Federal contractor · SAN JOSE, CA

CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS INC

CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS INC received $1.8M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 26 awards (−30% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $41.8M. Its largest customer was National Aeronautics and Space Administration ($827.5K).

Obligations · FY2026: $1.8M
New awards: 26
Sole-source: 96%
Single offer: 3.7%

UEI: NC1VVZ3DJ3K4

Small business

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Company family

Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.

2 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $1.9M in FY2026 together.

CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS INCSAN JOSE, CA · Family page
Reported parent$1.8M
BETA CAE SYSTEMS USA INCFARMINGTON HILLS, MI
Reported parent$64.7K

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

3.7MFY2017
6.5MFY2018
3.3MFY2019
4MFY2020
5.1MFY2021
3.8MFY2022
6.5MFY2023
4.6MFY2024
2.6MFY2025
1.8MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration$827.5K45%
12 awards
Department of the Air Force$610.5K34%
3 awards
Defense Microelectronics Activity$305K17%
1 awards
Department of the Navy$60.5K3.3%
7 awards
Federal Aviation Administration$16.4K0.9%
2 awards
Department of the Army$00.0%
1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

IT & telecom$1.9M100%

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

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

Low competition100%
US 39% · $1.8M
Sole-source awards96%
US 30% · $1.8M
Single-offer competitions3.7%
US 8.7% · $68.2K
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

National Aeronautics and Space Administration$827.5K
National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 10 awards
Department of the Air Force$610.5K
Department of Defense · 3 awards
Federal Aviation Administration$16.4K
Department of Transportation · 1 awards

Largest awards

ELECTRONIC COUNTERMEASURES, COUNTER-COUNTERMEASURES AND QUICK REACTION CAPABILITY EQUIPMENT$3.6M
Department of the Navy· Ventura County, CA· Other equipment & supplies· Aug 31, 2023 – Nov 17, 2025· N6893623C0017
SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE$1.1M
Department of the Navy· Santa Clara County, CA· IT & telecom· Sep 18, 2024 – Dec 18, 2025· N0016424FG060
ANNUAL SOFTWARE LICENSE MAINTENANCE AND WAN FEES$1.1M
Department of the Navy· Santa Clara County, CA· IT & telecom· Jul 29, 2025 – Jun 3, 2026· N0016425FG533
DMEA SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE 2025 CADENCE$576.6K
Defense Microelectronics Activity· Santa Clara County, CA· IT & telecom· Feb 27, 2025 – May 18, 2026· HQ072725FE013
CADENCE LICENSE BUNDLE$499.9K
Department of the Air Force· Oneida County, NY· IT & telecom· Dec 3, 2025 – Dec 3, 2025· FA875126P0004
POINTWISE RENEWAL$238.1K
Department of the Navy· Santa Clara County, CA· IT & telecom· Jun 30, 2025 – Jun 4, 2026· N0016725P1030
FY26 COMBINED FIDELITY POINTWISE RENEWAL$196K
National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Santa Clara County, CA· IT & telecom· May 27, 2026 – Jul 16, 2026· 80NSSC26P0712
FY26 LARC POINTWISE CENTER CONSOLIDATED RENEWAL$149.4K
National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Santa Clara County, CA· IT & telecom· Apr 15, 2026 – May 13, 2026· 80NSSC26P0452

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: $444.2K (4 subawards)

3 primes

THE MITRE CORPORATION$333.2K75%
BEDFORD, MA · 1 subaward
FLUOR MARINE PROPULSION, LLC$66K15%
GREENVILLE, SC · 2 subawards
ANALEX CORPORATION$44.9K10%
CHANTILLY, VA · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

FY2021: $0 paid out · $44.8M received
FY2022: $0 paid out · $18.7M received
FY2023: $0 paid out · $7.8M received
FY2024: $0 paid out · $4.8M received
FY2025: $0 paid out · $2.7M received
FY2026: $0 paid out · $444.2K 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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

21 companies · $79.5M reported

BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC$44.8M
MCLEAN, VA · 6 subawards · Scientific research and development services
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$10.4M
LEXINGTON, MA · 3 subawards · Scientific research and development services
KBR SERVICES, LLC$9M
HOUSTON, TX · 16 subawards · Scientific research and development services

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

GREEN HILLS SOFTWARE LLC$7.9M−86% in FY2026
SANTA BARBARA, CA · 45% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Software publishersAir Force · Software publishersAir Force · Computer systems design and related services+1 more
TALKSPACE LLC$2.9M−100% in FY2026
NEW YORK, NY · 30% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Software publishers
TRAPWIRE INC.$7.1M+1.6% in FY2026
RESTON, VA · 37% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Software publishersArmy · Software publishersAir Force · Computer systems design and related services+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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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.

Across the company family of CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS INC (2 recipients).

Matched organizations

Cadence Design Systems, Inc.AI match · 100%

Lobbying · 2025: $180K; 12 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026: $875K

Lobbying by year

2023$165K
9 reports
2024$410K
12 reports
2025$180K
12 reports
2026$120K
7 reports

Top issues

Defense26 reports
Trade (domestic and foreign)4 reports
Science and technology3 reports

Who was contacted

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES31 reports
U.S. SENATE29 reports
Commerce - Dept of (DOC)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

PRASAM$440K
14 reports
Magill Associates, LLC$245K
13 reports
AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD$190K
13 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Oct 5, 2026.

Congress: members and bills

Through the organizations matched to this company: members of Congress whose campaigns received contributions from their PACs, and the bills their lobbying reports named. Shown beside the company's contracts as a comparison, not a cause.

Bills named in its lobbying reports

H.R. 8070 · Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20253 reports
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2024
H.R. 8774 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20253 reports
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2024
S. 4638 · National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20253 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2024
H.R. 4016 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20263 reports
119th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2025
H.R. 9747 · Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 20252 reports
118th Congress · Became law · 2024
S. 4921 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20252 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2024
H.R. 3838 · Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20262 reports
119th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2025
S. 2572 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20262 reports
119th Congress · Reported by committee · 2025
H.R. 10545 · American Relief Act, 20251 report
118th Congress · Became law · 2024
H.R. 2670 · National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20241 report
118th Congress · Became law · 2024

9 of 40 reports (2023–2026) name at least one bill. Bills and resolutions the current reports name in their issue descriptions, by number of reports. A report names what it lobbied on, not which side it took.

Amounts, members and bills are as recorded, shown side by side. They say nothing about why a contribution was made, how a member voted or what a report sought. A bill number written in a report is read as the measure of the Congress its context points to (a law's number, the Congress written next to it, the title), else of the Congress then sitting.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.

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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.