Federal contractor · WEST LAFAYETTE, IN

PURDUE APPLIED RESEARCH INSTITUTE, LLC

PURDUE APPLIED RESEARCH INSTITUTE, LLC received $231.3K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 2 awards (+1,204% vs FY2025). Since FY2023: $1M. Its largest customer was Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ($230.8K). It also received $400K in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$231.3K
New awards
2
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 391KFY2023
  2. 373.7KFY2024
  3. 17.7KFY2025
  4. 231.3KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission$230.8K99.8%
    1 awards
  2. Missile Defense Agency$5000.2%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Facilities & utilities$230.8K99.8%
  2. Research & development$5000.2%

Where the work was performed

  1. District of Columbia, DC$230.8K99.8%
  2. Madison County, AL$5000.2%

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 8.7% · $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.

Largest awards

  1. ENGINEERING SUPPORT SERVCICES (ESS)$1M
    Federal Energy Regulatory Commission· District of Columbia, DC· Facilities & utilities· Sep 28, 2023 – Aug 11, 2026· 89603023P0043
  2. SCALABLE HOMELAND INNOVATIVE ENTERPRISE LAYERED DEFENSE (SHIELD) INITIAL ORDER.$500
    Missile Defense Agency· Madison County, AL· Research & development· Dec 4, 2025 – Dec 4, 2025· HQ085926FE644

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.

PURDUE APPLIED RESEARCH INSTITUTE, LLC received $400K in federal assistance in FY2026, on 2 actions (0 new awards), 0% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 12.800 · Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program ($400K).

Assistance · FY2026
$400K
New awards
0
Actions
2
Since FY2022
$8M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 600KFY2022
  2. 2.7MFY2023
  3. 3.8MFY2024
  4. 400KFY2025
  5. 400KFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$400K100%

Top programs

  1. 12.800 · Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program$400K100%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of the Air Force$400K100%
    Department of Defense

Largest awards

  1. NSF ENGINES DEVELOPMENT AWARD: DEVELOPING INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR NEXT-GENERATION FACTORY-BUILT HOUSING (IN, MI) -THIS NSF REGIONAL…$1M
    47.084 · Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships· National Science Foundation· Cooperative agreement· Feb 21, 2024 – Jan 27, 2026· 2315483
  2. NOVEL TESTING METHODS FOR MEASURING CRITICAL GAS PHASE INTERACTIONS IN HYPERSONIC GROUND TEST$800K
    12.800 · Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program· Department of the Air Force· Project grant· Dec 9, 2024 – May 18, 2026· FA95502510050

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · FY2022–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

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $6.6M paid out · $0 received
  • FY2022: $5.4M paid out · $300K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $930.9K 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

28 companies · $12M reported

  1. CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES - UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS$3.4M
    BALTIMORE, MD · 2 subawards
  2. UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC$1.8M
    NOTRE DAME, IN · 2 subawards
  3. MAKERERE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH$1.3M
    KAMPALA, UGA · 2 subawards

Primes that pay it

3 companies · $1.2M reported

  1. CACI, INC. - FEDERAL$742.2K
    CHANTILLY, VA · 2 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  2. ACCELINT AI, LLC$300K
    ANN ARBOR, MI · 1 subaward · Scientific research and development services
  3. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT GROUP ADVISORY SERVICES, LLC$188.6K
    ARLINGTON, VA · 1 subaward · Architectural, engineering, and related services

Showing the top 3 of each list. Open the profile for potential partners and the full lists.

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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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 2 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. ACCENT COMPLIANCE, LLC$2.1M−110% in FY2026
    WINNIE, TX · 99.9% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Energy Regulatory Commission · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services
  2. ECCO SELECT CORPORATION$3.6M+76% in FY2026
    NORTH KANSAS CITY, MO · 99.9% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Energy Regulatory Commission · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services
  3. GIANT OAK, INC.$3.8M−0.7% in FY2026
    ARLINGTON, VA · 99.9% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Energy Regulatory Commission · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services

Showing the top 3 of 14 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.