Who buys NAICS 332111 (Iron and Steel Forging) work, who wins it, and what's open right now — from FY2026 USAspending awards and live SAM.gov solicitations.
Contract data as of Oct 18, 2026 (USAspending) · recent coverage verified weekly
| Quarter | Awards | Obligated | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 FY2026 | 234 | $6.3M | — |
| Q2 FY2026 | 191 | $5.3M | -16% |
| Q3 FY2026 | 145 | $148.4M | +2691% |
| Q4 FY2026 · partial | 40 | $5.0M | -97% |
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 (DoD is 93% of this market's dollars) — treat that quarter as incomplete, not as a spending decline.
| # | Contractor | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BAE SYSTEMS PLC | $145.8M | 88.4% |
| 2 | COLUMBUS MCKINNON CORP | $6.2M | 3.7% |
| 3 | LISTER CHAIN & FORGE INC | $3.8M | 2.3% |
| 4 | CFMW, LLC | $1.7M | 1.0% |
| 5 | SCOT FORGE COMPANY | $1.1M | 0.7% |
| 6 | TACT360, INC | $945K | 0.6% |
| 7 | TRIDENT MARITIME SYSTEMS - CAC, LLC | $641K | 0.4% |
| 8 | PATRIOT FORGE CORPORATION | $607K | 0.4% |
| 9 | ELLWOOD GROUP, INC. | $465K | 0.3% |
| 10 | RUDY III, ERNEST | $293K | 0.2% |
Registrations are rolled up to their corporate parent (USAspending parent UEI), so a company with several SAM registrations ranks once.
| Agency | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Defense | $152.9M | 92.7% |
| Department of Homeland Security | $11.8M | 7.1% |
| Department of State | $171K | 0.1% |
| Department of Transportation | $78K | 0.0% |
| General Services Administration | $41K | 0.0% |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $21K | 0.0% |
| Set-aside type | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Small business set-aside | $2.4M | 32.4% |
| 8(a) | $0 | 0.0% |
| SDVOSB | $0 | 0.0% |
| WOSB / EDWOSB | $0 | 0.0% |
| HUBZone | $0 | 0.0% |
| No set-aside (full & open) | $5.0M | 67.6% |
Share of obligations on awards whose set-aside type is recorded — 5% 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.
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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.