Federal contractor · BLACKSBURG, VA

VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY

VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY received $6.9M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 6 awards (−27% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $50.7M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($6.9M). It also received $34M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$6.9M
New awards
6
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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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 VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY company family: 2 registered entities, $24M in FY2026 together. See the family

  1. VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITYBLACKSBURG, VA · Family page
    $17.1M

AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-09-29

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 3.3MFY2017
  2. 3.6MFY2018
  3. 3.9MFY2019
  4. 4.2MFY2020
  5. 4.8MFY2021
  6. 4.7MFY2022
  7. 4.3MFY2023
  8. 5.5MFY2024
  9. 9.5MFY2025
  10. 6.9MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Navy$6.9M100%
    6 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Education & social services$6.9M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Montgomery County, VA$6.9M100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $6.9M
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $6.9M
  • 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

  1. Department of the Navy$6.9M
    Department of Defense · 5 awards

Largest awards

  1. RATIFICATION OF GOVERNMENT-AT-FALUT RETROACTIVE TUITION FOR SPRING 2026 NROTC MIDSHIPMEN TUITION AND ALLOWABLE FEES.$3.4M
    Department of the Navy· Montgomery County, VA· Education & social services· Mar 17, 2026 – Mar 17, 2026· N3560A26FB169
  2. RATIFICATION OF GOVERNMENT-AT-FALUT RETROACTIVE TUITION FOR (INSERT SEMESTER/QUARTER AND YEAR OF ORIGINAL LIABILITY) NROTC MIDSHIPMEN TUITION AND ALLOWABLE FEES.$3.4M
    Department of the Navy· Montgomery County, VA· Education & social services· Nov 26, 2025 – Nov 26, 2025· N3560A26FB015
  3. TUITION AND FEES$67.6K
    Department of the Navy· Montgomery County, VA· Education & social services· Mar 31, 2026 – Mar 31, 2026· N0622A26FA270
  4. VA, VIRGINIA TECH TUITION AND FEES FOR FALL TERM JUL - DEC 2025$65.8K
    Department of the Navy· Montgomery County, VA· Education & social services· Jul 9, 2025 – Apr 10, 2026· N0622A25FA312
  5. WINTER 2025 NROTC MIDSHIPMEN TUITION AND ALLOWABLE FEES.$20.8K
    Department of the Navy· Montgomery County, VA· Education & social services· Dec 22, 2025 – Dec 22, 2025· N3560A26FB061
  6. SUMMER 2026 NROTC MIDSHIPMEN TUITION AND ALLOWABLE FEES$4,507
    Department of the Navy· Montgomery County, VA· Education & social services· May 20, 2026 – May 20, 2026· N3560A26FB209

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.

VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY received $34M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 346 actions (5 new awards), −5.7% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program ($31.8M).

Assistance · FY2026
$34M
New awards
5
Actions
346
Since FY2022
$143.8M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 13.3MFY2022
  2. 28MFY2023
  3. 32.6MFY2024
  4. 36MFY2025
  5. 34MFY2026

By type

  1. Direct payments$34M100%

Top programs

  1. 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program$31.8M94%
  2. 84.033 · Federal Work-Study Program$1.5M4.3%
  3. 84.007 · Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants$697.6K2.1%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of Education$34M100%

Largest awards

  1. GRANT PROGRAM$33.6M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· May 15, 2024 – Feb 27, 2026· P063P240409
  2. GRANT PROGRAM$31.9M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 18, 2025 – Sep 16, 2026· P063P250409
  3. GRANT PROGRAM$14.6M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 17, 2026 – Sep 18, 2026· P063P260409
  4. CAMPUS BASED-FWS$1.5M
    84.033 · Federal Work-Study Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Apr 1, 2026 – Apr 1, 2026· P033A264333
  5. CAMPUS BASED-FSEOG$697.6K
    84.007 · Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Apr 1, 2026 – Apr 1, 2026· P007A264333
  6. PELL GRANTS$27.5K
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Feb 19, 2026 – Sep 10, 2026· P063Q250409

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · FY2022–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

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $77.9K (1 subaward)

1 prime

  1. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA$77.9K100%
    TAMPA, FL · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $613.4K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $864.5K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $1.5M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $200K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $897.2K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $77.9K 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

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

Companies it pays

304 companies · $175.6M reported

  1. UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.$8.8M
    ATHENS, GA · 9 subawards
  2. THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$6.5M
    UNIVERSITY PARK, PA · 9 subawards
  3. RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$5.8M
    CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA · 22 subawards

Primes that pay it

247 companies · $316.2M reported

  1. THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$32.6M
    HOBOKEN, NJ · 53 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  2. THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$20M
    UNIVERSITY PARK, PA · 21 subawards
  3. HUNTINGTON INGALLS INCORPORATED$16.2M
    PASCAGOULA, MS · 1 subaward · Scientific research and development services

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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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. VECTOR ATOMIC INC$34.4M−57% in FY2026
    PLEASANTON, CA · 29% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Scientific research and development servicesNavy · Scientific research and development servicesAir Force · Scientific research and development services+1 more
  2. NORWICH UNIVERSITY$21.9M+35% in FY2026
    NORTHFIELD, VT · 2 entities · 25% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Colleges, universities, and professional schoolsArmy · Scientific research and development services
  3. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$88.3M−1.5% in FY2026
    LOS ANGELES, CA · 3 entities · 40% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Colleges, universities, and professional schoolsArmy · Scientific research and development servicesDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency · Scientific research and development services+1 more

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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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 VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY (2 recipients).

Matched organizations

  • VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY (VIRGINIA TECH)AI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2025
$140K
4 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$710K
$710K in its own reports

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$180K
    4 reports
  2. 2024$260K
    4 reports
  3. 2025$140K
    4 reports
  4. 2026$130K
    2 reports

Top issues

  1. Budget and appropriations14 reports
  2. Defense13 reports
  3. Education7 reports
  4. Transportation3 reports
  5. Agriculture2 reports
  6. Economics and economic development2 reports
  7. Sports and athletics1 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES14 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE14 reports

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

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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.