Federal contractor · ARLINGTON, VA

NRECA RESEARCH

NRECA RESEARCH received $500K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 1 awards (+150% vs FY2025). Since FY2020: $2.6M. Its largest customer was Department of the Army ($500K). It also received $5.2M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$500K
New awards
1
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Other than small businessNonprofit
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 641.7KFY2020
  2. 611.5KFY2022
  3. 680.5KFY2023
  4. 200KFY2025
  5. 500KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Army$500K100%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$500K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Arlington County, VA$500K100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition0.0%
    US 39% · $0
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.8% · $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.

Largest awards

  1. ESTCP PROJECT EW24-8935, "MICROGRIDUP DEPLOYMENT ACCELERATION AND DISSEMINATION" TO CREATE A SUSTAINABLE AND REPEATABLE OPEN CORE AND SERVICES BUSINESS MODEL, THEREBY MAKING MICROGRIDUP AVAILABLE TO DOD FACILITIES PLANNING MICROGRID DEPLOYMENTS$700K
    Department of the Army· Arlington County, VA· Research & development· Sep 26, 2025 – Feb 23, 2026· W912HQ25C0066

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.

NRECA RESEARCH received $5.2M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 10 actions (2 new awards), −87% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 81.008 · Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response (CESER) ($5M).

Assistance · FY2026
$5.2M
New awards
2
Actions
10
Since FY2021
$82.7M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 1.1MFY2021
  2. 10.6MFY2022
  3. 9MFY2023
  4. 15.5MFY2024
  5. 41.2MFY2025
  6. 5.2MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$5.2M100%

Top programs

  1. 81.008 · Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response (CESER)$5M97%
  2. 81.122 · Electricity Research, Development and Analysis$159.5K3.1%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of Energy$5.2M100%

Largest awards

  1. THIS PROJECT PLANS TO CREATE A CONSORTIUM OF RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES AND DEPLOY MICROGRIDS (INCLUDING SOLAR PV, BATTERY STORAGE…$45.3M
    81.255 · Clean Energy Demonstrations· Department of Energy· Cooperative agreement· Sep 24, 2024 – Aug 10, 2026· DECD0000076
  2. ESSENCE 2.0 DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT, NEW AWARD$7.3M
    81.122 · Electricity Research, Development and Analysis· Department of Energy· Cooperative agreement· Nov 23, 2020 – Aug 31, 2026· DECR0000006
  3. INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT AND JOBS ACT (IIJA) - TRUSTED INDUSTRIAL CONTROL CYBERSECURITY COMMUNITY - THREAT ANALYSIS CENTER (TICCC-TAC)…$3M
    81.008 · Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response (CESER)· Department of Energy· Cooperative agreement· Jul 9, 2026 – Jul 9, 2026· DECR0000095
  4. CIDER: COMMUNITY INTEGRATED DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESILIENCE. THE OVERALL GOAL OF THIS PROJECT IS TO MITIGATE THE COMMUNITY IMPACT OF EXTREME…$3M
    81.087 · Renewable Energy Research and Development· Department of Energy· Cooperative agreement· Jul 14, 2023 – May 12, 2026· DEEE0010421
  5. INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT AND JOBS ACT (IIJA) - STRATEGIC PROGRAM FOR ADVANCING RURAL KNOWLEDGE (SPARK) THIS PROJECT WILL SUPPORT…$2M
    81.008 · Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response (CESER)· Department of Energy· Cooperative agreement· Jun 29, 2026 – Jul 6, 2026· DECR0000108
  6. DE-OE0000929, PROGRAMMATIC COLLABORATION AND COORDINATION WITH ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES, NEW AWARD$1.5M
    81.122 · Electricity Research, Development and Analysis· Department of Energy· Cooperative agreement· Aug 13, 2021 – Aug 31, 2026· DEOE0000929

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 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: $5.4M (11 subawards)

11 sub-recipients

  1. GEORGIA SYSTEM OPERATIONS CORP$3.1M58%
    TUCKER, GA · 1 subaward
  2. SOUTHERN MARYLAND ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC.$436.9K8.1%
    HUGHESVILLE, MD · 1 subaward
  3. RAVALLI COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC$341.5K6.4%
    VICTOR, MT · 1 subaward
  4. MID OHIO ENERGY COOPERATIVE$304.6K5.7%
    KENTON, OH · 1 subaward
  5. CENTRAL IOWA POWER COOPERATIVE$267.6K5.0%
    CEDAR RAPIDS, IA · 1 subaward
  6. CUMBERLAND ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION$250K4.7%
    CLARKSVILLE, TN · 1 subaward
  7. EAST-CENTRAL IOWA RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE$226K4.2%
    URBANA, IA · 1 subaward
  8. PRAIRIE LAND ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC$155.5K2.9%
    NORTON, KS · 1 subaward
  9. BANDERA ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC$136.3K2.5%
    BANDERA, TX · 1 subaward
  10. CANADIAN VALLEY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC$72.6K1.4%
    SEMINOLE, OK · 1 subaward

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $189K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $550K received
  • FY2023: $1.4M paid out · $1.1M received
  • FY2024: $2.9M paid out · $60K received
  • FY2025: $55M paid out · $433.3K received
  • FY2026: $5.4M 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 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

37 companies · $64.7M reported

  1. MINNESOTA VALLEY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE$9.4M
    JORDAN, MN · 1 subaward
  2. VOLUNTEER ENERGY COOPERATIVE$9.1M
    DECATUR, TN · 1 subaward
  3. TRICO ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC.$9M
    MARANA, AZ · 1 subaward

Primes that pay it

7 companies · $2.4M reported

  1. TRIAD NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC$1M
    COLUMBUS, OH · 2 subawards · Facilities support services
  2. UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION$700.1K
    PITTSBURGH, PA · 3 subawards
  3. GEORGIA TECH APPLIED RESEARCH CORP$235.5K
    ATLANTA, GA · 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 1 market (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. GLOBAL EMBEDDED TECHNOLOGIES, INC.$715.5K−100% in FY2026
    FARMINGTON HILLS, MI · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Scientific research and development services
  2. STORAGENERGY TECHNOLOGIES INC$873.3K
    SALT LAKE CITY, UT · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Scientific research and development services
  3. MSB ASSOCIATES$895.8K
    BELMONT, CA · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · 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 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.