Top 100 Contractors in NAICS 54172: Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities, FY2025
Parent companies by net contract obligations Oct 1, 2024 – Sep 30, 2025 Code page on GovTribe
The top 10 won 56% of FY2025 NAICS 54172 contract dollars
Ranking facts
- Contract obligations
- $730,584,991 Net of deobligations, by contracts coded NAICS 54172 or a code under it
- Contractors
- 317 Parent companies with an obligation
- Largest contractor
- Lockheed Martin Corporation $79.7 million, 8.2% 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 | $79,700,533 | |||
| 2 | $74,714,635 | |||
| 3 |
Educational Testing Service
Top agencies
|
$59,125,653 | ||
| 4 | $58,242,912 | |||
| 5 | $58,223,730 | |||
| 6 | $54,055,560 | |||
| 7 | $50,436,309 | |||
| 8 | $46,670,942 | |||
| 9 |
Fors Marsh Group LLC
|
$36,806,520 | ||
| 10 | $21,530,414 | |||
| 11 |
Acumen LLC
Top agencies
|
$16,066,009 | ||
| 12 | $12,185,986 | |||
| 13 |
New South Associates, Inc.
Top agencies
|
$9,542,932 | ||
| 14 |
Deloitte
|
$9,405,531 | ||
| 15 | $9,301,172 | |||
| 16 | $7,579,614 | |||
| 17 |
Amentum Holdings, Inc.
Top agencies
|
$7,211,099 | ||
| 18 | $5,821,291 | |||
| 19 | $5,502,175 | |||
| 20 | $5,381,095 | |||
| 21 |
Soar 365
Top agencies
|
$5,168,985 | ||
| 22 | $4,642,210 | |||
| 23 | $4,552,430 | |||
| 24 |
Toxcel LLC
Top agencies
|
$4,551,843 | ||
| 25 | $4,530,248 | |||
| 26 | $4,465,346 | |||
| 27 | $4,341,123 | |||
| 28 | $3,442,384 | |||
| 29 | $3,321,203 | |||
| 30 |
BW Research Partnership Inc.
Top agencies
|
$3,225,080 | ||
| 31 |
Pearson PLC
Top agencies
|
$3,036,238 | ||
| 32 | $2,988,449 | |||
| 33 |
JJR Solutions LLC
Top agencies
|
$2,717,391 | ||
| 34 | $2,635,202 | |||
| 35 |
Baron Public Affairs LLC
Top agencies
|
$2,525,901 | ||
| 36 |
Wested
Top agencies
|
$2,356,495 | ||
| 37 |
Sri International
Top agencies
|
$2,185,506 | ||
| 38 | $2,153,892 | |||
| 39 | $2,131,155 | |||
| 40 | $2,018,623 | |||
| 41 |
Charmtech Labs LLC
Top agencies
|
$2,000,000 | ||
| 42 |
Statistical Research Inc.
Top agencies
|
$1,960,559 | ||
| 43 |
Insignia Health LLC
Top agencies
|
$1,927,288 | ||
| 44 | $1,871,937 | |||
| 45 |
Semanticbits LLC
Top agencies
|
$1,845,434 | ||
| 46 |
Anlar LLC
Top agencies
|
$1,768,351 | ||
| 47 | $1,768,031 | |||
| 48 | $1,700,740 | |||
| 49 |
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans
Top agencies
|
$1,663,466 | ||
| 50 | $1,598,432 | |||
| 51 | $1,589,042 | |||
| 52 | $1,572,543 | |||
| 53 |
Environmental Research Group LLC
Top agencies
|
$1,539,159 | ||
| 54 | $1,491,737 | |||
| 55 | $1,450,665 | |||
| 56 | $1,388,369 | |||
| 57 | $1,384,205 | |||
| 58 | $1,309,843 | |||
| 59 | $1,226,071 | |||
| 60 | $1,217,379 | |||
| 61 | $1,122,707 | |||
| 62 |
Metamorphix, Inc.
Top agencies
|
$1,000,000 | ||
| 63 |
Linguistic Inc.
Top agencies
|
$1,000,000 | ||
| 64 |
Edifii, Inc.
Top agencies
|
$1,000,000 | ||
| 65 |
The Calsoyas Group, LLC
Top agencies
|
$1,000,000 | ||
| 66 |
Edify Technologies, Inc.
Top agencies
|
$1,000,000 | ||
| 67 |
Immersed Games Inc.
Top agencies
|
$1,000,000 | ||
| 68 |
Makefully LLC
Top agencies
|
$1,000,000 | ||
| 69 | $1,000,000 | |||
| 70 | $982,721 | |||
| 71 |
Dynamis, Inc.
Top agencies
|
$946,113 | ||
| 72 | $934,875 | |||
| 73 | $855,290 | |||
| 74 | $845,417 | |||
| 75 |
New Editions, Inc.
Top agencies
|
$832,552 | ||
| 76 | $819,528 | |||
| 77 |
R G Research Group, Inc.
Top agencies
|
$762,483 | ||
| 78 |
Sanametrix Inc
Top agencies
|
$693,080 | ||
| 79 |
Southeastern Archaeological Research Inc.
Top agencies
|
$681,953 | ||
| 80 | $623,868 | |||
| 81 |
Pax Environmental, LLC
Top agencies
|
$603,849 | ||
| 82 |
The Urban Institute
Top agencies
|
$599,939 | ||
| 83 | $598,687 | |||
| 84 | $596,976 | |||
| 85 |
Exovera LLC
Top agencies
|
$594,538 | ||
| 86 | $584,673 | |||
| 87 |
Itnova LLC
Top agencies
|
$548,161 | ||
| 88 |
Epoxtal LLC
Top agencies
|
$537,684 | ||
| 89 | $498,408 | |||
| 90 | $494,865 | |||
| 91 | $464,120 | |||
| 92 | $457,836 | |||
| 93 |
NEZ Perce Tribe
Top agencies
|
$430,842 | ||
| 94 | $409,408 | |||
| 95 | $397,606 | |||
| 96 | $396,277 | |||
| 97 |
Erg-Terracon JV, L.L.C.
Top agencies
|
$391,479 | ||
| 98 | $380,909 | |||
| 99 |
Petronerds LLC
Top agencies
|
$372,660 | ||
| 100 | $347,777 |
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Rankings for the codes under NAICS 54172
| Code | Net obligations | Largest contractor |
|---|---|---|
| 541720 Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities | $730,584,991 | Lockheed Martin 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 $970 million 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 2025 ran Oct 1, 2024 – Sep 30, 2025. 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 FY2024. "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 FY2024 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 54172 contractors in FY2025?
1. Lockheed Martin Corporation ($79.7M), 2. Mathematica Inc. ($74.7M), 3. Educational Testing Service ($59.1M), 4. The Mitre Corporation ($58.2M), 5. University of Maryland, College Park ($58.2M), 6. National Opinion Research Center ($54.1M), 7. Westat, Inc. ($50.4M), 8. The Rand Corporation ($46.7M), 9. Fors Marsh Group LLC ($36.8M), 10. American Institutes for Research In the Behavioral Sciences ($21.5M).
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