Federal contractor · WEST HARTFORD, CT

COLT'S MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LLC

COLT'S MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LLC received $20.1M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 18 awards (+0.9% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $277.5M. Its largest customer was Department of the Army ($18M).

Obligations · FY2026
$20.1M
New awards
18
Sole-source
93%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
CEL7HWNM9VJ5
Parent company
EUROPEAN HOLDING COMPANY, SE
Other than small businessForeign-owned
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 17.8MFY2017
  2. 28MFY2018
  3. 52.1MFY2019
  4. 14.7MFY2020
  5. 34.5MFY2021
  6. 11.1MFY2022
  7. 8.4MFY2023
  8. 71MFY2024
  9. 19.9MFY2025
  10. 20.1MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Army$18M90%
    5 awards
  2. Defense Logistics Agency$2.1M10%
    8 awards
  3. National Park Service$11.8K0.1%
    1 awards
  4. U.S. Marshals Service$00.0%
    1 awards
  5. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement$00.0%
    2 awards
  6. Defense Contract Management Agency$00.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$20.1M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Capitol Planning Region, CT$20.1M99.9%
  2. Los Alamos County, NM$11.8K0.1%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition93%
    US 39% · $18.7M
  • Sole-source awards93%
    US 30% · $18.7M
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · $6,757
  • 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 Army$18M
    Department of Defense · 2 awards
  2. Defense Logistics Agency$632.2K
    Department of Defense · 2 awards
  3. National Park Service$11.8K
    Department of the Interior · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. DELIVERY ORDER 0001, UNDER CONTRACT W56HZV09D0175, FOR THE M240B MG$31.4M
    Defense Contract Management Agency· Capitol Planning Region, CT· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Mar 29, 2017 – Oct 23, 2025· 0001
  2. CONTRACT FOR MODIFIED COMMERCIAL M4A1 CARBINES, FLASH HIDERS, AND SUPPRESSORS FOR FOREIGN MILITARY SALES TO THE GOVERNMENT OF ISRAEL.$12.9M
    Department of the Army· Capitol Planning Region, CT· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Dec 15, 2025 – Dec 15, 2025· W15QKN26C0005
  3. THIS EFFORT WILL BE FOR THE PROCUREMENT OF M4/M4A1 CARBINES FOR FOREIGN MILITARY SALES.$5.1M
    Department of the Army· Capitol Planning Region, CT· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Apr 21, 2026 – Apr 21, 2026· W15QKN26FA155
  4. W912CH-25-F-0218 USMC REQUIREMENT FOR M16A4 RIFLES$3.8M
    Department of the Army· Capitol Planning Region, CT· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Mar 13, 2025 – Mar 24, 2026· W912CH25F0218
  5. W912CH-24-F-0020 USMC REQUIREMENT FOR M16A4 RIFLES$861.3K
    Department of the Army· Capitol Planning Region, CT· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Apr 16, 2024 – Mar 12, 2026· W912CH24F0020
  6. 8512101291!BOLT,BREECH$562.2K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Capitol Planning Region, CT· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· May 11, 2026 – May 11, 2026· SPE7L126F7861
  7. 8512152071!BOLT,BREECH$562.2K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Capitol Planning Region, CT· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Jun 2, 2026 – Jun 2, 2026· SPE7L126F9247
  8. 8511818724!BARREL,CARBINE$411.7K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Capitol Planning Region, CT· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Dec 17, 2025 – Dec 17, 2025· SPE7L126F2284

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

  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $204K received
  • FY2023: $14.1K paid out · $122.7K received
  • FY2024: $6,000 paid out · $0 received
  • FY2025: $5,848 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

3 companies · $25.9K reported

  1. CREED 2.0, LLC$14.1K
    NEW BRITAIN, CT · 1 subaward · Other fabricated metal product manufacturing
  2. MICROBEST, INC.$11.6K
    WATERBURY, CT · 3 subawards · Other fabricated metal product manufacturing
  3. TOLLMAN SPRING COMPANY INCORPORATED$248
    BRISTOL, CT · 1 subaward · Other fabricated metal product manufacturing

Primes that pay it

2 companies · $326.7K reported

  1. ELECTRIC BOAT CORPORATION$280.7K
    GROTON, CT · 2 subawards · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services
  2. AMENTUM SERVICES, INC.$46K
    GERMANTOWN, MD · 1 subaward · Facilities support services

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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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 14 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. PREMIER PRECISION MACHINING LLC$100.8M−40% in FY2026
    FALCONER, NY · 89% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Other fabricated metal product manufacturing
  2. U.S. ORDNANCE$108.8M−61% in FY2026
    SPARKS, NV · 89% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Other fabricated metal product manufacturing
  3. SAAB DYNAMICS AKTIEBOLAG$133.2M−87% in FY2026
    KARLSKOGA, SWE · 90% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Other fabricated metal product manufacturingDefense Logistics Agency · Other fabricated metal product 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Lobbying and PAC activity

Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.

Matched organizations

  • Colt's Manufacturing Company, LLCAI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2025
$160K
4 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$542.5K

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$142.5K
    5 reports
  2. 2024$160K
    4 reports
  3. 2025$160K
    4 reports
  4. 2026$80K
    2 reports

Top issues

  1. Defense15 reports

Who was contacted

  1. Army - Dept of (Other)15 reports
  2. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES15 reports
  3. U.S. SENATE15 reports
  4. Defense - Dept of (DOD)11 reports
  5. State - Dept of (DOS)3 reports

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

  1. Corrigan & Ussery LLC$532.5K
    14 reports
  2. Steptoe LLP$10K
    1 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Oct 5, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.