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NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUILDING SCIENCES

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUILDING SCIENCES received $24.2M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 56 awards (+115% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $166.8M. Its largest customer was Department of the Air Force ($17.9M).

Obligations · FY2026: $24.2M
New awards: 56
Sole-source: 99%
Single offer: 0.2%

UEI: HYNHS5VQEFC3

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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

13.7MFY2017
12.3MFY2018
11.3MFY2019
14.5MFY2020
13MFY2021
19.2MFY2022
23.2MFY2023
24.2MFY2024
11.3MFY2025
24.2MFY2026
-10KFY2027

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Department of the Air Force$17.9M74%
9 awards
Department of State$2.8M11%
6 awards
Department of the Army$2.2M9.2%
19 awards
Department of the Navy$378.4K1.6%
6 awards
Department of Energy$345.2K1.4%
1 awards
Public Buildings Service$231.3K1.0%
3 awards
Federal Highway Administration$212.8K0.9%
2 awards
Department of Veterans Affairs$141.4K0.6%
1 awards
U.S. Customs and Border Protection$63.5K0.3%
1 awards
Federal Aviation Administration$56.6K0.2%
1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Construction & real property$17.9M74%
IT & telecom$3.1M13%
Professional services$2.9M12%
Research & development$212.8K0.9%

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

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

Low competition99%
US 39% · $23.9M
Sole-source awards99%
US 30% · $23.9M
Single-offer competitions0.2%
US 8.7% · $37.1K
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 Air Force$17.9M
Department of Defense · 2 awards
Department of State$2.8M
Department of State · 2 awards
Department of the Army$2.2M
Department of Defense · 5 awards
Department of the Navy$378.4K
Department of Defense · 1 awards
Public Buildings Service$231.3K
General Services Administration · 2 awards

Largest awards

PHASE III BUILDING INFORMATION MANAGEMENT (BIM), AND DIGITAL DESIGN REVIEW (DDR) PROGRAM$15.8M
Department of State· Arlington County, VA· Professional services· Sep 26, 2019 – Mar 11, 2026· 19AQMM19P2318
SOFTWARE AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR PROGRAM COMPLIANCE AND IMPROVEMENTS$12.2M
Department of State· District of Columbia, DC· Professional services· Dec 15, 2020 – Oct 16, 2025· 19AQMM21P0108
NIBS TASK ORDER FOR THE PURCHASE OF SENTINEL DESIGN CRITERIA AND INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGN MANUAL. TWELVE MONTH PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE.$9.8M
Department of the Air Force· Madison County, AL· Construction & real property· Dec 19, 2025 – Apr 8, 2026· FA821926FB001
ON-SITE BUILDING INFORMATION MANAGEMENT (BIM) SUPPORT SERVICES$8.9M
Department of State· Arlington County, VA· Professional services· Mar 19, 2020 – Jun 24, 2026· 19AQMM20P0565
THIS CONTRACT INCLUDES ALL WORK NECESSARY TO DESIGN, DEVELOP, TEST, SECURE, AND DEPLOY THE CRITERIA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (CMS). IT ALSO INCLUDES MIGRATION OF DATA FROM THE EXISTING CMS TO THE PROVIDED CMS.$8.2M
Department of the Air Force· Bay County, FL· Construction & real property· Dec 4, 2025 – Apr 24, 2026· FA800326F0002
PROJNET-DRCHECKS SUBCRIPTION RENEWAL$3.5M
Department of the Army· District of Columbia, DC· IT & telecom· Dec 19, 2024 – Dec 9, 2025· W912DY25C0007
ARCHITECT-ENGINEER SERVICES TO UPDATE UNIFIED FACILITY CRITERIA FOR SEISMIC FAULT MAPPING FOR THE AIR FORCE CIVIL ENGINEERING CENTER OPERATIONS DIRECTORATE ENGINEERING DIVISION (AFCEC/COS)$2.1M
Department of the Air Force· District of Columbia, DC· Professional services· May 23, 2024 – Mar 9, 2026· FA800324F0015
MITIGATION NEEDS ASSESSMENT PHASE 2 YEAR 1 AND 2$1.9M
Federal Emergency Management Agency· District of Columbia, DC· Professional services· May 20, 2024 – Dec 19, 2025· 70FA6024F00000029

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.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUILDING SCIENCES received $0 in federal assistance in FY2026, on 0 actions (0 new awards).

Assistance · FY2026: $0
New awards: 0
Actions: 0
Since FY2021: $853.8K

Assistance by fiscal year

-21.1KFY2021
413.7KFY2022
499.9KFY2024
-38.8KFY2025

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–FY2025.

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

SPECPRO-BB&E JV, LLC$38.5M−90% in FY2026
ANCHORAGE, AK · 49% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Architectural, engineering, and related servicesNavy · Architectural, engineering, and related services
LINDE SPECIAL PROJECTS LLC$24.3M−6.2% in FY2026
NEW PROVIDENCE, NJ · 41% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Architectural, engineering, and related services
INFINITY SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, A LTD. LIABILITY CO.$47.5M+20% in FY2026
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO · 52% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Architectural, engineering, and related servicesNavy · Architectural, engineering, and related services

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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

National Institute of Building SciencesAI match · 100%

Lobbying · 2026: $30K; 2 reports

Lobbying by year

2026$30K
2 reports

Top issues

Disaster planning and emergencies2 reports
Housing2 reports

Who was contacted

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES2 reports
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)1 reports
Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD)1 reports
U.S. SENATE1 reports
Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA)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

Navigators Global LLC (Formerly DC Navigators, LLC)$30K
2 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 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

S. 320 · National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act of 20252 reports
119th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2026
H.R. 3168 · National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act of 20251 report
119th Congress · Reported by committee · 2026

2 of 2 reports (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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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.