Federal contractor · GAITHERSBURG, MD

POWERSTAR INC

POWERSTAR INC received $951.2K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 10 awards (+7.4% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $7.6M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($951.2K).

Obligations · FY2026
$951.2K
New awards
10
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 1.1MFY2017
  2. 965.1KFY2018
  3. 1.7MFY2019
  4. 1.2MFY2020
  5. 474.7KFY2021
  6. 28.6KFY2022
  7. 61.7KFY2023
  8. 298.8KFY2024
  9. 885.7KFY2025
  10. 951.2KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Navy$951.2K100%
    9 awards
  2. Defense Contract Management Agency$00.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Other equipment & supplies$951.2K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Montgomery County, MD$951.2K100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $951.2K
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $951.2K
  • 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. Department of the Navy$951.2K
    Department of Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. POWER SUPPLY$966.9K
    Department of the Navy· Montgomery County, MD· Other equipment & supplies· Jun 1, 2026 – Jun 1, 2026· N0038326CLA29
  2. POWER SUPPLY$253.8K
    Department of the Navy· Montgomery County, MD· Other equipment & supplies· Nov 4, 2024 – Jan 6, 2026· N0010425PXA36
  3. POWER SUPPLY$224.3K
    Department of the Navy· Montgomery County, MD· Other equipment & supplies· Aug 9, 2024 – Oct 29, 2025· N0010424PXC82
  4. ELECTRONIC MODULE,S$136.8K
    Department of the Navy· Miami County, OH· Other equipment & supplies· Jun 5, 2025 – Nov 6, 2025· N0010425PNB32
  5. UPS ELECTRIC TRAY$131.5K
    Department of the Navy· Montgomery County, MD· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 12, 2025 – Nov 13, 2025· N0010425PNC09
  6. POWER SUPPLY$100.2K
    Department of the Navy· Montgomery County, MD· Other equipment & supplies· May 27, 2025 – Oct 29, 2025· N0010425PXC19
  7. SEPA$31.2K
    Defense Contract Management Agency· Montgomery County, MD· Other equipment & supplies· Mar 20, 2025 – Dec 18, 2025· N0010425PNA38
  8. POWER SUPPLY$25.9K
    Department of the Navy· Montgomery County, MD· Other equipment & supplies· Jun 25, 2025 – Jan 30, 2026· N0010425PXC59

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: $179.7K (2 subawards)

1 prime

  1. BAE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS & SERVICES INC.$179.7K100%
    ROCKVILLE, MD · 2 subawards

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $123.6K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $565.5K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $300.1K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $740.5K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $104.9K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $179.7K 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

8 companies · $2M reported

  1. VALKYRIE ENTERPRISES, LLC$591.3K
    VIRGINIA BEACH, VA · 7 subawards · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing
  2. BAE SYSTEMS LAND & ARMAMENTS L.P.$477.4K
    YORK, PA · 9 subawards · Architectural, engineering, and related services
  3. BOWHEAD MISSION SOLUTIONS, LLC$325.9K
    SPRINGFIELD, VA · 1 subaward · Computer and peripheral equipment manufacturing

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

  1. EDINBURGH DESIGNS LTD$1.1M
    LOANHEAD, GBR · 52% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Electrical equipment manufacturing
  2. BASLER ELECTRIC COMPANY, LLC$1M−100% in FY2026
    HIGHLAND, IL · 48% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Electrical equipment manufacturingNavy · Other electrical equipment and component manufacturing
  3. WHIPP & BOURNE ASSOCIATES LLC$2M+328% in FY2026
    VIRGINIA BEACH, VA · 57% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Electrical equipment manufacturingNavy · Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing

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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.