Federal contractor · LOS ANGELES, CA

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA received $24.5M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 39 awards (−1.5% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $566.7M. Its largest customer was Department of the Army ($7.9M). It also received $496.1M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$24.5M
New awards
39
Sole-source
61%
Single offer
2.3%
UEI
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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.

3 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $24.5M in FY2026 together.

  1. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIALOS ANGELES, CA · Family page
    $24.5M
  2. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIALOS ANGELES, CA
    $0
  3. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAMARINA DEL REY, CA
    $0

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 97.9MFY2017
  2. 81.5MFY2018
  3. 67.5MFY2019
  4. 63.3MFY2020
  5. 56.1MFY2021
  6. 48.9MFY2022
  7. 63.2MFY2023
  8. 38.9MFY2024
  9. 24.9MFY2025
  10. 24.5MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Army$7.9M32%
    15 awards
  2. Department of the Navy$6.5M26%
    15 awards
  3. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency$4.5M18%
    1 awards
  4. National Institutes of Health$4.2M17%
    1 awards
  5. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services$1.5M6.1%
    1 awards
  6. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources$90K0.4%
    1 awards
  7. Federal Bureau of Investigation$5,6100.0%
    1 awards
  8. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention$00.0%
    1 awards
  9. Food and Drug Administration-$28.750.0%
    1 awards
  10. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality-$71.1K0.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$15.6M64%
  2. Education & social services$7.4M30%
  3. Professional services$1.5M6.1%

Where the work was performed

  1. Los Angeles County, CA$24.6M100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition63%
    US 39% · $15.6M
  • Sole-source awards61%
    US 30% · $15M
  • Single-offer competitions2.3%
    US 8.7% · $565.3K
  • 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. Department of the Army$7.3M
    Department of Defense · 5 awards
  2. Department of the Navy$6.2M
    Department of Defense · 7 awards
  3. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services$1.5M
    Department of Health and Human Services · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. CORE INFRASTRUCTURE$37M
    National Institutes of Health· Los Angeles County, CA· Research & development· May 1, 2018 – Aug 28, 2026· 75N91018F00001
  2. QUANTUM AUGMENTED NETWORK (QUANET)$9.5M
    Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency· Los Angeles County, CA· Research & development· Mar 8, 2024 – Jan 21, 2026· HR001124C0403
  3. DEVELOPMENT OF A SELF-TEST DEVICE FOR GONORRHEA$5.9M
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention· Los Angeles County, CA· Research & development· Sep 29, 2023 – Jun 9, 2026· 75D30123C18191
  4. UNIVERSITY AFFILIATED RESEARCH CENTER FOR A RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES CONTRACT IN MODELING AND SIMULATION WITH STRATEGIC PREVISUALIZATIONS FOR OPERATIONAL ADVANTAGE, DESIGN AND DETERRENCE.$4.2M
    Department of the Army· Los Angeles County, CA· Research & development· Mar 13, 2026 – Mar 13, 2026· W912CG26FA005
  5. UNIVERSITY AFFILIATED RESEARCH CONTRACT - MODELING AND SIMULATION. GOVERNMENT FISCAL YEAR 2025 MISSION PROJECTS$3.3M
    Department of the Army· Los Angeles County, CA· Research & development· Jan 31, 2025 – Nov 21, 2025· W912CG25F0006
  6. SPRING 2026 NROTC MIDSHIPMENT TUITION AND ALLOWABLE FEES$2.7M
    Department of the Navy· Los Angeles County, CA· Education & social services· Feb 25, 2026 – Feb 25, 2026· N3560A26FB129
  7. USC FALL 2025 NROTC MIDSHIPMEN TUITION AND ALLOWABLE FEES$2.6M
    Department of the Navy· Los Angeles County, CA· Education & social services· Sep 25, 2025 – Mar 16, 2026· N3560A25FB251
  8. CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE TASK ORDER FOR S&T ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF INNOVATION ACTIVITY (STAMINA) IV$2.1M
    Office of Procurement Operations· District of Columbia, DC· Research & development· Sep 29, 2023 – Jul 1, 2026· 70RSAT23FR0000080

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 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA received $496.1M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 1,568 actions (200 new awards), −5.3% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 93.866 · Aging Research ($130.1M).

