Federal contractor · URBANA, IL

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS received $6.3M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 43 awards (−52% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $125M. Its largest customer was Office of Procurement Operations ($2.5M). It also received $290.5M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$6.3M
New awards
43
Sole-source
53%
Single offer
8.5%
UEI
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Parent company
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
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.

4 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $9.2M in FY2026 together.

  1. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISURBANA, IL · Family page
    $6.3M
  2. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISCHICAGO, IL
    $2.6M
  3. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISURBANA, IL
    $276.2K
  4. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISCHICAGO, IL
    $0

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 10.9MFY2017
  2. 11.3MFY2018
  3. 15.5MFY2019
  4. 12.8MFY2020
  5. 10.7MFY2021
  6. 13.9MFY2022
  7. 18.5MFY2023
  8. 11.7MFY2024
  9. 13.3MFY2025
  10. 6.3MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Office of Procurement Operations$2.5M40%
    4 awards
  2. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency$965.2K15%
    2 awards
  3. Department of the Army$583.5K9.2%
    5 awards
  4. Federal Railroad Administration$524.2K8.3%
    5 awards
  5. Department of the Navy$479.6K7.6%
    1 awards
  6. U.S. Coast Guard$300K4.7%
    1 awards
  7. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$270K4.3%
    1 awards
  8. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration$155.3K2.4%
    4 awards
  9. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service$150.8K2.4%
    10 awards
  10. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service$147K2.3%
    2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$5.6M89%
  2. Professional services$662.4K10%
  3. Facilities & utilities$37.4K0.6%

Where the work was performed

  1. Champaign County, IL$6.1M97%
  2. Story County, IA$114.6K1.8%
  3. Cook County, IL$72.7K1.1%
  4. Crawford County, MI$24K0.4%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition61%
    US 39% · $3.9M
  • Sole-source awards53%
    US 30% · $3.4M
  • Single-offer competitions8.5%
    US 8.7% · $537.9K
  • 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

  1. Office of Procurement Operations$2.5M
    Department of Homeland Security · 1 awards
  2. U.S. Coast Guard$300K
    Department of Homeland Security · 1 awards
  3. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service$150.8K
    Department of Agriculture · 8 awards
  4. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration$142.9K
    Department of Commerce · 2 awards
  5. National Institutes of Health$60.9K
    Department of Health and Human Services · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. EO14042 NOVEL ORBITAL AND MOON MANUFACTURING, MATERIALS, AND MASS-EFFICIENT DESIGN (NOM4D)$5.2M
    Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency· Champaign County, IL· Research & development· Nov 22, 2021 – May 19, 2026· HR001122C0057
  2. THE PURPOSE OF THIS REQUISITION IS TO COMMIT FUNDING FOR NEXT GENERATION 9-1-1 INTEROPERABILITY TESTING PROGRAM.$5.1M
    Office of Procurement Operations· Champaign County, IL· Research & development· Sep 28, 2023 – Jun 22, 2026· 70RSAT23FR0000118
  3. R&D EFFORT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF GLOBAL LYMAN-ALPHA IMAGERS OF THE DYNAMIC EXOSPHERE (GLIDE) INSTRUMENT. GLIDE IS TO REVEAL THE GLOBAL DYNAMICS OF THE TERRESTRIAL EXOSPHERE USING LYMAN-ALPHA IMAGERS ON A SPACECRAFT.$4.5M
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Champaign County, IL· Research & development· Apr 15, 2020 – Dec 22, 2025· 80GSFC20C0054
  4. FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING.$4M
    Department of the Navy· Champaign County, IL· Research & development· Sep 6, 2022 – Jun 4, 2026· N6600122C4022
  5. CSO FOR "LONG-LIFE RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM BATTERIES" U435CEO$3M
    Department of the Army· Champaign County, IL· Research & development· Apr 3, 2025 – Apr 2, 2026· W9132T25C0002
  6. CISA/OPO TAS: L70-22/24-0412 ITAR: N/A THE PURPOSE OF THIS PR IS TO ISSUE A NEW CONTRACT FOR (CIRI BOA) CONFORMANCE TEST LAB - 911 RESILIENCE AND CONFORMANCE TESTING. BASE PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE IS 02/01/2024 THROUGH 01/31/2026.$2.8M
    Office of Procurement Operations· District of Columbia, DC· Research & development· Aug 21, 2024 – Jan 28, 2026· 70RCSJ24FR0000037
  7. THIS TORP SEEKS A RESPONSE FROM CIRI (CIRI), A DHS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE LED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, TO PERFORM RESEARCH/SCIENTIFIC SERVICES THAT ARE WITHIN SCOPE UNDER THE BOA 70RSAT21G00000012.$2.3M
    Office of Procurement Operations· Champaign County, IL· Research & development· Sep 29, 2023 – Jun 10, 2026· 70RSAT23FR0000117
  8. PERFORMER EVALUATION SECURITY SYSTEM TESTBED (PESST) PROJECT$2M
    Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency· Champaign County, IL· Research & development· Sep 23, 2024 – Jan 8, 2026· HR001124C0501

