Federal contractor · BUFFALO, NY

CALSPAN, LLC

CALSPAN, LLC received $10.4M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 21 awards (−24% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $167.8M. Its largest customer was Department of the Air Force ($5.6M).

Obligations · FY2026
$10.4M
New awards
21
Sole-source
80%
Single offer
6.7%
UEI
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Other than small business
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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.

2 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $10.7M in FY2026 together.

  1. CALSPAN, LLCBUFFALO, NY · Family page
    $10.4M
  2. CALSPAN AIR SERVICES, LLCBUFFALO, NY
    $283.7K

AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-09-30

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 18.1MFY2017
  2. 19.2MFY2018
  3. 12MFY2019
  4. 15MFY2020
  5. 21.5MFY2021
  6. 15.4MFY2022
  7. 11.7MFY2023
  8. 30.7MFY2024
  9. 13.7MFY2025
  10. 10.4MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Air Force$5.6M53%
    9 awards
  2. Department of the Navy$3.8M37%
    3 awards
  3. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration$1.1M10%
    9 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Education & social services$7.6M73%
  2. Research & development$1.1M10%
  3. Professional services$1.1M10%
  4. Equipment maintenance$684K6.6%

Where the work was performed

  1. Kern County, CA$4.5M43%
  2. St. Mary's County, MD$3.8M37%
  3. Okaloosa County, FL$1.1M10%
  4. Erie County, NY$528.7K5.1%
  5. District of Columbia, DC$527.8K5.1%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition86%
    US 39% · $9M
  • Sole-source awards80%
    US 30% · $8.3M
  • Single-offer competitions6.7%
    US 8.8% · $696.1K
  • 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 Air Force$4.5M
    Department of Defense · 4 awards
  2. Department of the Navy$3.8M
    Department of Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION SERVICES (OM&N)$15.7M
    Department of the Navy· St. Mary's County, MD· Education & social services· Sep 30, 2020 – Jan 29, 2026· N0042120C0036
  2. NATIONAL LARGE-SCALE HIGH-SPEED PROPULSION FACILITY/COMPLEX (NLSHSPC)$6.4M
    Department of the Air Force· Kern County, CA· Research & development· Feb 27, 2024 – May 12, 2026· FA248724FB017
  3. VARIABLE STABILITY IN-FLIGHT SIMULATOR AND TEST AIRCRAFT (VISTA) SUPPORT$5.2M
    Department of the Air Force· Kern County, CA· Equipment maintenance· Sep 30, 2025 – May 1, 2026· FA930425F5059
  4. MULTI-MISSION VARIABLE STABILITY AIRCRAFT (VSA) LEARJET AND SUPPORT FY26$3.7M
    Department of the Air Force· Kern County, CA· Education & social services· Oct 28, 2025 – May 27, 2026· FA930426F5001
  5. AFSEO F35 WIND TUNNEL MODEL$2.9M
    Department of the Air Force· Okaloosa County, FL· Research & development· Mar 20, 2024 – Apr 29, 2026· FA248724FB024
  6. THE CONTRACTOR SHALL FULFILL THE UNITED STATES NAVAL TEST PILOT SCHOOL ACADEMIC AND FLIGHT INSTRUCTION REQUIREMENTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH ATTACHMENT (1) VARIABILITY STABILITY SYSTEM FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM SUPPORT PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT.$2.5M
    Department of the Navy· St. Mary's County, MD· Education & social services· Feb 5, 2026 – May 21, 2026· N0042126C1005
  7. CALSPAN LEAR JET TASK ORDER$871.4K
    Department of the Air Force· Kern County, CA· Education & social services· Jun 18, 2025 – Dec 15, 2025· FA930425F5037
  8. PROJECT ALPHA - F/A-18E/F CAPTIVE LOADS WIND TUNNEL TESTING$696.1K
    Department of the Air Force· Okaloosa County, FL· Research & development· Mar 30, 2026 – Mar 30, 2026· FA248726FB013

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

  • Sub-contracts: $52K (1 subaward)

1 prime

  1. BEYOND NEW HORIZONS, LLC$52K100%
    HUNTSVILLE, AL · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $23M received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $3.7M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $1.7M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $5.6M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $2.4M received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $52K 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

12 companies · $36.4M reported

  1. GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.$22.3M
    POWAY, CA · 2 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  2. NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION$5.6M
    MELBOURNE, FL · 7 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  3. LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$3.3M
    FORT WORTH, TX · 2 subawards · Aerospace product and parts 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 8 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. TRIAD LOGISTICS SERVICES CORPORATION$28.9M−24% in FY2026
    MELBOURNE, FL · 40% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Support activities for air transportation
  2. M-E JV2 LLC$29.1M+4.4% in FY2026
    SUMMERVILLE, SC · 40% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Support activities for air transportation
  3. PKL SERVICES, INC.$43.5M−111% in FY2026
    POWAY, CA · 40% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Support activities for air transportation

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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 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.