Federal contractor · SANTA ANA, CA

SECURE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, INC.

SECURE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, INC. received $35.3M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 5 awards (+2,755% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $59M. Its largest customer was U.S. Customs and Border Protection ($34M).

Obligations · FY2026: $35.3M
New awards: 5
Sole-source: 100%
Single offer: 0.0%

UEI: ZEVERYJTSHJ8
Parent company: BENCHMARK ELECTRONICS, INC.

Other than small business

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Company family

Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.

2 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $35.3M in FY2026 together.

SECURE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, INC.SANTA ANA, CA · Family page
Reported parent$35.3M
BENCHMARK ELECTRONICS, INCROCHESTER, MN
Reported parent$0

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

2.4MFY2017
5.3MFY2018
5.1MFY2019
1.7MFY2020
1MFY2021
1.1MFY2022
1.7MFY2023
4MFY2024
1.2MFY2025
35.3MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection$34M96%
1 awards
Department of the Army$1M2.9%
2 awards
Federal Aviation Administration$263.9K0.7%
1 awards
Department of the Navy$30.4K0.1%
1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Other equipment & supplies$35M99%
Equipment maintenance$263.9K0.7%

Where the work was performed

Orange County, CA$34.3M97%
Harford County, MD$1M2.9%

Integrity signals

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

Low competition100%
US 39% · $35.3M
Sole-source awards100%
US 30% · $35.3M
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

U.S. Customs and Border Protection$34M
Department of Homeland Security · 1 awards
Federal Aviation Administration$263.9K
Department of Transportation · 1 awards

Largest awards

ENHANCED MOBILE VIDEO SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS WITH RADAR (EMVSS-R)$34M
U.S. Customs and Border Protection· Orange County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Jun 17, 2026 – Jun 17, 2026· 70B02C26C00000048
FUNDING$4.8M
Department of the Army· Harford County, MD· Other equipment & supplies· Jul 25, 2023 – Mar 5, 2026· W56JSR23F0077
FIRST ARTICLE TEST UNITS (WITH NRE) - PEP$1.7M
Department of the Navy· Orange County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Feb 15, 2024 – Apr 22, 2026· N6833524C0165
FUNDING$439.4K
Department of the Army· Harford County, MD· Other equipment & supplies· Jul 25, 2023 – Mar 13, 2026· W56JSR23F0078
CONVERT EXISTING MVSS-R SYSTEM RADAR FROM A ECHOSHIELD TO SRHAWK RADAR$263.9K
Federal Aviation Administration· Orange County, CA· Equipment maintenance· Feb 2, 2026 – Feb 5, 2026· 6973GH26P00805

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: $3.8M (4 subawards)

1 prime

L3 TECHNOLOGIES, INC.$3.8M100%
SALT LAKE CITY, UT · 4 subawards

By fiscal year

FY2021: $0 paid out · $61.4K received
FY2022: $0 paid out · $13.5M received
FY2023: $0 paid out · $2.1M received
FY2024: $0 paid out · $2.1M received
FY2025: $0 paid out · $19.1M received
FY2026: $0 paid out · $3.8M 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

12 companies · $60.7M reported

RAYTHEON COMPANY$17.5M
TUCSON, AZ · 20 subawards · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing
VIASAT INC$13.2M
CARLSBAD, CA · 3 subawards · Satellite telecommunications
L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES INTEGRATED SYSTEMS L.P.$8.4M
GREENVILLE, TX · 17 subawards · Communications equipment manufacturing

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

TYONEK AIRCRAFT OVERHAUL, LLC$81.8M+113% in FY2026
ANCHORAGE, AK · 2 entities · 82% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Customs and Border Protection · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing
C SPEED LLC$24.3M+415% in FY2026
LIVERPOOL, NY · 41% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Customs and Border Protection · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing
ASTROPHYSICS INC$97.9M+155% in FY2026
CITY OF INDUSTRY, CA · 82% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Customs and Border Protection · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments 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.

Lobbying and PAC activity

Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.

Across the company family of SECURE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, INC. (2 recipients).

Matched organizations

Benchmark Electronics, Inc.AI match · 100%
Secure Communication Systems dba Benchmark Secure TechnologyAI match · 96%

Lobbying · 2025: $160K; 4 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026: $560K

Lobbying by year

2023$160K
4 reports
2024$160K
5 reports
2025$160K
4 reports
2026$80K
2 reports

Top issues

Budget and appropriations14 reports
Homeland security13 reports

Who was contacted

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES14 reports
U.S. SENATE14 reports

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

Westmoreland160, LLC$560K
15 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 5, 2026, loaded Oct 5, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Oct 5, 2026.

Congress: members and bills

Through the organizations matched to this company: members of Congress whose campaigns received contributions from their PACs, and the bills their lobbying reports named. Shown beside the company's contracts as a comparison, not a cause.

Bills named in its lobbying reports

H.R. 4213 · Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 20264 reports
119th Congress · Introduced · 2025–2026
H.R. 8752 · Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 20253 reports
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2024
S. 2625 · Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 20243 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2023–2024
H.R. 5371 · Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 20263 reports
119th Congress · Became law · 2025–2026
H.R. 2882 · Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 20242 reports
118th Congress · Became law · 2024
H.R. 4367 · Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 20242 reports
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2023–2024
H.R. 7744 · Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 20262 reports
119th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2026
H.R. 1 · An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.1 report
119th Congress · Became law · 2025
H.R. 9310 · Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 20271 report
119th Congress · Introduced · 2026

10 of 15 reports (2023–2026) name at least one bill. Bills and resolutions the current reports name in their issue descriptions, by number of reports. A report names what it lobbied on, not which side it took.

Amounts, members and bills are as recorded, shown side by side. They say nothing about why a contribution was made, how a member voted or what a report sought. A bill number written in a report is read as the measure of the Congress its context points to (a law's number, the Congress written next to it, the title), else of the Congress then sitting.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 5, 2026, loaded Oct 5, 2026.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.

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.