Federal contractor · BEAVERCREEK, OH

DEFENSE ENGINEERING CORP

DEFENSE ENGINEERING CORP received $7.6M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 5 awards (−18% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $105.1M. Its largest customer was Department of the Air Force ($7.6M).

Obligations · FY2026
$7.6M
New awards
5
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
23%
UEI
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Other than small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 4.6MFY2017
  2. 5MFY2018
  3. 5.7MFY2019
  4. 20.9MFY2020
  5. 12.3MFY2021
  6. 10.1MFY2022
  7. 9.9MFY2023
  8. 19.9MFY2024
  9. 9.2MFY2025
  10. 7.6MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Air Force$7.6M100%
    5 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$7.6M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Greene County, OH$7.6M100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition23%
    US 39% · $1.8M
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions23%
    US 8.8% · $1.8M
  • 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.

Largest awards

  1. LIDAR NEXT GENERATION ELECTRO-OPTICAL RESEARCH (LINGER)$21.9M
    Department of the Air Force· Greene County, OH· Research & development· Feb 1, 2022 – Jun 4, 2026· FA865022F1003
  2. DEVELOPMENT, INTEGRATION, EXPERIMENTATION OF SENSORS FOR ENHANCED LETHALITY (DIESEL)$13.2M
    Department of the Air Force· Greene County, OH· Research & development· Apr 1, 2022 – Jun 1, 2026· FA865022C1026
  3. SENSORS FOR UNRIVALED MULTI-FUNCTION MISSIONS WITH INTEGRATED TECHNOLOGIES$11.2M
    Department of the Air Force· Greene County, OH· Research & development· Dec 23, 2022 – Jun 9, 2026· FA865023C1172
  4. RADERS$5.6M
    Department of the Air Force· Greene County, OH· Research & development· Aug 14, 2020 – May 29, 2026· FA865020C1955
  5. ARCHITECTURE REFINEMENT, DEMONSTRATION AND INTEGRATION SYSTEMS CALL 07 - SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY APPLIED RF STRATEGY$366K
    Department of the Air Force· Greene County, OH· Research & development· Aug 11, 2025 – Apr 22, 2026· FA237725FB004

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 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

1 company · $282.2K reported

  1. LEIDOS, INC.$282.2K
    RESTON, VA · 1 subaward · Scientific research and development 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 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 1 market (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. VARDA SPACE INDUSTRIES, INC.$39M−29% in FY2026
    EL SEGUNDO, CA · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development services
  2. SPARC RESEARCH LLC$39.3M−95% in FY2026
    WARRENTON, VA · 2 entities · 99.5% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development services
  3. GENEVA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.$33.1M+65% in FY2026
    MONUMENT, CO · 90% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development services

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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 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.