012847!INSULATOR,SPACER$19.8K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Orange County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Apr 1, 2026 – Apr 1, 2026· SPE4A626PL417
  6. 8511723151!GROMMET,NONMETALLIC$14.6K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Orange County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Oct 27, 2025 – Nov 14, 2025· SPE4A626P3642
  7. 8511711878!BRACKET,STRUCTURAL$9,614
    Defense Logistics Agency· Orange County, CA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Oct 22, 2025 – Oct 22, 2025· SPE4A626P2898
  8. 8511778764!SEAL,SILICONE,AIRCR$3,762
    Defense Logistics Agency· Orange County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Nov 25, 2025 – Nov 25, 2025· SPE7L326V1037

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.

APPLIED COMPOSITE STRUCTURES, INC. received $0 in federal assistance in FY2026, on 0 actions (0 new awards).

Assistance · FY2026
$0
New awards
0
Actions
0
Since FY2021
$1.2M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 1.4MFY2021
  2. -189.5KFY2023

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · FY2021–FY2023.

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: $15.3M (10 subawards)

3 primes

  1. BAE SYSTEMS LAND & ARMAMENTS L.P.$14.6M95%
    MAPLE GROVE, MN · 4 subawards
  2. BELL TEXTRON INC$493.1K3.2%
    FORT WORTH, TX · 4 subawards
  3. BELL BOEING JOINT PROJECT OFFICE$198.1K1.3%
    AMARILLO, TX · 2 subawards

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $1.4M received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $13.5M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $12.7M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $9.6M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $383.4K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $15.3M 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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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

4 companies · $52.8M reported

  1. BAE SYSTEMS LAND & ARMAMENTS L.P.$38.4M
    YORK, PA · 24 subawards · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  2. BELL BOEING JOINT PROJECT OFFICE$6.1M
    AMARILLO, TX · 20 subawards · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  3. BELL TEXTRON INC$4.2M
    FORT WORTH, TX · 13 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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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 6 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. RTI REMMELE ENGINEERING, INC.$2.4M+2,739% in FY2026
    BIG LAKE, MN · 41% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  2. THE CONRAD COMPANY$2.3M−37% in FY2026
    MEMPHIS, TN · 40% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  3. AEREOS, LLC$2.5M
    EULESS, TX · 2 entities · 41% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Aerospace product and parts 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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.