Federal contractor · NORTH MANKATO, MN

KATO ENGINEERING INC.

KATO ENGINEERING INC. received $686.2K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 4 awards (+769% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $101.5M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($611.4K).

Obligations · FY2026
$686.2K
New awards
4
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
M467BSNHK9J8
Parent company
NIDEC CORPORATION
Other than small businessForeign-owned
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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.

4 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $2.3M in FY2026 together.

  1. KATO ENGINEERING INC.NORTH MANKATO, MN · Family page
    $686.2K
  2. NIDEC MOTOR CORPORATIONHOUMA, LA
    $1.6M
  3. NIDEC MOTOR CORPORATIONBROOKLYN HEIGHTS, OH
    $107.3K
  4. PAMA, INCELGIN, IL
    -$3,887

AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-09-30

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 2.9MFY2017
  2. 162.6KFY2018
  3. 168.2KFY2019
  4. -67.3KFY2020
  5. 9.6KFY2021
  6. 7.5MFY2022
  7. 70MFY2023
  8. 20MFY2024
  9. 79KFY2025
  10. 686.2KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Navy$611.4K89%
    3 awards
  2. U.S. Coast Guard$74.9K11%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Equipment maintenance$443.4K65%
  2. Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$167.9K24%
  3. Other equipment & supplies$74.9K11%

Where the work was performed

  1. Portsmouth city, VA$237.7K35%
  2. Abroad$205.7K30%
  3. Nicollet County, MN$167.9K24%
  4. Morris County, NJ$74.9K11%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $686.2K
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $686.2K
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.8% · $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 the Navy$611.4K
    Department of Defense · 2 awards
  2. U.S. Coast Guard$74.9K
    Department of Homeland Security · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. CVN 81 EMALS ESS FULL PRODUCTION$90M
    Department of the Navy· Nicollet County, MN· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Sep 7, 2023 – May 26, 2026· N0001923C0040
  2. PURCHASE ORDER FOR EMALS ESS MG REPAIR OF THE FAILED NON-THRUST END BEARING TEMP 7 RTD ON CVN 78 MG 2-2. AMS# N00019-26-SIMACQ-TPM251-0420$237.7K
    Department of the Navy· Portsmouth city, VA· Equipment maintenance· May 6, 2026 – May 6, 2026· N0001926P1007
  3. PURCHASE ORDER FOR EMALS ESS MG VIBRATIONS SURVEY AND TROUBLESHOOTING ON CVN 78 MG 2-4. AMS:N00019-26-SIMACQ-TPM251-0392$205.7K
    Department of the Navy· Equipment maintenance· Apr 30, 2026 – Apr 30, 2026· N0001926P1005
  4. 6115-01-121-8043 EXCITER, ARMATURE$74.9K
    U.S. Coast Guard· Morris County, NJ· Other equipment & supplies· Aug 16, 2026 – Aug 16, 2026· 70Z08026P20128B00

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

  • Sub-contracts: $2.2M (11 subawards)

10 sub-recipients

  1. MID VALLEY INDUSTRIES, LLC$528.1K25%
    KAUKAUNA, WI · 1 subaward
  2. MIBA INDUSTRIAL BEARINGS U.S. LLC$447.1K21%
    GRAFTON, WI · 1 subaward
  3. TWIN CITY FAN COMPANIES, LTD.$347.2K16%
    MINNEAPOLIS, MN · 1 subaward
  4. GRAYBAR ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC.$307.8K14%
    MINNEAPOLIS, MN · 1 subaward
  5. TECHMETALS, INC.$178.7K8.3%
    DAYTON, OH · 1 subaward
  6. JONES METAL, INC.$95.4K4.4%
    MANKATO, MN · 1 subaward
  7. NOTT COMPANY$92K4.3%
    ARDEN HILLS, MN · 2 subawards
  8. MATTCO FORGE, INC.$53.8K2.5%
    PARAMOUNT, CA · 1 subaward
  9. VAN METER INC.$52.5K2.4%
    CEDAR RAPIDS, IA · 1 subaward
  10. NOTT COMPANY$49.3K2.3%
    KAUKAUNA, WI · 1 subaward

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

Its reported sub-contracts equal 314% of its FY2026 contract obligations.

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $1.2M received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $67.4M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $143.7M received
  • FY2024: $3.5M paid out · $5.2M received
  • FY2025: $3.1M paid out · $54.6K received
  • FY2026: $2.2M paid out · $0 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

25 companies · $8.8M reported

  1. ASTRODYNE CORPORATION$1.4M
    HACKETTSTOWN, NJ · 1 subaward · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  2. MID VALLEY INDUSTRIES, LLC$1.1M
    KAUKAUNA, WI · 6 subawards · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  3. MATTCO FORGE, INC.$1M
    PARAMOUNT, CA · 2 subawards · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing

Primes that pay it

6 companies · $217.8M reported

  1. GENERAL ATOMICS$210.5M
    SAN DIEGO, CA · 8 subawards · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  2. ROLLS-ROYCE CORPORATION$4.7M
    INDIANAPOLIS, IN · 2 subawards · Other fabricated metal product manufacturing
  3. TRIMAN INDUSTRIES INC$1.9M
    MORRISTOWN, NJ · 24 subawards · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing

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

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

  1. SGL COMPOSITES INC.$20.6M−105% in FY2026
    GARDENA, CA · 84% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  2. RUAG AG$26.2M−54% in FY2026
    EMMEN, CHE · 84% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  3. SUN TEST SYSTEMS B.V.$16.2M+101% in FY2026
    WEESP, NLD · 67% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · 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 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.