Federal contractor · HERSHEY, PA

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE received $517.3K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 2 awards (+4.5% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $5.7M. Its largest customer was Department of Veterans Affairs ($517.3K).

Obligations · FY2026: $517.3K
New awards: 2
Sole-source: 100%
Single offer: 0.0%

UEI: WECQKMUYA9Y1
Parent company: THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY

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.

Part of the THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY company family: 7 registered entities, $428M in FY2026 together. See the family

THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY PARK, PA · Family page
Reported parent$422.7M
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYSTATE COLLEGE, PA
AI name match · 100%$4.7M
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYCOLUMBIA, MO
AI name match · 85%$67.3K
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THECARLISLE, PA
Reported parent$0
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY PARK, PA
Reported parent$0

AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-10-05

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

626.3KFY2017
859.7KFY2018
524KFY2019
914.8KFY2020
353.9KFY2021
407.7KFY2022
483.1KFY2023
484.3KFY2024
494.9KFY2025
517.3KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Department of Veterans Affairs$517.3K100%
2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Health & medical$517.3K100%

Where the work was performed

Lebanon County, PA$517.3K100%

Integrity signals

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

Low competition100%
US 39% · $517.3K
Sole-source awards100%
US 30% · $517.3K
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 Veterans Affairs$517.3K
Department of Veterans Affairs · 1 awards

Largest awards

OPHTHALMOLOGY SERVICES$798.9K
Department of Veterans Affairs· Lebanon County, PA· Health & medical· Dec 22, 2025 – Dec 22, 2025· 36C24426N0130
OPHTHALMOLOGY SERVICES$517.3K
Department of Veterans Affairs· Lebanon County, PA· Health & medical· Dec 19, 2024 – Apr 27, 2026· 36C24425N0188

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

FY2023: $0 paid out · $639.6K received
FY2024: $0 paid out · $6,500 received
FY2025: $0 paid out · $87.6K 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

411 companies · $757.9M reported

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$32M
ANN ARBOR, MI · 20 subawards
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$28.6M
LEXINGTON, MA · 24 subawards
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY$23.7M
PITTSBURGH, PA · 32 subawards

Primes that pay it

259 companies · $425M reported

PA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES$110.1M
HARRISBURG, PA · 5 subawards
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON$16.5M
EUGENE, OR · 7 subawards
THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC$11M
LAUREL, MD · 29 subawards · Scientific research and development services

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

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$416.3M−35% in FY2026
AUSTIN, TX · 15 entities · 35% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development servicesArmy · Scientific research and development servicesDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency · Scientific research and development services
AMERICAN ELECTRONIC WARFARE ASSOCIATES, INCORPORATED$346.3M−28% in FY2026
CALIFORNIA, MD · 26% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development servicesArmy · Scientific research and development services
INNOVATIVE DEFENSE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC$343.9M−5.9% in FY2026
ARLINGTON, VA · 24% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · 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.

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 THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY (7 recipients).

Matched organizations

The Pennsylvania State UniversityAI match · 100%

Lobbying · 2025: $700K; 4 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026: $2.2M; $2.2M in its own reports

Lobbying by year

2023$620K
4 reports
2024$610K
4 reports
2025$700K
4 reports
2026$310K
2 reports

Top issues

Agriculture14 reports
Budget and appropriations14 reports
Defense14 reports
Education14 reports
Energy and nuclear14 reports
Health issues14 reports
Science and technology14 reports
Transportation13 reports

Who was contacted

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES14 reports
U.S. SENATE14 reports
Transportation - Dept of (DOT)6 reports
Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS)5 reports
Office of Management & Budget (OMB)2 reports
Agriculture - Dept of (USDA)1 reports
Commerce - Dept of (DOC)1 reports
Economic Development Administration1 reports
Energy - Dept of1 reports
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)1 reports

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

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

H.R. 5933 · DETERRENT Act4 reports
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2023–2024
H.R. 6951 · College Cost Reduction Act4 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2024
H.R. 2685 · Mining Schools Act of 20243 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2023–2024
H.R. 6213 · National Quantum Initiative Reauthorization Act3 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2023–2024
S. 3362 · DETERRENT Act3 reports
118th Congress · Introduced · 2024
S. 4664 · Department of Energy AI Act2 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2024
S. 4932 · Department of Energy Quantum Leadership Act of 20242 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2024
H.R. 4312 · SCORE Act2 reports
119th Congress · Reported by committee · 2025
H.R. 3724 · End Woke Higher Education Act1 report
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2024
H.R. 4758 · Accelerating Kids’ Access to Care Act1 report
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2024

10 of 14 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 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.