Federal contractor · DALLAS, TX

SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY

SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY received $5.3M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 6 awards (−52% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $59.7M. Its largest customer was National Archives and Records Administration ($2.6M). It also received $25.7M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$5.3M
New awards
6
Sole-source
94%
Single offer
5.7%
UEI
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Parent company
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY INC
Other than small businessNonprofitEducational institution
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 4.3MFY2017
  2. 5.8MFY2018
  3. 6.4MFY2019
  4. 5.2MFY2020
  5. 5.3MFY2021
  6. 5.3MFY2022
  7. 5.2MFY2023
  8. 5.7MFY2024
  9. 11.2MFY2025
  10. 5.3MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. National Archives and Records Administration$2.6M49%
    1 awards
  2. Department of the Air Force$2.4M45%
    2 awards
  3. Federal Railroad Administration$306.2K5.7%
    1 awards
  4. Department of the Army$00.0%
    1 awards
  5. Defense Health Agency$00.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Facilities & utilities$2.6M49%
  2. Professional services$2.4M45%
  3. Research & development$306.2K5.7%

Where the work was performed

  1. Dallas County, TX$5.3M100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $5.3M
  • Sole-source awards94%
    US 30% · $5M
  • Single-offer competitions5.7%
    US 8.7% · $306.2K
  • 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. SUPPORTS THE AIR FORCE TECHNICAL APPLICATIONS CENTER (AFTAC) MISSION BY OPERATING, MAINTAINING, AND SUSTAINING GEOPHYSICAL EQUIPMENT IN THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA.$12.7M
    Department of the Air Force· Dallas County, TX· Professional services· Feb 27, 2020 – May 18, 2026· FA702220C0003
  2. NEW CONTRACT FOR THE GUARD SERVICES AT THE G.W. BUSH LIBRARY.$10.2M
    National Archives and Records Administration· Dallas County, TX· Facilities & utilities· Oct 1, 2022 – Sep 8, 2026· 88310323C00001
  3. ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING AT SCALE$4.2M
    Department of the Army· Dallas County, TX· Research & development· Sep 25, 2025 – May 18, 2026· W15QKN25CA031
  4. OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE OF SEISMIC STATIONS IN TEXAS$2.2M
    Department of the Air Force· Dallas County, TX· Professional services· Oct 1, 2021 – May 7, 2026· FA702222C0001
  5. MAIRID$1.9M
    Defense Health Agency· Dallas County, TX· Research & development· Sep 15, 2025 – May 13, 2026· HT942525CE037
  6. THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PROVIDE THE FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION WITH FUSE DATA FROM MULTIPLE TRACK MEASUREMENT MODALITIES INTO SYNCHRONIZED STREAMS FOR UNIFIED SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL MONITORING, ENABLING TARGETED DETECTION OF ANOMALIES TO IMPROVE MAIN$306.2K
    Federal Railroad Administration· Dallas County, TX· Research & development· Jun 4, 2026 – Jun 4, 2026· 693JJ626C000010

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.

SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY received $25.7M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 168 actions (16 new awards), −48% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program ($9.1M).

Assistance · FY2026
$25.7M
New awards
16
Actions
168
Since FY2021
$184M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 32.6MFY2021
  2. 29.8MFY2022
  3. 21.7MFY2023
  4. 25MFY2024
  5. 49.1MFY2025
  6. 25.7MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$14.8M58%
  2. Direct payments$10.9M42%
  3. Other assistance-$1020.0%

Top programs

  1. 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program$9.1M35%
  2. 11.617 · Congressionally-Identified Projects$4.2M16%
  3. 47.070 · Computer and Information Science and Engineering$2.5M9.8%
  4. 93.859 · Biomedical Research and Research Training$2M7.7%
  5. 84.047 · Trio Upward Bound$1.7M6.8%
  6. 84.033 · Federal Work-Study Program$1.3M4.9%
  7. 84.411 · Education Innovation and Research (Formerly Investing in Innovation (I3) FUND)$1M3.9%
  8. 47.076 · Stem Education (Formerly Education and Human Resources)$840.8K3.3%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of Education$13.6M53%
  2. National Institute of Standards and Technology$4.2M16%
    Department of Commerce
  3. National Science Foundation$3.8M15%
  4. National Institutes of Health$2.6M10.0%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  5. Department of Energy$816.6K3.2%
  6. U.S. Geological Survey$499.9K1.9%
    Department of the Interior
  7. Department of the Navy$209.4K0.8%
    Department of Defense

