Federal contractor · SPRINGFIELD, VA
BOWHEAD COMMUNICATION SERVICES LLC
BOWHEAD COMMUNICATION SERVICES LLC received $1.6M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 15 awards (−69% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $61.5M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($1.2M).
- Obligations · FY2026
- $1.6M
- New awards
- 15
- Sole-source
- 0.0%
- Single offer
- 0.0%
- UEI
- NMA9K1HM9RE7
Spending by fiscal year
Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).
- 547.2KFY2017
- 11.7MFY2018
- 6.5MFY2019
- 1.1MFY2020
- 10MFY2021
- 12.5MFY2022
- 8.1MFY2023
- 4.2MFY2024
- 5.3MFY2025
- 1.6MFY2026
Top buying agencies
Obligations in FY2026.
- Department of the Navy$1.2M75%1 awards
- Department of the Air Force$410.5K25%14 awards
What was bought · Where the work was performed
Obligations in FY2026.
What was bought
- Facilities & utilities$1.2M75%
- Professional services$410.5K25%
Where the work was performed
- Duval County, FL$1.2M75%
- Jackson County, OK$410.5K25%
Integrity signals
Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.
- Low competition0.0%US 39% · $0
- Sole-source awards0.0%US 30% · $0
- 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.
Largest awards
- Department of the Navy· Duval County, FL· Facilities & utilities· Mar 16, 2022 – Feb 25, 2026· N6883622P0093
- BASE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM (BTS) AT ALTUS AFB, OK. 5 YEAR ORDERING PERIOD BEGINNING 01 MAY 2021.$234.9KDepartment of the Air Force· Jackson County, OK· Professional services· Sep 18, 2025 – Jun 12, 2026· FA441925F0133
- BASE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM (BTS) AT ALTUS AFB, OK. 5 YEAR ORDERING PERIOD BEGINNING 01 MAY 2021.$203.1KDepartment of the Air Force· Jackson County, OK· Professional services· Apr 29, 2025 – Dec 12, 2025· FA441925F0070
- BASE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM (BTS) AT ALTUS AFB, OK. 5 YEAR ORDERING PERIOD BEGINNING 01 MAY 2021.$121.9KDepartment of the Air Force· Jackson County, OK· Professional services· Feb 12, 2026 – Feb 12, 2026· FA441926F0029
- BASE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM (BTS) AT ALTUS AFB, OK. 5 YEAR ORDERING PERIOD BEGINNING 01 MAY 2021.$121.9KDepartment of the Air Force· Jackson County, OK· Professional services· Nov 26, 2025 – Nov 26, 2025· FA441926F0020
- BASE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM (BTS) AT ALTUS AFB, OK. 5 YEAR ORDERING PERIOD BEGINNING 01 MAY 2021.$110KDepartment of the Air Force· Jackson County, OK· Professional services· Sep 26, 2025 – May 12, 2026· FA441925F0054
- Department of the Air Force· Jackson County, OK· Professional services· Apr 28, 2026 – May 31, 2026· FA441926F0047
- Department of the Air Force· Jackson County, OK· Professional services· Sep 26, 2025 – Mar 2, 2026· FA441925F0046
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: $642.1K (7 subawards)
3 sub-recipients
- ROGERS ELECTRONICS INC$342.1K53%ALTUS, OK · 3 subawards
- J.A.M. CONSTRUCTION, LLC$226.8K35%ALTUS, OK · 3 subawards
- PERRY TECHNOLOGY CORP$73.3K11%NEW HARTFORD, CT · 1 subaward
As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026
No subawards reported to it in FY2026.
Its reported sub-contracts equal 39% of its FY2026 contract obligations.
By fiscal year
- FY2024: $1.5M paid out · $0 received
- FY2025: $413.3K paid out · $0 received
- FY2026: $642.1K 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
8 companies · $2.6M reported
- ALTUS, OK · 17 subawards · Wired and wireless telecommunications carriers
- J.A.M. CONSTRUCTION, LLC$753.2KALTUS, OK · 10 subawards · Wired and wireless telecommunications carriers
- REYES ELECTRIC, L.L.C.$93.7KALTUS, OK · 2 subawards · Wired and wireless telecommunications carriers
Primes that pay it
No prime reported paying it.
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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 2 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.
- REM ITALIA S.R.L.$4.7M−37% in FY2026MERCOGLIANO, ITA · 33% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Warehousing and storage
- TRANSPORTES INTERNACIONALES FERRIS SA$4.8M−98% in FY2026ROTA, ESP · 33% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Warehousing and storage
- UNIFIED C4 LLC$3.8M−98% in FY2026ODESSA, FL · 30% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Wired and wireless telecommunications carriers
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 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.