Federal contractor · ARNOLD, MO

ARNOLD DEFENSE & ELECTRONICS, LLC

ARNOLD DEFENSE & ELECTRONICS, LLC received $11.9M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 7 awards (+92% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $92.4M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($11.8M).

Obligations · FY2026
$11.9M
New awards
7
Sole-source
99%
Single offer
0.5%
UEI
F3GRALMS4Y65
Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 11.6MFY2017
  2. 2.3MFY2018
  3. 21MFY2019
  4. 5.1MFY2020
  5. 19.8MFY2021
  6. 3.9MFY2022
  7. 7.4MFY2023
  8. 3.3MFY2024
  9. 6.2MFY2025
  10. 11.9MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Navy$11.8M99%
    5 awards
  2. Defense Logistics Agency$62.9K0.5%
    1 awards
  3. Defense Contract Management Agency$00.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$11.9M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Jefferson County, MO$11.9M100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $11.9M
  • Sole-source awards99%
    US 30% · $11.8M
  • Single-offer competitions0.5%
    US 8.8% · $62.9K
  • 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$11.8M
    Department of Defense · 5 awards

Largest awards

  1. PMA-242 LAUNCHERS AND DRLS$3.2M
    Department of the Navy· Jefferson County, MO· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· May 29, 2026 – May 29, 2026· N0017426F1127
  2. M261 HYDRA-70$2.3M
    Defense Contract Management Agency· Jefferson County, MO· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· May 15, 2024 – May 4, 2026· N0017424F0102
  3. TAGM M261 LAUNCHER ORDER$1.2M
    Department of the Navy· Jefferson County, MO· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· May 29, 2026 – May 29, 2026· N0017426F1134
  4. USN AND USAF LAU 68FA AND INTERVALOMETER BUY$1.1M
    Department of the Navy· Jefferson County, MO· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· May 29, 2025 – Feb 10, 2026· N0017425F1039
  5. 8512159247!INTERVALOMETER,ROCK$62.9K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Jefferson County, MO· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Jun 4, 2026 – Jun 4, 2026· SPE7M126V9735
  6. LAND-LGR4 - FLETCHER LAUNCHER PURCHASE$34.6K
    Department of the Navy· Jefferson County, MO· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Jun 11, 2026 – Jun 11, 2026· N0017426P1112
  7. TUBE SLIP ANALYSIS FOR (2) DRL | P/N: 1716AS400-2$9,048
    Department of the Navy· Jefferson County, MO· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Aug 19, 2025 – May 13, 2026· N0017425F1025

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: $107.7K (1 subaward)

1 prime

  1. SIERRA NEVADA COMPANY, LLC$107.7K100%
    ENGLEWOOD, CO · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $79.1K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $151K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $107.7K 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 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 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

3 companies · $337.9K reported

  1. INVARIANT CORPORATION$151K
    HUNTSVILLE, AL · 1 subaward · Other fabricated metal product manufacturing
  2. SIERRA NEVADA COMPANY, LLC$107.7K
    SPARKS, NV · 1 subaward · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  3. ATLANTIC DIVING SUPPLY, INC.$79.1K
    VIRGINIA BEACH, VA · 1 subaward · Other miscellaneous manufacturing

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 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 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 4 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. MCNALLY INDUSTRIES, LLC$22M+1,163% in FY2026
    GRANTSBURG, WI · 2 entities · 82% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Other fabricated metal product manufacturingDefense Logistics Agency · Other fabricated metal product manufacturing
  2. BLACK HILLS AMMUNITION INC$20M+24% in FY2026
    RAPID CITY, SD · 76% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Other fabricated metal product manufacturing
  3. INVARIANT CORPORATION$30.3M−38% in FY2026
    HUNTSVILLE, AL · 85% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Other fabricated metal product manufacturing

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.

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.

Matched organizations

  • Arnold DefenseAI match · 94%
Lobbying · 2024
$30K
4 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2024
$70K

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$40K
    4 reports
  2. 2024$30K
    4 reports

Top issues

  1. Defense7 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES7 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE7 reports

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

  1. Kit Bond Strategies$70K
    8 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

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 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Oct 5, 2026.

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.