Federal contractor · KANSAS CITY, MO

CERNER CORPORATION

CERNER CORPORATION received $2.3M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 2 awards (−53% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $82.4M. Its largest customer was Defense Health Agency ($2.3M). It also received $384K in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$2.3M
New awards
2
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Other than small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 7.4MFY2017
  2. 7.1MFY2018
  3. 6MFY2019
  4. 7.3MFY2020
  5. 11.6MFY2021
  6. 12.2MFY2022
  7. 10MFY2023
  8. 13.8MFY2024
  9. 4.8MFY2025
  10. 2.3MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Defense Health Agency$2.3M100%
    1 awards
  2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-$0.070.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. IT & telecom$2.3M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Jackson County, MO$2.3M100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $2.3M
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $2.3M
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · -$0.07
  • 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. ANATOMIC PATHOLOGY LABORATORY INFORMATION SYSTEM$5M
    Defense Health Agency· Jackson County, MO· IT & telecom· Feb 20, 2025 – Jan 26, 2026· HT003825C0004
  2. MEDICAL RECORDS ABSTRACTION APPLICATION$2.8M
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention· Clay County, MO· IT & telecom· Sep 27, 2017 – Dec 12, 2025· HHSD200201796162C

Federal grants & assistance received

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

CERNER CORPORATION received $384K in federal assistance in FY2026, on 4 actions (3 new awards), −51% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 32.005 · Universal Service Fund - Rural Health Care ($501.7K).

Assistance · FY2026
$384K
New awards
3
Actions
4
Since FY2021
$3.8M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 310.5KFY2021
  2. 1.2MFY2022
  3. 1.4MFY2023
  4. -277.6KFY2024
  5. 789.4KFY2025
  6. 384KFY2026

By type

  1. Direct payments$384K100%

Top programs

  1. 32.005 · Universal Service Fund - Rural Health Care$501.7K100%
  2. 32.007 · Connected Care Pilot Program-$117.7K0.0%

Awarding agencies

  1. Federal Communications Commission$384K100%

Largest awards

  1. THE RURAL HEALTH CARE (RHC) PROGRAM SUPPORTS HEALTH CARE FACILITIES IN BRINGING WORLD CLASS MEDICAL CARE TO RURAL AREAS THROUGH INCREASED…$431.7K
    32.005 · Universal Service Fund - Rural Health Care· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· Jan 31, 2026 – Jan 31, 2026· RHCHCF-RHC20250008619
  2. THE RURAL HEALTH CARE (RHC) PROGRAM SUPPORTS HEALTH CARE FACILITIES IN BRINGING WORLD CLASS MEDICAL CARE TO RURAL AREAS THROUGH INCREASED…$235.4K
    32.007 · Connected Care Pilot Program· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 31, 2022 – Jul 31, 2026· RHCCCPP-22252011
  3. THE RURAL HEALTH CARE (RHC) PROGRAM SUPPORTS HEALTH CARE FACILITIES IN BRINGING WORLD CLASS MEDICAL CARE TO RURAL AREAS THROUGH INCREASED…$46.8K
    32.005 · Universal Service Fund - Rural Health Care· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· Jul 31, 2026 – Jul 31, 2026· RHCHCF-RHC20260013332
  4. THE RURAL HEALTH CARE (RHC) PROGRAM SUPPORTS HEALTH CARE FACILITIES IN BRINGING WORLD CLASS MEDICAL CARE TO RURAL AREAS THROUGH INCREASED…$23.2K
    32.005 · Universal Service Fund - Rural Health Care· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· Jan 31, 2026 – Jan 31, 2026· RHCHCF-RHC20250008600

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.

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: $58M (9 subawards)

2 primes

  1. GENERAL DYNAMICS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INC.$55.9M96%
    FAIRFAX, VA · 7 subawards
  2. LEIDOS, INC.$2.1M3.6%
    RESTON, VA · 2 subawards

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $245.4M received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $250.2M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $124.1M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $15.4M received
  • FY2025: $112.5K paid out · $279.7M received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $58M 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

1 company · $112.5K reported

  1. CDIT LLC$112.5K
    SLIDELL, LA · 1 subaward · Computer systems design and related services

Primes that pay it

5 companies · $972.9M reported

  1. LEIDOS, INC.$838.3M
    RESTON, VA · 118 subawards · Computer systems design and related services
  2. ELECTRIC BOAT CORPORATION$125.2M
    GROTON, CT · 18 subawards · Computer systems design and related services
  3. BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC$6M
    MCLEAN, VA · 4 subawards · Computer systems design and related services

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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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 2 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. TAYLOR COMMUNICATIONS, INC.$21.8M−38% in FY2026
    NORTH MANKATO, MN · 88% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Computer systems design and related servicesDefense Health Agency · Computer systems design and related services
  2. AMERICAN COMMUNICATIONS SOLUTIONS, LLC$16.5M+4.9% in FY2026
    FAIRFAX STATION, VA · 76% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Computer systems design and related services
  3. KNOWTEX INC$15M−100% in FY2026
    SAN FRANCISCO, CA · 72% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Computer systems design 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 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.

Matched organizations

  • CERNER CORPORATIONAI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2023
$10K
1 reports
PAC giving · 2022
$159K
1 PAC

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$10K
    1 reports

Top issues

Who was contacted

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

  1. WASHINGTON2 ADVOCATES$10K
    1 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

PAC giving to candidates by party, 2022 cycle

  1. Democratic$88K55%
  2. Republican$71K45%

PACs sponsored

  • CERNER CORPORATION PAC$0 raised this cycle

PACs these organizations sponsor (connected organizations in FEC records). A PAC gives employees' and members' voluntary contributions, not the company's own money.

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 Sep 30, 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.