Top 100 Contractors in NAICS 54171: Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, FY2021
Parent companies by net contract obligations Oct 1, 2020 – Sep 30, 2021 Code page on GovTribe
The top 10 won 37% of FY2021 NAICS 54171 contract dollars
Ranking facts
- Contract obligations
- $49,391,519,984 Net of deobligations, by contracts coded NAICS 54171 or a code under it
- Contractors
- 4,514 Parent companies with an obligation
- Largest contractor
- Lockheed Martin Corporation $3.93 billion, 7.7% of obligations
- Data as of
Contract actions from FPDS (SAM.gov). How the rankings work · Download all 100 rows as CSV
Full ranking
| Rank | Contractor | Net obligations | Share | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $3,928,300,591 | |||
| 2 | $3,053,730,401 | |||
| 3 | $2,299,509,193 | |||
| 4 | $1,870,840,276 | |||
| 5 | $1,724,879,947 | |||
| 6 | $1,389,520,650 | |||
| 7 | $1,305,283,900 | |||
| 8 | $1,212,272,645 | |||
| 9 | $1,157,708,880 | |||
| 10 | $1,154,224,143 | |||
| 11 | $1,037,526,475 | |||
| 12 | $996,863,717 | |||
| 13 | $990,568,315 | |||
| 14 | $724,780,749 | |||
| 15 | $696,686,320 | |||
| 16 | $692,989,404 | |||
| 17 | $667,585,945 | |||
| 18 | $587,241,583 | |||
| 19 | $562,227,342 | |||
| 20 | $485,941,063 | |||
| 21 | $472,493,214 | |||
| 22 | $442,350,468 | |||
| 23 |
PPD Development L.P.
|
$417,956,626 | ||
| 24 | $409,176,219 | |||
| 25 | $396,340,789 | |||
| 26 | $361,068,525 | |||
| 27 | $305,774,324 | |||
| 28 | $285,371,648 | |||
| 29 | $280,937,614 | |||
| 30 | $279,702,965 | |||
| 31 | $277,256,789 | |||
| 32 | $259,355,627 | |||
| 33 | $252,615,202 | |||
| 34 | $232,547,030 | |||
| 35 | $225,933,177 | |||
| 36 | $213,299,238 | |||
| 37 | $212,671,807 | |||
| 38 |
General Atomic Technologies Corporation
|
$211,292,225 | ||
| 39 | $210,089,391 | |||
| 40 | $195,918,739 | |||
| 41 | $188,912,114 | |||
| 42 | $188,165,208 | |||
| 43 | $180,194,097 | |||
| 44 | $171,618,297 | |||
| 45 | $160,783,975 | |||
| 46 |
Aaski Technology Inc.
Top agencies
|
$156,882,379 | ||
| 47 | $156,406,056 | |||
| 48 | $155,606,033 | |||
| 49 | $151,275,548 | |||
| 50 |
Amentum Services, Inc.
|
$139,679,432 | ||
| 51 |
Qinetiq Group PLC
|
$138,089,110 | ||
| 52 | $136,172,422 | |||
| 53 | $135,417,977 | |||
| 54 | $134,478,845 | |||
| 55 | $134,090,254 | |||
| 56 | $133,469,352 | |||
| 57 | $132,937,822 | |||
| 58 | $130,012,274 | |||
| 59 | $129,583,475 | |||
| 60 | $129,101,616 | |||
| 61 | $127,829,715 | |||
| 62 | $122,858,339 | |||
| 63 | $112,567,056 | |||
| 64 | $109,802,164 | |||
| 65 | $109,000,000 | |||
| 66 |
Sev1Tech, LLC
Top agencies
|
$108,313,820 | ||
| 67 | $108,248,468 | |||
| 68 | $108,199,451 | |||
| 69 | $104,744,936 | |||
| 70 | $99,681,655 | |||
| 71 | $98,687,310 | |||
| 72 | $95,390,346 | |||
| 73 | $94,075,440 | |||
| 74 | $92,544,174 | |||
| 75 | $92,280,917 | |||
| 76 | $91,082,716 | |||
| 77 | $90,554,626 | |||
| 78 | $89,708,935 | |||
| 79 | $85,503,043 | |||
| 80 | $79,074,044 | |||
| 81 |
Space Systems/Loral LLC
|
$78,771,359 | ||
| 82 | $77,736,106 | |||
| 83 | $77,679,004 | |||
| 84 | $75,596,837 | |||
| 85 |
P E Systems, Inc.
Top agencies
|
$73,279,743 | ||
| 86 | $70,197,749 | |||
| 87 | $67,302,742 | |||
| 88 | $67,176,643 | |||
| 89 |
HP Enterprise Services LLC
|
$64,375,704 | ||
| 90 |
Range Generation Next LLC
Top agencies
|
$63,871,126 | ||
| 91 | $62,657,275 | |||
| 92 | $62,447,334 | |||
| 93 | $61,733,031 | |||
| 94 | $59,491,244 | |||
| 95 | $59,370,676 | |||
| 96 | $58,576,523 | |||
| 97 | $57,245,791 | |||
| 98 |
Sumaria Systems, LLC
Top agencies
|
$55,995,760 | ||
| 99 | $55,551,662 | |||
| 100 |
Assurance Technology Corp
Top agencies
|
$54,478,011 |
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Rankings for the codes under NAICS 54171
| Code | Net obligations | Largest contractor |
|---|---|---|
| 541715 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology) | $30,006,125,499 | Lockheed Martin Corporation |
| 541714 Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology) | $2,499,078,115 | The Boeing Company |
| 541713 Research and Development in Nanotechnology | $201,218,937 | General Atomic Technologies Corporation |
How this ranking works
- Source: every contract action FPDS records (as published on SAM.gov) in the period, as GovTribe received it.
- Amounts are net obligations: what was obligated, less what was deobligated. Shares are of $51.1 billion obligated before deobligations, so they never pass 100%.
- Parent companies: each action counts under the ultimate parent its award record names, or under the awardee when it names none, so no dollar counts twice. Parents of the same name (Inc., LLC and the like aside) count as one company, since FPDS records a company's parent under more than one UEI over time. GovTribe corrects a few parents and names by hand; see the corrections.
- Fiscal year 2021 ran Oct 1, 2020 – Sep 30, 2021. The Department of Defense reports its contract actions to FPDS about 90 days late, so a fiscal year is ranked once they're in, in February, and the list doesn't change after.
- Rank changes compare with FY2020. "New" marks a company outside that period's top 500, and "Returned" one of those that was on an earlier fiscal year's list.
- Rank lines show each company's rank on every fiscal year's list since FY2021, #1 at the top, on a scale that gives the top of the list more room. A dashed stretch spans years it wasn't on the list. The step from FY2020 takes the color of the rank change beside it.
- Placeholder recipients FPDS uses when it names no company ("Miscellaneous Foreign Contractors" and the like) aren't ranked.
Quick answers
Who were the top 10 NAICS 54171 contractors in FY2021?
1. Lockheed Martin Corporation ($3.93B), 2. Fluor Corporation ($3.05B), 3. California Institute of Technology ($2.3B), 4. Leidos Holdings, Inc. ($1.87B), 5. The Boeing Company ($1.72B), 6. Northrop Grumman Corporation ($1.39B), 7. The Mitre Corporation ($1.31B), 8. RTX Corporation ($1.21B), 9. Massachusetts Institute of Technology ($1.16B), 10. The Aerospace Corporation ($1.15B).
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