Assistance · FY2026
$496.1M
New awards
200
Actions
1,568
Since FY2021
$3.1B

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 577MFY2021
  2. 470.6MFY2022
  3. 550MFY2023
  4. 516.5MFY2024
  5. 524MFY2025
  6. 496.1MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$435.4M88%
  2. Direct payments$54.9M11%
  3. Other assistance$5.9M1.2%

Top programs

  1. 93.866 · Aging Research$130.1M26%
  2. 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program$33.3M6.7%
  3. 93.859 · Biomedical Research and Research Training$14.9M3.0%
  4. 93.395 · Cancer Treatment Research$13.8M2.8%
  5. 12.910 · Research and Technology Development$12.3M2.5%
  6. 93.855 · Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research$12.2M2.5%
  7. 93.113 · Environmental Health$12.1M2.4%
  8. 93.853 · Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders$12.1M2.4%

Awarding agencies

  1. National Institutes of Health$359.5M72%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  2. Department of Education$49.1M9.9%
  3. National Science Foundation$26.7M5.4%
  4. Department of the Army$10.8M2.2%
    Department of Defense
  5. Department of the Navy$9.6M1.9%
    Department of Defense
  6. Administration for Children and Families$7.7M1.6%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  7. Department of Energy$7.6M1.5%
  8. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency$4.7M0.9%
    Department of Defense

Largest awards

  1. THE ALZHEIMER'S CLINICAL TRIAL CONSORTIUM - DOWN SYNDROME NETWORK (ACTC- DSN)$198.4M
    93.866 · Aging Research· National Institutes of Health· Cooperative agreement· Dec 14, 2020 – Aug 19, 2026· U24AG057437
  2. USC/NORRIS COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER (CORE) SUPPORT$127.1M
    93.397 · Cancer Centers Support Grants· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Jan 29, 2021 – Apr 16, 2026· P30CA014089
  3. CHILDREN'S ONCOLOGY GROUP STATISTICS AND DATA CENTER$120.2M
    93.395 · Cancer Treatment Research· National Institutes of Health· Cooperative agreement· Jan 14, 2021 – Sep 17, 2026· U10CA180899
  4. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL INSTITUTE$81.3M
    93.350 · National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences· National Institutes of Health· Cooperative agreement· Nov 14, 2020 – Sep 2, 2026· UL1TR001855
  5. A NEXT GENERATION DATA INFRASTRUCTURE TO UNDERSTAND DISPARITIES ACROSS THE LIFE COURSE - SUMMARY THIS INFRASTRUCTURE PROPOSAL AIMS TO…$50.9M
    93.866 · Aging Research· National Institutes of Health· Cooperative agreement· Aug 9, 2023 – Aug 26, 2026· U01AG077280
  6. INTEGRTING INFORMATION ABOUT AGING SURVEYS$41.2M
    93.866 · Aging Research· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Apr 30, 2021 – Apr 21, 2026· R01AG030153

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: $3M (3 subawards)
  • Sub-grants: $38.5M (201 subawards)

126 sub-recipients

  1. ICT PRODUCTIONS, INC.$2.7M6.5%
    LOS ANGELES, CA · 1 subaward
  2. FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER$2.4M5.7%
    SEATTLE, WA · 1 subaward
  3. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$1.9M4.5%
    SEATTLE, WA · 6 subawards
  4. BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL INC$1.4M3.3%
    BOSTON, MA · 2 subawards
  5. CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COLLEGE OF MEDICINE OF CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY$1.2M2.9%
    CLEVELAND, OH · 2 subawards
  6. THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO$1.2M2.8%
    AURORA, CO · 5 subawards
  7. UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, THE$1.1M2.7%
    LEXINGTON, KY · 4 subawards
  8. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM$1.1M2.6%
    MADISON, WI · 2 subawards
  9. WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE$936.9K2.3%
    SAINT LOUIS, MO · 4 subawards
  10. MAYO CLINIC$890.2K2.1%
    ROCHESTER, MN · 2 subawards