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.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS received $290.5M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 1,063 actions (207 new awards), −17% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 81.049 · Office of Science Financial Assistance Program ($38.5M).

Assistance · FY2026
$290.5M
New awards
207
Actions
1,063
Since FY2021
$2.5B

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 574.7MFY2021
  2. 391.1MFY2022
  3. 467.5MFY2023
  4. 475MFY2024
  5. 349.2MFY2025
  6. 290.5MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$289.4M99.6%
  2. Other assistance$1.2M0.4%

Top programs

  1. 81.049 · Office of Science Financial Assistance Program$38.5M13%
  2. 93.859 · Biomedical Research and Research Training$20.6M7.1%
  3. 47.049 · Mathematical and Physical Sciences$19.5M6.7%
  4. 47.070 · Computer and Information Science and Engineering$14.6M5.0%
  5. 93.855 · Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research$13M4.5%
  6. 81.135 · Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy$11.8M4.0%
  7. 10.511 · Smith-Lever Extension Funding$11.1M3.8%
  8. 47.074 · Biological Sciences$9.7M3.3%

Awarding agencies

  1. National Institutes of Health$87.9M30%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  2. National Science Foundation$64.2M22%
  3. Department of Energy$62.5M22%
  4. National Institute of Food and Agriculture$27.4M9.4%
    Department of Agriculture
  5. Department of the Air Force$8.8M3.0%
    Department of Defense
  6. Department of the Army$7.6M2.6%
    Department of Defense
  7. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$7.5M2.6%
  8. U.S. Geological Survey$4.6M1.6%
    Department of the Interior

Largest awards

  1. CENTER FOR ADVANCED BIOENERGY AND BIOPRODUCTS INNOVATION$211M
    81.049 · Office of Science Financial Assistance Program· Department of Energy· Cooperative agreement· Nov 25, 2020 – Jun 1, 2026· DESC0018420
  2. DE-FE0031581 PROJECT TITLED: LARGE PILOT TESTING OF LINDE-BASF ADVANCED POST-COMBUSTION CARBON DIOXIDE CAPTURE TECHNOLOGY AT A COAL-FIRED…$57.8M
    81.089 · Fossil Energy Research and Development· Department of Energy· Cooperative agreement· Jan 27, 2021 – May 6, 2026· DEFE0031581
  3. NATIONAL CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENCE CENTER OF EXCELLENCE$32.8M
    97.061 · Centers for Homeland Security· Office of the Under Secretary for Science and Technology· Cooperative agreement· Mar 4, 2021 – Jun 11, 2026· 2015ST061CIRC01
  4. QLCI-CI: NSF QUANTUM LEAP CHALLENGE INSTITUTE FOR HYBRID QUANTUM ARCHITECTURES AND NETWORKS$32M
    47.049 · Mathematical and Physical Sciences· National Science Foundation· Cooperative agreement· Sep 8, 2021 – Apr 2, 2026· 2016136
  5. CATEGORY I: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN AI/ML COMPUTING DEMANDS AND TODAY'S CAPABILITIES -ADVANCES IN COMPUTING HARDWARE AND IN ARTIFICIAL…$31.4M
    47.070 · Computer and Information Science and Engineering· National Science Foundation· Cooperative agreement· May 31, 2023 – Dec 19, 2025· 2320345
  6. CATEGORY I: CROSSING THE DIVIDE BETWEEN TODAY'S PRACTICE AND TOMORROW'S SCIENCE$31.4M
    47.070 · Computer and Information Science and Engineering· National Science Foundation· Cooperative agreement· Oct 7, 2020 – Dec 9, 2025· 2005572

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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-contracts: $42K (2 subawards)
  • Sub-grants: $42.6M (230 subawards)

