Federal contractor · BURLINGTON, MA

AWARE INC

AWARE INC received $1M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 4 awards (−48% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $19.5M. Its largest customer was Offices, Boards and Divisions ($497.5K).

Obligations · FY2026
$1M
New awards
4
Sole-source
49%
Single offer
51%
UEI
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Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 3.6MFY2017
  2. 1.6MFY2018
  3. 1.5MFY2019
  4. 1.9MFY2020
  5. 1.2MFY2021
  6. 1MFY2022
  7. 4.4MFY2023
  8. 1.4MFY2024
  9. 2MFY2025
  10. 1MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Offices, Boards and Divisions$497.5K49%
    1 awards
  2. Social Security Administration$487.9K48%
    1 awards
  3. Department of the Navy$29K2.9%
    1 awards
  4. Export-Import Bank of the United States-$1,0200.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. IT & telecom$1M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Middlesex County, MA$1M100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100.0%
    US 39% · $1M
  • Sole-source awards49%
    US 30% · $497.5K
  • Single-offer competitions51%
    US 8.8% · $515.9K
  • 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. AWARE SOFTWARE LICENSE AND MAINTENANCE UPGRADE. THE PURPOSE OF THIS REQUISITION IS TO PURCHASE SOFTWARE LICENSES HSPD-12 PROGRAM INCLUDING MODULES WHICH PROCESS FINGERPRINT MINUTIAE, PHOTO CAPTURE, AND DOCUMENT SCANNING AND FINGERPRINT MATCHING. SSA$4.8M
    Social Security Administration· Middlesex County, MA· IT & telecom· Sep 27, 2023 – Jul 23, 2026· 28321323FDX030242
  2. JUSTICE CRIMINAL INFORMATION SERVICES (JCIS)AWARE ENTERPRISE PERPETUAL LICENSE AGREEMENT &SUPPORT, MAINTENANCE, AND SERVICES$1.6M
    Offices, Boards and Divisions· Middlesex County, MA· IT & telecom· Mar 29, 2023 – Dec 3, 2025· 15JPSS23C00000056
  3. PART NUMBER: CLI-NEXAI-WSRT$219K
    Department of the Navy· Middlesex County, MA· IT & telecom· Jan 16, 2025 – Jan 13, 2026· N0017825P6655
  4. CONTRACT BASED ON DOJ REQUIRING THE USE OF THEIR SOFTWARE AND TECHNOLOGY TO INTERFACE WITH A DOJ SYSTEM.$14.7K
    Export-Import Bank of the United States· District of Columbia, DC· IT & telecom· Aug 29, 2019 – May 11, 2026· 83310119F0045

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

  • Sub-contracts: $151.2K (1 subaward)

1 prime

  1. LEIDOS, INC.$151.2K100%
    RESTON, VA · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $846.1K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $304.3K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $559.6K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $459K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $172.8K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $151.2K received

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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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

5 companies · $2.5M reported

  1. PERATON ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS LLC$1.4M
    CHANTILLY, VA · 16 subawards · Computer systems design and related services
  2. LEIDOS, INC.$926.4K
    RESTON, VA · 6 subawards · Computer systems design and related services
  3. CONSOLIDATED NUCLEAR SECURITY, LLC$69K
    FREDERICK, MD · 1 subaward · Facilities support services

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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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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 7 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AMERICA, INC.$1.9M−85% in FY2026
    SPARTANBURG, SC · 30% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveSocial Security Administration · Electronic and precision equipment repair and maintenance
  2. IPRO TECH LLC$5.4M+17% in FY2026
    TEMPE, AZ · 2 entities · 34% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveOffices, Boards and Divisions · Software publishers
  3. OPEX CORP$1.8M+28% in FY2026
    MOORESTOWN, NJ · 16% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveSocial Security Administration · Electronic and precision equipment repair and maintenance

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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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.

Matched organizations

  • AwareAI match · 98%
Lobbying · 2026
$100K
2 reports
Lobbying · 2025–2026
$220K

Lobbying by year

  1. 2025$120K
    3 reports
  2. 2026$100K
    2 reports

Top issues

  1. Budget and appropriations5 reports
  2. Defense5 reports
  3. Homeland security5 reports
  4. Law enforcement, crime and criminal justice5 reports
  5. Science and technology5 reports
  6. Travel and tourism5 reports

Who was contacted

  1. Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS)5 reports
  2. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES5 reports
  3. U.S. SENATE5 reports
  4. U.S. Customs & Border Protection4 reports
  5. U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE)4 reports
  6. Transportation Security Administration (TSA)1 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. Monument Advocacy$220K
    5 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

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 5, 2026, loaded Oct 5, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 5, 2026, loaded Oct 5, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: AI name judgments (entity-match@1, jev-1.13.0), updated Sep 30, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.