Federal contractor · CARPENTERSVILLE, IL

OTTO ENGINEERING INC

OTTO ENGINEERING INC received $1.2M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 30 awards (−3% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $10.2M. Its largest customer was Federal Bureau of Investigation ($650K).

Obligations · FY2026
$1.2M
New awards
30
Sole-source
68%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 1.2MFY2017
  2. 911.6KFY2018
  3. 298.5KFY2019
  4. 867.7KFY2020
  5. 976.9KFY2021
  6. 905.8KFY2022
  7. 1.2MFY2023
  8. 1.5MFY2024
  9. 1.2MFY2025
  10. 1.2MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Federal Bureau of Investigation$650K55%
    2 awards
  2. Defense Logistics Agency$371.6K32%
    24 awards
  3. Department of the Navy$85.7K7.3%
    3 awards
  4. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$63.9K5.5%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Other equipment & supplies$1M87%
  2. Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$85.7K7.3%
  3. Research & development$63.9K5.5%

Where the work was performed

  1. Kane County, IL$1.2M100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition68%
    US 39% · $799.6K
  • Sole-source awards68%
    US 30% · $799.6K
  • 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. Federal Bureau of Investigation$650K
    Department of Justice · 1 awards
  2. Department of the Navy$85.7K
    Department of Defense · 2 awards
  3. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$63.9K
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. IDIQ FOR OTTO ENGINEERING, INC.$650K
    Federal Bureau of Investigation· Kane County, IL· Other equipment & supplies· Apr 20, 2026 – Apr 20, 2026· 15F06726F0000586
  2. IDIQ FOR OTTO ENGINEERING, INC.$650K
    Federal Bureau of Investigation· Kane County, IL· Other equipment & supplies· Feb 28, 2025 – Feb 4, 2026· 15F06725F0000358
  3. GRIP ASSY,MISSION,A$122.6K
    Department of the Navy· Kane County, IL· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Dec 9, 2024 – Mar 16, 2026· N0038325PN011
  4. 8512003975!LOUDSPEAKER-MICROPH$114.9K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Kane County, IL· Other equipment & supplies· Mar 26, 2026 – Mar 26, 2026· SPE7M526F0367
  5. 8511771774!LOUDSPEAKER-MICROPH$114.5K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Kane County, IL· Other equipment & supplies· Nov 21, 2025 – Nov 21, 2025· SPE7M126P1902
  6. GRIP ASSY,MISSION,A$98.6K
    Department of the Navy· Kane County, IL· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Oct 15, 2025 – Jun 10, 2026· N0038326PNA02
  7. OTTO$63.9K
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Kane County, IL· Research & development· Aug 3, 2026 – Aug 3, 2026· 80NSSC26P1183
  8. 8511926762!SWITCH,SENSITIVE$30.2K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Kane County, IL· Other equipment & supplies· Feb 19, 2026 – Mar 9, 2026· SPE7M826P0885

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: $379.3K (2 subawards)

2 primes

  1. THALES DEFENSE & SECURITY, INC$216.5K57%
    CLARKSBURG, MD · 1 subaward
  2. BELL TEXTRON INC$162.8K43%
    FORT WORTH, TX · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $715.3K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $3M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $2.2M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $225.1K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $379.3K 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

6 companies · $6.5M reported

  1. THALES DEFENSE & SECURITY INC$2.2M
    CLARKSBURG, MD · 6 subawards · Communications equipment manufacturing
  2. THE BOEING COMPANY$1.9M
    SAINT LOUIS, MO · 2 subawards · Hardware manufacturing
  3. CREARE LLC$1.2M
    HANOVER, NH · 2 subawards · Scientific research and development services

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

  1. OCTASIC SYSTEMS INC.$2M
    TAMPA, FL · 50% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Bureau of Investigation · Communications equipment manufacturing
  2. SYSTEM INNOVATION GROUP, LLC$1.2M−109% in FY2026
    MELBOURNE, FL · 31% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Bureau of Investigation · Communications equipment manufacturing
  3. ER TECH SYSTEMS GROUP INC$7.2M−99% in FY2026
    POMPANO BEACH, FL · 53% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Bureau of Investigation · Communications equipment manufacturingNavy · Communications equipment 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.