Federal contractor · SAN DIEGO, CA

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO received $1.9M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 4 awards (−5.3% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $51.5M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($1.9M).

Obligations · FY2026
$1.9M
New awards
4
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Other than small businessNonprofitEducational institution
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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 CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO company family: 3 registered entities, $18.3M in FY2026 together. See the family

  1. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGOLA JOLLA, CA · Family page
    $9.2M
  2. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGOLA JOLLA, CA
    $7.2M

AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-10-05

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 3.7MFY2017
  2. 0FY2018
  3. 6.4MFY2019
  4. 17.3MFY2020
  5. 2.4MFY2021
  6. 5.3MFY2022
  7. 6.3MFY2023
  8. 6.3MFY2024
  9. 2MFY2025
  10. 1.9MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Navy$1.9M100%
    4 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$1.9M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. San Diego County, CA$1.2M66%
  2. Franklin County, OH$638K34%

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 8.7% · $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.

Largest awards

  1. MARINE ROBOTICS TESTBED$20.3M
    Department of the Navy· San Diego County, CA· Research & development· Jan 12, 2022 – Apr 24, 2026· N0001422C2006
  2. DATA ANALYSIS OF RECENT NAVY FIELD EXPERIMENTS$3.1M
    Department of the Navy· Franklin County, OH· Research & development· Mar 30, 2021 – Dec 19, 2025· N0001421C1027
  3. MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE, ACOUSTICS, 3D PROPAGATION, SCATTERING$174.1K
    Department of the Navy· San Diego County, CA· Research & development· May 12, 2025 – Jan 28, 2026· N0001425F2201
  4. NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUES AND DEEP WATER OCEAN ACOUSTICS$1,837
    Department of the Navy· San Diego County, CA· Research & development· May 18, 2020 – Apr 17, 2026· N0001420P2009

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: $38.6K (1 subaward)

1 prime

  1. UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH$38.6K100%
    BOULDER, CO · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $398.2K paid out · $0 received
  • FY2022: $2.6M paid out · $245.7K received
  • FY2023: $1.5M paid out · $1.1M received
  • FY2024: $538.3K paid out · $224.4K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $1.1M received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $38.6K 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

453 companies · $490.3M reported

  1. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$14.9M
    AUSTIN, TX · 19 subawards
  2. SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES, SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, THE$13.2M
    LA JOLLA, CA · 30 subawards
  3. SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$11.7M
    SAN DIEGO, CA · 58 subawards · Scientific research and development services

Primes that pay it

256 companies · $680.8M reported

  1. THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$33.9M
    PRINCETON, NJ · 14 subawards
  2. SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES, SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, THE$32.4M
    LA JOLLA, CA · 58 subawards
  3. THE WINIFRED MASTERSON BURKE MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC$28.8M
    WHITE PLAINS, NY · 4 subawards

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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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 36 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. THE ADMINISTRATORS OF TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND$28M−42% in FY2026
    NEW ORLEANS, LA · 2 entities · 32% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Institutes of Health · Scientific research and development servicesDefense Threat Reduction Agency · Scientific research and development servicesArmy · Scientific research and development services+2 more
  2. TEXAS RESEARCH INSTITUTE , AUSTIN, INC.$28.8M+47% in FY2026
    AUSTIN, TX · 31% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Scientific research and development servicesArmy · Scientific research and development servicesDefense Threat Reduction Agency · Scientific research and development services+2 more
  3. CRESTONE, INC.$15.8M−15% in FY2026
    BOULDER, CO · 25% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Institutes of Health · Scientific research and development servicesVeterans Affairs · Scientific research and development 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

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.