Federal contractor · PLANO, TX

BOWHEAD AVIONICS MANUFACTURING, LLC

BOWHEAD AVIONICS MANUFACTURING, LLC received $3.1M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 9 awards (−54% vs FY2025). Since FY2024: $13.1M. Its largest customer was Department of the Army ($1.7M).

Obligations · FY2026
$3.1M
New awards
9
Sole-source
43%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Parent company
BOWHEAD MANUFACTURING COMPANY L.L.C.
Small businessMinority-owned8(a) programNative-owned
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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.

4 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $3.9M in FY2026 together.

  1. BOWHEAD AVIONICS MANUFACTURING, LLCPLANO, TX · Family page
    $3.1M
  2. BOWHEAD TURNKEY MANUFACTURING LLCPLANO, TX
    $805.9K
  3. BOWHEAD MANUFACTURING COMPANY, L.L.C.PLANO, TX
    $1,403
  4. BOWHEAD MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES, LLCPLANO, TX
    $0

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 3.4MFY2024
  2. 6.7MFY2025
  3. 3.1MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Army$1.7M57%
    1 awards
  2. Department of the Navy$1.3M43%
    8 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Other equipment & supplies$2.9M96%
  2. Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$129.9K4.2%

Where the work was performed

  1. Collin County, TX$2.1M68%
  2. King George County, VA$974.5K32%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition43%
    US 39% · $1.3M
  • Sole-source awards43%
    US 30% · $1.3M
  • 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$1.3M
    Department of Defense · 2 awards

Largest awards

  1. BOUNDARY DEFENSE NETWORK RACK ASSEMBLY$3.3M
    Department of the Navy· Collin County, TX· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· May 28, 2025 – Apr 23, 2026· N6833525F0321
  2. CONTRACT FOR NSN: 3815014236535 WITH A QUANTITY OF 233 EA.$1.7M
    Department of the Army· Collin County, TX· Other equipment & supplies· Nov 21, 2025 – Nov 21, 2025· W912CH26C0010
  3. PURCHASE TAPE$1.1M
    Department of the Navy· Collin County, TX· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· May 22, 2025 – May 21, 2026· N6833525F0269
  4. M21 CUTTER CARTRIDGE HOUSING KITS$974.5K
    Department of the Navy· King George County, VA· Other equipment & supplies· Apr 13, 2026 – Apr 13, 2026· N0001926F0223
  5. LSODS CABINETS$881.2K
    Department of the Navy· Collin County, TX· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Sep 30, 2024 – Nov 25, 2025· N6833524F0296
  6. ADMACS NETWORK RACK ASSEMBLY$430.5K
    Department of the Navy· Collin County, TX· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 29, 2025 – Jun 10, 2026· N6833525F0449
  7. LARGE WORKSTATION DISPLAY ASSEMBLY$421.4K
    Department of the Navy· Collin County, TX· Other equipment & supplies· May 8, 2025 – Apr 8, 2026· N6833525F0209
  8. SET, PRIMARY GROUND AIR ADAPTER ASSEMBLY$83.9K
    Department of the Navy· Collin County, TX· Other equipment & supplies· May 1, 2026 – May 1, 2026· N6833526P0080

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

  • Sub-contracts: $396.4K (2 subawards)

2 sub-recipients

  1. RS HUGHES CO INC$322.3K81%
    DFW, TX · 1 subaward
  2. CMS MAGNETICS, INC.$74.1K19%
    GARLAND, TX · 1 subaward

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

Its reported sub-contracts equal 13% of its FY2026 contract obligations.

By fiscal year

  • FY2024: $295.5K paid out · $0 received
  • FY2025: $1.6M paid out · $386.2K received
  • FY2026: $396.4K paid out · $0 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

16 companies · $2.8M reported

  1. MURDOCK WEBBING COMPANY, INC.$424.9K
    CENTRAL FALLS, RI · 1 subaward · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  2. XOMETRY, INC$411.7K
    NORTH BETHESDA, MD · 2 subawards · Machine shops and screw, nut, and bolt manufacturing
  3. RS HUGHES CO INC$322.3K
    DFW, TX · 1 subaward · Other general purpose machinery manufacturing

Primes that pay it

1 company · $386.2K reported

  1. L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES INTEGRATED SYSTEMS L.P.$386.2K
    GREENVILLE, TX · 2 subawards · Other telecommunications

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

  1. GCI INC$7.2M−98% in FY2026
    RESTON, VA · 40% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  2. US TURBINE & ACCESSORY LLC$10.5M
    TAYLOR, MI · 45% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  3. FUJITSU LIMITED$6.9M
    CHIYODA-KU, JPN · 38% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing

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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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.