Federal contractor · EPHRATA, PA
ASTRO MACHINE WORKS INC
ASTRO MACHINE WORKS INC received $768.5K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 6 awards (−82% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $72.7M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($735.1K).
- Obligations · FY2026
- $768.5K
- New awards
- 6
- Sole-source
- 4.8%
- Single offer
- 89%
- UEI
- C9JHYHR6ETJ3
Spending by fiscal year
Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).
- 6.9MFY2017
- 9.1MFY2018
- 15.3MFY2019
- 10.7MFY2020
- 8.7MFY2021
- 6.8MFY2022
- 6.4MFY2023
- 3.8MFY2024
- 4.3MFY2025
- 768.5KFY2026
Top buying agencies
Obligations in FY2026.
- Department of the Navy$735.1K96%5 awards
- 1 awards
What was bought · Where the work was performed
Obligations in FY2026.
What was bought
- Other equipment & supplies$718.4K93%
- Equipment maintenance$50.2K6.5%
Where the work was performed
- Lancaster County, PA$768.5K100%
Integrity signals
Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.
- Low competition93%US 39% · $718.4K
- Sole-source awards4.8%US 30% · $36.9K
- Single-offer competitions89%US 8.7% · $681.4K
- 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
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 1 awards
- Department of the Navy$3,498Department of Defense · 1 awards
Largest awards
- Department of the Navy· Lancaster County, PA· Other equipment & supplies· May 21, 2026 – May 21, 2026· N0017826FA664
- BPA CALL 860$199.1KDepartment of the Navy· Lancaster County, PA· Other equipment & supplies· Feb 26, 2026 – Feb 26, 2026· N0017826FA631
- Department of the Navy· Lancaster County, PA· Equipment maintenance· May 21, 2026 – May 21, 2026· N0017826FA656
- Department of the Navy· Lancaster County, PA· Other equipment & supplies· Jun 4, 2026 – Jun 4, 2026· N0017826FA657
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Lancaster County, PA· Other equipment & supplies· Feb 12, 2026 – Feb 12, 2026· 80NSSC26P0239
- ACOUSTIC ATTENUATOR$3,498Department of the Navy· Lancaster County, PA· Other equipment & supplies· May 7, 2026 – May 7, 2026· N6833526P0086
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: $1.4M (10 subawards)
4 primes
- TELEDYNE BROWN ENGINEERING, INC.$765.2K56%HUNTSVILLE, AL · 3 subawards
- NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION$298.7K22%DULLES, VA · 2 subawards
- LAUREL, MD · 4 subawards
- PERATON INC.$58.3K4.3%HERNDON, VA · 1 subaward
By fiscal year
- FY2021: $0 paid out · $775.2K received
- FY2022: $0 paid out · $1.1M received
- FY2023: $0 paid out · $741.4K received
- FY2024: $0 paid out · $4.1M received
- FY2025: $0 paid out · $4.3M received
- FY2026: $0 paid out · $1.4M 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
16 companies · $12.4M reported
- RESTON, VA · 3 subawards · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing
- HUNTSVILLE, AL · 6 subawards
- BOWLING GREEN, VA · 1 subaward · Communications equipment manufacturing
Showing the top 3 of each list. Open the profile for potential partners and the full lists.
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 6 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.
- CORONET MACHINERY CORP.$9.7M+54% in FY2026BETHEL, CT · 61% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Machine shops and screw, nut, and bolt manufacturing
- CHESAPEAKE MACHINING & FABRICATION, INC.$8.2M−39% in FY2026BALTIMORE, MD · 54% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Machine shops and screw, nut, and bolt manufacturing
- LOUGHMILLER MACHINE, TOOL & DESIGN$21.3M−54% in FY2026LOOGOOTEE, IN · 89% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Machine shops and screw, nut, and bolt 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 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.