Federal contractor · SOLVANG, CA

OVERWATCH AERO LLC

OVERWATCH AERO LLC received $1.7M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 4 awards (+90% vs FY2025). Since FY2023: $3.9M. Its largest customer was Departmental Offices ($1.7M).

Obligations · FY2026: $1.7M
New awards: 4
Sole-source: 0.4%
Single offer: 71%

UEI: JBVTNU9LA8K8

Small business

Open in the contracts explorer Relationship graph

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

249.4KFY2023
1.1MFY2024
886.5KFY2025
1.7MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Departmental Offices$1.7M99.6%
3 awards
National Aeronautics and Space Administration$6,6540.4%
1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Professional services$1.7M99.6%
Equipment maintenance$6,6540.4%

Where the work was performed

Santa Barbara County, CA$1.7M100%

Integrity signals

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

Low competition71%
US 39% · $1.2M
Sole-source awards0.4%
US 30% · $6,654
Single-offer competitions71%
US 8.7% · $1.2M
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.

Largest awards

EXCLUSIVE USE (EU) UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS (UAS) EMERGENCY FIRE FLIGHT SERVICES$1.2M
Departmental Offices· Santa Barbara County, CA· Professional services· Jul 14, 2026 – Aug 20, 2026· 140D0426F0680
ON CALL/CALL WHEN NEEDED UAS SERVICES$481.5K
Departmental Offices· Santa Barbara County, CA· Professional services· Jan 21, 2026 – Sep 9, 2026· 140D0426F0107
HQ-90 MODIFICATION AND FLIGHT$18.2K
National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Santa Barbara County, CA· Equipment maintenance· Mar 10, 2025 – Mar 27, 2026· 80NSSC25PA709
SURVEYING AND MAPPING SERVICES$0
Departmental Offices· Santa Barbara County, CA· Professional services· Jun 14, 2023 – Oct 23, 2025· 140D0423F0794

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

SPECTRUM CENTER GOVERNMENT SERVICES, LLC$1.7M+0.4% in FY2026
MCLEAN, VA · 47% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDepartmental Offices · Architectural, engineering, and related services
ONES PLEXUS JOINT VENTURE LLC$7.1M−56% in FY2026
TULSA, OK · 94% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDepartmental Offices · Architectural, engineering, and related services
BI-SI SOLUTIONS, LLC$6.6M−16% in FY2026
XENIA, OH · 65% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDepartmental Offices · Architectural, engineering, and related services

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

Overwatch AeroAI match · 99%

Lobbying · 2026: $80K; 4 reports
Lobbying · 2025–2026: $140K

Lobbying by year

2025$60K
3 reports
2026$80K
4 reports

Top issues

Natural resources7 reports

Who was contacted

Agriculture - Dept of (USDA)4 reports
U.S. Forest Service4 reports
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES4 reports
U.S. SENATE4 reports
Interior - Dept of (DOI)2 reports

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

Collective Strategies & Communications$80K
4 reports
Capitol Counsel LLC$60K
3 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.

Congress: members and bills

Through the organizations matched to this company: members of Congress whose campaigns received contributions from their PACs, and the bills their lobbying reports named. Shown beside the company's contracts as a comparison, not a cause.

Bills named in its lobbying reports

H.R. 471 · Fix Our Forests Act7 reports
119th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2025–2026
S. 1462 · Fix Our Forests Act7 reports
119th Congress · Reported by committee · 2025–2026

7 of 7 reports (2025–2026) name at least one bill. Bills and resolutions the current reports name in their issue descriptions, by number of reports. A report names what it lobbied on, not which side it took.

Amounts, members and bills are as recorded, shown side by side. They say nothing about why a contribution was made, how a member voted or what a report sought. A bill number written in a report is read as the measure of the Congress its context points to (a law's number, the Congress written next to it, the title), else of the Congress then sitting.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.

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.

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.