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-contracts: $1.5M (2 subawards)
  • Sub-grants: $52.4M (240 subawards)

100 primes

  1. BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL INC$5.4M10%
    BOSTON, MA · 2 subawards
  2. THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$3.1M5.7%
    BALTIMORE, MD · 7 subawards
  3. THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$2.4M4.4%
    UNIVERSITY PARK, PA · 6 subawards
  4. UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION$2.3M4.3%
    PITTSBURGH, PA · 11 subawards
  5. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE$2.3M4.3%
    IRVINE, CA · 18 subawards
  6. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER$1.9M3.6%
    DALLAS, TX · 3 subawards
  7. THE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA$1.9M3.5%
    CHARLESTON, SC · 1 subaward
  8. UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII$1.8M3.4%
    HONOLULU, HI · 1 subaward
  9. CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES$1.7M3.1%
    LOS ANGELES, CA · 8 subawards
  10. RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE$1.7M3.1%
    ALBANY, NY · 1 subaward

Its reported sub-contracts equal 12% of its FY2026 contract obligations.

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $256.4M paid out · $55.3M received
  • FY2022: $122.1M paid out · $87M received
  • FY2023: $122.6M paid out · $86.5M received
  • FY2024: $229.2M paid out · $120.2M received
  • FY2025: $54.2M paid out · $53.4M received
  • FY2026: $41.5M paid out · $53.9M 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

485 companies · $820M reported

  1. LEGG GEOPHYSICAL INC.$131.5M
    HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA · 1 subaward
  2. WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE$102.3M
    SAINT LOUIS, MO · 43 subawards
  3. THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$27.8M
    OAKLAND, CA · 176 subawards · Scientific research and development services

Primes that pay it

215 companies · $451.5M reported

  1. OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES$36.5M
    MATHER, CA · 29 subawards
  2. REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, THE$24.5M
    SAN FRANCISCO, CA · 37 subawards
  3. VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$22.7M
    NASHVILLE, TN · 32 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 22 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY$43.4M−73% in FY2026
    HOUGHTON, MI · 37% 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
  2. VRC METAL SYSTEMS, LLC$34.2M+142% in FY2026
    BOX ELDER, SD · 35% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Scientific research and development servicesNavy · Scientific research and development services
  3. TEXAS A&M ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION$41.1M−77% in FY2026
    COLLEGE STATION, TX · 35% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Scientific research and development servicesArmy · Colleges, universities, and professional schools

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.

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 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (3 recipients).

Matched organizations

  • University of Southern CaliforniaAI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2024
$220K
6 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$630K

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$120K
    6 reports
  2. 2024$220K
    6 reports
  3. 2025$100K
    3 reports
  4. 2026$190K
    2 reports

Top issues

  1. Defense10 reports
  2. Education9 reports
  3. Science and technology2 reports
  4. Transportation2 reports
  5. Veterans2 reports
  6. Economics and economic development1 reports
  7. Health issues1 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES14 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE14 reports
  3. Commerce - Dept of (DOC)1 reports
  4. Defense - Dept of (DOD)1 reports
  5. Education - Dept of1 reports
  6. Executive Office of the President (EOP)1 reports
  7. Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS)1 reports
  8. Labor - Dept of (DOL)1 reports
  9. State - Dept of (DOS)1 reports
  10. Transportation - Dept of (DOT)1 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. HOLLAND & KNIGHT LLP$420K
    11 reports
  2. King & Spalding LLP$160K
    1 reports
  3. DGA Group Government Relations LLC$60K
    2 reports
  4. Michael Best Strategies LLC$30K
    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 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.