Federal contractor · CHANTILLY, VA

APPLICATION RESEARCH CENTER LLC

APPLICATION RESEARCH CENTER LLC received $1.4M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 7 awards (−63% vs FY2025). Since FY2022: $24.4M. Its largest customer was Food and Drug Administration ($1.2M).

Obligations · FY2026
$1.4M
New awards
7
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
DCL6W18NJHW7
Small businessWoman-ownedMinority-owned

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 1.5MFY2022
  2. 9.3MFY2023
  3. 8.4MFY2024
  4. 3.8MFY2025
  5. 1.4MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. 4 awards
  2. 3 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. IT & telecom$1.4M100%

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition0.0%
    US 39% · $0
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • 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.

Largest awards

  1. Food and Drug Administration· Prince George's County, MD· IT & telecom· Sep 29, 2023 – Mar 24, 2026· 75F40123F19001
  2. Food and Drug Administration· Fairfax County, VA· IT & telecom· Apr 10, 2026 – Apr 10, 2026· 75F40126F19010
  3. Food and Drug Administration· Montgomery County, MD· IT & telecom· Jul 18, 2024 – Mar 21, 2026· 75F40124F19005
  4. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources· Montgomery County, MD· IT & telecom· Sep 9, 2025 – Sep 1, 2026· 75F40125F19009
  5. Food and Drug Administration· Montgomery County, MD· IT & telecom· Nov 18, 2024 – Mar 13, 2026· 75F40125F19007
  6. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources· Montgomery County, MD· IT & telecom· Mar 21, 2024 – Apr 25, 2026· 75F40124F19004
  7. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources· Montgomery County, MD· IT & telecom· Jun 25, 2026 – Jun 25, 2026· 7571TE26F66010

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

  1. DNANEXUS, INC.$13.5M−0.4% in FY2026
    MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA · 95% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFood and Drug Administration · Data processing, hosting, and related services
  2. HARTFORD, CT · 10 entities · 94% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFood and Drug Administration · Data processing, hosting, and related services
  3. MPZA LLC$16.7M−26% in FY2026
    GAITHERSBURG, MD · 96% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFood and Drug Administration · Data processing, hosting, and related services

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.

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.