Top 100 Contractors in PSC A: Research and Development, FY2021

Parent companies by net contract obligations Oct 1, 2020 – Sep 30, 2021 Code page on GovTribe

The top 10 won 44% of FY2021 PSC A contract dollars

Ranking facts

Contract obligations
$56,472,844,882 Net of deobligations, by contracts coded PSC A or a code under it
Contractors
5,394 Parent companies with an obligation
Largest contractor
Lockheed Martin Corporation $7.62 billion, 12.9% 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 $7,618,716,664
Rank history: #1 in FY2022, #1 in FY2023, #1 in FY2024 and #1 in FY2025; unchanged since FY2020.
2 $3,557,030,172
Rank history: #2 in FY2022, #2 in FY2023, #2 in FY2024 and #2 in FY2025; up 2 since FY2020.
3 $2,755,443,934
Rank history: #3 in FY2022, #5 in FY2023, #5 in FY2024 and #3 in FY2025; unchanged since FY2020.
4 $2,302,131,480
Rank history: #4 in FY2022, #6 in FY2023, #7 in FY2024 and #7 in FY2025; down 2 since FY2020.
5 $2,231,296,292
Rank history: #5 in FY2022, #7 in FY2023, #4 in FY2024 and #6 in FY2025; unchanged since FY2020.
6 $2,181,197,315
Rank history: #6 in FY2022, #4 in FY2023, #6 in FY2024 and #5 in FY2025; up 5 since FY2020.
7 $1,455,626,600
Rank history: #7 in FY2022, #9 in FY2023, #13 in FY2024 and #14 in FY2025; down 1 since FY2020.
8 $1,301,275,986
Rank history: #10 in FY2022, #10 in FY2023, #11 in FY2024 and #11 in FY2025; unchanged since FY2020.
9 $1,224,613,775
Rank history: #8 in FY2022, #8 in FY2023, #33 in FY2024 and not on the FY2025 list; unchanged since FY2020.
10 $1,176,146,497
Rank history: #9 in FY2022, #11 in FY2023, #9 in FY2024 and #9 in FY2025; unchanged since FY2020.
11 $819,143,440
Rank history: #15 in FY2022, #25 in FY2023, #49 in FY2024 and not on the FY2025 list; up 8 since FY2020.
12 $746,637,890
Rank history: #13 in FY2022, #14 in FY2023, #16 in FY2024 and #19 in FY2025; up 14 since FY2020.
13 $725,488,432
Rank history: #19 in FY2022, #20 in FY2023, #20 in FY2024 and #16 in FY2025; up 1 since FY2020.
14 $693,031,401
Rank history: #12 in FY2022, #15 in FY2023, #12 in FY2024 and #12 in FY2025; up 1 since FY2020.
15 $624,620,661
Rank history: #14 in FY2022, #3 in FY2023, #8 in FY2024 and not on the FY2025 list; up 6 since FY2020.
16 $587,790,732
Rank history: #17 in FY2022, #16 in FY2023, #44 in FY2024 and not on the FY2025 list; up 6 since FY2020.
17 $531,989,197
Rank history: #11 in FY2022, #12 in FY2023, #18 in FY2024 and #25 in FY2025; up 35 since FY2020.
18 $505,034,080
Rank history: not on the FY2022 list, #21 in FY2023 and not on the FY2024–FY2025 lists; up 5 since FY2020.
19 $486,417,163
Rank history: #25 in FY2022, #26 in FY2023, #25 in FY2024 and #20 in FY2025; up 1 since FY2020.
20 $477,975,800
Rank history: #18 in FY2022, #23 in FY2023 and not on the FY2024–FY2025 lists; down 4 since FY2020.
21 $443,528,706
Rank history: #28 in FY2022 and not on the FY2023–FY2025 lists; down 9 since FY2020.
22 $421,509,907
Rank history: #16 in FY2022, #24 in FY2023, #17 in FY2024 and #15 in FY2025; up 6 since FY2020.
23 $417,956,626
Rank history: not on the FY2022–FY2025 lists; up 60 since FY2020.
24 $411,172,090
Rank history: not on the FY2022 list, #66 in FY2023 and not on the FY2024–FY2025 lists; down 11 since FY2020.
25 $356,833,520
Rank history: #22 in FY2022, #41 in FY2023, #70 in FY2024 and #48 in FY2025; up 2 since FY2020.
26 $341,193,617
Rank history: #20 in FY2022, #13 in FY2023, #14 in FY2024 and #10 in FY2025; up 12 since FY2020.
27 $319,763,846
Rank history: #45 in FY2022, #80 in FY2023, #90 in FY2024 and not on the FY2025 list; up 64 since FY2020.
28 $287,133,523
Rank history: #26 in FY2022, #18 in FY2023, #27 in FY2024 and #36 in FY2025; up 5 since FY2020.
29 $278,043,920
Rank history: #30 in FY2022, #29 in FY2023, #21 in FY2024 and #28 in FY2025; up 28 since FY2020.
30 $277,256,789
Rank history: #33 in FY2022, #39 in FY2023, #24 in FY2024 and #26 in FY2025; unchanged since FY2020.
