Federal contractor · FORT WORTH, TX

HOWELL INSTRUMENTS, INC.

HOWELL INSTRUMENTS, INC. received $9M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 29 awards (+32% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $55.3M. Its largest customer was Department of the Air Force ($7M).

Obligations · FY2026
$9M
New awards
29
Sole-source
98%
Single offer
0.9%
UEI
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Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 5MFY2017
  2. 8.2MFY2018
  3. 4.1MFY2019
  4. 6.3MFY2020
  5. 5.5MFY2021
  6. 4.6MFY2022
  7. 3.4MFY2023
  8. 2.4MFY2024
  9. 6.9MFY2025
  10. 9MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Air Force$7M78%
    9 awards
  2. Department of the Navy$1.3M14%
    8 awards
  3. Defense Logistics Agency$713K7.9%
    11 awards
  4. U.S. Coast Guard$13.5K0.1%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Other equipment & supplies$8.9M99%
  2. Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$62.5K0.7%
  3. Equipment maintenance$55.1K0.6%

Where the work was performed

  1. Tarrant County, TX$8.8M98%
  2. Houston County, GA$192.6K2.1%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition99%
    US 39% · $8.9M
  • Sole-source awards98%
    US 30% · $8.8M
  • Single-offer competitions0.9%
    US 8.8% · $85.7K
  • 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.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. Department of the Air Force$7M
    Department of Defense · 6 awards
  2. Department of the Navy$1.3M
    Department of Defense · 5 awards
  3. Defense Logistics Agency$516.3K
    Department of Defense · 3 awards
  4. U.S. Coast Guard$13.5K
    Department of Homeland Security · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. JETCAL ANALYZER JD 80$5.3M
    Department of the Air Force· Tarrant County, TX· Other equipment & supplies· Dec 9, 2025 – Dec 9, 2025· FA853226F0037
  2. INDICATOR,RATE OF F TRANSMITTER,RATE OF$1.6M
    Department of the Navy· Tarrant County, TX· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Dec 23, 2024 – Jan 15, 2026· N0038325FBU00
  3. JETCAL ANALYZER TEST SET$1.1M
    Department of the Air Force· Tarrant County, TX· Other equipment & supplies· Apr 8, 2026 – Apr 8, 2026· FA853226F0127
  4. INDICATOR,RATE OF F$481.9K
    Department of the Navy· Tarrant County, TX· Other equipment & supplies· Nov 4, 2025 – Nov 6, 2025· N0038326FBU01
  5. JETCAL ANALYZER JD 80$419K
    Department of the Air Force· Tarrant County, TX· Other equipment & supplies· May 21, 2025 – Feb 24, 2026· FA853225F0274
  6. TRANSMITTER,RATE OF$397.3K
    Department of the Navy· Tarrant County, TX· Other equipment & supplies· Nov 4, 2025 – Nov 4, 2025· N0038326FBU02
  7. AMMETER$382.3K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Tarrant County, TX· Other equipment & supplies· Oct 30, 2025 – Mar 18, 2026· SPRPA126PYA01
  8. TESTER - THERMO SWITCHES/THERMOCOUPLES$309.5K
    Department of the Navy· Tarrant County, TX· Other equipment & supplies· Jan 20, 2026 – May 28, 2026· N6833526P0063

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: $247.3K (1 subaward)

1 prime

  1. DEFENSE SYSTEMS AND SOLUTIONS$247.3K100%
    HUNTSVILLE, AL · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $4.7M received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $1.4M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $2.8M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $3.1M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $1.5M received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $247.3K 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 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

11 companies · $13.8M reported

  1. BAE SYSTEMS LAND & ARMAMENTS L.P.$4M
    YORK, PA · 10 subawards · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  2. ATLANTIC DIVING SUPPLY, INC.$3.8M
    VIRGINIA BEACH, VA · 1 subaward · Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing
  3. LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$1.8M
    FORT WORTH, TX · 39 subawards · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing

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

  1. HADLAND IMAGING LLC$11.5M−100% in FY2026
    SANTA CRUZ, CA · 63% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing
  2. KEYSTONE MISSION SOLUTIONS CORP$15.5M−95% in FY2026
    KEYSTONE, CO · 70% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing
  3. TELSPAN DATA, LLC$10.9M−98% in FY2026
    CENTENNIAL, CO · 59% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing

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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.