Federal contractor · ARLINGTON, VA

SHIFT5, INC.

SHIFT5, INC. received $500 in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 3 awards (−100% vs FY2025). Since FY2020: $38.2M. Its largest customer was Missile Defense Agency ($500).

Obligations · FY2026
$500
New awards
3
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 3MFY2020
  2. 650KFY2021
  3. 1.8MFY2022
  4. 6.3MFY2023
  5. 1.3MFY2024
  6. 25MFY2025
  7. 500FY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Missile Defense Agency$500100%
    1 awards
  2. Department of the Air Force$00.0%
    2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$500100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Madison County, AL$500100%

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. DESIGN, MANUFACTURE, AND TEST OF A PROTOTYPE ACTIVE CYBER PROTECTION SYSTEM (ACPS) ON THE F-22 WHICH IS EXTENSIBLE TO OTHER AIR FORCE PLATFORMS.$14.5M
    Department of the Air Force· Arlington County, VA· Research & development· Oct 9, 2024 – Mar 5, 2026· FA861225CB001
  2. DATABUS CYBERSECURITY UPGRADE TO SECURE THE MIL-STD_1553 DATABUS FROM CYBERATTACKS FOR THE F-16 USAF FLEET.$9.6M
    Department of the Air Force· Fairfax County, VA· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 26, 2025 – May 11, 2026· FA823225FB256
  3. SCALABLE HOMELAND INNOVATIVE ENTERPRISE LAYERED DEFENSE (SHIELD) INITIAL ORDER.$500
    Missile Defense Agency· Madison County, AL· Research & development· Dec 5, 2025 – Dec 5, 2025· HQ085926FF065

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-contracts: $3.1M (2 subawards)

2 primes

  1. GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.$2.4M79%
    POWAY, CA · 1 subaward
  2. BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC.$630K21%
    MCLEAN, VA · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $11M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $1.4M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $2.4M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $3.2M received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $3.1M 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

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

6 companies · $21M reported

  1. CACI, INC. - FEDERAL$9.6M
    CHANTILLY, VA · 2 subawards · Computer systems design and related services
  2. GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.$4.2M
    POWAY, CA · 2 subawards · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  3. BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC$3.8M
    MCLEAN, VA · 3 subawards · Computer systems design and related services

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

  1. AVITURE INC$14.4M−42% in FY2026
    OMAHA, NE · 55% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Computer systems design and related services
  2. RACKNER INC$14.4M−42% in FY2026
    COLLEGE PARK, MD · 53% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Computer systems design and related services
  3. IAMUS CONSULTING, INC$13.6M−29% in FY2026
    SYKESVILLE, MD · 52% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Computer systems design and related 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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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

  • Shift 5AI match · 98%
Lobbying · 2025
$190K
4 reports
Lobbying · 2025–2026
$290K

Lobbying by year

  1. 2025$190K
    4 reports
  2. 2026$100K
    2 reports

Top issues

  1. Defense6 reports

Who was contacted

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

Lobbying firms hired

  1. AQUIA GROUP, LLC$290K
    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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: AI name judgments (entity-match@1, jev-1.13.0), updated Sep 30, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.