Federal contractor · HONOLULU, HI

RESEARCH CORPORATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII

RESEARCH CORPORATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII received $227.5K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 3 awards (−19% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $2.7M. Its largest customer was Smithsonian Institution ($227.5K).

Obligations · FY2026: $227.5K
New awards: 3
Sole-source: 100%
Single offer: 0.0%

UEI: JRSPMBFAKNY8
Parent company: UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII

Other than small businessGovernment entity

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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 UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII company family: 13 registered entities, $19.2M in FY2026 together. See the family

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAIIHONOLULU, HI · Family page
Reported parent$13M
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAIIHONOLULU, HI
Reported parent$4.2M
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMSHONOLULU, HI
Reported parent$1.2M
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII - HONOLULU COMMUNITY COLLEGEHONOLULU, HI
Reported parent$648.5K
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAIIHILO, HI
Reported parent$25K

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

388.7KFY2017
249.3KFY2018
367.5KFY2019
154.8KFY2020
139.7KFY2021
160.8KFY2022
492.7KFY2023
223.2KFY2024
282.2KFY2025
227.5KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Smithsonian Institution$227.5K100%
3 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Professional services$226.6K99.6%
Facilities & utilities$8740.4%

Where the work was performed

Honolulu County, HI$227.5K100%

Integrity signals

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

Low competition100%
US 39% · $227.5K
Sole-source awards100%
US 30% · $227.5K
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

Smithsonian Institution$227.5K
Smithsonian Institution · 2 awards

Largest awards

SMA HAWAII: SHARE FOR COMMON AREA SERVICES$181.6K
Smithsonian Institution· Honolulu County, HI· Professional services· Apr 18, 2026 – Apr 18, 2026· 33131226P00532356
SMA HAWAII: SHARE OF ROAD MAINTENANCE/SNOW REMOVAL$44.9K
Smithsonian Institution· Honolulu County, HI· Professional services· Apr 18, 2026 – Sep 22, 2026· 33131226P00532357
SHARE OF CUSTODIAL SERVICES AT MAUNAKEA SUMMIT FACILITY$13.3K
Smithsonian Institution· Honolulu County, HI· Facilities & utilities· Dec 26, 2024 – Jan 26, 2026· 33131225P00518033

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.

RESEARCH CORPORATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII received $0 in federal assistance in FY2026, on 0 actions (0 new awards).

Assistance · FY2026: $0
New awards: 0
Actions: 0
Since FY2021: $403.5K

Assistance by fiscal year

309.2KFY2021
100KFY2022
0FY2023
-5.7KFY2024

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2021–FY2024.

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

Sub-grants: $1.5M (1 subaward)

1 prime

HAWAII DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH$1.5M100%
HONOLULU, HI · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

FY2021: $0 paid out · $91.3K received
FY2023: $0 paid out · $2.8M received
FY2025: $0 paid out · $1.8M received
FY2026: $0 paid out · $1.5M 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.

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

CHARLES RIVER ANALYTICS, INC.$93.6M−68% in FY2026
CAMBRIDGE, MA · 77% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development servicesAir Force · Scientific research and development servicesDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency · Scientific research and development services+2 more
LYNNTECH INC.$50M−46% in FY2026
COLLEGE STATION, TX · 50% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development servicesAir Force · Scientific research and development servicesArmy · Scientific research and development services+2 more
BASCOM HUNTER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.$46.8M−42% in FY2026
BATON ROUGE, LA · 47% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development servicesArmy · Scientific research and development servicesAir Force · Scientific research and development services

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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 UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII (13 recipients).

Matched organizations

Research Corporation of the University of HawaiiAI match · 100%
the University of HawaiiAI match · 100%
University of Hawai'i Community CollegesAI match · 91%

Lobbying · 2025: $360K; 10 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026: $865K

Lobbying by year

2023$80K
8 reports
2024$190K
8 reports
2025$360K
10 reports
2026$235K
10 reports

Top issues

Budget and appropriations21 reports
Education14 reports
Science and technology5 reports
Health issues1 reports

Who was contacted

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES21 reports
U.S. SENATE21 reports
Natl Science Foundation (NSF)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

Strategies 360$590K
12 reports
THE WAYFINDER GROUP$140K
4 reports
Red Maple Consulting, LLC$135K
6 reports
Downs Government Affairs$0
14 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 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 Oct 5, 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. 8845 · Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20271 report
119th Congress · Introduced · 2026
H.R. 9495 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20271 report
119th Congress · Introduced · 2026

1 of 36 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.