Federal contractor · BRIDGTON, ME

HOWELL LABORATORIES INC

HOWELL LABORATORIES INC received $1.4M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 16 awards (−29% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $27.7M. Its largest customer was Defense Logistics Agency ($1.4M).

Obligations · FY2026
$1.4M
New awards
16
Sole-source
8.0%
Single offer
9.8%
UEI
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Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 2.5MFY2017
  2. 3.6MFY2018
  3. 1.5MFY2019
  4. 1.3MFY2020
  5. 4.2MFY2021
  6. 4.9MFY2022
  7. 4.7MFY2023
  8. 1.5MFY2024
  9. 2MFY2025
  10. 1.4MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Defense Logistics Agency$1.4M98%
    9 awards
  2. Department of the Navy$44.8K3.1%
    5 awards
  3. U.S. Coast Guard$22.9K1.6%
    1 awards
  4. Department of the Air Force-$37.4K0.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Other equipment & supplies$1.3M90%
  2. Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$86.4K6.0%
  3. Equipment maintenance$63K4.4%

Where the work was performed

  1. Cumberland County, ME$1.4M98%
  2. Alameda County, CA$22.9K1.6%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition18%
    US 39% · $256.2K
  • Sole-source awards8.0%
    US 30% · $115.5K
  • Single-offer competitions9.8%
    US 8.7% · $140.7K
  • 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. Defense Logistics Agency$79.2K
    Department of Defense · 1 awards
  2. Department of the Navy$36.4K
    Department of Defense · 2 awards

Largest awards

  1. 8512072817!MEMBRANE ELEMENT AS$337.6K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Cumberland County, ME· Other equipment & supplies· Apr 28, 2026 – Apr 28, 2026· SPE8E826P0914
  2. 8512171985!MEMBRANE ELEMENT AS$305.8K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Cumberland County, ME· Other equipment & supplies· Jun 9, 2026 – Jun 9, 2026· SPE8E826V1193
  3. 8512076045!MEMBRANE ELEMENT AS$299.4K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Cumberland County, ME· Other equipment & supplies· May 5, 2026 – May 5, 2026· SPE8E826P0924
  4. 8512010781!CELL ASSY$257.1K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Cumberland County, ME· Other equipment & supplies· Mar 30, 2026 – Mar 30, 2026· SPE8E926V1144
  5. MEMBRANE DEHYDRATOR$202.8K
    Department of the Navy· Cumberland County, ME· Other equipment & supplies· Apr 23, 2025 – Oct 15, 2025· N0010425PJB73
  6. 8512167069!TRANSMITTER GROUP,HUMIDITY-TE$90.2K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Cumberland County, ME· Other equipment & supplies· Jun 10, 2026 – Jun 10, 2026· SPE4A526P5837
  7. AIR CONTROL PANEL FOR AN/SPN-50$86.4K
    Department of the Navy· Cumberland County, ME· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Jan 21, 2026 – Feb 9, 2026· N0042126P1051
  8. 8511963156!TRANSMITTER GROUP,HUMIDITY-TE$76.6K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Cumberland County, ME· Other equipment & supplies· Mar 11, 2026 – Mar 11, 2026· SPE4A626PH964

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: $139.8K (2 subawards)

2 primes

  1. GENERAL DYNAMICS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INC.$70K50%
    FAIRFAX, VA · 1 subaward
  2. HUNTINGTON INGALLS INC$69.8K50%
    PASCAGOULA, MS · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $6.1M received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $1.8M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $1.5M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $1.2M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $1M received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $139.8K 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

7 companies · $11.8M reported

  1. LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$5.7M
    FORT WORTH, TX · 12 subawards · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing
  2. ELECTRIC BOAT CORPORATION$2.4M
    GROTON, CT · 15 subawards · Ship and boat building
  3. HUNTINGTON INGALLS INCORPORATED$2.2M
    PASCAGOULA, MS · 23 subawards · Ship and boat building

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

  1. EXPOTECH U.S.A., INC.$6.8M−59% in FY2026
    HOUSTON, TX · 74% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Other general purpose machinery manufacturingDefense Logistics Agency · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingNavy · Other general purpose machinery manufacturing+2 more
  2. EASY STREET JD&S, LLC$3.4M−71% in FY2026
    CAROL STREAM, IL · 51% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Other general purpose machinery manufacturingNavy · Other general purpose machinery manufacturing
  3. SOUTHEAST POWER SYSTEMS OF ORLANDO INC$3.2M
    ORLANDO, FL · 50% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Other general purpose machinery 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.

Matched organizations

  • Howell Laboratories, Inc.AI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2025
$120K
4 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$420K

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$120K
    4 reports
  2. 2024$120K
    4 reports
  3. 2025$120K
    4 reports
  4. 2026$60K
    2 reports

Top issues

  1. Defense14 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES14 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE14 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. Capitol Integration$420K
    14 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 Sep 30, 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.