Federal contractor · CHESAPEAKE, VA

CARTER MACHINERY COMPANY, INCORPORATED

CARTER MACHINERY COMPANY, INCORPORATED received $168.8K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 8 awards (−88% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $13.4M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($143.7K).

Obligations · FY2026
$168.8K
New awards
8
Sole-source
56%
Single offer
44%
UEI
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Small business

Company family

Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.

Part of the CARTER MACHINERY COMPANY, INCORPORATED company family: 14 registered entities, $2.5M in FY2026 together. See the family

  1. $2.2M
  2. $118.9K
  3. $44.7K
  4. $14.7K
  5. $0

AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-10-05

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 619KFY2017
  2. 711.5KFY2018
  3. 705.3KFY2019
  4. 2.5MFY2020
  5. 1.1MFY2021
  6. 2.3MFY2022
  7. 2.4MFY2023
  8. 1.4MFY2024
  9. 1.4MFY2025
  10. 168.8KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. 5 awards
  2. USTRANSCOM$17.2K10%
    1 awards
  3. 1 awards
  4. 1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Equipment maintenance$160.9K95%
  2. Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$6,3923.8%
  3. Other equipment & supplies$1,5150.9%

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $168.8K
  • Sole-source awards56%
    US 30% · $94.5K
  • Single-offer competitions44%
    US 8.7% · $74.3K
  • 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 Defense · 2 awards
  2. Department of Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. USTRANSCOM· Norfolk city, VA· Equipment maintenance· Dec 21, 2023 – Feb 12, 2026· HTC71124PD002
  2. Department of the Navy· Suffolk city, VA· Equipment maintenance· Apr 16, 2026 – May 29, 2026· N0018926PL068
  3. Department of the Navy· Chesapeake city, VA· Equipment maintenance· Dec 31, 2025 – Dec 31, 2025· N0040626PS027
  4. Department of the Navy· Norfolk city, VA· Equipment maintenance· Apr 2, 2026 – Apr 2, 2026· N0018926PL042
  5. U.S. Coast Guard· Chesapeake city, VA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Aug 13, 2026 – Sep 24, 2026· 70Z08026P29498B00
  6. Department of the Navy· Portsmouth city, VA· Equipment maintenance· Jul 2, 2025 – Dec 17, 2025· N4215825PS103
  7. Department of the Navy· Portsmouth city, VA· Equipment maintenance· Mar 12, 2026 – Mar 12, 2026· N4215826PS032
  8. Defense Logistics Agency· Portsmouth city, VA· Other equipment & supplies· Apr 20, 2026 – Apr 20, 2026· SPMYM126P9706

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: $90.1K (2 subawards)

2 primes

  1. LOS ANGELES, CA · 1 subaward
  2. ALEXANDRIA, VA · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $7.1M received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $4.1M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $1.9M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $7,672 received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $90.1K 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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

25 companies · $39.9M reported

  1. PASCAGOULA, MS · 351 subawards · Ship and boat building
  2. VIRGINIA BEACH, VA · 135 subawards · Engine, turbine, and power transmission equipment manufacturing
  3. CHANTILLY, VA · 11 subawards · Facilities support services

Showing the top 3 of each list. Open the profile for potential partners and the full lists.

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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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 46 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. OILKLEEN, LLC$3.9M−19% in FY2026
    SUFFOLK, VA · 22% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Coast Guard · Ship and boat buildingU.S. Coast Guard · Engine, turbine, and power transmission equipment manufacturingNavy · Ship and boat building
  2. TAMPA, FL · 20% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Coast Guard · Ship and boat buildingU.S. Coast Guard · Commercial and industrial machinery and equipment repair and maintenance
  3. TAMPA, FL · 19% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Coast Guard · Ship and boat building

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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.