Federal contractor · MEMPHIS, TN

THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS

THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS received $574.2K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 3 awards (−32% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $5.2M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($574.2K).

Obligations · FY2026: $574.2K
New awards: 3
Sole-source: 100%
Single offer: 0.0%

UEI: XZJZWXH61DK3

Other than small businessEducational institutionGovernment 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 MEMPHIS company family: 2 registered entities, $574.2K in FY2026 together. See the family

UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHISMEMPHIS, TN · Family page
AI name match · 100%$0

AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-09-30

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

322.9KFY2017
211.4KFY2018
214.4KFY2019
320KFY2020
325.7KFY2021
573KFY2022
878.9KFY2023
947.3KFY2024
848.1KFY2025
574.2KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Department of the Navy$574.2K100%
3 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Education & social services$574.2K100%

Where the work was performed

Shelby County, TN$574.2K100%

Integrity signals

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

Low competition100%
US 39% · $574.2K
Sole-source awards100%
US 30% · $574.2K
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

Department of the Navy$574.2K
Department of Defense · 3 awards

Largest awards

RATIFICATION OF GOVERNMENT-AT-FALUT RETROACTIVE TUITION FOR FALL 2025 MEMPHIS MID-SOUTH REGION NROTC MIDSHIPMEN TUITION AND ALLOWABLE FEES.$317.6K
Department of the Navy· Shelby County, TN· Education & social services· Nov 24, 2025 – Nov 24, 2025· N3560A26F0003
SPRING 2026 TUITION AND ALLOWABE FEES THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS$249.2K
Department of the Navy· Shelby County, TN· Education & social services· Mar 17, 2026 – Mar 17, 2026· N3560A26FB144
SUMMER SEMESTER 2026 NROTC MIDSHIPMEN TUITION AND ALLOWABLE FEES.$7,475
Department of the Navy· Shelby County, TN· Education & social services· May 27, 2026 – May 27, 2026· N3560A26FB214

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: $199.1K (4 subawards)

3 primes

UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE$88.7K45%
MEMPHIS, TN · 2 subawards
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY$60.4K30%
PITTSBURGH, PA · 1 subaward
TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY$50K25%
COOKEVILLE, TN · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

FY2023: $0 paid out · $148.5K received
FY2024: $0 paid out · $218.5K received
FY2025: $0 paid out · $11K received
FY2026: $0 paid out · $199.1K 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.

Companies it pays

24 companies · $2.9M reported

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES$567K
LOS ANGELES, CA · 3 subawards
SOUTHWEST TN COMMUNITY COLLEGE$323.2K
MEMPHIS, TN · 2 subawards
CARNEGIE LEARNING INC$292.8K
PITTSBURGH, PA · 1 subaward

Primes that pay it

68 companies · $39.7M reported

STATE OF TENNESSEE$5.8M
NASHVILLE, TN · 5 subawards
HUNTINGTON INGALLS INCORPORATED$3.3M
PASCAGOULA, MS · 1 subaward · Scientific research and development services
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS CRIMINAL JUSTICE INSTITUTE$2.9M
LITTLE ROCK, AR · 5 subawards

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

HYLIION INC$17.4M−48% in FY2026
CEDAR PARK, TX · 70% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development services
SIGNAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION$18.8M−45% in FY2026
MILLERSVILLE, MD · 72% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development services
NAUTILUS DEFENSE LLC$17.4M+5.7% in FY2026
PAWTUCKET, RI · 68% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development services

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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 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 MEMPHIS (2 recipients).

Matched organizations

University of MemphisAI match · 100%

Lobbying · 2025: $120K; 4 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026: $330K

Lobbying by year

2023$50K
4 reports
2024$130K
4 reports
2025$120K
4 reports
2026$30K
2 reports

Top issues

Education14 reports

Who was contacted

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES14 reports
U.S. SENATE14 reports
Education - Dept of10 reports
Agriculture - Dept of (USDA)4 reports

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

Lobbying firms hired

APCO Worldwide LLC$330K
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 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.

Bills named in its lobbying reports

H.R. 2670 · National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20242 reports
118th Congress · Became law · 2023–2024
H.R. 4365 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20242 reports
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2023–2024
S. 2226 · National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20241 report
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2023

2 of 14 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.