Federal contractor · AMES, IA

IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY received $1.3M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 5 awards (+20% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $8.5M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($1.3M). It also received $1.5M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026: $1.3M
New awards: 5
Sole-source: 100%
Single offer: 0.0%

UEI: VXJ7DB7NFML3
Parent company: IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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 IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY company family: 6 registered entities, $64.5M in FY2026 together. See the family

IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYAMES, IA · Family page
Reported parent$63.2M
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY AMES LABORAMES, IA
Reported parent$0
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYAMES, IA
Reported parent$0
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYAMES, IA
Reported parent$0
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYAMES, IA
Reported parent$0

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

666.3KFY2017
736KFY2018
812.2KFY2019
942.2KFY2020
1MFY2021
745.7KFY2022
665.5KFY2023
563.4KFY2024
1.1MFY2025
1.3MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Department of the Navy$1.3M99%
4 awards
U.S. Geological Survey$15K1.2%
1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Education & social services$1.3M99%
Professional services$15K1.2%

Where the work was performed

Story County, IA$1.3M100%

Integrity signals

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

Low competition100%
US 39% · $1.3M
Sole-source awards100%
US 30% · $1.3M
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

Department of the Navy$1.3M
Department of Defense · 3 awards
U.S. Geological Survey$15K
Department of the Interior · 1 awards

Largest awards

FALL 2025 (FY-26) NROTC MIDSHIPMEN TUITION AND ALLOWABLE FEES$609.2K
Department of the Navy· Story County, IA· Education & social services· Sep 29, 2025 – Nov 25, 2025· N3560A25FB262
SPRING 2026 IOWA STATE NROTC MIDSHIPMEN TUITION AND ALLOWABLE FEES$552.8K
Department of the Navy· Story County, IA· Education & social services· Mar 4, 2026 – Mar 4, 2026· N3560A26FB151
FY-26 FALL AND SPRING RETROACTIVE NROTC MIDSHIPMEN RETROACTIVE TUITION AND ALLOWABLE FEES FOR THREE MIDSHIPMEN.$61.2K
Department of the Navy· Story County, IA· Education & social services· Apr 1, 2026 – Apr 1, 2026· N3560A26FB006
FALL 2025 AND SPRING 2026 RETROACTIVE TUITION AND ALLOWABLE FEES FOR ONE MIDSHIPMAN$30.7K
Department of the Navy· Story County, IA· Education & social services· May 8, 2026 – May 8, 2026· N3560A26FB080
SHELL SAMPLES IDIQ$15K
U.S. Geological Survey· Story County, IA· Professional services· Sep 11, 2026 – Sep 11, 2026· 140G0126P0352

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.

IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY received $1.5M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 3 actions (3 new awards), +114% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 10.771 · Rural Cooperative Development Grants ($1.1M).

Assistance · FY2026: $1.5M
New awards: 3
Actions: 3
Since FY2025: $2.2M

Assistance by fiscal year

700KFY2025
1.5MFY2026

By type

Grants$1.5M100%

Top programs

10.771 · Rural Cooperative Development Grants$1.1M70%
10.175 · Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program$344.9K23%
10.351 · Rural Business Development Grant$99.9K6.7%

Awarding agencies

Rural Business Cooperative Service$1.5M100%
Department of Agriculture

Largest awards

BI GRANTS - RCDG DISCRETIONARY AGRI MARKETING RESOURCE CENTER$1.1M
10.771 · Rural Cooperative Development Grants· Rural Business Cooperative Service· Project grant· Jan 28, 2026 – Jan 28, 2026· CLSS00000117966
LAMP AGRICULTURE MARKETING RESOURCE CENTER GRANTS--MANDATORY$344.9K
10.175 · Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program· Rural Business Cooperative Service· Project grant· Jan 28, 2026 – Jan 28, 2026· CLSS00000117967
RBDG RURAL BUSINESS COOP RURAL ENTERPRISE GRANT$99.9K
10.351 · Rural Business Development Grant· Rural Business Cooperative Service· Project grant· Aug 5, 2026 – Aug 5, 2026· CLSS00000119168

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 · FY2025–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

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

By fiscal year

FY2022: $0 paid out · $36.4K received
FY2024: $0 paid out · $10.7M 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

218 companies · $577.2M reported

PURDUE UNIVERSITY$480.4M
WEST LAFAYETTE, IN · 16 subawards
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY$7.6M
PITTSBURGH, PA · 2 subawards
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA$7.1M
IOWA CITY, IA · 20 subawards

Primes that pay it

139 companies · $156.6M reported

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$18.7M
URBANA, IL · 58 subawards
ROSELIN ALTERNATIVE ENERGY$10.6M
SAINT LOUIS, MO · 1 subaward
IOWA HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT$7.9M
WINDSOR HEIGHTS, IA · 50 subawards

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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.

SURATECH LLC$310.3M
WASHINGTON, DC · 96% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveEnergy · Scientific research and development services
JEFFERSON SCIENCE ASSOCIATES, LLC$381.4M−122% in FY2026
NEWPORT NEWS, VA · 96% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveEnergy · Scientific research and development services
BATTELLE SAVANNAH RIVER ALLIANCE, LLC$990.2M+7.4% in FY2026
COLUMBUS, OH · 96% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveEnergy · Scientific research and development services

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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 IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (6 recipients).

Matched organizations

Iowa State UniversityAI match · 100%

Lobbying · 2025: $100.9K; 4 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026: $610.9K; $610.9K in its own reports

Lobbying by year

2023$250K
8 reports
2024$160K
6 reports
2025$100.9K
4 reports
2026$100K
2 reports

Top issues

Science and technology20 reports
Energy and nuclear18 reports
Agriculture14 reports
Budget and appropriations14 reports
Defense14 reports
Education14 reports
Health issues14 reports
Immigration14 reports

Who was contacted

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES15 reports
Agriculture - Dept of (USDA)14 reports
U.S. SENATE14 reports
Energy - Dept of1 reports

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

Lobbying firms hired

Van Scoyoc Associates$60K
6 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 Sep 30, 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. 1250 · Family Farm and Small Business Exemption Act5 reports
118th Congress · Introduced · 2023–2024
H.R. 1250 · To require the imposition of sanctions with respect to Ansarallah and its officials, agents, or affiliates for acts of international terrorism.2 reports
119th Congress · Introduced · 2025

7 of 20 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.