Federal contractor · FORT WAYNE, IN

BOWMAR LLC

BOWMAR LLC received $1.1M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 20 awards (−54% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $8.1M. Its largest customer was Defense Logistics Agency ($1.1M).

Obligations · FY2026
$1.1M
New awards
20
Sole-source
47%
Single offer
9.8%
UEI
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Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 102.9KFY2017
  2. 7.7KFY2018
  3. 940.7KFY2019
  4. 802.7KFY2020
  5. 578KFY2021
  6. 82.6KFY2022
  7. 1.2MFY2023
  8. 1MFY2024
  9. 2.3MFY2025
  10. 1.1MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Defense Logistics Agency$1.1M100%
    14 awards
  2. Department of the Navy-$17.4K0.0%
    6 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Other equipment & supplies$911.7K86%
  2. Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$144.7K14%

Where the work was performed

  1. Allen County, IN$1.1M100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition57%
    US 39% · $600.2K
  • Sole-source awards47%
    US 30% · $496.4K
  • Single-offer competitions9.8%
    US 8.8% · $103.8K
  • 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. Defense Logistics Agency$510.2K
    Department of Defense · 2 awards

Largest awards

  1. F-16 PANEL, MANUAL TRIM$308.3K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Allen County, IN· Other equipment & supplies· Apr 15, 2026 – Apr 15, 2026· SPRHA426P0044
  2. 8511747943!SYNCHRO AND GEAR TR$215.8K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Allen County, IN· Other equipment & supplies· Nov 13, 2025 – Nov 13, 2025· SPE4A726P2237
  3. 8511859755!SYNCHRO AND GEAR TR$201.9K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Allen County, IN· Other equipment & supplies· Jan 14, 2026 – Jan 14, 2026· SPE4A726P5320
  4. 8511796628!MOTOR, CONTROL$80.8K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Allen County, IN· Other equipment & supplies· Dec 5, 2025 – Dec 5, 2025· SPE7M126V3352
  5. 8511772457!ROUNDS LIMITER AND$72.4K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Allen County, IN· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Nov 21, 2025 – Nov 21, 2025· SPE7L326F0448
  6. 8512132670!ROUNDS LIMITER AND$72.4K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Allen County, IN· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· May 21, 2026 – May 21, 2026· SPE7L326F1403
  7. 8512121426!POWER SUPPLY$41.4K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Allen County, IN· Other equipment & supplies· May 19, 2026 – May 19, 2026· SPE7L726P2476
  8. 8512096074!COUNTER,ROTATING$32.8K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Allen County, IN· Other equipment & supplies· May 12, 2026 – May 12, 2026· SPE4A526P4996

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

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $1.1M received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $253.2K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $464.8K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $316.8K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $1.3M 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

7 companies · $3.5M reported

  1. LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$1M
    FORT WORTH, TX · 4 subawards · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  2. ELECTRIC BOAT CORPORATION$961.8K
    GROTON, CT · 5 subawards · Ship and boat building
  3. FAIRWINDS TECHNOLOGIES LLC$634.2K
    ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, MD · 1 subaward · Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing

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

  1. B.C. SYSTEMS INC.$4.4M−2.1% in FY2026
    EAST SETAUKET, NY · 58% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingDefense Logistics Agency · Electrical equipment manufacturingDefense Logistics Agency · Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing+1 more
  2. PENN CORSAIR LLC$1.8M+3,908% in FY2026
    CHESTER SPRINGS, PA · 40% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Motor vehicle parts manufacturingDefense Logistics Agency · Electrical equipment manufacturing
  3. BRODIE METER CO., LLC$1.6M
    STATESBORO, GA · 38% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · 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 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.