Federal contractor · SKOKIE, IL

APPLIED THIN FILMS, INC

APPLIED THIN FILMS, INC received $2M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 2 awards (+773% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $9.5M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($2M).

Obligations · FY2026
$2M
New awards
2
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
S5SDX2NKH4J9
Small businessMinority-owned
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 535.6KFY2017
  2. 2.2MFY2018
  3. 753.2KFY2019
  4. 699.9KFY2020
  5. 499.7KFY2021
  6. 499.8KFY2022
  7. 149.4KFY2023
  8. 2MFY2024
  9. 224.3KFY2025
  10. 2MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Navy$2M100%
    1 awards
  2. Department of the Air Force$00.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$2M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Cook County, IL$2M100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition0.0%
    US 39% · $0
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.8% · $0
  • 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.

Largest awards

  1. SBIR PHASE II TOPIC #N191-026$2M
    Department of the Navy· Cook County, IL· Research & development· Feb 25, 2026 – Feb 25, 2026· N0002426C3000
  2. LARGE 3D CMC RF WINDOWS FOR EXTREME HYPERSONIC ENVIRONMENTS$1.8M
    Department of the Air Force· Cook County, IL· Research & development· Jul 22, 2024 – Jan 30, 2026· FA865124CB026

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

  1. IRFLEX CORP$3.7M−92% in FY2026
    DANVILLE, VA · 85% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development servicesNavy · Scientific research and development services
  2. NU-TREK, INC.$3.3M−71% in FY2026
    SAN DIEGO, CA · 94% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development servicesAir Force · Scientific research and development services
  3. SILVER BULLET SOLUTIONS, INC$4.1M−55% in FY2026
    ARLINGTON, VA · 87% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development servicesAir Force · Scientific research and development services

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

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 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026.