USAspending.gov · C recipient

Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC

According to USAspending.gov, Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC is one of the largest federal contractors tracked in this dataset

Corpus rank
#251 of 5,000
Lifetime awards
$850.4M
UEI
VLS6K3EVCMW5
Percentile
95th

Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC vs all tracked contractors by lifetime obligations

Where this recipient's cumulative award total sits among every tracked prime, USAspending.gov lifetime ledgers

$850,360,354 Top 5% higher than 95% of 5,000 contractors

Contractors, banded by lifetime obligation dollars

Each bar is a $50M-wide band; taller bars hold more contractors. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USAspending.gov · 2026-08-14

Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC federal award total

Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC ranks #251 of 5,000 tracked recipients by lifetime prime obligations, with Department of Energy as its largest awarding agency on file.

PlainFedContract reports USAspending.gov /recipient/ lifetime ledgers for Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC: cumulative prime obligations on this recipient ID, not a single fiscal year. Lifetime totals can exceed one year's national pool; do not read the scale bar as an annual share. Open linked agency or state breakdowns when present; see /methodology/#populations/.

Reading Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC's Federal Contract Record

USAspending.gov records place Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC at $850.4M (top 5% nationally) in cumulative federal contract obligations, tied to Unique Entity Identifier VLS6K3EVCMW5 at the C recipient level.

Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC is one of the largest federal contractors tracked in this dataset, 95th percentile of 5,000 tracked recipients (#251 of 5,000), same order as the top-contractors rankings. Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC's largest awarding agency on file is Department of Energy, 100% of the agency-attributable total for this recipient. The largest share of its state-attributed obligations runs through Illinois (100%).

Lifetime totals can exceed one year's national pool; the scale bar below is scale-only, not an annual share. See methodology.

How to read this obligation total (lifetime ledger, not annual spend)

This figure is a rolling aggregate of every prime-award action ever reported for this recipient ID, new awards, modifications, option exercises, and de-obligations all flow into the same total, so the dollar amount shown above is a lifetime ledger rather than an annual budget. Interpreting it as a single-year spend would overstate current activity; interpreting it as a guaranteed revenue stream would overstate commitment, because modifications can cut scope or scope can simply lapse unexercised. The C classification also matters for how this record should be read: prime recipients hold the contract directly with a federal agency and are fully responsible for performance; parent-level rollups aggregate awards across subsidiaries, which can inflate totals for large conglomerates whose operating units compete separately. The UEI VLS6K3EVCMW5 is the post-2022 federal identifier that replaced the DUNS number, it persists across name changes, acquisitions, and reorganizations, making it the most reliable anchor for tracking this entity over time. For researchers, journalists, and procurement staff, the practical layer under this total is verification: USAspending.gov exposes every underlying transaction by award ID, so any totals on this page can be reconstructed action-by-action through the agency's advanced search. Contract amounts displayed here reflect obligations, money the government has committed, not outlays, which is cash actually disbursed, and the gap between obligation and outlay can span multiple fiscal years on multi-year contracts, so a large obligation total does not imply equivalent cash flow in any single period.

Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC's federal contractor value score

One verdict number from this portal's own compiled award data, benchmarked against the tracked contractor corpus: scale, recent momentum, and revenue consistency.

A+ 100/100
  • Contract scale A+ $850,360,354 Total tracked federal contract value
  • Recent momentum N/A N/A Most recent tracked year vs. the prior year
  • Revenue consistency N/A N/A Year-over-year variation across every tracked year

Higher scale, stronger recent momentum, and steadier year-over-year revenue all score higher. A dimension with too little tracked history for this recipient drops out and its weight redistributes across the rest -- it never silently lowers the score. Full method: federal contractor value score.

Lifetime total vs FY2024 complete national pool (scale only, not an annual share; bar=0) 0.0%

Source: USAspending.gov · U.S. Department of the Treasury

Nationwide similar contractors

Data-derived peers across the USAspending recipient extract: nearest lifetime obligation total and nearest represented-agency count. Not geography, name-group siblings, or recommendations.

Similar represented-agency count

This record appears under 1 awarding agency in the available linked extract.

Disclaimer: This data is for informational purposes only. Contract amounts are aggregated from USAspending.gov and may not reflect the most current data. Do not use this data for business decisions without verifying with official sources.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where does Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC rank among tracked federal contractors?

According to USAspending.gov lifetime obligation totals, Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC ranks #251 of 5,000 tracked recipients by total award amount, the same sort as the top-contractors rankings.

How much has Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC received in federal contracts?

Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC has received a total of $850.4M in federal contract awards based on USAspending.gov data.

What is the UEI for Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC?

The Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) for Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC is VLS6K3EVCMW5, recorded at the C recipient level.

Where does Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC's contract data come from?

All contract data for Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC is sourced from USAspending.gov. Its largest awarding agency on file is Department of Energy. Its largest state-attributed exposure runs through Illinois.

How this record relates to the rest of the data

USAspending publishes 2 separate recipient records under the name Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC. This page covers one of them – the child-level record registered as UEI VLS6K3EVCMW5, one of several the source reports at a similar size. The same registration also appears at the other recipient level.

Each record carries its own lifetime total as published by the source. Those totals overlap across recipient levels without a stated rule, so they are separate attributions and must not be added together to reach a company-wide figure.

By lifetime obligations this record sits just below Barnard Spencer Joint Venture ($860.0M) and just above Hanford Tank Waste Operations & Closure, LLC ($841.0M), the nearest recipients by size that do not share its name.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Compiled from USAspending.gov by the PlainFedContract editorial process.

Every figure on PlainFedContract is rendered directly from USAspending.gov federal contract data, no number is typed in by an editor. Contractor figures are computed directly from USAspending.gov data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a correction.