Federal contractor · UNIVERSITY PARK, IL

FEDERAL SIGNAL CORPORATION

FEDERAL SIGNAL CORPORATION received $339.8K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 4 awards (−0.4% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $7.9M. Its largest customer was Department of the Air Force ($339.8K).

Obligations · FY2026
$339.8K
New awards
4
Sole-source
86%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Small business

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 750.9KFY2017
  2. 957.2KFY2018
  3. 1.4MFY2019
  4. 357.9KFY2020
  5. 259.7KFY2021
  6. 1.6MFY2022
  7. 1.2MFY2023
  8. 748.8KFY2024
  9. 341.2KFY2025
  10. 339.8KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. 4 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Equipment maintenance$292.9K86%
  2. Other equipment & supplies$46.9K14%

Where the work was performed

  1. Kern County, CA$154.3K45%
  2. Abroad$46.9K14%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition86%
    US 39% · $292.9K
  • Sole-source awards86%
    US 30% · $292.9K
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · $0
  • 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. Department of the Air Force· Kern County, CA· Equipment maintenance· Sep 26, 2024 – Jun 11, 2026· FA930124C0009
  2. Department of the Air Force· Houston County, GA· Equipment maintenance· Dec 3, 2025 – Dec 3, 2025· FA850126F0015
  3. Department of the Air Force· Other equipment & supplies· Apr 3, 2026 – Apr 3, 2026· FA520526P0030
  4. Department of the Air Force· Santa Barbara County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 19, 2025 – Oct 27, 2025· FA461025P0103

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-contracts: $1.5M (5 subawards)

2 primes

  1. SERCO INC$1.4M92%
    HERNDON, VA · 4 subawards
  2. BIRMINGHAM, AL · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $181.4K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $1.8M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $639.3K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $865.4K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $947.1K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $1.5M 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 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

3 companies · $6M reported

  1. HERNDON, VA · 34 subawards · Architectural, engineering, and related services
  2. VIRGINIA BEACH, VA · 3 subawards · Other miscellaneous manufacturing
  3. BIRMINGHAM, AL · 3 subawards · Nonresidential building construction

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

  1. SEYHAN, TUR · 62% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Electronic and precision equipment repair and maintenanceAir Force · Communications equipment manufacturing
  2. PEACHTREE CORNERS, GA · 51% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Electronic and precision equipment repair and maintenance
  3. AVTRON AEROSPACE INC$771.7K+103% in FY2026
    INDEPENDENCE, OH · 49% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Electronic and precision equipment repair and maintenance

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 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.