Federal contractor · SCHAUMBURG, IL

ESSEX ELECTRO ENGINEERS INC

ESSEX ELECTRO ENGINEERS INC received $2M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 4 awards (−75% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $83.2M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($2M).

Obligations · FY2026
$2M
New awards
4
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
38%
UEI
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Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 9.3MFY2017
  2. 11.8MFY2018
  3. 5.6MFY2019
  4. 1.5MFY2020
  5. 3.3MFY2021
  6. 2.2MFY2022
  7. 20.8MFY2023
  8. 18.5MFY2024
  9. 8MFY2025
  10. 2MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Navy$2M100%
    4 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Other equipment & supplies$2M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Cook County, IL$2M100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition38%
    US 39% · $775.5K
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions38%
    US 8.7% · $775.5K
  • 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.

Exclusions in SAM.gov

Records of the SAM.gov exclusions list (parties debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment or otherwise excluded) matched to this recipient by its Unique Entity ID or CAGE code.

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Largest awards

  1. LMEPP PRODUCTION UNITS YEAR ONE$3.1M
    Department of the Navy· Cook County, IL· Other equipment & supplies· May 8, 2023 – Apr 6, 2026· N6833523F0277
  2. LMEPP PRODUCTION UNITS YEAR THREE$1.3M
    Department of the Navy· Cook County, IL· Other equipment & supplies· Mar 5, 2026 – Mar 5, 2026· N6833526F0479
  3. PANEL,POWER DISTRIB$667K
    Department of the Navy· Cook County, IL· Other equipment & supplies· Mar 19, 2026 – Mar 19, 2026· N0010426PXA86
  4. PANEL,POWER DISTRIB$108.5K
    Department of the Navy· Cook County, IL· Other equipment & supplies· Apr 6, 2026 – Apr 6, 2026· N0010426PXB15

Federal grants & assistance received

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

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Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

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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

2 companies · $669.6K reported

  1. THE BOEING COMPANY$562K
    SAINT LOUIS, MO · 3 subawards · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  2. BAE SYSTEMS LAND & ARMAMENTS L.P.$107.6K
    YORK, PA · 3 subawards · Aerospace product and parts 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 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 6 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. RCT SYSTEMS, INC$19.7M+1,128% in FY2026
    BALTIMORE, MD · 69% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Electrical equipment manufacturing
  2. LITHION BATTERY INC.$14.1M+35% in FY2026
    HENDERSON, NV · 47% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Electrical equipment manufacturing
  3. HANSOME ENERGY SYSTEMS INC$59.8M−74% in FY2026
    LINDEN, NJ · 77% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Electrical equipment manufacturingDefense Logistics Agency · Electrical equipment 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.

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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.