Federal contractor · CARY, NC

POWELL ELECTRONICS INC

POWELL ELECTRONICS INC received $18.7K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 1 awards (−63% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $458.9K. Its largest customer was U.S. Coast Guard ($18.7K).

Obligations · FY2026
$18.7K
New awards
1
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
F57NJAS16ZJ4
Parent company
POWELL ELECTRONICS, INC.
Small business

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 137.7KFY2017
  2. 127.6KFY2018
  3. 49.8KFY2019
  4. 19.2KFY2020
  5. 0FY2021
  6. 13.7KFY2022
  7. 30.5KFY2023
  8. 12.2KFY2024
  9. 49.8KFY2025
  10. 18.7KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. 1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Other equipment & supplies$18.7K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Wake County, NC$18.7K100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition0.0%
    US 39% · $0
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • 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.

Largest awards

  1. U.S. Coast Guard· Wake County, NC· Other equipment & supplies· Jan 16, 2026 – Sep 8, 2026· 70Z03826PF0000128

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

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

By fiscal year

  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $401.2K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $266.8K 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

1 company · $668K reported

  1. RESTON, VA · 6 subawards · Architectural, engineering, and related services

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 1 market (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. AUTO AIR EXPORT, INC.$80.3K−100% in FY2026
    IRVING, TX · 99.7% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Coast Guard · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  2. NANO-TECH AVIATION LIMITED$85.3K−100% in FY2026
    SLOUGH, GBR · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Coast Guard · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  3. CITY OF INDUSTRY, CA · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Coast Guard · 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 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.