Federal contractor · CLIFTON PARK, NY

KITWARE INC

KITWARE INC received $12.7M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 17 awards (−22% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $132.7M. Its largest customer was Department of the Air Force ($5.3M). It also received $16.1M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$12.7M
New awards
17
Sole-source
2.3%
Single offer
55%
UEI
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Parent company
KITWARE, INC.
Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 10.7MFY2017
  2. 10.7MFY2018
  3. 9.2MFY2019
  4. 10MFY2020
  5. 12.6MFY2021
  6. 17.5MFY2022
  7. 14.8MFY2023
  8. 18MFY2024
  9. 16.4MFY2025
  10. 12.7MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Air Force$5.3M42%
    2 awards
  2. Missile Defense Agency$2M16%
    1 awards
  3. Immediate Office of the Secretary of Transportation$1.7M13%
    2 awards
  4. Department of the Navy$1M7.9%
    1 awards
  5. Department of the Army$991.9K7.8%
    2 awards
  6. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency$770.1K6.1%
    3 awards
  7. Defense Health Agency$659.7K5.2%
    1 awards
  8. National Institute of Standards and Technology$170K1.3%
    2 awards
  9. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration$127K1.0%
    1 awards
  10. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$00.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$12.1M95%
  2. Professional services$310K2.4%
  3. IT & telecom$297K2.3%

Where the work was performed

  1. Saratoga County, NY$12.4M98%
  2. Arlington County, VA$310K2.4%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition57%
    US 39% · $7.3M
  • Sole-source awards2.3%
    US 30% · $297K
  • Single-offer competitions55%
    US 8.8% · $7M
  • 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. National Institute of Standards and Technology$170K
    Department of Commerce · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. SEMANTIC FORENSICS (SEMAFOR) PROGRAM TECHNICAL AREA 1 PERFORMER$14.4M
    Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency· Saratoga County, NY· Research & development· Jul 29, 2020 – Feb 23, 2026· HR001120C0123
  2. SBIR III-VISUAL GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE AND ANALYTICS (VIGILANT) 2.0$11.9M
    Department of the Air Force· Saratoga County, NY· Research & development· Feb 12, 2018 – Jun 10, 2026· FA865018C1075
  3. ALIGNED MORAL LANGUAGE MODELS WITH INTERPRETABLE AND GRAPH-BASED KNOWLEDGE$8.2M
    Department of the Air Force· Saratoga County, NY· Research & development· Apr 21, 2023 – Jan 29, 2026· FA865023C7316
  4. FY24 ARPA-H SBIR TOPIC H05 DIRECT-TO-PHASE II, "AI-ENHANCED COMPACT ULTRASOUND FOR AUTONOMOUS NEWBORN HEART MONITORING AND CONGENITAL DISEASE DETECTION"$3.5M
    National Institutes of Health· Orange County, NC· Research & development· Sep 16, 2024 – Aug 5, 2026· 75N91024C00020
  5. NEW DARPA SBIR II - TRAILBLAZER DECISION MAKER (TBDM) ALIGNABLE AND EFFICIENT ALGORITHMIC DECISION-MAKERS$2.9M
    Department of the Army· Saratoga County, NY· Research & development· May 8, 2024 – Mar 10, 2026· W912CG24C0011
  6. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE QUANTIFIED (AIQ)$2.5M
    Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency· Saratoga County, NY· Research & development· May 20, 2025 – May 19, 2026· HR001125CE017
  7. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT$2M
    Department of the Navy· Saratoga County, NY· Research & development· Apr 22, 2024 – Apr 21, 2026· N6833524C0039
  8. SBIR DIRECT TO PHASE II: SEEKER WITH INFRARED EVENT-BASED NEUROMORPHIC SENSING (SIRENS)$2M
    Missile Defense Agency· Saratoga County, NY· Research & development· May 6, 2026 – May 6, 2026· HQ086026CE053

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.

KITWARE INC received $16.1M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 20 actions (1 new awards), +368% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 93.384 · Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (Arpa-H) ($15M).

