Federal contractor · GARDEN GROVE, CA

GKN AEROSPACE TRANSPARENCY SYSTEMS INC.

GKN AEROSPACE TRANSPARENCY SYSTEMS INC. received -$288.2K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 18 awards. Since FY2017: $26.1M. Its largest customer was Defense Logistics Agency (-$288.2K).

Obligations · FY2026: -$288.2K
New awards: 18
Sole-source: —
Single offer: —

UEI: PJF3H5DP5FF9
Parent company: MELROSE INDUSTRIES PLC

Other than small business

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Company family

Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.

Part of the GKN AEROSPACE CHEM-TRONICS INC company family: 3 registered entities, $1.3M in FY2026 together. See the family

GKN AEROSPACE CHEM-TRONICS INCEL CAJON, CA · Family page
Reported parent$1.6M
ROCKFORD POWERTRAIN INCLOVES PARK, IL
Reported parent$0

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

5.3MFY2017
7.6MFY2018
4MFY2019
3.2MFY2020
2.8MFY2021
2.6MFY2022
1.4MFY2023
546.6KFY2024
-998.6KFY2025
-288.2KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Defense Logistics Agency-$288.2K0.0%
18 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Other equipment & supplies$5,000100%

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

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

Largest awards

1560016313953: TRANSPARENCY,CANOPY$2.5M
Defense Logistics Agency· Orange County, CA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Jun 18, 2018 – May 20, 2026· SPE4A718F9083
8508151381!C-5B SIDE WINDOW LH AFT$648.5K
Defense Logistics Agency· Orange County, CA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Apr 21, 2021 – May 1, 2026· SPE4A721P8396
8509047526!MISCELLANEOUS$445.8K
Defense Logistics Agency· Orange County, CA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Apr 22, 2022 – May 13, 2026· SPE4A722P9105
8508415140!WINDOW PANEL,AIRCRA$433K
Defense Logistics Agency· Orange County, CA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Aug 5, 2021 – Jan 8, 2026· SPE4A721PC591
8512103675!WINDOW PANEL, AIRCRAFT$387.2K
Defense Logistics Agency· Orange County, CA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· May 12, 2026 – May 19, 2026· SPE4A726PA869
8508591311!WINDOW PANEL,AIRCRA$169.4K
Defense Logistics Agency· Orange County, CA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Oct 13, 2021 – Jan 8, 2026· SPE4A722P0489
8508626638!WINDOW PANEL,AIRCRA$134.9K
Defense Logistics Agency· Orange County, CA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Oct 28, 2021 – May 14, 2026· SPE4A722P1032
8509717559!WINDOW PANEL,AIRCRA$38.8K
Defense Logistics Agency· Orange County, CA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Feb 22, 2023 – Apr 17, 2026· SPE4A723F5119

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: $3.4M (2 subawards)

2 primes

THE BOEING COMPANY$2.8M82%
SEATTLE, WA · 1 subaward
PACIFIC SCIENTIFIC ENERGETIC MATERIALS COMPANY (CALIFORNIA LLC)$617.2K18%
HOLLISTER, CA · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

FY2021: $0 paid out · $72.8M received
FY2022: $0 paid out · $25.7M received
FY2023: $0 paid out · $66.7M received
FY2024: $0 paid out · $22.6M received
FY2025: $0 paid out · $14.5M received
FY2026: $0 paid out · $3.4M 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 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

13 companies · $304M reported

LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$174.4M
FORT WORTH, TX · 183 subawards · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
RAYTHEON COMPANY$62.6M
TUCSON, AZ · 25 subawards · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
THE BOEING COMPANY$31.8M
SAINT LOUIS, MO · 81 subawards · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing

Showing the top 3 of each list. Open the profile for potential partners and the full lists.

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

AIRCRAFT SERVICES ALLIANCE, LLC$4.1M−100% in FY2026
ANCHORAGE, AK · 96% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
PAS TECHNOLOGIES INC$4.1M+15% in FY2026
NORTH KANSAS CITY, MO · 2 entities · 95% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
OLMSTED INSTRUMENT CO$4M−28% in FY2026
MIDDLETOWN, PA · 88% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Aerospace product and parts 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.

Across the company family of GKN AEROSPACE CHEM-TRONICS INC (3 recipients).

Matched organizations

GKN AerospaceAI match · 94%

Lobbying · 2025: $240K; 4 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026: $820K; $460K in its own reports

Lobbying by year

2023$320K
8 reports
2024$260K
6 reports
2025$240K
4 reports
2026$0
1 reports

Top issues

Defense18 reports

Who was contacted

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES17 reports
U.S. SENATE17 reports
Defense - Dept of (DOD)5 reports

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

J.A. Green and Company (formerly LLC)$680K
13 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.

Congress: members and bills

Through the organizations matched to this company: members of Congress whose campaigns received contributions from their PACs, and the bills their lobbying reports named. Shown beside the company's contracts as a comparison, not a cause.

Bills named in its lobbying reports

H.R. 8774 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20253 reports
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2024
H.R. 4365 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20242 reports
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2023
S. 2587 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20242 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2023
S. 4638 · National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20252 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2024
S. 4921 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20252 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2024
H.R. 3838 · Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20262 reports
119th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2025
S. 2296 · National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20262 reports
119th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2025
H.R. 2670 · National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20241 report
118th Congress · Became law · 2023
H.R. 8070 · Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20251 report
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2024
S. 2226 · National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20241 report
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2023

9 of 19 reports (2023–2026) name at least one bill. Bills and resolutions the current reports name in their issue descriptions, by number of reports. A report names what it lobbied on, not which side it took.

Amounts, members and bills are as recorded, shown side by side. They say nothing about why a contribution was made, how a member voted or what a report sought. A bill number written in a report is read as the measure of the Congress its context points to (a law's number, the Congress written next to it, the title), else of the Congress then sitting.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.

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.

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.