Federal contractor · PASADENA, CA
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY received $2B in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 393 awards (−15% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $24.2B. Its largest customer was National Aeronautics and Space Administration ($2B).
- Obligations · FY2026
- $2B
- New awards
- 393
- Sole-source
- 100%
- Single offer
- 0.0%
- UEI
- YC1YP79BFD19
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, $2.1B in FY2026 together.
- CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYPASADENA, CA · Family page$2B
- CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYPASADENA, CA$106.1M
AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-09-29
Spending by fiscal year
Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).
- 2.4BFY2017
- 2.7BFY2018
- 2.6BFY2019
- 2.6BFY2020
- 2.3BFY2021
- 2.6BFY2022
- 2.7BFY2023
- 2.2BFY2024
- 2.3BFY2025
- 2BFY2026
- 23.9MFY2027
Top buying agencies
Obligations in FY2026.
- 393 awards
What was bought · Where the work was performed
Obligations in FY2026.
What was bought
- Research & development$2B100%
Where the work was performed
- Los Angeles County, CA$2B100%
Integrity signals
Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.
- Low competition100%US 39% · $2B
- Sole-source awards100%US 30% · $2B
- 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.
Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 56 awards
Largest awards
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Los Angeles County, CA· Research & development· Jul 24, 2018 – Sep 28, 2026· 80NM0018F0615
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Los Angeles County, CA· Research & development· Dec 17, 2020 – Sep 1, 2026· 80NM0021F0008
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Los Angeles County, CA· Research & development· Sep 18, 2018 – Sep 10, 2026· 80NM0018F0850
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Los Angeles County, CA· Research & development· Jul 24, 2018 – Oct 8, 2026· 80NM0018F0616
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Los Angeles County, CA· Research & development· Jun 22, 2020 – Jul 22, 2026· 80NM0020F0054
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Los Angeles County, CA· Research & development· Jul 27, 2018 – Aug 23, 2026· 80NM0018F0645
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Los Angeles County, CA· Research & development· Aug 10, 2018 – Sep 8, 2026· 80NM0018F0710
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Los Angeles County, CA· Research & development· Oct 11, 2016 – May 18, 2026· NNN13D820T
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-grants: $226.6K (1 subaward)
1 prime
- CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY$226.6K100%PITTSBURGH, PA · 1 subaward
By fiscal year
- FY2021: $13.1M paid out · $894.3K received
- FY2022: $83.3M paid out · $2M received
- FY2023: $30.5M paid out · $1.2M received
- FY2024: $252.7M paid out · $1.8M received
- FY2025: $150.3M paid out · $0 received
- FY2026: $0 paid out · $226.6K 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 11, 2026, loaded Oct 11, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.
Teaming partners
Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.
Companies it pays
163 companies · $829.2M reported
- CHANTILLY, VA · 1 subaward
- SAN ANTONIO, TX · 3 subawards
- OAKLAND, CA · 76 subawards · Scientific research and development services
Primes that pay it
103 companies · $170.7M reported
- OAKLAND, CA · 52 subawards · Scientific research and development services
- LAUREL, MD · 6 subawards
- LOS ANGELES, CA · 44 subawards
Showing the top 3 of each list. Open the profile for potential partners and the full lists.
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 11, 2026, loaded Oct 11, 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 5 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.
- BLUE ORIGIN MANUFACTURING, LLC$1.7B−38% in FY2026HUNTSVILLE, AL · 26% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Scientific research and development services
- THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC$7.8B−18% in FY2026LAUREL, MD · 13 entities · 20% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Scientific research and development services
- ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITIES FOR RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY, INC.$788.7M−18% in FY2026BALTIMORE, MD · 3 entities · 8.6% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Scientific research and development 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 11, 2026, loaded Oct 11, 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 CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (2 recipients).
Matched organizations
- CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYAI match · 100%
- Lobbying · 2025
- $480K
- 8 reports
- Lobbying · 2023–2026
- $1.7M
Lobbying by year
- 2023$430K8 reports
- 2024$480K8 reports
- 2025$480K8 reports
- 2026$290K5 reports
Top issues
- Budget and appropriations29 reports
- Science and technology14 reports
- Defense4 reports
- Health issues3 reports
- Copyright, patent and trademark2 reports
- Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code2 reports
- Disaster planning and emergencies1 reports
- Education1 reports
Who was contacted
- U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES29 reports
- U.S. SENATE29 reports
- Commerce - Dept of (DOC)2 reports
- Energy - Dept of2 reports
- Natl Security Council (NSC)2 reports
- American Battle Monuments Commission1 reports
- Office of Management & Budget (OMB)1 reports
- White House Office1 reports
Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).
Lobbying firms hired
- LEWIS-BURKE ASSOCIATES, LLC$940K14 reports
- Federal Science Partners LLC$740K15 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 11, 2026, loaded Oct 11, 2026 · 2023–2026.
Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 11, 2026, loaded Oct 11, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.
Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Sep 30, 2026.
Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 11, 2026, loaded Oct 11, 2026.