Federal contractor · ALBUQUERQUE, NM

VERUS RESEARCH, LLC

VERUS RESEARCH, LLC received $1.9M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 20 awards (−76% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $165.7M. Its largest customer was Department of the Air Force ($1.6M).

Obligations · FY2026: $1.9M
New awards: 20
Sole-source: 13%
Single offer: 80%

UEI: YPNZLMDNYLV7

Small business

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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

8.4MFY2017
9.1MFY2018
17.9MFY2019
36.8MFY2020
14.4MFY2021
28.4MFY2022
23.3MFY2023
17.8MFY2024
7.6MFY2025
1.9MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Department of the Air Force$1.6M86%
4 awards
Defense Contract Management Agency$250K13%
14 awards
Missile Defense Agency$5000.0%
1 awards
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency$00.0%
1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Research & development$1.9M100%

Where the work was performed

Bernalillo County, NM$1.7M90%
Madison County, AL$177.5K9.6%

Integrity signals

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

Low competition94%
US 39% · $1.7M
Sole-source awards13%
US 30% · $250K
Single-offer competitions80%
US 8.8% · $1.5M
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

LABOR/MATERIALS/ODCS$15.9M
Defense Contract Management Agency· Bernalillo County, NM· Research & development· Jul 28, 2023 – Apr 22, 2026· N0017323C2005
TOOLS FOR ENABLING AUTONOMOUS MULTI-SATELLITE SYSTEMS (TEAMS)$14.2M
Department of the Air Force· Bernalillo County, NM· Research & development· Dec 22, 2022 – May 20, 2026· FA945323CA025
CLIN0001, BASE AWARD - TAMI PHASE 1$10.3M
Defense Contract Management Agency· Bernalillo County, NM· Research & development· Oct 26, 2016 – Apr 22, 2026· W900KK15C0027
HPEM EFFECTS PREDICTION AND VALIDATION - PERFORM EFFECTIVENESS MODELING, INCLUDING DEVELOPING, EXECUTING AND VALIDATING COMPUTATIONAL MODELS TO ACCESS THE EFFECTIVENESS AND MILITARY$9.8M
Department of the Air Force· Bernalillo County, NM· Research & development· Dec 22, 2020 – Dec 2, 2025· FA945121F0011
FUTURE SPACE COMMUNICATIONS (FSC)$9.4M
Department of the Air Force· Madison County, AL· Research & development· Mar 11, 2021 – May 26, 2026· FA945321C0602
THE GOAL OF THE WAVEFORM AGILE RADIO-FREQUENCY DIRECTED ENERGY (WARDEN) PROGRAM IS TO EXTEND THE RANGE OF HIGH POWER MICROWAVE (HPM) BACK-DOOR ATTACK BY A FACTOR OF 10 BEYOND THE CURRENT STATE OF THE ART.$5.2M
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency· Bernalillo County, NM· Research & development· Sep 20, 2021 – May 22, 2026· HR001121C0201
HPEM MATERIAL&PLASMA S&T$1.7M
Department of the Air Force· Madison County, AL· Research & development· Aug 1, 2022 – May 21, 2026· FA945122C0018
XL SCIENTIFIC LLC$1.3M
Defense Contract Management Agency· Bernalillo County, NM· Research & development· Jan 17, 2019 – Apr 22, 2026· N0001419C1008

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: $157.2K (3 subawards)

2 sub-recipients

FORTIS STRATEGIC CONSULTING, LLC$120K76%
OVIEDO, FL · 2 subawards
BACKERWORKS MANUFACTURING, LLC$37.2K24%
ALBUQUERQUE, NM · 1 subaward

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

Sub-contracts: $228K (1 subaward)

1 prime

RADIANCE TECHNOLOGIES INC$228K100%
HUNTSVILLE, AL · 1 subaward

Its reported sub-contracts equal 8.5% of its FY2026 contract obligations.

By fiscal year

FY2021: $6M paid out · $1.5M received
FY2022: $149.1K paid out · $245.6K received
FY2023: $4.8M paid out · $852.2K received
FY2024: $1.6M paid out · $652.2K received
FY2025: $9.7M paid out · -$35.6K received
FY2026: $157.2K paid out · $228K 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 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

51 companies · $22.4M reported

GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.$6.4M
POWAY, CA · 1 subaward · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO$1.4M
ALBUQUERQUE, NM · 2 subawards · Scientific research and development services
IDEAS ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, LLC$1.4M
ALBUQUERQUE, NM · 1 subaward · Scientific research and development services

Primes that pay it

4 companies · $3.4M reported

LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$1.9M
FORT WORTH, TX · 23 subawards · Scientific research and development services
APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, INC.$671.6K
ALBUQUERQUE, NM · 2 subawards · Scientific research and development services
RADIANCE TECHNOLOGIES INC$658.8K
HUNTSVILLE, AL · 2 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 7 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

INVERSION SPACE COMPANY$19.8M+350% in FY2026
LOS ANGELES, CA · 60% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development servicesDefense Contract Management Agency · Scientific research and development services
AUTOCON TECHNOLOGIES INC.$13M−100% in FY2026
MAGNOLIA, TX · 47% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development services
NORTH POINT DEFENSE INC$40.8M−94% in FY2026
ROME, NY · 80% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development servicesDefense Contract Management Agency · 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 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 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

Verus ResearchAI match · 99%

Lobbying · 2025: $200K; 4 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026: $700K

Lobbying by year

2023$200K
4 reports
2024$200K
4 reports
2025$200K
4 reports
2026$100K
2 reports

Top issues

Science and technology14 reports

Who was contacted

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES14 reports
U.S. SENATE14 reports
Defense - Dept of (DOD)3 reports

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

Lobbying firms hired

DLA Piper LLP (US)$700K
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 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 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. 8070 · Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20253 reports
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2024
H.R. 8774 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20253 reports
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2024
S. 4638 · National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20253 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2024
H.R. 4016 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20263 reports
119th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2025
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 20242 reports
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2023–2024
S. 2587 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20242 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2023–2024
S. 4921 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20252 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2024
S. 2572 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20262 reports
119th Congress · Reported by committee · 2025

9 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 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 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 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026.