The Department of Defense's NAICS 325998 (All Other Miscellaneous Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing) market: incumbents, spending trend, set-asides and open solicitations — from FY2026 USAspending awards and live SAM.gov notices.
Contract data as of Oct 30, 2026 (USAspending) · recent coverage verified weekly
| Quarter | Awards | Obligated | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 FY2026 | 438 | $36.6M | — |
| Q2 FY2026 | 632 | $49.4M | +35% |
| Q3 FY2026 | 740 | $58.6M | +19% |
| Q4 FY2026 · partial | 68 | $1.2M | -98% |
Federal fiscal quarters (Q1 = Oct–Dec). Awards are counted in the quarter they start; obligations are the award's obligated amount. The Department of Defense publishes contract awards to USAspending with a 90-day delay, so Q4 FY2026 is still missing most DoD awards — treat that quarter as incomplete, not as a spending decline.
The 6 largest incumbents hold 88% of the $120.6M expiring in the next 18 months, across 16 incumbent companies. A few companies hold most of this work.
| # | Incumbent | Expiring | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CHEMRING GROUP PLC | $38.6M | 32.0% |
| 2 | TRANSDIGM GROUP INCORPORATED | $28.7M | 23.8% |
| 3 | COMBINED SYSTEMS INC | $12.5M | 10.4% |
| 4 | SECURITY SIGNALS, INC. | $10.0M | 8.3% |
| 5 | COASTLINE LTD. | $9.1M | 7.6% |
| 6 | TELEDYNE TECHNOLOGIES INCORPORATED | $7.2M | 6.0% |
Companies are corporate families (USAspending parent UEI), as in the contractor rankings. Computed Oct 30, 2026 over that day's 18-month window.
| Ends | Contract · incumbent | Obligated |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 30, 2028 | Contract N0010426FZV05 | $25.5M |
| Jul 31, 2027 | Infrared Countermeasure Flares Ordering Period #5 Award: MJU-7A/B - NSN: 1370-01-296-8395 CHEMRING GROUP PLC · W519TC26F0013 | $18.5M |
| Dec 31, 2027 | Contract N0010423FVQ08 | $10.9M |
| Aug 31, 2027 | See Summary of Changes COASTLINE LTD. · W9115122C0006 | $8.7M |
| Sep 30, 2027 | The Family of Hand Held Signals: Delivery Schedule Revision and Awarded Consideration SECURITY SIGNALS, INC. · W52P1J21F0251 | $8.6M |
| Jan 10, 2028 | Update Delivery Schedule Due to Lead Time on Binder Agent COMBINED SYSTEMS INC · W519TC25F0111 | $7.5M |
| Dec 31, 2026 | Heater Module, Heate LUXFER HOLDINGS PLC · SPE3S125F0248 | $6.1M |
| May 25, 2027 | Update Delivery Schedule Due to Lead Time on Binder Agent COMBINED SYSTEMS INC · W52P1J22F0243 | $4.1M |
| Dec 31, 2026 | Contract N0010423FVQ07 | $3.5M |
| Nov 30, 2027 | Cidas Nerve Price Increase TELEDYNE TECHNOLOGIES INCORPORATED · W911QY24F0183 | $3.3M |
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Contracts with at least $250K obligated whose final end date — every option exercised — falls in the window, counted from Oct 31, 2026. These are the Recompete Tracker's default filters (18 months, ≥$250K), so the figures match the tracker for NAICS 325998 at Department of Defense. “Obligated to date” is what has been obligated on the contract so far, not the value of the follow-on. An end date is when the work stops, not when the replacement is solicited — that usually happens 6–18 months earlier. Source: USAspending.gov prime awards.
| Offers received | Awards | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 279 | 41.8% |
| 2 | 138 | 20.7% |
| 3–5 | 181 | 27.1% |
| 6–10 | 45 | 6.7% |
| 11+ | 25 | 3.7% |
From FPDS fields on contract awards that started in FY2026. Offers received is recorded on 36% of these 1,878 awards and extent competed on 100% — much of the USAspending bulk archive leaves both blank — so each share is over the awards where the field is recorded, not all awards. FPDS's placeholder count of 999 offers is excluded. Task orders under multiple-award vehicles often report the vehicle's offer count, which inflates averages; the single-offer share is the steadier signal. “Not competed” = not competed, not competed under simplified acquisition, or not available for competition (sole-source authorities, including 8(a) directed awards).
| # | Contractor | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CHEMRING GROUP PLC | $53.8M | 36.9% |
| 2 | TRANSDIGM GROUP INCORPORATED | $40.1M | 27.5% |
| 3 | DREW MARINE USA INC | $9.8M | 6.8% |
| 4 | DEFENSE ENERGY SYNDICATE, LLC | $8.1M | 5.5% |
| 5 | LUXFER HOLDINGS PLC | $6.0M | 4.1% |
Registrations are rolled up to their corporate parent (USAspending parent UEI), so a company with several SAM registrations ranks once. Track record: fiscal years FY2015–FY2024 in which the company family received prime awards from any agency (USAspending.gov, by UEI; earlier years aren't loaded), and how many of those years Department of Defense was its largest customer by dollars. Awards and obligations in this table are FY2026.
| Set-aside type | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Small business set-aside | $4.8M | 42.7% |
| 8(a) | $0 | 0.0% |
| SDVOSB | $540K | 4.7% |
| WOSB / EDWOSB | $20K | 0.2% |
| HUBZone | $0 | 0.0% |
| No set-aside (full & open) | $6.0M | 52.4% |
Share of obligations on awards whose set-aside type is recorded — 8% of this market's dollars. Most USAspending bulk-archive records leave the field blank, so blank awards are excluded rather than counted as full & open.
Links open the notice on SAM.gov.
Source: USAspending.gov contract awards (prime awards with a start date from Oct 1, 2025 through Sep 30, 2026), SAM.gov contract opportunities, and SBA size standards. Recompetes are contracts whose final end date — options included — falls in the next 12 months. Figures are recomputed when a new USAspending load lands. See our data sources.