Federal contractor · WEST CHESTER, OH
POLE/ZERO LLC
POLE/ZERO LLC received $7.2M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 12 awards (−82% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $268M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($4.5M).
- Obligations · FY2026
- $7.2M
- New awards
- 12
- Sole-source
- 100%
- Single offer
- 0.0%
- UEI
- EF4RMKJ8ZWA5
Spending by fiscal year
Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).
- 49.7MFY2017
- 29.9MFY2018
- 33.3MFY2019
- 33.1MFY2020
- 2.2MFY2021
- 3.4MFY2022
- 37.5MFY2023
- 31.9MFY2024
- 39.8MFY2025
- 7.2MFY2026
Top buying agencies
Obligations in FY2026.
- Department of the Navy$4.5M63%9 awards
- Department of the Air Force$2.6M37%1 awards
- Defense Logistics Agency$00.0%1 awards
- 1 awards
What was bought · Where the work was performed
Obligations in FY2026.
What was bought
- Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$4M56%
- IT & telecom$3.1M44%
Where the work was performed
- Butler County, OH$7.2M100%
Integrity signals
Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.
- Low competition100%US 39% · $7.2M
- Sole-source awards100%US 30% · $7.2M
- 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
- Department of Defense · 3 awards
Largest awards
- Department of the Air Force· Butler County, OH· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Jul 30, 2024 – Mar 3, 2026· FA237124PB001
- V/UHF AIU EXTENDED$3.4M
- UTFA$1.2MDepartment of the Navy· Butler County, OH· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Oct 23, 2025 – Oct 23, 2025· N0038326FNR01
- V/UHF AIU EXTENDED$978.3K
- SATCOM/LOS UHF FILT$745.8K
- V/UHF AIU EXTENDED$506K
- FILTER,AIRCRAFT INS$369.8KDepartment of the Navy· Butler County, OH· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Apr 20, 2023 – Feb 2, 2026· N0038323CT011
- Defense Contract Management Agency· Butler County, OH· Equipment maintenance· Sep 8, 2020 – Nov 10, 2025· FA853920F0066
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: $388.7K (2 subawards)
2 primes
- GREENVILLE, TX · 1 subaward
- THE BOEING COMPANY$78.4K20%SEATTLE, WA · 1 subaward
By fiscal year
- FY2021: $0 paid out · $1.7M received
- FY2022: $0 paid out · $3.6M received
- FY2023: $0 paid out · $255.9K received
- FY2024: $0 paid out · $553.9K received
- FY2025: $0 paid out · $27.8M received
- FY2026: $0 paid out · $388.7K 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
5 companies · $34.3M reported
- ROY, UT · 14 subawards · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
- THE BOEING COMPANY$3.5MSAINT LOUIS, MO · 4 subawards · Support activities for air transportation
- FORT WORTH, TX · 2 subawards · Ship and boat building
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 2 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.
- FRONTGRADE TECHNOLOGIES INC.$76.6M−1.3% in FY2026EXETER, NH · 2 entities · 60% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Communications equipment manufacturing
- CENTURUM INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INC$145.1M−25% in FY2026MARLTON, NJ · 66% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Communications equipment manufacturing
- CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEMS, INC.$62.7M−42% in FY2026ARLINGTON, VA · 40% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · 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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.
Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.