Federal contractor · CHATSWORTH, CA

PHOTO-SONICS, INC.

PHOTO-SONICS, INC. received $575 in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 3 awards. Since FY2017: $16.7M. Its largest customer was Department of the Air Force ($9,720).

Obligations · FY2026
$575
New awards
3
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
KB3CHJLC9KN6
Parent company
PHOTO-SONICS, INC.
Other than small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 566KFY2017
  2. 8.8MFY2018
  3. 1.2MFY2019
  4. 2.9MFY2020
  5. 2.3MFY2021
  6. 218.1KFY2022
  7. 82.9KFY2023
  8. 777.7KFY2024
  9. -87KFY2025
  10. 575FY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Air Force$9,720100%
    1 awards
  2. Department of the Navy-$9,1450.0%
    2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Equipment maintenance$9,720100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Santa Barbara County, CA$9,720100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $575
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $575
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · $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 Air Force$9,720
    Department of Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. CAMERA,TELEVISION$110K
    Department of the Navy· Los Angeles County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 13, 2023 – Dec 11, 2025· N0038323FZ302
  2. CAMERA,TELEVISION$25.8K
    Department of the Navy· Los Angeles County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Feb 22, 2024 – Oct 29, 2025· N0038324FZ300
  3. 2ROPS/DOP FM9 PANDA BCU EVA$9,720
    Department of the Air Force· Santa Barbara County, CA· Equipment maintenance· Jun 4, 2026 – Jun 4, 2026· FA461026P0031

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: -$68.6K (1 subaward)

1 prime

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $216.5K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $95.7K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $183.6K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $390K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · -$68.6K 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

2 companies · $885.7K reported

  1. LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$833K
    FORT WORTH, TX · 7 subawards · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  2. ATLANTIC DIVING SUPPLY, INC.$52.8K
    VIRGINIA BEACH, VA · 1 subaward · Other miscellaneous manufacturing

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

  1. SHAPE SHIFTERS INC$623.8K+121% in FY2026
    BLOOMFIELD, IN · 90% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  2. NWI PRECISION TUBE ULC.$712.1K
    NORTH YORK, CAN · 95% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  3. GA TELESIS LANDING GEAR SERVICES, LLC$609.8K−100% in FY2026
    MEDLEY, FL · 88% 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

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.