Federal contractor · WEST LAFAYETTE, IN

PURDUE UNIVERSITY

PURDUE UNIVERSITY received $17.7M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 51 awards (+130% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $89.7M. Its largest customer was Federal Aviation Administration ($6.6M). It also received $269.3M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$17.7M
New awards
51
Sole-source
30%
Single offer
21%
UEI
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 7.7MFY2017
  2. 7.4MFY2018
  3. 11.3MFY2019
  4. 5.7MFY2020
  5. 6.4MFY2021
  6. 6.8MFY2022
  7. 11.4MFY2023
  8. 7.6MFY2024
  9. 7.7MFY2025
  10. 17.7MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Federal Aviation Administration$6.6M37%
    1 awards
  2. Food and Drug Administration$4.3M24%
    11 awards
  3. Department of the Navy$3M17%
    8 awards
  4. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service$1.4M8.0%
    9 awards
  5. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration$925.6K5.2%
    3 awards
  6. Department of the Army$880K5.0%
    4 awards
  7. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$449.2K2.5%
    2 awards
  8. Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$90.2K0.5%
    1 awards
  9. International Trade Commission$46.4K0.3%
    2 awards
  10. U.S. Geological Survey$43.8K0.2%
    2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$11M62%
  2. Research & development$3.6M20%
  3. Education & social services$3.1M17%
  4. Facilities & utilities$43.8K0.2%

Where the work was performed

  1. Tippecanoe County, IN$16.2M91%
  2. St. Mary's County, MD$1.1M6.3%
  3. Story County, IA$399.5K2.3%
  4. District of Columbia, DC$46.4K0.3%
  5. Madison County, AL$5000.0%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition51%
    US 39% · $9M
  • Sole-source awards30%
    US 30% · $5.2M
  • Single-offer competitions21%
    US 8.8% · $3.8M
  • 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 Navy$3M
    Department of Defense · 7 awards
  2. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service$1.4M
    Department of Agriculture · 6 awards
  3. Food and Drug Administration$540.9K
    Department of Health and Human Services · 2 awards
  4. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$124.2K
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 1 awards
  5. Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$90.2K
    Department of Justice · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. THE PURPOSE OF THIS REQUIREMENT IS TO PROVIDE MATERIALS COMPATIBILITY TESTING IN SUPPORT OF THE ELIMINATE AVIATION GASOLINE LEAD EMISSIONS (EAGLE) AND PISTON AVIATION FUELS INITIATIVE (PAFI) PROGRAMS.$6.6M
    Federal Aviation Administration· Tippecanoe County, IN· Professional services· Sep 22, 2026 – Sep 22, 2026· 697DCK26C00255
  2. LIQUIFIED NATURAL GAS FOR AVIATION PROPULSION$3.5M
    Department of the Air Force· Tippecanoe County, IN· Research & development· Jul 10, 2023 – Nov 19, 2025· FA239423CB004
  3. BAA FY26C1BP19$1.8M
    Food and Drug Administration· Tippecanoe County, IN· Research & development· Sep 24, 2026 – Sep 24, 2026· 75F40126C00086
  4. THE PROPOSED BAA RESEARCH WILL PROVIDE CRITICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN LYOPHILIZATION TECHNIQUES FOR PHARMACEUTICALS AND BIOLOGICS, WHICH WILL IN TURN SUPPORT EFFICIENCIES IN ASSESSMENT OF NEW BIOLOGICS AND BIOSIMILARS, AND THE DOMESTIC MANUFACTURING OF BIO$1.4M
    Food and Drug Administration· Tippecanoe County, IN· Professional services· Sep 23, 2026 – Sep 23, 2026· 75F40126C00085
  5. PURDUE PROJECT WP23-3623$1.3M
    Department of the Army· Tippecanoe County, IN· Research & development· Sep 14, 2023 – Mar 18, 2026· W912HQ23C0046
  6. SERDP PROJECT WP23-3793 "HOLISTIC OPTIMIZATION OF AIR-CONDITIONING SYSTEMS FOR MILITARY USE WITH LOW-GWP REFRIGERANTS"$1.2M
    Department of the Army· Tippecanoe County, IN· Research & development· Sep 18, 2023 – Feb 3, 2026· W912HQ23C0070
  7. GRADUATE CREDIT HOURS AND DATA CLINS WITH OPTION PERIODS.$1.1M
    Department of the Navy· St. Mary's County, MD· Education & social services· Mar 26, 2026 – May 22, 2026· N0042126F0215
  8. SPRING 2026 NROTC MIDSHIPMEN TUITION AND ALLOWABLE FEES.$887.5K
    Department of the Navy· Tippecanoe County, IN· Education & social services· Feb 18, 2026 – Feb 18, 2026· N3560A26FB090

