Federal contractor · MILLERSVILLE, MD

SIGNAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION

SIGNAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION received $4M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 3 awards (−45% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $48.8M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($4M).

Obligations · FY2026
$4M
New awards
3
Sole-source
86%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
MJG4M7R9YCV1
Parent company
SIGNAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 2.4MFY2017
  2. 5MFY2018
  3. 5MFY2019
  4. 2.5MFY2020
  5. 4.6MFY2021
  6. 5.9MFY2022
  7. 4.5MFY2023
  8. 7.5MFY2024
  9. 7.3MFY2025
  10. 4MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Navy$4M100%
    3 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$4M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Anne Arundel County, MD$4M100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition86%
    US 39% · $3.5M
  • Sole-source awards86%
    US 30% · $3.5M
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · $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$3.5M
    Department of Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. SBIR PHASE III RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT$6.1M
    Department of the Navy· Anne Arundel County, MD· Research & development· Jun 17, 2025 – Jun 3, 2026· N6833525F0097
  2. AUTONOMOUS ACTIVE ACOUSTIC PROCESSOR (AAAP)$1.4M
    Department of the Navy· Anne Arundel County, MD· Research & development· May 1, 2024 – May 13, 2026· N0001424C2212
  3. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) SOLUTIONS FOR AIR ANTI-SUBMARINE WARFARE (ASW) SYSTEMS$90K
    Department of the Navy· Anne Arundel County, MD· Research & development· Jan 29, 2026 – Jan 29, 2026· N6134026C1005

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

  • FY2021: $285.4K paid out · $372K received
  • FY2022: $311.2K paid out · $116K received
  • FY2023: $41K paid out · $405.2K received
  • FY2024: $299.6K paid out · $81.5K 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

6 companies · $937.2K reported

  1. ERAPSCO$285.4K
    COLUMBIA CITY, IN · 1 subaward · Scientific research and development services
  2. ACTALENT, INC.$227.5K
    HANOVER, MD · 1 subaward · Scientific research and development services
  3. THALES DEFENSE & SECURITY INC$200K
    CLARKSBURG, MD · 1 subaward · Scientific research and development services

Primes that pay it

3 companies · $974.7K reported

  1. THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC$459.1K
    LAUREL, MD · 3 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  2. UNDERSEA SENSOR SYSTEMS, INC.$372K
    COLUMBIA CITY, IN · 2 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  3. LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$143.6K
    FORT WORTH, TX · 3 subawards · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing

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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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. HYLIION INC$17.4M−48% in FY2026
    CEDAR PARK, TX · 92% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development services
  2. NAUTILUS DEFENSE LLC$17.4M+5.7% in FY2026
    PAWTUCKET, RI · 89% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development services
  3. PARETO FRONTIER LLC$15.5M−71% in FY2026
    PALM HARBOR, FL · 82% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development services

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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.