31 $276,935,821
Rank history: #21 in FY2022, #22 in FY2023, #29 in FY2024 and #32 in FY2025; down 2 since FY2020.
32 $252,615,202
Rank history: not on the FY2022–FY2025 lists; unchanged since FY2020.
33 $249,129,113
Rank history: #49 in FY2022, #42 in FY2023, #37 in FY2024 and #43 in FY2025; up 6 since FY2020.
34 $227,212,513
Rank history: #38 in FY2022, #17 in FY2023, #15 in FY2024 and #13 in FY2025; up 12 since FY2020.
35 $212,405,506
Rank history: #46 in FY2022 and not on the FY2023–FY2025 lists; up 13 since FY2020.
36 $211,648,492
Rank history: #31 in FY2022, #36 in FY2023, #34 in FY2024 and #30 in FY2025; unchanged since FY2020.
37 $202,498,545
Rank history: #34 in FY2022, #37 in FY2023, #40 in FY2024 and #42 in FY2025; up 5 since FY2020.
38 $199,872,316
Rank history: #35 in FY2022, #30 in FY2023, #98 in FY2024 and not on the FY2025 list; up 2 since FY2020.
39 $180,097,271
Rank history: #40 in FY2022, #28 in FY2023, #32 in FY2024 and #23 in FY2025; up 16 since FY2020.
40 $178,091,441
Rank history: #53 in FY2022, #40 in FY2023, #48 in FY2024 and not on the FY2025 list; down 9 since FY2020.
41 $171,618,297
Rank history: not on the FY2022–FY2023 lists, #39 in FY2024 and #34 in FY2025; new, not ranked in FY2020.
42 $166,246,336
Rank history: #39 in FY2022, #19 in FY2023, #28 in FY2024 and not on the FY2025 list; new, not ranked in FY2020.
43 $160,052,499
Rank history: #42 in FY2022, #51 in FY2023, #41 in FY2024 and #57 in FY2025; up 2 since FY2020.
44 $147,870,289
Rank history: #47 in FY2022, #54 in FY2023, #88 in FY2024 and not on the FY2025 list; up 5 since FY2020.
45 $144,916,721
Rank history: #41 in FY2022, #52 in FY2023 and not on the FY2024–FY2025 lists; up 25 since FY2020.
46 $141,352,715
Rank history: #67 in FY2022 and not on the FY2023–FY2025 lists; up 13 since FY2020.
47 $140,814,440
Rank history: #62 in FY2022, #56 in FY2023, #62 in FY2024 and #56 in FY2025; up 14 since FY2020.
48 $135,601,150
Rank history: #86 in FY2022, #84 in FY2023, #97 in FY2024 and not on the FY2025 list; down 1 since FY2020.
49 $133,440,969
Rank history: #36 in FY2022, #50 in FY2023 and not on the FY2024–FY2025 lists; up 22 since FY2020.
50 $133,382,683
Rank history: #50 in FY2022, #61 in FY2023, #80 in FY2024 and #90 in FY2025; down 9 since FY2020.
51 $130,512,086
Rank history: #32 in FY2022, #44 in FY2023, #92 in FY2024 and not on the FY2025 list; up 34 since FY2020.
52 $128,376,766
Rank history: #29 in FY2022, #46 in FY2023 and not on the FY2024–FY2025 lists; down 15 since FY2020.
53 $124,963,499
Rank history: #48 in FY2022, #47 in FY2023, #46 in FY2024 and #45 in FY2025; up 29 since FY2020.
54 $123,446,975
Rank history: #24 in FY2022, #34 in FY2023, #38 in FY2024 and #33 in FY2025; up 20 since FY2020.
55 $120,648,317
Rank history: #76 in FY2022, #64 in FY2023, #45 in FY2024 and #40 in FY2025; down 1 since FY2020.
56 $113,273,979
Rank history: not on the FY2022–FY2023 lists, #3 in FY2024 and #4 in FY2025; up 218 since FY2020.
57 $113,228,917
Rank history: #51 in FY2022, #89 in FY2023, #78 in FY2024 and #96 in FY2025; up 35 since FY2020.
58 $112,567,056
Rank history: not on the FY2022 list, #62 in FY2023, #72 in FY2024 and not on the FY2025 list; up 15 since FY2020.
59 $108,766,583
Rank history: #66 in FY2022, #74 in FY2023, #76 in FY2024 and #74 in FY2025; up 16 since FY2020.
60 $108,199,451
Rank history: #59 in FY2022, #93 in FY2023 and not on the FY2024–FY2025 lists; up 8 since FY2020.
61 $105,605,869
Rank history: #88 in FY2022 and not on the FY2023–FY2025 lists; up 74 since FY2020.
62 $104,930,746
Rank history: #74 in FY2022, #98 in FY2023, not on the FY2024 list and #88 in FY2025; up 18 since FY2020.
63 $102,294,434
Rank history: #65 in FY2022, #59 in FY2023, #51 in FY2024 and #50 in FY2025; up 39 since FY2020.
64 $101,908,942
Rank history: #54 in FY2022 and not on the FY2023–FY2025 lists; up 2 since FY2020.
65 $101,877,702
