Federal contractor · SUNNYVALE, CA

SYNOPSYS, INC.

SYNOPSYS, INC. received $245.7K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 8 awards (−75% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $10.5M. Its largest customer was National Aeronautics and Space Administration ($218.8K).

Obligations · FY2026: $245.7K
New awards: 8
Sole-source: 100%
Single offer: 0.0%

UEI: K8W2J2DS9FN1

Other than small business

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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

1.6MFY2017
1.1MFY2018
1.2MFY2019
1.1MFY2020
1.2MFY2021
646.7KFY2022
941.2KFY2023
1.4MFY2024
983.9KFY2025
245.7KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration$218.8K89%
6 awards
Department of the Navy$26.9K11%
1 awards
National Institute of Standards and Technology$00.0%
1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

IT & telecom$245.7K100%

Where the work was performed

Santa Clara County, CA$245.7K100%

Integrity signals

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

Low competition100%
US 39% · $245.7K
Sole-source awards100%
US 30% · $245.7K
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.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

National Aeronautics and Space Administration$218.8K
National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 3 awards
Department of the Navy$26.9K
Department of Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

FY26 SABER RENEWAL$125.6K
National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Santa Clara County, CA· IT & telecom· Jun 17, 2026 – Jun 17, 2026· 80NSSC26P0832
SYNOPSYS RENEWAL$115.7K
National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Santa Clara County, CA· IT & telecom· Dec 27, 2024 – Dec 3, 2025· 80NSSC25PA360
TO RENEW CODE V/ETD$112.2K
National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Santa Clara County, CA· IT & telecom· Feb 11, 2025 – Apr 17, 2026· 80NSSC25PA567
RENEW SYNOPSYS SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE FOR ETD$73K
National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Santa Clara County, CA· IT & telecom· Jan 22, 2026 – Jul 9, 2026· 80NSSC26P0170
5 YEAR LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR ATK SOFTWARE$43.2K
National Institute of Standards and Technology· Santa Clara County, CA· IT & telecom· Jul 9, 2024 – Jul 23, 2026· 1333ND24PNB030254
SYNOPSYS QUANTUM ATK TSL LICENSE RENEWAL$26.9K
Department of the Navy· Santa Clara County, CA· IT & telecom· Jan 6, 2026 – Jan 6, 2026· N0017326P5213
SYNOPSIS RENEWAL$20.2K
National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Santa Clara County, CA· IT & telecom· Jan 12, 2026 – Jul 9, 2026· 80NSSC26P0135
SYNPLIFY BASE MAINTENANCE$18.6K
National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Santa Clara County, CA· IT & telecom· Feb 14, 2025 – Dec 3, 2025· 80NSSC25PA574

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: $77.4K (1 subaward)

1 prime

CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY, INC., THE$77.4K100%
CAMBRIDGE, MA · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

FY2021: $0 paid out · $2.7M received
FY2022: $0 paid out · $1.2M received
FY2023: $0 paid out · $2.7M received
FY2024: $0 paid out · $1.1M received
FY2025: $0 paid out · $4.4M received
FY2026: $0 paid out · $77.4K 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

19 companies · $12.2M reported

EDAPTIVE COMPUTING INC$2.2M
DAYTON, OH · 4 subawards · Scientific research and development services
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$2.1M
AUSTIN, TX · 1 subaward
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$1.5M
LEXINGTON, MA · 6 subawards · Scientific research and development services

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

GENERAL CYBERNATION GROUP INC$890K
RANCHO CORDOVA, CA · 28% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Software publishers
FLOW SCIENCE, INC$1.4M−23% in FY2026
SANTA FE, NM · 32% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Software publishersArmy · Software publishers
NTOPOLOGY INC$736.6K+93% in FY2026
NEW YORK, NY · 27% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Software publishersNavy · Software publishersAir Force · Software publishers

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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 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

SYNOPSYS, INC.AI match · 100%

Lobbying · 2025: $1.3M; 13 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026: $3.5M; $3.2M in its own reports
PAC giving · 2026: $29.5K; 1 PAC

Lobbying by year

2023$460K
10 reports
2024$1.1M
10 reports
2025$1.3M
13 reports
2026$680K
8 reports

Top issues

Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code34 reports
Trade (domestic and foreign)30 reports
Defense20 reports
Labor issues, antitrust and workplace15 reports
Budget and appropriations11 reports
Science and technology10 reports
Aerospace3 reports
Education3 reports

Who was contacted

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES40 reports
U.S. SENATE40 reports
Defense - Dept of (DOD)13 reports
Natl Security Council (NSC)12 reports
Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP)12 reports
Treasury - Dept of12 reports
Commerce - Dept of (DOC)11 reports
Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS)9 reports
Natl Science Foundation (NSF)7 reports
State - Dept of (DOS)6 reports

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

Lobbying firms hired

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP$530K
9 reports
H&M STRATEGIES LLP$450K
9 reports
HOLLAND & KNIGHT LLP$280K
4 reports
DLA Piper LLP (US)$240K
3 reports
S-3 Group$180K
4 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

PAC giving to candidates by party, 2026 cycle

Democratic$16.5K56%
Republican$13K44%

PACs sponsored

SYNOPSYS, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (SYNOPSYS PAC)$20.3K raised this cycle

PACs these organizations sponsor (connected organizations in FEC records). A PAC gives employees' and members' voluntary contributions, not the company's own money.

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 5, 2026, loaded Oct 5, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 5, 2026, loaded Oct 5, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

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

Members whose campaigns received from its PACs, 2026 cycle

Ted Cruz$2,500
R-TX · Senate · 1 PAC
Bill Hagerty$2,500
R-TN · Senate · 1 PAC
Chrissy Houlahan$2,500
D-PA-6 · House · 1 PAC
Hakeem S. Jeffries$2,500
D-NY-8 · House · 1 PAC
Gregory W. Meeks$2,500
D-NY-5 · House · 1 PAC
Brian J. Mast$2,500
R-FL-21 · House · 1 PAC
Guy Reschenthaler$2,500
R-PA-14 · House · 1 PAC
Suzanne Bonamici$1,000
D-OR-1 · House · 1 PAC
Ron Estes$1,000
R-KS-4 · House · 1 PAC
Ted Lieu$1,000
D-CA-36 · House · 1 PAC

$29.5K of the $29.5K its PACs gave to federal candidates went to 19 members of Congress.

Members whose campaigns received from its PACs, 2024 cycle

Zoe Lofgren$2,500
D-CA-18 · House · 1 PAC
Todd Young$2,500
R-IN · Senate · 1 PAC

$5,000 of the $5,000 its PACs gave to federal candidates went to 2 members of Congress.

Direct and in-kind contributions the members' campaigns received (FEC), net of refunds. Party and seat are the member's current or latest.

Bills named in its lobbying reports

H.R. 1 · An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.9 reports
119th Congress · Became law · 2025–2026
H.R. 2683 · Remote Access Security Act9 reports
119th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2025–2026
H.R. 3447 · Chip Security Act9 reports
119th Congress · Introduced · 2025–2026
S. 1705 · Chip Security Act9 reports
119th Congress · Introduced · 2025–2026
H.R. 2246 · Foreign Investment Guardrails to Help Thwart (FIGHT) China Act6 reports

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 5, 2026, loaded Oct 5, 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 5, 2026, loaded Oct 5, 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.