Federal contractor · EDEN PRAIRIE, MN

STARKEY LABORATORIES INC

STARKEY LABORATORIES INC received $46.7M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 27 awards (−42% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $642.2M. Its largest customer was Department of Veterans Affairs ($26.7M).

Obligations · FY2026: $46.7M
New awards: 27
Sole-source: 100%
Single offer: 0.0%

UEI: JJ2LV57KNKL7

Other than small business

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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

59.9MFY2017
57.1MFY2018
59.3MFY2019
40.1MFY2020
74.8MFY2021
62.5MFY2022
83.1MFY2023
78.4MFY2024
80.3MFY2025
46.7MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Department of Veterans Affairs$26.7M57%
10 awards
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement$20M43%
1 awards
Indian Health Service$45.9K0.1%
16 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Health & medical$26.2M56%
Other equipment & supplies$20M43%
Equipment maintenance$542.5K1.2%

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

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

Low competition100%
US 39% · $46.9M
Sole-source awards100%
US 30% · $46.9M
Single-offer competitions0.0%
US 8.7% · -$18.9K
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

Department of Veterans Affairs$26.7M
Department of Veterans Affairs · 10 awards
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement$20M
Department of Homeland Security · 1 awards
Indian Health Service$266.5K
Department of Health and Human Services · 3 awards

Largest awards

THIS AWARD PROCURES SOUNDGEAR PHANTOM CUSTOM ACTIVE HEARING PROTECTION FOR THE OFFICE OF FIREARMS AND TACTICAL PROGRAMS.$20M
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement· Chattahoochee County, GA· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 22, 2026 – Sep 22, 2026· 70CMSW26P00000057
EXPRESS REPORT SEPTEMBER 2025$7.9M
Department of Veterans Affairs· Jefferson County, CO· Health & medical· Nov 5, 2025 – Nov 5, 2025· 36C79126K0013
EXPRESS REPORT: OCTOBER 2025 DATA - PURCHASE ORDER DATA FOR VA NATIONAL HEARING AID CONTRACT.$7.5M
Department of Veterans Affairs· Hennepin County, MN· Health & medical· Nov 10, 2025 – Nov 10, 2025· 36C79126K0028
EXPRESS REPORT: NOVEMBER 2025 DATA - PURCHASE ORDER DATA FOR VA NATIONAL HEARING AID CONTRACT.$5.4M
Department of Veterans Affairs· Hennepin County, MN· Health & medical· Dec 29, 2025 – Dec 29, 2025· 36C79126K0043
EXPRESS REPORT: JANUARY 2026 DATA - PURCHASE ORDER DATA FOR VA NATIONAL HEARING AID CONTRACT$2.5M
Department of Veterans Affairs· Hennepin County, MN· Health & medical· Apr 2, 2026 – Apr 2, 2026· 36C79126K0093
EXPRESS REPORT: DECEMBER 2025 DATA - PURCHASE ORDER DATA FOR VA NATIONAL HEARING AID CONTRACT.$2.3M
Department of Veterans Affairs· Hennepin County, MN· Health & medical· Jan 22, 2026 – Jan 22, 2026· 36C79126K0060
EXPRESS REPORT: JANUARY 2026 DATA - PURCHASE ORDER DATA FOR VA NATIONAL HEARING AID CONTRACT.$476.3K
Department of Veterans Affairs· Jefferson County, CO· Health & medical· Apr 2, 2026 – Apr 2, 2026· 36C79126K0082
EXPRESS REPORT: OCTOBER 2025 DATA - PURCHASE ORDER DATA FOR VA NATIONAL AUDIO HARA BRIDGE AWARD$235.5K
Department of Veterans Affairs· Hennepin County, MN· Equipment maintenance· Nov 10, 2025 – Nov 10, 2025· 36C79126K0037

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.

OTICON, INC$238.4M−74% in FY2026
SOMERSET, NJ · 2 entities · 90% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingVeterans Affairs · Electronic and precision equipment repair and maintenance
GN HEARING CARE CORPORATION$139.2M−61% in FY2026
SHAKOPEE, MN · 68% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingVeterans Affairs · Electronic and precision equipment repair and maintenance
WS AUDIOLOGY USA, INC$97.1M−63% in FY2026
ISELIN, NJ · 2 entities · 47% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturingVeterans Affairs · Electronic and precision equipment repair and maintenance

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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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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.

Matched organizations

STARKEYAI match · 100%
Starkey Laboratories, Inc.AI match · 100%

Lobbying · 2025: $140K; 6 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026: $380K
PAC giving · 2026: $6,500; 1 PAC

Lobbying by year

2023$50K
2 reports
2024$90K
4 reports
2025$140K
6 reports
2026$100K
4 reports

Top issues

Defense15 reports
Veterans4 reports

Who was contacted

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES11 reports
U.S. SENATE6 reports
Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA)4 reports
Defense - Dept of (DOD)1 reports
Navy - Dept of1 reports

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

Lobbying firms hired

Covington & Burling LLP$300K
12 reports
DUDDINGTON GLOBAL STRATEGIES LLC$80K
4 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

PAC giving to candidates by party, 2026 cycle

Republican$4,00062%
Democratic$2,50038%

PACs sponsored

STARKEY PAC$15K raised this cycle

PACs these organizations sponsor (connected organizations in FEC records). A PAC gives employees' and members' voluntary contributions, not the company's own money.

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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Sep 30, 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.

Members whose campaigns received from its PACs, 2026 cycle

Brad Finstad$2,500
R-MN-1 · House · 1 PAC
Betty McCollum$2,500
D-MN-4 · House · 1 PAC
John R. Carter$1,500
R-TX-31 · House · 1 PAC

$6,500 of the $6,500 its PACs gave to federal candidates went to 3 members of Congress.

Members whose campaigns received from its PACs, 2024 cycle

Mike Bost$5,000
R-IL-12 · House · 1 PAC
Robert P. Casey, Jr.$2,500
D-PA · Senate · 1 PAC
Betty McCollum$2,500
D-MN-4 · House · 1 PAC
Michael Waltz$2,500
R-FL-6 · House · 1 PAC
Brad Finstad$2,000
R-MN-1 · House · 1 PAC
Bryan Steil$2,000
R-WI-1 · House · 1 PAC
Lance Gooden$1,500
R-TX-5 · House · 1 PAC
John R. Curtis$1,000
R-UT · Senate · 1 PAC
Kevin Hern$1,000
R-OK-1 · House · 1 PAC

$20K of the $20K its PACs gave to federal candidates went to 9 members of Congress.

Direct and in-kind contributions the members' campaigns received (FEC), net of refunds. Party and seat are the member's current or latest.

Bills named in its lobbying reports

H.R. 1968 · Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 20256 reports
119th Congress · Became law · 2025–2026
H.R. 8070 · Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20252 reports
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2024
S. 4638 · National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20252 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2024
H.R. 4016 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20262 reports
119th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2025
S. 2572 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20262 reports

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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.