Federal contractor · SAN DIEGO, CA

PROPULSION CONTROLS ENGINEERING

PROPULSION CONTROLS ENGINEERING received $8.7M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 15 awards (−26% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $109.8M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($8.7M).

Obligations · FY2026
$8.7M
New awards
15
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
81%
UEI
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Parent company
PROPULSION CONTROLS ENGINEERING
Small business

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 4.7MFY2017
  2. 11.6MFY2018
  3. 25.5MFY2019
  4. 11.9MFY2020
  5. 1.3MFY2021
  6. 4.2MFY2022
  7. 17.7MFY2023
  8. 12.4MFY2024
  9. 11.8MFY2025
  10. 8.7MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. 15 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Equipment maintenance$8.6M99%
  2. Other equipment & supplies$118.9K1.4%

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition81%
    US 39% · $7.1M
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions81%
    US 8.8% · $7.1M
  • 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. Department of the Navy· San Diego County, CA· Equipment maintenance· Feb 13, 2025 – Mar 25, 2026· N5523625F2014
  2. Department of the Navy· San Diego County, CA· Equipment maintenance· Mar 28, 2025 – Apr 1, 2026· N5523625F4005
  3. Department of the Navy· San Diego County, CA· Equipment maintenance· Dec 3, 2025 – Mar 5, 2026· N5523626F2003
  4. Department of the Navy· San Diego County, CA· Equipment maintenance· Dec 3, 2025 – Feb 13, 2026· N5523626F6007
  5. Department of the Navy· San Diego County, CA· Equipment maintenance· Jun 10, 2026 – Jun 10, 2026· N5523626F5034
  6. Department of the Navy· San Diego County, CA· Equipment maintenance· May 4, 2026 – May 29, 2026· N5523626F6012
  7. Department of the Navy· San Diego County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Aug 26, 2025 – Dec 15, 2025· N0010425PCC07
  8. Department of the Navy· San Diego County, CA· Equipment maintenance· Jul 22, 2025 – Mar 20, 2026· N5523625F0476

Federal grants & assistance received

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

PROPULSION CONTROLS ENGINEERING received $0 in federal assistance in FY2026, on 0 actions (0 new awards), −100% vs FY2025.

Assistance · FY2026
$0
New awards
0
Actions
0

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 105.5KFY2025

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · FY2025.

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: $1.7M (29 subawards)

2 primes

  1. SAN DIEGO, CA · 26 subawards
  2. PORTSMOUTH, VA · 3 subawards

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $13.9M received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $5.1M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $6.2M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $9.9M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $14.5M received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $1.7M 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 · $51.3M reported

  1. YORK, PA · 220 subawards · Ship and boat building
  2. FORT WORTH, TX · 11 subawards · Ship and boat building
  3. GROTON, CT · 77 subawards · Ship and boat building

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

  1. LYON SHIPYARD INC$32.4M+102% in FY2026
    NORFOLK, VA · 97% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Ship and boat building
  2. INTEGRATED MARINE SERVICES, INC.$31.1M−11% in FY2026
    CHULA VISTA, CA · 95% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Ship and boat building
  3. RIBCRAFT USA, LLC$31M−74% in FY2026
    MARBLEHEAD, MA · 94% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Ship and boat building

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.