Top Contractors
| Rank | Contractor | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| #1 | Leidos, Inc. | $7.2B |
| #2 | Westat, Inc. | $390.3M |
| #3 | Institute for Defense Analyses | $270.6M |
| #4 | By Light Professional It Services LLC | $210.4M |
| #5 | Lancer Information Solutions, LLC | $122.9M |
| #6 | Aptive Resources LLC | $97.4M |
| #7 | Lynker Corporation | $97.0M |
| #8 | Strategic Communications LLC | $88.1M |
| #9 | Directviz Solutions, LLC | $69.4M |
| #10 | Electrosoft Services, LLC | $65.5M |
The National Science Foundation record above pulls directly from USASpending.gov federal awards data. What follows is the per-entity context — how National Science Foundation sits in the broader U.S. federal government spending distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
Every number on this page links back to USASpending.gov federal awards data; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for National Science Foundation’s peers within U.S. federal contracts, grants, and awards. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.