Federal contractor · LAKE FOREST, IL

UNITED TACTICAL SYSTEMS, LLC

UNITED TACTICAL SYSTEMS, LLC received $5.3M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 26 awards (+159% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $15.8M. Its largest customer was U.S. Customs and Border Protection ($3.5M).

Obligations · FY2026
$5.3M
New awards
26
Sole-source
0.6%
Single offer
1.2%
UEI
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Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 377.8KFY2017
  2. 1.2MFY2018
  3. 1MFY2019
  4. 890.2KFY2020
  5. 2.1MFY2021
  6. 649.6KFY2022
  7. 1.2MFY2023
  8. 907KFY2024
  9. 2.1MFY2025
  10. 5.3MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. U.S. Customs and Border Protection$3.5M66%
    1 awards
  2. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement$1.5M28%
    5 awards
  3. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Acquisition and Property Management Division$174.4K3.3%
    1 awards
  4. Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$62.3K1.2%
    9 awards
  5. U.S. Marshals Service$39.3K0.7%
    7 awards
  6. U.S. Coast Guard$24.6K0.5%
    1 awards
  7. Department of the Army$20.8K0.4%
    1 awards
  8. Federal Law Enforcement Training Center$11.8K0.2%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$5.3M99%
  2. Other equipment & supplies$58.8K1.1%
  3. Education & social services$8,0000.1%

Where the work was performed

  1. Lake County, IL$5.3M99%
  2. Ketchikan Gateway Borough, AK$24.6K0.5%
  3. District of Columbia, DC$20.8K0.4%
  4. Charleston County, SC$8,0000.1%
  5. Miami-Dade County, FL$5,2470.1%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition1.8%
    US 39% · $94.9K
  • Sole-source awards0.6%
    US 30% · $32.6K
  • Single-offer competitions1.2%
    US 8.8% · $62.3K
  • 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. U.S. Coast Guard$24.6K
    Department of Homeland Security · 1 awards
  2. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement$8,000
    Department of Homeland Security · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. PEPPER BALL LAUNCHERS AND ACCESSORIES FOR CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION$3.5M
    U.S. Customs and Border Protection· Lake County, IL· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Sep 3, 2026 – Sep 3, 2026· 70B06C26F00000839
  2. THE DELIVERY AWARD PROVIDES LESS-LETHAL WEAPON OPTIONS TO ARMED AGENTS FOR CONTROL CROWD DEMONSTRATIONS FOR THE ICE- OFFICE OF FIREARMS AND TACTICAL PROGRAMS AT FORT BENNING, GA.$1.2M
    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement· Lake County, IL· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Feb 23, 2026 – May 14, 2026· 70CMSW26FR0000014
  3. PEPPER BALL LESS-LETHAL SYSTEMS$174.4K
    Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Acquisition and Property Management Division· Lake County, IL· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Jul 6, 2026 – Jul 8, 2026· 15A00026FAQA00187
  4. THE PURPOSE OF THIS CONTRACT AWARD IS TO PURCHASE PEPPERBALL LAUNCHERS AND OTHER SUPPLIES FOR DAGR, ERO AND HSI IN SUPPORT OF THE OFFICE OF FIREARMS AND TACTICAL PROGRAMS (OFTP).$129.4K
    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement· Lake County, IL· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Jul 15, 2026 – Jul 15, 2026· 70CMSW26FR0000044
  5. THIS DELIVERY AWARD PROVIDES LESS-LETHAL PEPPER BALL PROJECTILES FOR CONTROL CROWD TO SUPPORT ICE- OFFICE OF FIREARMS AND TACTICAL PROGRAMS AT FORT BENNING, GA.$98.7K
    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement· Lake County, IL· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Jan 13, 2026 – Aug 10, 2026· 70CMSW26FR0000008
  6. THE AWARD PROVIDES LESS-LETHAL WEAPON OPTIONS TO CONTROL CROWD DEMONSTRATIONS FOR THE ICE- OFFICE OF FIREARMS AND TACTICAL PROGRAMS AT FORT BENNING, GA.$47.5K
    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement· Lake County, IL· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Jun 27, 2025 – Feb 19, 2026· 70CMSW25FR0000057
  7. MISSION CRITICAL: APPREHENDING FUGITIVES FY25 A46 WEAPON ACCESSORIES PB$38.6K
    U.S. Marshals Service· Lake County, IL· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Sep 29, 2025 – Jul 21, 2026· 15M10225FA4700164
  8. MISSION CRITICAL: APPREHENDING FUGITIVES FY25 A46 WEAPON ACCESSORIES PB CBP$29.9K
    U.S. Marshals Service· Lake County, IL· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Sep 29, 2025 – Jan 14, 2026· 15M10225FA4700159

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.

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 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 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

1 company · $111.5K reported

  1. ATLANTIC DIVING SUPPLY, INC.$111.5K
    VIRGINIA BEACH, VA · 1 subaward · Other miscellaneous manufacturing

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 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 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 15 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. DANIEL DEFENSE, LLC$19.8M+1,347% in FY2026
    BLACK CREEK, GA · 67% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Customs and Border Protection · Other fabricated metal product manufacturingU.S. Marshals Service · Other fabricated metal product manufacturing
  2. MADMEX LLC$1.9M
    PRESCOTT, AZ · 23% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Customs and Border Protection · Other fabricated metal product manufacturing
  3. GEISSELE AUTOMATICS LLC$33.9M−57% in FY2026
    NORTH WALES, PA · 87% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveU.S. Customs and Border Protection · Other fabricated metal product manufacturingU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Other fabricated metal product manufacturingU.S. Marshals Service · Other fabricated metal product manufacturing+1 more

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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 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026.