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Contractors / University of Maryland, College Park

University of Maryland, College Park

prime recipient of federal awards · UEI NPU8ULVAAS23 ✓ from source
$503.8M
obligated · FY2025
10
funding agencies
23%
from Defense
79%
single-source
10
states
99%
in Maryland
10
industries

≈ computedSingle-source: 79% of this recipient’s $74.8M in federal contracts was awarded without competition (FPDS extent-competed codes); the rest was competed or unclassified. A high share often reflects sole-source or specialized work, not wrongdoing.

Obligations by year

≈ computed
$519.6M
FY23
$431.9M
FY24
$503.8M
FY25
▼ 3%
since FY23

Where this money comes from

✓ from source
FUNDING AGENCIES
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND,
Defense
$0.1B
NASA
$0.1B
8 other agencies
$0.3B
University of Maryland, College Park
$0.5B
FY2025 obligated
band width = obligations · FY2025 · source: USASpending.gov

Biggest awards (total value)

Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies
awarded 2019$162.8M
Goddard Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science and Technology (Cresstii)…
awarded 2021$99.7M
Goddard Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science and Technology (Cresstii)…
awarded 2024$70.1M
Sole Source Collaborative Earth System Science Research Between NASA/Gsfc and Umd/Essic
awarded 2023$57.4M
Earth Sciences Division of the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and the College of…
awarded 2017$55.2M
Cooperative Agreement to Support Jifsan
awarded 1997$50.2M
Grant NA24NESX432C0001
awarded 2024$49.5M
New Cooperative Agreement Titled: Data Driven Engineering Research (Datadriver)
awarded 2023$48.9M

Total value over each award’s life, for awards active in FY2025: a decades-long contract can exceed one year’s obligations above.

What it does (NAICS / PSC)

Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities$58.2M
Science$56.9M
Exploration$49.2M
Buses and Bus Facilities Formula, Competitive, and Low or No Emissions Programs$39.9M
Basic Scientific Research$31.4M
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Cooperative Institutes$22.5M
Mathematical and Physical Sciences$20.3M
Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards$19.1M

Where the work lands

Maryland✓ from source$498.9M
Illinois✓ from source$1.4M
Rhode Island✓ from source$1.2M
Pennsylvania✓ from source$387.9K
Georgia✓ from source$224.1K
California✓ from source$181.2K

Competitors

Lockheed Martin Corporation≈ computed$79.7M
The Mitre Corporation≈ computed$58.2M
National Opinion Research Center≈ computed$54.1M
Westat, Inc.≈ computed$49.6M
The Rand Corporation≈ computed$46.7M
Abt Global LLC≈ computed$5.4M
Trustees of Boston University≈ computed$4.6M
Regents of the University of Michigan≈ computed$4.6M

computed from shared NAICS, not a stated rivalry.

Corporate family

Single registration: no combined family.

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Why the labels? The graph is only worth anything if the links are trusted. Facts taken straight from a federal filing are ✓ from source; anything we compute or infer (corporate parents, districts, competitors) is ≈ inferred and worded carefully, never asserted as fact.