Federal contractor · EDEN PRAIRIE, MN

MTS SYSTEMS CORPORATION

MTS SYSTEMS CORPORATION received $2.8M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 42 awards (+34% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $35.3M. Its largest customer was National Aeronautics and Space Administration ($1M).

Obligations · FY2026
$2.8M
New awards
42
Sole-source
85%
Single offer
2.3%
UEI
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Parent company
ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
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.

23 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $9.5M in FY2026 together.

  1. MTS SYSTEMS CORPORATIONEDEN PRAIRIE, MN · Family page
    $2.8M
  2. ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INCNORWOOD, MA
    $4.5M
  3. ITW GSE INC.PALMETTO, FL
    $1M
  4. NORTH STAR IMAGING INCORPORATEDROGERS, MN
    $775.8K
  5. ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS, INC.LINCOLNSHIRE, IL
    $176K
  6. QSA GLOBAL INCBURLINGTON, MA
    $166.2K
  7. ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.LAKE BLUFF, IL
    $67.2K
  8. ACCUMETRICS, INC.LATHAM, NY
    $0
  9. AVERY WEIGH-TRONIX, LLCFAIRMONT, MN
    $0
  10. BROOKS INSTRUMENT LLCHATFIELD, PA
    $0
  11. BUEHLER LTD.LAKE BLUFF, IL
    $0
  12. DESPATCH INDUSTRIES LIMITED PARTNERSHIPLAKEVILLE, MN
    $0
  13. ENVISION CMOSXRAY LLCANCHORAGE, AK
    $0
  14. GSE HOLDINGS INC.SANTA ROSA, CA
    $0
  15. ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INCALEXANDRIA, MN
    $0
  16. ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INCCAMARILLO, CA
    $0
  17. ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INCDE WITT, IA
    $0
  18. ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.GLENVIEW, IL
    $0
  19. INSTRON JAPAN CO., LTD.KAWASAKI, JPN
    $0
  20. MILLER ELECTRIC MFG. CO.APPLETON, WI
    $0
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  1. MILLER ELECTRIC MFG. LLCAPPLETON, WI
    $0
  2. PCB PIEZOTRONICS OF NORTH CAROLINA, INC.HALIFAX, NC
    $0
  3. WILSONART INTERNATIONAL, INC.TEMPLE, TX
    $0

AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-10-05

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 6.1MFY2017
  2. 3.2MFY2018
  3. 3.7MFY2019
  4. 3.5MFY2020
  5. 5MFY2021
  6. 2.3MFY2022
  7. 2.8MFY2023
  8. 3.7MFY2024
  9. 2.1MFY2025
  10. 2.8MFY2026
  11. 0FY2027

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$1M36%
    13 awards
  2. Department of the Army$784.7K28%
    7 awards
  3. Department of the Navy$773.7K27%
    10 awards
  4. Department of the Air Force$159.4K5.7%
    4 awards
  5. National Institute of Standards and Technology$54.8K1.9%
    1 awards
  6. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention$31.1K1.1%
    2 awards
  7. Defense Health Agency$12K0.4%
    2 awards
  8. Forest Service-$7910.0%
    1 awards
  9. Federal Aviation Administration-$16.7K0.0%
    2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Equipment maintenance$941.3K33%
  2. Other equipment & supplies$929.9K33%
  3. IT & telecom$747.2K26%
  4. Professional services$204.9K7.2%
  5. Education & social services$12K0.4%