Rank history: #64 in FY2022, #60 in FY2023 and not on the FY2024–FY2025 lists; up 13 since FY2020.
66 $99,366,593
Rank history: #61 in FY2022, #68 in FY2023 and not on the FY2024–FY2025 lists; down 22 since FY2020.
67 $97,345,556
Rank history: #69 in FY2022, #69 in FY2023, #71 in FY2024 and #76 in FY2025; up 9 since FY2020.
68 $97,197,916
Rank history: #60 in FY2022, #63 in FY2023 and not on the FY2024–FY2025 lists; up 31 since FY2020.
69 $95,476,808
Rank history: #68 in FY2022, #38 in FY2023, #87 in FY2024 and #58 in FY2025; new, not ranked in FY2020.
70 $94,348,240
Rank history: not on the FY2022–FY2025 lists; up 58 since FY2020.
71 $94,239,838
Rank history: not on the FY2022–FY2025 lists; new, not ranked in FY2020.
72 $93,829,016
Rank history: not on the FY2022–FY2025 lists; up 34 since FY2020.
73 $90,554,626
Rank history: #94 in FY2022, #31 in FY2023 and not on the FY2024–FY2025 lists; down 9 since FY2020.
74 $89,407,297
Rank history: #85 in FY2022, #94 in FY2023, #93 in FY2024 and not on the FY2025 list; up 19 since FY2020.
75 $88,934,074
Rank history: #70 in FY2022, #76 in FY2023, #66 in FY2024 and #51 in FY2025; down 12 since FY2020.
76 $87,193,386
Rank history: #95 in FY2022 and not on the FY2023–FY2025 lists; up 27 since FY2020.
77 $86,547,793
Rank history: #44 in FY2022, #87 in FY2023 and not on the FY2024–FY2025 lists; up 38 since FY2020.
78 $85,728,929
Rank history: #84 in FY2022, #70 in FY2023, #54 in FY2024 and #44 in FY2025; up 12 since FY2020.
79 $85,234,332
Rank history: not on the FY2022 list, #99 in FY2023, #60 in FY2024 and #84 in FY2025; down 7 since FY2020.
80 $84,799,713
Rank history: #78 in FY2022, not on the FY2023 list, #89 in FY2024 and #100 in FY2025; down 1 since FY2020.
81 $84,313,472
Rank history: #81 in FY2022, #67 in FY2023 and not on the FY2024–FY2025 lists; up 215 since FY2020.
82 $83,212,566
Rank history: not on the FY2022–FY2025 lists; down 31 since FY2020.
83 $82,863,083
Rank history: #58 in FY2022, #81 in FY2023 and not on the FY2024–FY2025 lists; up 132 since FY2020.
84 $81,948,413
Rank history: #75 in FY2022, not on the FY2023 list, #85 in FY2024 and not on the FY2025 list; up 68 since FY2020.
85 $81,229,656
Rank history: not on the FY2022–FY2023 lists, #10 in FY2024 and not on the FY2025 list; up 10 since FY2020.
86
Seqirus USA Inc. Through Seqirus Inc.
$80,383,271
Rank history: #71 in FY2022 and not on the FY2023–FY2025 lists; up 23 since FY2020.
87 $77,822,265
Rank history: not on the FY2022–FY2025 lists; down 29 since FY2020.
88 $77,611,503
Rank history: not on the FY2022–FY2025 lists; down 19 since FY2020.
89 $76,080,522
Rank history: #55 in FY2022, #65 in FY2023 and not on the FY2024–FY2025 lists; up 55 since FY2020.
90 $75,615,003
Rank history: #63 in FY2022, #92 in FY2023 and not on the FY2024–FY2025 lists; down 6 since FY2020.
91 $73,704,979
Rank history: not on the FY2022–FY2025 lists; up 43 since FY2020.
92 $71,975,575
Rank history: #77 in FY2022 and not on the FY2023–FY2025 lists; up 9 since FY2020.
93 $71,318,175
Rank history: #97 in FY2022, #88 in FY2023 and not on the FY2024–FY2025 lists; up 21 since FY2020.
94 $71,035,244
Rank history: #80 in FY2022, #73 in FY2023, not on the FY2024 list and #54 in FY2025; up 23 since FY2020.
95 $69,579,314
Rank history: not on the FY2022–FY2025 lists; up 171 since FY2020.
96 $68,489,908
Rank history: not on the FY2022–FY2025 lists; up 232 since FY2020.
97 $68,039,752
Rank history: #98 in FY2022, #78 in FY2023 and not on the FY2024–FY2025 lists; up 22 since FY2020.
98 $67,690,431
Rank history: #90 in FY2022, #100 in FY2023 and not on the FY2024–FY2025 lists; up 12 since FY2020.
99 $67,087,849
Rank history: #72 in FY2022, #53 in FY2023, #58 in FY2024 and #67 in FY2025; up 40 since FY2020.
100 $65,746,236
Rank history: #57 in FY2022, #55 in FY2023, #57 in FY2024 and #38 in FY2025; down 13 since FY2020.
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Rankings for the codes under PSC A

