Federal contractor · LINCOLN, NE

NATIONAL STRATEGIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE

NATIONAL STRATEGIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE received $3.4M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 13 awards (−66% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $136.4M. Its largest customer was Department of the Air Force ($3.3M).

Obligations · FY2026
$3.4M
New awards
13
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Other than small businessNonprofit
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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.

2 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $3.4M in FY2026 together.

  1. NATIONAL STRATEGIC RESEARCH INSTITUTELINCOLN, NE · Family page
    $3.4M
  2. NATIONAL STRATEGIC RESEARCH INSTITUTEANNAPOLIS JUNCTION, MD
    $0

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 8MFY2017
  2. 25.7MFY2018
  3. 18.2MFY2019
  4. 18.4MFY2020
  5. 8.7MFY2021
  6. 11.3MFY2022
  7. 16.5MFY2023
  8. 16.3MFY2024
  9. 9.9MFY2025
  10. 3.4MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Air Force$3.3M98%
    11 awards
  2. Department of the Army$52.6K1.6%
    1 awards
  3. Department of Energy$00.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$3.3M98%
  2. Health & medical$52.6K1.6%

Where the work was performed

  1. Sarpy County, NE$2.9M86%
  2. Douglas County, NE$423.5K13%
  3. Capitol Planning Region, CT$52.6K1.6%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $3.4M
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $3.4M
  • 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 Air Force$3.3M
    Department of Defense · 1 awards
  2. Department of the Army$52.6K
    Department of Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURE DRUG DISCOVERY & DEVELOPMENT INCREMENT 3$10.7M
    Department of the Air Force· Sarpy County, NE· Research & development· Aug 30, 2023 – Apr 7, 2026· FA460023F0086
  2. CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WARFARE DEFENSE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION SUPPORT FOR DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY (DARPA)$7.2M
    Department of the Air Force· Sarpy County, NE· Research & development· Sep 30, 2021 – Apr 24, 2026· FA460021F0200
  3. IDENTIFICATION OF ADVANCES IN TECHNOLOGY; EVALUATE DEGRADATION OF CAPABILITY OF METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORK MATERIALS AGAINST CHEMICAL AGENTS; IDENTIFY ADVANCEMENTS IN POINT DETECTION TECHNOLOGIES; AND INVESTIGATE SUBOPTIMAL GROWTH CONDITIONS.$5.7M
    Department of the Air Force· Sarpy County, NE· Research & development· Sep 24, 2024 – Jun 4, 2026· FA460024F0101
  4. TASK ORDER WITH UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA NATIONAL STRATEGIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE NSRI$3.4M
    Department of Energy· District of Columbia, DC· Research & development· Sep 28, 2021 – Jun 16, 2026· 89233121FNA400401
  5. COMBATTING WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION DIAGNOSTICS AND DETECTION, ASSAY AND TESTING, INCREMENT 2 UNDER UARC III$2.1M
    Department of the Air Force· Douglas County, NE· Research & development· Aug 29, 2024 – Jun 12, 2026· FA460024F0045
  6. TARGETED ACQUISITION OF REFERENCE MATERIALS AUGMENTING CAPABILITIES (TARMAC) INITIATIVE NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING (NGS) RESEARCH SUPPORT$1.5M
    Department of the Air Force· Sarpy County, NE· Research & development· Sep 12, 2023 – Dec 17, 2025· FA460023F0116
  7. INTEGRATED STRATEGIC PLANNING AND ANALYSIS NETWORK (ISPAN) MISSION PLANNING AND ANALYSIS SYSTEM (MPAS) ENHANCED CONSEQUENCE ASSESSMENT (ECA) ALTERNATIVES ANALYSIS$1.2M
    Department of the Air Force· Sarpy County, NE· Research & development· Apr 10, 2023 – Jun 12, 2026· FA460023F0027
  8. SLIP FORM PASSIVE VEHICLE BARRIER WALL$800K
    Department of the Air Force· Sarpy County, NE· Research & development· Sep 15, 2025 – Jun 1, 2026· FA460025F0057

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-contracts: $2.5M (8 subawards)

3 sub-recipients

  1. BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA$2.1M85%
    LINCOLN, NE · 6 subawards
  2. DEFENSE ARCHITECTURE SYSTEMS, INC.$200K8.0%
    FULTON, MD · 1 subaward
  3. BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA$166.7K6.6%
    OMAHA, NE · 1 subaward

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

Its reported sub-contracts equal 74% of its FY2026 contract obligations.

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $1.1M paid out · $947.3K received
  • FY2022: $2.2M paid out · $634.6K received
  • FY2023: $3.7M paid out · $1.1M received
  • FY2024: $4.2M paid out · $0 received
  • FY2025: $2.1M paid out · $103.1K received
  • FY2026: $2.5M paid out · $0 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

7 companies · $15.9M reported

  1. BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA$13.1M
    LINCOLN, NE · 37 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  2. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA$1M
    OMAHA, NE · 5 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  3. THE HENRY M. JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE, INC.$819K
    BETHESDA, MD · 4 subawards · Scientific research and development services

Primes that pay it

4 companies · $2.8M reported

  1. BATTELLE ENERGY ALLIANCE, LLC$1.6M
    IDAHO FALLS, ID · 3 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  2. SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE$822.5K
    SAN ANTONIO, TX · 2 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  3. BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA$293.5K
    LINCOLN, NE · 2 subawards

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

  1. BRTRC FEDERAL SOLUTIONS, INC.$27.7M−50% in FY2026
    HERNDON, VA · 92% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development services
  2. URSA MAJOR TECHNOLOGIES, INC.$25.3M−52% in FY2026
    BERTHOUD, CO · 85% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development services
  3. AVARINT, LLC$24.9M−37% in FY2026
    BUFFALO, NY · 84% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development services

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.

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.