Federal contractor · ITHACA, NY

CORNELL UNIVERSITY

CORNELL UNIVERSITY received $2.6M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 6 awards (+51% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $9.4M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($2.5M).

Obligations · FY2026
$2.6M
New awards
6
Sole-source
92%
Single offer
5.1%
UEI
EQA8NBEN9WD5
Other than small businessNonprofitEducational institution
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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.

Part of the CORNELL UNIVERSITY company family: 4 registered entities, $7M in FY2026 together. See the family

  1. CORNELL UNIVERSITYITHACA, NY · Family page
    $4.4M
  2. CORNELL UNIVERSITYITHACA, NY
    $0
  3. TOWER INNOVATIVE LEARNING SOLUTIONS, INC.ITHACA, NY
    $0

AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-10-05

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 885.5KFY2017
  2. 139.7KFY2018
  3. 122.1KFY2019
  4. 82KFY2020
  5. 161.3KFY2021
  6. 1.1MFY2022
  7. 925.2KFY2023
  8. 1.7MFY2024
  9. 1.7MFY2025
  10. 2.6MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Navy$2.5M99%
    3 awards
  2. Federal Bureau of Investigation$86.8K3.4%
    1 awards
  3. Federal Emergency Management Agency-$152.5K0.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Education & social services$2.5M96%
  2. Professional services$98K3.8%

Where the work was performed

  1. Tompkins County, NY$2.6M100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition97%
    US 39% · $2.5M
  • Sole-source awards92%
    US 30% · $2.3M
  • Single-offer competitions5.1%
    US 8.8% · $130.6K
  • 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

  1. Department of the Navy$2.5M
    Department of Defense · 2 awards

Largest awards

  1. RATIFICATION OF GOVERNMENT-AT-FAULT RETROACTIVE TUITION FOR FALL 2025 SEMESTER COSTS NROTC MIDSHIPMEN TUITION AND ALLOWABLE FEES$1.3M
    Department of the Navy· Tompkins County, NY· Education & social services· Dec 2, 2025 – Dec 2, 2025· N3560A26FB016
  2. SPRING 2026, NROTC MIDSHIPMEN TUITION AND ALLOWABLE FEES.$1.2M
    Department of the Navy· Tompkins County, NY· Education & social services· Mar 2, 2026 – Mar 2, 2026· N3560A26FB148
  3. SECTION CHIEF LEADERSHIP TRAINING$221K
    Federal Bureau of Investigation· Tompkins County, NY· Education & social services· Jul 30, 2024 – Jun 30, 2026· 15F06724F0001132
  4. THE PURPOSE OF THIS CONTRACT IS TO PURCHASE CURRICULUM FROM CORNELL UNIVERSITY FOR ITS LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY.$148.8K
    Federal Emergency Management Agency· District of Columbia, DC· Education & social services· Sep 21, 2023 – Jul 31, 2026· 70FA4023C00000008
  5. PROJECT MANAGEMENT COURSES TO THE OFFICE OF STRATEGY, PLANNING, AND PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT PROJECT MANAGEMENT TRAINING COHORT$98K
    · District of Columbia, DC· Professional services· Sep 3, 2026 – Sep 3, 2026· 2099AB26F00012
  6. SIX (6) COURSE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATE PROGRAM THAT IS TAILORED TO NSWCCD$32.6K
    Department of the Navy· Tompkins County, NY· Education & social services· Apr 2, 2026 – Apr 2, 2026· N0016726F1070

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: $74K (2 subawards)

1 prime

  1. OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY$74K100%
    CORVALLIS, OR · 2 subawards

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $342.4K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $2.4M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $500K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $2.2M received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $74K 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

342 companies · $249.6M reported

  1. THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC$8.3M
    LAUREL, MD · 25 subawards
  2. UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA$7M
    TUCSON, AZ · 48 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  3. CIENCIA INTERNACIONAL$6.7M
    LIMA, PE · 15 subawards

Primes that pay it

186 companies · $290.6M reported

  1. THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$17.8M
    PRINCETON, NJ · 21 subawards
  2. HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY$15.9M
    ALBANY, NY · 9 subawards
  3. THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK$15.8M
    STONY BROOK, NY · 38 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 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 20 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. PURDUE UNIVERSITY$33M+130% in FY2026
    WEST LAFAYETTE, IN · 62% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Colleges, universities, and professional schoolsArmy · Scientific research and development servicesAnimal and Plant Health Inspection Service · Other professional, scientific, and technical services+3 more
  2. RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$17.2M+45% in FY2026
    CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA · 3 entities · 38% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Colleges, universities, and professional schoolsArmy · Scientific research and development servicesDefense Health Agency · Scientific research and development services
  3. OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY$16.1M−25% in FY2026
    CORVALLIS, OR · 35% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Scientific research and development servicesAnimal and Plant Health Inspection Service · Other professional, scientific, and technical servicesNavy · Colleges, universities, and professional schools

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 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 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 CORNELL UNIVERSITY (4 recipients).

Matched organizations

  • Cornell UniversityAI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2025
$1.1M
12 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$2.9M
$2.9M in its own reports

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$600K
    4 reports
  2. 2024$660K
    8 reports
  3. 2025$1.1M
    12 reports
  4. 2026$540K
    5 reports

Top issues

  1. Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code21 reports
  2. Education19 reports
  3. Agriculture14 reports
  4. Budget and appropriations14 reports
  5. Defense14 reports
  6. Energy and nuclear14 reports
  7. Food industry (safety, labeling)14 reports
  8. Immigration14 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES23 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE23 reports
  3. Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS)4 reports
  4. Agriculture - Dept of (USDA)3 reports
  5. Defense - Dept of (DOD)2 reports
  6. Education - Dept of2 reports
  7. Executive Office of the President (EOP)2 reports
  8. Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS)2 reports
  9. Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP)2 reports
  10. State - Dept of (DOS)2 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. Miller Strategies, LLC$220K
    5 reports
  2. Capitol Tax Partners, LLP$70K
    10 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 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 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 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.