Federal contractor · RAPID CITY, SD

BLACK HILLS AMMUNITION INC

BLACK HILLS AMMUNITION INC received $7.3M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 12 awards (+24% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $100.3M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($5.5M).

Obligations · FY2026
$7.3M
New awards
12
Sole-source
13%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Small businessWoman-owned
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 4.9MFY2017
  2. 13MFY2018
  3. 7.9MFY2019
  4. 12.3MFY2020
  5. 28.1MFY2021
  6. 8.6MFY2022
  7. 5.7MFY2023
  8. 6.8MFY2024
  9. 5.9MFY2025
  10. 7.3MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Navy$5.5M75%
    7 awards
  2. U.S. Secret Service$1.7M23%
    3 awards
  3. Department of the Army$134.9K1.8%
    1 awards
  4. U.S. Marshals Service$00.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$7.3M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Pennington County, SD$7.3M100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition13%
    US 39% · $948.2K
  • Sole-source awards13%
    US 30% · $948.2K
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · $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. U.S. Secret Service$948.2K
    Department of Homeland Security · 2 awards

Largest awards

  1. 9MM BARRIER BLIND CARTRIDGES$2M
    Department of the Navy· Pennington County, SD· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· May 13, 2026 – May 13, 2026· N6426726F1116
  2. DELIVERY ORDER TWO, CLIN 0001 AMMUNITION$1.9M
    Department of the Navy· Pennington County, SD· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Apr 10, 2026 – Apr 10, 2026· N0016426FJ010
  3. 5.56MM LONG RANGE AMMUNITION$1.1M
    Department of the Navy· Pennington County, SD· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Feb 20, 2026 – Feb 20, 2026· N0016426FJ017
  4. 6.5MM SPECIAL BALL LONG RANGE AMMUNITION$967.7K
    Department of the Navy· Pennington County, SD· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Aug 21, 2025 – Feb 4, 2026· N0016425FJ042
  5. THIS DELIVERY ORDER IS BEING WRITTEN IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF IDIQ 70US0922D70092033 FOR TSX AMMUNITIONS FOR THE ROWLEY TRAINING CENTER.$752K
    U.S. Secret Service· Pennington County, SD· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Sep 8, 2026 – Sep 8, 2026· 70US0926F3OTH3094
  6. THIS DELIVERY ORDER IS BEING ISSUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF IDIQ CONTRACT 70US0922D70092025 FOR 5.56MM 62GR REDUCED RICOCHET LIMITED PENETRATION (RRLP) AMMUNITION.$616.3K
    U.S. Secret Service· Pennington County, SD· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Aug 18, 2026 – Aug 18, 2026· 70US0926F3OTH2990
  7. 5.56MM REDUCED RICOCHET LIMITED PENETRATION, MK255 MOD 1$455.7K
    Department of the Navy· Pennington County, SD· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Jan 29, 2026 – Jan 29, 2026· N0016426FJ900
  8. 9MM BARRIER BLIND CARTRIDGES$341.8K
    Department of the Navy· Pennington County, SD· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Sep 26, 2025 – Feb 26, 2026· N6426725F1114

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

  1. ARNOLD DEFENSE & ELECTRONICS, LLC$21.4M+92% in FY2026
    ARNOLD, MO · 81% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Other fabricated metal product manufacturing
  2. MCNALLY INDUSTRIES, LLC$22M+1,163% in FY2026
    GRANTSBURG, WI · 2 entities · 81% 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 · 81% 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 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.