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 UNIVERSITY received $269.3M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 1,493 actions (244 new awards), −13% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program ($37.4M).

Assistance · FY2026
$269.3M
New awards
244
Actions
1,493
Since FY2021
$2.1B

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 488.2MFY2021
  2. 293.9MFY2022
  3. 364.9MFY2023
  4. 346MFY2024
  5. 308.3MFY2025
  6. 269.3MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$227.2M84%
  2. Direct payments$40.2M15%
  3. Other assistance$1.9M0.7%

Top programs

  1. 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program$37.4M14%
  2. 93.859 · Biomedical Research and Research Training$15.5M5.8%
  3. 81.049 · Office of Science Financial Assistance Program$12.5M4.6%
  4. 10.511 · Smith-Lever Extension Funding$12.1M4.5%
  5. 47.070 · Computer and Information Science and Engineering$11.1M4.1%
  6. 12.300 · Basic and Applied Scientific Research$9.8M3.6%
  7. 47.084 · Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships$9.7M3.6%
  8. 12.800 · Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program$9.1M3.4%

Awarding agencies

  1. National Institutes of Health$72M27%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  2. National Science Foundation$46.7M17%
  3. Department of Education$44.1M16%
  4. National Institute of Food and Agriculture$26.6M9.9%
    Department of Agriculture
  5. Department of Energy$20.5M7.6%
  6. Department of the Navy$11.8M4.4%
    Department of Defense
  7. Department of the Air Force$11M4.1%
    Department of Defense
  8. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$9.4M3.5%

Largest awards

  1. EMERGING FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE OF INFORMATION$48.9M
    47.070 · Computer and Information Science and Engineering· National Science Foundation· Cooperative agreement· May 5, 2021 – Feb 19, 2026· 0939370
  2. GRANT PROGRAM$45.1M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· May 15, 2024 – May 14, 2026· P063P241416
  3. ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER FOR INNOVATIVE AND STRATEGIC TRANSFORMATION OF ALKANE RESOURCES - CISTAR$39.3M
    47.041 · Engineering· National Science Foundation· Cooperative agreement· Oct 6, 2020 – Jul 21, 2026· 1647722
  4. GRANT PROGRAM$38.1M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· May 2, 2025 – Sep 15, 2026· P063P251416
  5. CANCER CENTER SUPPORT GRANT (CORE)$33.3M
    93.397 · Cancer Centers Support Grants· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Feb 18, 2021 – May 22, 2026· P30CA023168
  6. CATEGORY I: ANVIL - A NATIONAL COMPOSABLE ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCE FOR THE FUTURE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING$31.5M
    47.070 · Computer and Information Science and Engineering· National Science Foundation· Cooperative agreement· Aug 19, 2021 – Jun 3, 2026· 2005632

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 · 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-contracts: $39K (1 subaward)
  • Sub-grants: $10.6M (68 subawards)

59 sub-recipients

  1. OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, THE$1.1M10%
    COLUMBUS, OH · 3 subawards
  2. RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$735.5K6.9%
    CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA · 1 subaward
  3. REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$465.2K4.4%
    MINNEAPOLIS, MN · 3 subawards
  4. PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$462.3K4.3%
    CAMBRIDGE, MA · 1 subaward
  5. UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH$429.2K4.0%
    BOULDER, CO · 1 subaward
  6. THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK$422.7K4.0%
    AMHERST, NY · 1 subaward
  7. UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC$372K3.5%
    NOTRE DAME, IN · 2 subawards
  8. EMORY UNIVERSITY$341.2K3.2%
    ATLANTA, GA · 2 subawards
  9. THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$335K3.1%
    UNIVERSITY PARK, PA · 1 subaward
  10. THE MCLEAN HOSPITAL CORPORATION$324.2K3.0%
    BELMONT, MA · 2 subawards

