Federal contractor · ARLINGTON, VA

THALES USA, INC.

THALES USA, INC. received $7.5M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 14 awards (+25% vs FY2025). Since FY2018: $25.9M. Its largest customer was Federal Aviation Administration ($7.5M).

Obligations · FY2026
$7.5M
New awards
14
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Parent company
THALES SA
Other than small businessForeign-owned
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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.

Part of the THALES DEFENSE & SECURITY INC company family: 32 registered entities, $116.5M in FY2026 together. See the family

  1. THALES DEFENSE & SECURITY INCCLARKSBURG, MD · Family page
    $86.4M
  2. ADVANCED ACOUSTIC CONCEPTS, LLCGREAT RIVER, NY
    $19.7M
  3. THALES USA, INC.OVERLAND PARK, KS
    $2.4M
  4. THALES BELGIUMHERSTAL, BEL
    $564K
  5. ADVANCED ACOUSTIC CONCEPTS, LLCWASHINGTON, DC
    $31.3K

AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-10-05

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 2.7MFY2018
  2. 2.6MFY2019
  3. 246.4KFY2020
  4. 24.5KFY2021
  5. 0FY2022
  6. 29.1KFY2023
  7. 6.9MFY2024
  8. 6MFY2025
  9. 7.5MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Federal Aviation Administration$7.5M100%
    14 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Other equipment & supplies$7.5M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Johnson County, KS$6.8M91%
  2. Arlington County, VA$393.9K5.3%
  3. Henrico County, VA$186.9K2.5%
  4. Wicomico County, MD$53.6K0.7%
  5. Polk County, IA$16.1K0.2%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $7.5M
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $7.5M
  • 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. Federal Aviation Administration$7.5M
    Department of Transportation · 13 awards

Largest awards

  1. THE CONTRACTOR WILL PROVIDE ILS 420 SUPPLIES AND SERVICES.$5.1M
    Federal Aviation Administration· Johnson County, KS· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 21, 2026 – Sep 21, 2026· 693KA826F00335
  2. FUNDING TO UPGRADE LOCALIZER AND GLIDE SLOPE AT SAVANNAH/HILTON HEAD INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (KSAV). UPGRADE MARK 420 ILS SYSTEM.$693.8K
    Federal Aviation Administration· Johnson County, KS· Other equipment & supplies· Jul 24, 2026 – Jul 24, 2026· 693KA826F00267
  3. FUNDING OF INSTRUMENT LANDING SYSTEMS (ILS) PROGRAM MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES$435.3K
    Federal Aviation Administration· Johnson County, KS· Other equipment & supplies· Feb 19, 2026 – Feb 19, 2026· 693KA826F00106
  4. FUNDING TO PROCURE SPARE PARTS FOR THE ILS-420 SYSTEMS OPERATING IN THE NAS.$244.5K
    Federal Aviation Administration· Johnson County, KS· Other equipment & supplies· Jun 2, 2026 – Jun 2, 2026· 693KA826F00220
  5. FUNDING FOR FUNDING FOR ILS - 420 TECHNICAL INTERCHANGE MEETING (TIM)$200.8K
    Federal Aviation Administration· Arlington County, VA· Other equipment & supplies· Jan 9, 2026 – Jan 9, 2026· 693KA826F00059
  6. FUNDING TO PROCURE LOC LEG EXTENSIONS FOR ILS-420 INSTALLATION AT LAKE CHARLES, LA (LCH)$200.5K
    Federal Aviation Administration· Johnson County, KS· Other equipment & supplies· Apr 10, 2026 – Apr 10, 2026· 693KA826F00161
  7. FUNDING FOR THALES ATM TO COMPLETE THE INSTALLATION OF A REPLACEMENT LOCALIZER (LOC) AND GLIDE SLOPE (GS) ON RUNWAY 02 AT RICHMOND, VA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.$186.9K
    Federal Aviation Administration· Henrico County, VA· Other equipment & supplies· May 19, 2026 – May 19, 2026· 693KA826F00201
  8. FUNDING FOR THALES ATM TO COMPLETE THE INSTALLATION OF A REPLACEMENT LOCALIZER (LOC) AND GLIDE SLOPE (GS) ON RUNWAY 02 AT RICHMOND, VA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.$151.2K
    Federal Aviation Administration· Arlington County, VA· Other equipment & supplies· Jan 28, 2026 – Jan 28, 2026· 693KA826F00079

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.

THALES USA, INC. received $0 in federal assistance in FY2026, on 0 actions (0 new awards).

Assistance · FY2026
$0
New awards
0
Actions
0

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 10.3MFY2021

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2021.

Teaming partners

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

Companies it pays

154 companies · $385.8M reported

  1. THALES AVS FRANCE SAS$68.6M
    MERIGNAC, FRA · 176 subawards · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  2. VIASAT INC$63.8M
    CARLSBAD, CA · 7 subawards · Communications equipment manufacturing
  3. ULTRALIFE CORP.$24.5M
    NEWARK, NY · 12 subawards · Communications equipment manufacturing

Primes that pay it

28 companies · $3.6B reported

  1. LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$2.9B
    FORT WORTH, TX · 271 subawards · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing
  2. NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION$220.1M
    MELBOURNE, FL · 21 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  3. ATLANTIC DIVING SUPPLY, INC.$119.6M
    VIRGINIA BEACH, VA · 98 subawards · Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers

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

  1. TRACE SYSTEMS, INC.$316.3M−58% in FY2026
    VIENNA, VA · 40% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Communications equipment manufacturing
  2. WOODWARD HRT INC$314M−20% in FY2026
    VALENCIA, CA · 12 entities · 24% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Aerospace product and parts manufacturingDefense Logistics Agency · Aerospace product and parts manufacturingNavy · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing+2 more
  3. ENVISTACOM, L.L.C$104.4M−100% in FY2026
    DULUTH, GA · 2 entities · 18% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Communications equipment manufacturing

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.

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 THALES DEFENSE & SECURITY INC (32 recipients).

Matched organizations

  • Thales Defense & Security, Inc.AI match · 100%
  • THALES USA, INC.AI match · 100%
  • Advanced Acoustic ConceptsAI match · 99%
Lobbying · 2025
$820K
21 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$2.6M
PAC giving · 2026
$76.8K
1 PAC

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$510K
    12 reports
  2. 2024$580K
    14 reports
  3. 2025$820K
    21 reports
  4. 2026$660K
    13 reports

Top issues

  1. Defense35 reports
  2. Aviation, aircraft and airlines17 reports
  3. Budget and appropriations14 reports
  4. Homeland security5 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES46 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE43 reports
  3. Defense - Dept of (DOD)19 reports
  4. State - Dept of (DOS)14 reports
  5. Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS)5 reports
  6. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)3 reports
  7. Transportation - Dept of (DOT)3 reports

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

Lobbying firms hired

  1. BAKER DONELSON BEARMAN CALDWELL & BERKOWITZ$780K
    14 reports
  2. INNOVATIVE FEDERAL STRATEGIES, LLC$750K
    14 reports
  3. HOLLAND & KNIGHT LLP$440K
    8 reports
  4. Strategic Marketing Innovations$230K
    8 reports
  5. JTR STRATEGIES LLC$210K
    3 reports
  6. AUBREY MATURIN LLC$160K
    5 reports
  7. 262 STRATEGY LLC$0
    7 reports
  8. Continental Consulting Group Corporation$0
    1 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

PAC giving to candidates by party, 2026 cycle

  1. Republican$46.8K61%
  2. Democratic$30K39%

PACs sponsored

  • THALES USA, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (THALES USA PAC)$99.2K 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

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

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.