Assistance · FY2026
$16.1M
New awards
1
Actions
20
Since FY2021
$40.7M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 9MFY2021
  2. 4.1MFY2022
  3. 3.1MFY2023
  4. 4.9MFY2024
  5. 3.4MFY2025
  6. 16.1MFY2026

By type

  1. Direct payments$15M93%
  2. Grants$1.1M6.8%

Top programs

  1. 93.384 · Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (Arpa-H)$15M93%
  2. 93.286 · Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health$1M6.3%
  3. 12.300 · Basic and Applied Scientific Research$100K0.6%
  4. 93.121 · Oral Diseases and Disorders Research-$6540.0%
  5. 93.837 · Cardiovascular Diseases Research-$1,7040.0%
  6. 93.242 · Mental Health Research Grants-$2,2020.0%
  7. 93.847 · Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research-$2,3600.0%
  8. 81.049 · Office of Science Financial Assistance Program-$2,3750.0%

Awarding agencies

  1. National Institutes of Health$16M99%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  2. Department of the Navy$100K0.6%
    Department of Defense

Largest awards

  1. TESTBED FOR AUTONOMOUS INTERVENTIONS AND ROBOTICS (TAIR)$15M
    93.384 · Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (Arpa-H)· National Institutes of Health· Direct payment for specified use· Jul 1, 2026 – Jul 1, 2026· AY2AX000229
  2. ACCELERATING COMMUNITY-DRIVEN MEDICAL INNOVATION WITH VTK$6.6M
    93.286 · Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Mar 23, 2021 – May 20, 2026· R01EB014955
  3. SHAPE ANALYSIS TOOLBOX FOR MEDICAL IMAGE COMPUTING PROJECTS$3.6M
    93.286 · Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Nov 16, 2021 – Aug 4, 2026· R01EB021391
  4. UVDAT: URBAN VISUALIZATION AND DATA ANALYSIS TOOLKIT$1.9M
    81.049 · Office of Science Financial Assistance Program· Department of Energy· Project grant· Feb 23, 2023 – Apr 23, 2026· DESC0023582
  5. PAN3D: OPEN SOURCE SCALABLE AND REPRODUCIBLE SCIENTIFIC WORKFLOWS FOR 3D DATA ANALYTICS$1.9M
    81.049 · Office of Science Financial Assistance Program· Department of Energy· Project grant· Feb 14, 2022 – May 26, 2026· DESC0022365
  6. AUTOMATED DENTAL FRACTURE DETECTION USING HIGH RESOLUTION CBCT AND ADVANCED IMAGE ANALYSIS - PROJECT SUMMARY EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES…$1.7M
    93.121 · Oral Diseases and Disorders Research· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Sep 21, 2021 – Apr 16, 2026· R44DE027574

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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-grants: $197.3K (2 subawards)

2 primes

  1. EMORY UNIVERSITY$124.3K63%
    ATLANTA, GA · 1 subaward
  2. GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY$73K37%
    FAIRFAX, VA · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $6.6M paid out · $2.1M received
  • FY2022: $4.7M paid out · $1.8M received
  • FY2023: $5.9M paid out · $5.1M received
  • FY2024: $4.7M paid out · $9.8M received
  • FY2025: $6.1M paid out · $1.4M received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $197.3K 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

66 companies · $28.1M reported

  1. THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK$3.7M
    NEW YORK, NY · 18 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  2. THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC$2M
    LAUREL, MD · 2 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  3. THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$1.7M
    OAKLAND, CA · 14 subawards · Scientific research and development services

Primes that pay it

29 companies · $20.4M reported

  1. CACI, INC. - FEDERAL$7.5M
    CHANTILLY, VA · 1 subaward · Architectural, engineering, and related services
  2. MODERN TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, INC.$2M
    ALEXANDRIA, VA · 1 subaward · Scientific research and development services
  3. THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$1.7M
    OAKLAND, CA · 1 subaward

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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 11 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY$33.7M−97% in FY2026
    BOZEMAN, MT · 57% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development servicesArmy · Scientific research and development services
  2. OPTO-KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS INC$31M−74% in FY2026
    TORRANCE, CA · 50% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development servicesArmy · Scientific research and development servicesNavy · Scientific research and development services+2 more
  3. UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII$89M−49% in FY2026
    HONOLULU, HI · 13 entities · 86% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development servicesArmy · Scientific research and development servicesDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency · Scientific research and development services+3 more

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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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.