125 sub-recipients

  1. UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA$2.8M6.5%
    GAINESVILLE, FL · 3 subawards
  2. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM$2.8M6.5%
    MADISON, WI · 8 subawards
  3. IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY$2.4M5.6%
    AMES, IA · 5 subawards
  4. THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY$1.7M3.9%
    STANFORD, CA · 7 subawards
  5. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$1.5M3.6%
    CHICAGO, IL · 4 subawards
  6. TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY$1.3M3.1%
    BLOOMINGTON, IN · 5 subawards
  7. THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$1.3M3.0%
    PRINCETON, NJ · 5 subawards
  8. PURDUE UNIVERSITY$1.3M3.0%
    WEST LAFAYETTE, IN · 5 subawards
  9. THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$1.2M2.9%
    UNIVERSITY PARK, PA · 8 subawards
  10. BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA$1.2M2.8%
    LINCOLN, NE · 5 subawards

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-contracts: $1.8M (4 subawards)
  • Sub-grants: $53.6M (156 subawards)

72 primes

  1. DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES ILLINOIS$9.9M18%
    SPRINGFIELD, IL · 23 subawards
  2. THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$8.9M16%
    BALTIMORE, MD · 6 subawards
  3. ILLINOIS EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY AND$7.2M13%
    SPRINGFIELD, IL · 5 subawards
  4. WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY$2.5M4.4%
    NEW YORK, NY · 4 subawards
  5. GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORP$1.8M3.2%
    ATLANTA, GA · 2 subawards
  6. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$1.7M3.0%
    NEW YORK, NY · 3 subawards
  7. REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE$1.6M2.9%
    BERKELEY, CA · 1 subaward
  8. REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO$1.4M2.6%
    CHICAGO, IL · 1 subaward
  9. CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY$1.3M2.4%
    CLEVELAND, OH · 2 subawards
  10. CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY$1M1.8%
    PITTSBURGH, PA · 2 subawards

Its reported sub-contracts equal 0.7% of its FY2026 contract obligations.

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $83.4M paid out · $66.3M received
  • FY2022: $108.8M paid out · $100.6M received
  • FY2023: $91.6M paid out · $72.7M received
  • FY2024: $123.8M paid out · $93.9M received
  • FY2025: $84.2M paid out · $73.2M received
  • FY2026: $42.7M paid out · $55.4M received
  • FY2027: $0 paid out · $781.8K 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

601 companies · $691.2M reported

  1. LINDE INC.$40.5M
    DANBURY, CT · 5 subawards
  2. UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC$25.9M
    CHICAGO, IL · 113 subawards
  3. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM$20.7M
    MADISON, WI · 84 subawards

Primes that pay it

282 companies · $997.4M reported

  1. ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICE$264.2M
    SPRINGFIELD, IL · 208 subawards
  2. DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES ILLINOIS$62.9M
    SPRINGFIELD, IL · 147 subawards
  3. WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY$58.4M
    NEW YORK, NY · 8 subawards

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

  1. KITWARE INC$47.1M−22% in FY2026
    CLIFTON PARK, NY · 55% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Scientific research and development servicesDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency · Scientific research and development servicesNational Institutes of Health · Scientific research and development services+2 more
  2. EXPEDITION TECHNOLOGY, LLC$35.7M−21% in FY2026
    HERNDON, VA · 43% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Scientific research and development servicesDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency · Scientific research and development servicesNavy · Scientific research and development services
  3. PRECISION COMBUSTION, INC.$19.4M−77% in FY2026
    NORTH HAVEN, CT · 32% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Scientific research and development servicesNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Scientific research and development servicesNavy · 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 ILLINOIS (4 recipients).

Matched organizations

  • UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISAI match · 99%
Lobbying · 2025
$440K
8 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$2M
$2M in its own reports

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$610K
    9 reports
  2. 2024$710K
    12 reports
  3. 2025$440K
    8 reports
  4. 2026$190K
    5 reports

Top issues

  1. Budget and appropriations28 reports
  2. Medicare and Medicaid28 reports
  3. Science and technology27 reports
  4. Education22 reports
  5. Agriculture20 reports
  6. Defense17 reports
  7. Health issues16 reports
  8. Sports and athletics14 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES29 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE29 reports
  3. Commerce - Dept of (DOC)9 reports
  4. White House Office6 reports
  5. Education - Dept of4 reports
  6. Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP)4 reports
  7. Defense - Dept of (DOD)3 reports
  8. Agriculture - Dept of (USDA)2 reports
  9. Energy - Dept of2 reports
  10. Interior - Dept of (DOI)2 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. Lewis-Burke Associates, LLC$1.2M
    14 reports
  2. Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP$70K
    1 reports
  3. TUSK STRATEGIES, LLC$45K
    5 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.

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.