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-contracts: $771.1K (5 subawards)
  • Sub-grants: $37.5M (177 subawards)

96 primes

  1. THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$3.2M8.5%
    UNIVERSITY PARK, PA · 4 subawards
  2. BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA$3.2M8.3%
    LINCOLN, NE · 4 subawards
  3. CLEMSON UNIVERSITY$2.4M6.2%
    CLEMSON, SC · 3 subawards
  4. TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, THE$1.4M3.6%
    PHILADELPHIA, PA · 3 subawards
  5. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$1.3M3.4%
    URBANA, IL · 5 subawards
  6. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA$1.2M3.2%
    SANTA BARBARA, CA · 4 subawards
  7. VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$1.2M3.2%
    NASHVILLE, TN · 2 subawards
  8. UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING$1.2M3.1%
    LARAMIE, WY · 1 subaward
  9. OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY$1.1M2.9%
    STILLWATER, OK · 2 subawards
  10. UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA$1M2.7%
    GAINESVILLE, FL · 7 subawards

Its reported sub-contracts equal 0.2% of its FY2026 contract obligations.

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $45.8M paid out · $69.5M received
  • FY2022: $61.2M paid out · $534.3M received
  • FY2023: $45M paid out · $68.4M received
  • FY2024: $62.5M paid out · $80.6M received
  • FY2025: $54.1M paid out · $71.6M received
  • FY2026: $10.7M paid out · $38.2M 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 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

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

Companies it pays

345 companies · $279.2M reported

  1. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$15.6M
    URBANA, IL · 51 subawards
  2. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO$15.1M
    LA JOLLA, CA · 21 subawards
  3. THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$12.1M
    OAKLAND, CA · 20 subawards · Computer systems design and related services

Primes that pay it

230 companies · $862.2M reported

  1. IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY$480.4M
    AMES, IA · 16 subawards
  2. TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY$38.9M
    INDIANAPOLIS, IN · 143 subawards
  3. UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY SPACE DYNAMICS LABORATORY$29.5M
    NORTH LOGAN, UT · 15 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 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 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 34 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. CORNELL UNIVERSITY$21.6M−8.1% in FY2026
    ITHACA, NY · 4 entities · 41% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Colleges, universities, and professional schoolsArmy · Scientific research and development servicesAnimal and Plant Health Inspection Service · Other professional, scientific, and technical services+3 more
  2. NORWICH UNIVERSITY$21.9M+35% in FY2026
    NORTHFIELD, VT · 2 entities · 35% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Colleges, universities, and professional schoolsArmy · Scientific research and development services
  3. VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY IN THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA$9.4M+17% in FY2026
    VILLANOVA, PA · 27% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Colleges, universities, and professional schools

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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 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 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

  • Purdue UniversityAI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2025
$540K
12 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$1.2M

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$200K
    4 reports
  2. 2024$200K
    4 reports
  3. 2025$540K
    12 reports
  4. 2026$260K
    6 reports

Top issues

  1. Science and technology26 reports
  2. Budget and appropriations20 reports
  3. Defense14 reports
  4. Agriculture4 reports
  5. Health issues4 reports
  6. Energy and nuclear1 reports
  7. Transportation1 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES26 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE26 reports
  3. Energy - Dept of10 reports
  4. Defense - Dept of (DOD)8 reports
  5. Commerce - Dept of (DOC)6 reports
  6. White House Office6 reports
  7. Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP)2 reports
  8. State - Dept of (DOS)2 reports
  9. Agriculture - Dept of (USDA)1 reports
  10. Labor - Dept of (DOL)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

  1. Lewis-Burke Associates, LLC$550K
    14 reports
  2. Bose Public Affairs Group$330K
    6 reports
  3. Barnes & Thornburg LLP$320K
    6 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 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Sep 30, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026.