Code Net obligations Largest contractor
AC National Defense R&D Services $24,939,094,121 Lockheed Martin Corporation
AR Space R&D Services $9,643,907,965 California Institute of Technology
AZ Other Research/Development $7,146,841,757 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
AD Defense (Other) R&D $6,211,617,557 Lockheed Martin Corporation
AN Health R&D Services $4,402,245,270 Leidos Holdings, Inc.
AJ General Science and Technology R&D Services $3,217,680,066 Georgia TECH Research Corp
AS Transportation R&D Services $192,094,032 General Electric Company
AF Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services R&D Services $140,766,036 American Institutes for Research In the Behavioral Sciences
AE Economic Growth/Productivity R&D $130,907,279 Analytic Services Inc.
AB Community and Regional Development R&D Services $109,721,598 Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc.
AG Energy R&D Services $91,098,049 Bwxt Advanced Technologies LLC
AH Natural Resources and Environment R&D Services $87,582,411 Consolidated Safety Services Incorporated
AA Agriculture R&D Services $69,969,428 DAI Global LLC
AT Transportation (Other) R&D $24,948,420 Noblis, Inc.

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 $58.9 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 PSC A contractors in FY2021?

1. Lockheed Martin Corporation ($7.62B), 2. Northrop Grumman Corporation ($3.56B), 3. Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC ($2.76B), 4. California Institute of Technology ($2.3B), 5. The Boeing Company ($2.23B), 6. RTX Corporation ($2.18B), 7. The Mitre Corporation ($1.46B), 8. Leidos Holdings, Inc. ($1.3B), 9. The Johns Hopkins University ($1.22B), 10. Massachusetts Institute of Technology ($1.18B).

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