Federal contractor · ENTERPRISE, AL

COMMUNICATIONS & EAR PROTECTION, INC

COMMUNICATIONS & EAR PROTECTION, INC received $489.4K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 13 awards (−62% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $9.9M. Its largest customer was Defense Logistics Agency ($489.4K).

Obligations · FY2026
$489.4K
New awards
13
Sole-source
8.0%
Single offer
35%
UEI
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Small business

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 2.1MFY2017
  2. 1.8MFY2018
  3. 587.8KFY2019
  4. 819.4KFY2020
  5. 576.8KFY2021
  6. 779.6KFY2022
  7. 433.4KFY2023
  8. 1.1MFY2024
  9. 1.3MFY2025
  10. 489.4KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. 13 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Other equipment & supplies$489.4K100%

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition43%
    US 39% · $209.3K
  • Sole-source awards8.0%
    US 30% · $39.2K
  • Single-offer competitions35%
    US 8.7% · $170.1K
  • 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 Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. Defense Logistics Agency· Coffee County, AL· Other equipment & supplies· Mar 27, 2025 – Oct 23, 2025· SPE7M125P5247
  2. Defense Logistics Agency· Coffee County, AL· Other equipment & supplies· Mar 12, 2025 – Jan 22, 2026· SPE7M125P4617
  3. Defense Logistics Agency· Coffee County, AL· Other equipment & supplies· Oct 2, 2025 – Oct 2, 2025· SPE7M526P0114
  4. Defense Logistics Agency· Coffee County, AL· Other equipment & supplies· Oct 7, 2025 – Oct 7, 2025· SPE7M126F0083
  5. Defense Logistics Agency· Coffee County, AL· Other equipment & supplies· Jul 17, 2025 – Dec 11, 2025· SPE4A625F263A
  6. Defense Logistics Agency· Coffee County, AL· Other equipment & supplies· Jun 27, 2025 – Oct 16, 2025· SPE4A625F192D
  7. Defense Logistics Agency· Coffee County, AL· Other equipment & supplies· Nov 5, 2025 – Nov 14, 2025· SPE7M126F0600
  8. Defense Logistics Agency· Coffee County, AL· Other equipment & supplies· Dec 18, 2025 – May 21, 2026· SPE7M126F1253

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.

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

1 company · $132.6K reported

  1. VIRGINIA BEACH, VA · 1 subaward · Other miscellaneous manufacturing

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

  1. ACE ELECTRONICS OF N.J., INC.$2.2M−46% in FY2026
    METUCHEN, NJ · 2 entities · 64% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturingDefense Logistics Agency · Other electrical equipment and component manufacturing
  2. CARLSBAD, CA · 64% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturingDefense Logistics Agency · Other electrical equipment and component manufacturing
  3. NORFOLK, VA · 85% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturingDefense Logistics Agency · Other electrical equipment and component manufacturingDefense Logistics Agency · Audio and video equipment manufacturing

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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 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.