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
Small businessMinority-owned8(a) programNative-owned

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 547.2KFY2017
  2. 11.7MFY2018
  3. 6.5MFY2019
  4. 1.1MFY2020
  5. 10MFY2021
  6. 12.5MFY2022
  7. 8.1MFY2023
  8. 4.2MFY2024
  9. 5.3MFY2025
  10. 1.6MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. 1 awards
  2. 14 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Facilities & utilities$1.2M75%
  2. Professional services$410.5K25%

Where the work was performed

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

  1. Department of the Navy· Duval County, FL· Facilities & utilities· Mar 16, 2022 – Feb 25, 2026· N6883622P0093
  2. Department of the Air Force· Jackson County, OK· Professional services· Sep 18, 2025 – Jun 12, 2026· FA441925F0133
  3. Department of the Air Force· Jackson County, OK· Professional services· Apr 29, 2025 – Dec 12, 2025· FA441925F0070
  4. Department of the Air Force· Jackson County, OK· Professional services· Feb 12, 2026 – Feb 12, 2026· FA441926F0029
  5. Department of the Air Force· Jackson County, OK· Professional services· Nov 26, 2025 – Nov 26, 2025· FA441926F0020
  6. Department of the Air Force· Jackson County, OK· Professional services· Sep 26, 2025 – May 12, 2026· FA441925F0054
  7. Department of the Air Force· Jackson County, OK· Professional services· Apr 28, 2026 – May 31, 2026· FA441926F0047
  8. 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

  1. ALTUS, OK · 3 subawards
  2. ALTUS, OK · 3 subawards
  3. 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

  1. ALTUS, OK · 17 subawards · Wired and wireless telecommunications carriers
  2. ALTUS, OK · 10 subawards · Wired and wireless telecommunications carriers
  3. ALTUS, 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.

  1. REM ITALIA S.R.L.$4.7M−37% in FY2026
    MERCOGLIANO, ITA · 33% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Warehousing and storage
  2. ROTA, ESP · 33% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Warehousing and storage
  3. UNIFIED C4 LLC$3.8M−98% in FY2026
    ODESSA, 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.