Largest awards

  1. SCALE UP (SUSTAINABILITY, CAPACITY, AND LEARNING ENGAGEMENT) FOR FRACTION FACE OFF$15M
    84.411 · Education Innovation and Research (Formerly Investing in Innovation (I3) FUND)· Department of Education· Project grant· Dec 23, 2024 – Dec 15, 2025· S411A240014
  2. RESEARCH AT THE ENERGY FRONTIER AT SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY$10.9M
    81.049 · Office of Science Financial Assistance Program· Department of Energy· Project grant· Mar 17, 2021 – May 1, 2026· DESC0010129
  3. GRANT PROGRAM$8.7M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 29, 2025 – Sep 10, 2026· P063P252307
  4. PURPOSE:THE PURPOSE OF THIS GRANT IS TO ELEVATE US MANUFACTURING AND TECHNOLOGICAL LEADERSHIP BY ESTABLISHING THE DIGITAL TWIN TECHNOLOGY…$4.2M
    11.617 · Congressionally-Identified Projects· National Institute of Standards and Technology· Project grant· Sep 18, 2026 – Sep 18, 2026· 60NANB26D244
  5. GRANT PROGRAM$3.7M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 19, 2026 – Sep 11, 2026· P063P262307
  6. THE DALLAS ASTHMA BRAIN AND COGNITION STUDY (DALLAS ABC STUDY)$3.3M
    93.837 · Cardiovascular Diseases Research· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Jul 9, 2021 – Dec 4, 2025· R01HL142775

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-grants: $1.5M (8 subawards)

8 sub-recipients

  1. DIGNITY HEALTH$536.4K37%
    SAN FRANCISCO, CA · 1 subaward
  2. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON$279.1K19%
    ARLINGTON, TX · 1 subaward
  3. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER$220.5K15%
    DALLAS, TX · 1 subaward
  4. EPIFOCUS LLC$177.7K12%
    SCOTTSDALE, AZ · 1 subaward
  5. BAYLOR UNIVERSITY$145.2K10.0%
    WACO, TX · 1 subaward
  6. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO$50K3.4%
    EL PASO, TX · 1 subaward
  7. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA$37.4K2.6%
    OMAHA, NE · 1 subaward
  8. THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$5,3660.4%
    RIVERSIDE, CA · 1 subaward

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $1.3M (11 subawards)

11 primes

  1. CLEMSON UNIVERSITY$342.7K26%
    CLEMSON, SC · 1 subaward
  2. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON$257.4K20%
    EUGENE, OR · 1 subaward
  3. NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY$168K13%
    BOSTON, MA · 1 subaward
  4. UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS$135K10%
    FAYETTEVILLE, AR · 1 subaward
  5. THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK$93.9K7.1%
    STONY BROOK, NY · 1 subaward
  6. THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$78.9K6.0%
    UNIVERSITY PARK, PA · 1 subaward
  7. TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY$75.7K5.7%
    BOSTON, MA · 1 subaward
  8. NATIONAL COLLEGIATE INVENTORS & INNOVATORS ALLIANCE, INC.$50K3.8%
    AMHERST, MA · 1 subaward
  9. PACE UNIVERSITY$48K3.6%
    NEW YORK, NY · 1 subaward
  10. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$35.8K2.7%
    AUSTIN, TX · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $1.8M paid out · $2.8M received
  • FY2022: $28.7K paid out · $4.1M received
  • FY2023: $269.8K paid out · $2.9M received
  • FY2024: $3.7M paid out · $4.1M received
  • FY2025: $4.3M paid out · $8.3M received
  • FY2026: $1.5M paid out · $1.3M 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

37 companies · $11.5M reported

  1. UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM$2M
    BIRMINGHAM, AL · 1 subaward
  2. THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES$775.4K
    ORLANDO, FL · 4 subawards
  3. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER$619.7K
    DALLAS, TX · 4 subawards

Primes that pay it

46 companies · $23.6M reported

  1. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$3.7M
    AUSTIN, TX · 15 subawards
  2. THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK$3.5M
    NEW YORK, NY · 9 subawards
  3. UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS$2.7M
    FAIRBANKS, AK · 1 subaward · Other professional, scientific, and technical 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 6 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. BURGMAN TECHNICAL SERVICES, LLC$7M+21% in FY2026
    ELBERTA, AL · 31% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services
  2. 1 MISSION PARTNERS$6.8M−100% in FY2026
    HAYMARKET, VA · 30% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services
  3. IMAQ RESOURCES LLC$8.5M−100% in FY2026
    ANCHORAGE, AK · 32% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Management, scientific, and technical consulting 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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

  • Southern Methodist UniversityAI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2025
$240K
8 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$780K

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$200K
    9 reports
  2. 2024$220K
    8 reports
  3. 2025$240K
    8 reports
  4. 2026$120K
    4 reports

Top issues

  1. Education29 reports
  2. Budget and appropriations15 reports
  3. Science and technology15 reports
  4. Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code9 reports
  5. Defense1 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES29 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE29 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. AxAdvocacy Government Relations$480K
    14 reports
  2. Munk Policy & Law$160K
    8 reports
  3. SCHAERR JAFFE LLP$120K
    6 reports
  4. Clark Hill, PLC$20K
    1 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.