Federal contractor · KOHLER, WI

DISCOVERY ENERGY, LLC

DISCOVERY ENERGY, LLC received $27.2M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 86 awards (+350% vs FY2025). Since FY2018: $101.3M. Its largest customer was Federal Aviation Administration ($27.1M).

Obligations · FY2026
$27.2M
New awards
86
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.3%
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. 2.9MFY2018
  2. 4.4MFY2019
  3. 8.4MFY2020
  4. 4MFY2021
  5. 24.8MFY2022
  6. 21.7MFY2023
  7. 2MFY2024
  8. 6MFY2025
  9. 27.2MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Federal Aviation Administration$27.1M99.7%
    85 awards
  2. Department of Veterans Affairs$91.7K0.3%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Other equipment & supplies$27.2M99.7%
  2. Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$91.7K0.3%

Where the work was performed

  1. Sheboygan County, WI$21.9M80%
  2. Oklahoma County, OK$1.4M5.1%
  3. Lorain County, OH$1.2M4.3%
  4. Dakota County, MN$1.2M4.3%
  5. Salt Lake County, UT$1.1M4.1%
  6. Clayton County, GA$1.1M4.1%
  7. Wayne County, MI$266K1.0%
  8. Escambia County, FL$91.7K0.3%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition0.0%
    US 39% · -$95.6K
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · -$187.3K
  • Single-offer competitions0.3%
    US 8.7% · $91.7K
  • 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. BIL BULK EQUIPMENT ORDER FOR VARIOUS SITES FOR EG REPLACEMENT. CLOSELY ASSOCIATED TO INHERENTLY GOVERNMENTAL FUNCTIONS$16M
    Federal Aviation Administration· District of Columbia, DC· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 14, 2022 – Feb 25, 2026· 693KA822F00394
  2. CLOSELY ASSOCIATED TO INHERENTLY GOVERNMENTAL FUNCTIONS$11.2M
    Federal Aviation Administration· District of Columbia, DC· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 14, 2022 – Feb 25, 2026· 693KA822F00402
  3. THIS DELIVERY ORDER IS FOR THE PROCUREMENT OF ENGINE GENERATOR EQUIPMENT.$4.4M
    Federal Aviation Administration· Oklahoma County, OK· Other equipment & supplies· Aug 25, 2021 – Sep 1, 2026· 693KA821F00302
  4. CLOSELY ASSOCIATED TO INHERENTLY GOVERNMENTAL FUNCTIONS$4.4M
    Federal Aviation Administration· Lorain County, OH· Other equipment & supplies· Aug 18, 2022 – Feb 4, 2026· 693KA822F00364
  5. CLOSELY ASSOCIATED TO INHERENTLY GOVERNMENTAL FUNCTIONS$4.4M
    Federal Aviation Administration· Salt Lake County, UT· Other equipment & supplies· Aug 18, 2022 – Apr 2, 2026· 693KA822F00362
  6. CLOSELY ASSOCIATED TO INHERENTLY GOVERNMENTAL FUNCTIONS$4.4M
    Federal Aviation Administration· Dakota County, MN· Other equipment & supplies· Aug 18, 2022 – Feb 4, 2026· 693KA822F00363
  7. THIS IS FOR THE PROCUREMENT OF ENGINE GENERATOR EQUIPMENT.$4.3M
    Federal Aviation Administration· Clayton County, GA· Other equipment & supplies· Aug 31, 2020 – Jan 13, 2026· 693KA820F00369
  8. FAA ACEPS ESF WAKE FOREST UPDATED SWITCHGEAR DESIGN SGP-1951$3.2M
    Federal Aviation Administration· Sheboygan County, WI· Other equipment & supplies· Jul 1, 2026 – Jul 1, 2026· 693KA826F00233

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-grants: $250.4K (1 subaward)

1 prime

  1. TRUSTEES OF THE COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES$250.4K100%
    GOLDEN, CO · 1 subaward

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

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

1 company · $250.4K reported

  1. TRUSTEES OF THE COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES$250.4K
    GOLDEN, CO · 1 subaward

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

  1. QUARTERWAVE CORP.$3.9M−39% in FY2026
    ROHNERT PARK, CA · 11% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Aviation Administration · Electrical equipment manufacturing
  2. SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC BUILDINGS AMERICAS, INC.$139.1M−24% in FY2026
    CARROLLTON, TX · 32 entities · 41% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Aviation Administration · Electrical equipment manufacturing
  3. JOINT LOGISTICS MANAGERS, INC.$6.3M+7% in FY2026
    PRINCE GEORGE, VA · 6.3% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Aviation Administration · Warehousing and storage

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

  • Discovery Energy, LLC DBA RehlkoAI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2025
$120K
4 reports
Lobbying · 2024–2026
$230K

Lobbying by year

  1. 2024$50K
    2 reports
  2. 2025$120K
    4 reports
  3. 2026$60K
    2 reports

Top issues

  1. Energy and nuclear8 reports
  2. Trade (domestic and foreign)5 reports

Who was contacted

  1. Energy - Dept of7 reports
  2. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES7 reports
  3. U.S. SENATE7 reports
  4. U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)2 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. Crossroads Strategies, LLC$230K
    8 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.