Federal contractor · CHICAGO, IL

ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY received $766.1K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 6 awards (−33% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $5.5M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($766.1K). It also received $24.4M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$766.1K
New awards
6
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
E2NDENMDUEG8
Other than small businessNonprofitEducational institution
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 1.3MFY2017
  2. 37.5KFY2019
  3. 555.9KFY2020
  4. 439.6KFY2021
  5. 694.6KFY2022
  6. 257.3KFY2023
  7. 325KFY2024
  8. 1.1MFY2025
  9. 766.1KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Navy$766.1K100%
    6 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Education & social services$766.1K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Cook County, IL$766.1K100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $766.1K
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $766.1K
  • 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

  1. Department of the Navy$766.1K
    Department of Defense · 4 awards

Largest awards

  1. SPRING 2026 NROTC MIDSHIPMEN TUITION AND ALLOWABLE FEES.$693K
    Department of the Navy· Cook County, IL· Education & social services· Feb 23, 2026 – Feb 23, 2026· N3560A26FB120
  2. IL, ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SPR 1301228229 TUITION AND FEES$26.7K
    Department of the Navy· Cook County, IL· Education & social services· Feb 19, 2025 – Oct 16, 2025· N0622A25FA056
  3. TUITION AND FEES$26.2K
    Department of the Navy· Cook County, IL· Education & social services· May 27, 2026 – May 27, 2026· N0622A26FA441
  4. TUITOIN AND FEES$23.6K
    Department of the Navy· Cook County, IL· Education & social services· Jun 11, 2026 – Jun 11, 2026· N0622A26FA468
  5. TUITION AND FEES$21.2K
    Department of the Navy· Cook County, IL· Education & social services· Jan 30, 2026 – Jan 30, 2026· N0622A26FA127
  6. TUITION AND FEES$11.9K
    Department of the Navy· Cook County, IL· Education & social services· Jul 10, 2025 – Apr 2, 2026· N0622A25FA345

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.

ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY received $24.4M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 288 actions (15 new awards), −5.9% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 93.103 · Food and Drug Administration Research ($4.8M).

Assistance · FY2026
$24.4M
New awards
15
Actions
288
Since FY2021
$196.1M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 41.8MFY2021
  2. 22.3MFY2022
  3. 31.7MFY2023
  4. 49.9MFY2024
  5. 26MFY2025
  6. 24.4MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$18.8M77%
  2. Direct payments$5.7M23%
  3. Other assistance-$43.3K0.0%

Top programs

  1. 93.103 · Food and Drug Administration Research$4.8M20%
  2. 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program$4.3M18%
  3. 93.859 · Biomedical Research and Research Training$2.6M11%
  4. 47.041 · Engineering$1.5M6.2%
  5. 81.049 · Office of Science Financial Assistance Program$1.4M5.9%
  6. 47.084 · Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships$1.4M5.7%
  7. 93.853 · Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders$1.3M5.2%
  8. 12.300 · Basic and Applied Scientific Research$1.1M4.4%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of Education$6M25%
  2. National Institutes of Health$5.7M23%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  3. Food and Drug Administration$4.8M20%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  4. National Science Foundation$4.3M18%
  5. Department of Energy$2.1M8.8%
  6. Department of the Navy$1.1M4.4%
    Department of Defense
  7. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$279.1K1.1%
  8. Department of the Air Force$148.4K0.6%
    Department of Defense

Largest awards

  1. NATIONAL CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY AND TECHNOLOGY$47.9M
    93.103 · Food and Drug Administration Research· Food and Drug Administration· Cooperative agreement· Mar 31, 2021 – Sep 28, 2026· U19FD005322
  2. THE BIOPHYSICS COLLABORATIVE ACCESS TEAM - THE MISSION OF THE BIOPHYSICS COLLABORATIVE ACCESS TEAM (BIOCAT) IS TO PROVIDE USER ACCESS TO A…$13.8M
    93.859 · Biomedical Research and Research Training· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Jan 28, 2021 – Aug 28, 2026· P30GM138395
  3. GRANT PROGRAM$7.7M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Jul 3, 2025 – Sep 16, 2026· P063P251349
  4. GRANT PROGRAM$7.7M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· May 15, 2024 – Dec 9, 2025· P063P241349
  5. CLINICAL TESTING OF AN INTRACORTICAL VISUAL PROSTHESIS SYSTEM$6.1M
    93.853 · Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders· National Institutes of Health· Cooperative agreement· Sep 1, 2021 – Aug 4, 2026· UH3NS095557
  6. EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL PARTICLE PHYSICS AT ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$5.9M
    81.049 · Office of Science Financial Assistance Program· Department of Energy· Project grant· Mar 17, 2021 – Apr 1, 2026· DESC0008347

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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

  • Sub-grants: $247.8K (2 subawards)

2 sub-recipients

  1. UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM$197.8K80%
    COLUMBIA, MO · 1 subaward
  2. GLOBAL FOOD PROTECTION INSTITUTE$50K20%
    PORTAGE, MI · 1 subaward

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $2.8M (8 subawards)

6 primes

  1. NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$1.2M44%
    EVANSTON, IL · 2 subawards
  2. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$1.2M42%
    CHICAGO, IL · 1 subaward
  3. WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE$230.2K8.3%
    WORCESTER, MA · 1 subaward
  4. THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$77.5K2.8%
    BALTIMORE, MD · 1 subaward
  5. LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$46.8K1.7%
    MAYWOOD, IL · 2 subawards
  6. UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT$31.3K1.1%
    STORRS, CT · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $2.5M paid out · $2.5M received
  • FY2022: $2.9M paid out · $4M received
  • FY2023: $6.2M paid out · $3.3M received
  • FY2024: $7.3M paid out · $4.4M received
  • FY2025: $4M paid out · $3.5M received
  • FY2026: $247.8K paid out · $2.8M 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

44 companies · $23.1M reported

  1. THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC$2.6M
    LAUREL, MD · 6 subawards
  2. VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY$2.1M
    BLACKSBURG, VA · 1 subaward
  3. HDF GROUP$2M
    CHAMPAIGN, IL · 1 subaward

Primes that pay it

50 companies · $20.5M reported

  1. NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$5.4M
    EVANSTON, IL · 7 subawards
  2. UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC$1.7M
    CHICAGO, IL · 4 subawards
  3. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$1.3M
    URBANA, IL · 16 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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 1 market (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. WEST VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF$2.3M−48% in FY2026
    LEWISBURG, WV · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Colleges, universities, and professional schools
  2. MOREHOUSE COLLEGE INC$2M−2.6% in FY2026
    ATLANTA, GA · 92% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Colleges, universities, and professional schools
  3. UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND GLOBAL CAMPUS$2M−100% in FY2026
    ADELPHI, MD · 86% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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

  • ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYAI match · 100%
  • Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech)AI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2025
$145K
8 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$445K
$445K in its own reports

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$135K
    8 reports
  2. 2024$110K
    8 reports
  3. 2025$145K
    8 reports
  4. 2026$55K
    4 reports

Top issues

  1. Education28 reports
  2. Manufacturing26 reports
  3. Science and technology26 reports
  4. Urban development and municipalities26 reports
  5. Immigration8 reports
  6. Budget and appropriations5 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES20 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE20 reports
  3. White House Office2 reports
  4. Energy - Dept of1 reports
  5. Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS)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. Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP$380K
    14 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

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

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.