Where the work was performed

  1. Hennepin County, MN$1.6M56%
  2. Monroe County, FL$390.7K14%
  3. Orange County, NY$346.2K12%
  4. Montgomery County, MD$161.9K5.7%
  5. Harford County, MD$147.1K5.2%
  6. Rock Island County, IL$65.9K2.3%
  7. Abroad$54.8K1.9%
  8. Okaloosa County, FL$34.5K1.2%
  9. Greene County, OH$23K0.8%
  10. Davis County, UT$19.7K0.7%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition88%
    US 39% · $2.5M
  • Sole-source awards85%
    US 30% · $2.4M
  • Single-offer competitions2.3%
    US 8.7% · $63.8K
  • 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. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$1M
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 10 awards
  2. Department of the Navy$709.9K
    Department of Defense · 6 awards
  3. Department of the Army$438.4K
    Department of Defense · 3 awards
  4. Department of the Air Force$159.4K
    Department of Defense · 4 awards
  5. National Institute of Standards and Technology$54.8K
    Department of Commerce · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. MTS SYSTEM EQUIPMENT - 22KIP OUTDOOR RATED ACTUATORS AND 4-STATION HSMS$390.7K
    Department of the Navy· Monroe County, FL· Other equipment & supplies· Jan 8, 2026 – Jan 8, 2026· N0017326P2413
  2. BRAND NAME MTS STRUCTURAL BEAM TESTING SYSTEM$346.2K
    Department of the Army· Orange County, NY· Equipment maintenance· Apr 15, 2026 – Apr 15, 2026· W911SD26PA039
  3. MTS FLEXTEST 40 CONTROLLER$199.1K
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Hennepin County, MN· IT & telecom· Aug 19, 2026 – Aug 19, 2026· 80NSSC26P1338
  4. MTS FT40 SYSTEM CONTROLLER UPGRADE WITH SOFTWARE$177.8K
    Department of the Army· Hennepin County, MN· IT & telecom· Apr 6, 2026 – Apr 6, 2026· W519TC26PA101
  5. RENEWAL OF MTS SERVICE PLAN$175K
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Hennepin County, MN· Equipment maintenance· Jun 30, 2026 – Jun 30, 2026· 80NSSC26P0914
  6. FY26 MTS PURCHASE$174.9K
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Hennepin County, MN· IT & telecom· Jun 29, 2026 – Jul 29, 2026· 80NSSC26P0892
  7. CALIBRATION SERVICES$172K
    Department of the Navy· Montgomery County, MD· Equipment maintenance· Mar 27, 2024 – Jan 12, 2026· N0016724P0071
  8. SERVICE AGREEMENT WITH MTS$155K
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Hennepin County, MN· Equipment maintenance· Jun 27, 2025 – Dec 4, 2025· 80NSSC25PB344

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: $5.9M (3 subawards)

2 primes

  1. FLUOR MARINE PROPULSION, LLC$5.7M96%
    GREENVILLE, SC · 2 subawards
  2. BELL TEXTRON INC$247.6K4.2%
    FORT WORTH, TX · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $2.7M received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $2.7M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $837.9K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $3.3M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $3.2M received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $5.9M 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

39 companies · $84.3M reported

  1. RAYTHEON COMPANY$12.3M
    TUCSON, AZ · 19 subawards · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  2. CONSOLIDATED NUCLEAR SECURITY, LLC$12.1M
    FREDERICK, MD · 18 subawards · Facilities support services
  3. FLUOR MARINE PROPULSION, LLC$10.8M
    GREENVILLE, SC · 28 subawards · Scientific research and development services

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

  1. KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES INC$78.1M+137% in FY2026
    COLORADO SPRINGS, CO · 8 entities · 54% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingAir Force · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingArmy · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing+8 more
  2. HEXAGON MANUFACTURING INTELLIGENCE, LLC$23M+0.5% in FY2026
    NORTH KINGSTOWN, RI · 11 entities · 29% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingDefense Logistics Agency · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingAir Force · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing+11 more
  3. MARIETTA NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING LLC$11.7M−96% in FY2026
    MARIETTA, GA · 23% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingNavy · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingAir Force · Commercial and industrial machinery and 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 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 MTS SYSTEMS CORPORATION (23 recipients).

Matched organizations

  • Illinois Tool Works, Inc.AI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2025
$190K
8 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$520K

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$120K
    4 reports
  2. 2024$150K
    6 reports
  3. 2025$190K
    8 reports
  4. 2026$60K
    3 reports

Top issues

  1. Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code9 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES9 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE9 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. The Laurin Baker Group, LLC$350K
    12 reports
  2. HOLLAND & KNIGHT LLP$170K
    9 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.

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.