Federal contractor · MILWAUKEE, WI

BADGER METER INC

BADGER METER INC received $100.1K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 3 awards (−28% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $936.7K. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($79.7K).

Obligations · FY2026
$100.1K
New awards
3
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Other than small business
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Company family

Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.

5 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $100.1K in FY2026 together.

  1. BADGER METER INCMILWAUKEE, WI · Family page
    $100.1K
  2. ANALYTICAL TECHNOLOGY, INC.COLLEGEVILLE, PA
    $0
  3. BADGER METER INCRACINE, WI
    $0
  4. BADGER METER, INC.SCOTTSDALE, AZ
    $0
  5. NATIONAL METER & AUTOMATION, INC.ENGLEWOOD, CO
    $0

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 85KFY2017
  2. 295KFY2018
  3. 48.3KFY2019
  4. 47.7KFY2020
  5. 161.8KFY2021
  6. 14.4KFY2022
  7. -6.4KFY2023
  8. 51.7KFY2024
  9. 139.1KFY2025
  10. 100.1KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Navy$79.7K80%
    2 awards
  2. Indian Health Service$20.4K20%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Other equipment & supplies$102.3K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Milwaukee County, WI$79.7K80%
  2. Navajo County, AZ$20.4K20%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $100.1K
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $100.1K
  • 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.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. Department of the Navy$79.7K
    Department of Defense · 1 awards
  2. Indian Health Service$20.4K
    Department of Health and Human Services · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. BMI UPGRADE AND CALIBRATION$81.9K
    Department of the Navy· Milwaukee County, WI· Other equipment & supplies· May 12, 2026 – May 12, 2026· N6426726P4039
  2. CALIBRATION & PROGRAMMING -$68.2K
    Department of the Navy· Milwaukee County, WI· Equipment maintenance· Dec 6, 2022 – May 27, 2026· M6700423P5006
  3. PURCHASE OF TWO SYRINIX PIPEMINDER ONE PRESSURE MONITORING SYSTEMS AND A FIVE-YEAR DEFINED-TERM RADAR CLOUD-BASED ANALYTICS LICENSE, INCLUDING ADVISORY ENGINEERING SERVICES, TO SUPPORT WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM PRESSURE MONITORING AND HYDRAULIC ANAL$20.4K
    Indian Health Service· Navajo County, AZ· Other equipment & supplies· Mar 4, 2026 – Mar 4, 2026· 75H71226P00038

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: $66.1K (1 subaward)

1 prime

  1. JACOBS PROJECT MANAGEMENT CO$66.1K100%
    ARLINGTON, VA · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $40.3K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $51K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $97K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $77.5K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $66.1K 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

3 companies · $331.9K reported

  1. CH2M HILL, INC$253.9K
    ENGLEWOOD, CO · 5 subawards · Water, sewage and other systems
  2. ELECTRIC BOAT CORPORATION$40.3K
    GROTON, CT · 1 subaward · Other transportation equipment manufacturing
  3. DRS NETWORK & IMAGING SYSTEMS LLC$37.6K
    MELBOURNE, FL · 1 subaward · Other electrical equipment and component 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 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 4 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. PRECISION MEASUREMENT ENGINEERING, INC.$319.5K−92% in FY2026
    VISTA, CA · 80% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Geological Survey · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingNavy · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing
  2. CC LYNCH & ASSOCIATES INC$211.5K+7.7% in FY2026
    PASS CHRISTIAN, MS · 65% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Geological Survey · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing
  3. ENVIROFLUX LLC$218.1K−100% in FY2026
    GAINESVILLE, FL · 65% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Geological Survey · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments 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 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 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.

Across the company family of BADGER METER INC (5 recipients).

Matched organizations

  • Badger MeterAI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2025
$220K
4 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$350K

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$30K
    3 reports
  2. 2025$220K
    4 reports
  3. 2026$100K
    2 reports

Top issues

  1. Trade (domestic and foreign)6 reports
  2. Clean air and water2 reports
  3. Environment and Superfund2 reports
  4. Utilities2 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES6 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE6 reports
  3. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)5 reports
  4. Commerce - Dept of (DOC)4 reports
  5. U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)4 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. Michael Best Strategies LLC$320K
    6 reports
  2. LSN PARTNERS, LLC$30K
    3 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 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 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 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.