USAspending.gov · Parent recipient
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC
According to USAspending.gov, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC is one of the largest federal contractors tracked in this dataset
- Corpus rank
- #118 of 5,000
- Lifetime awards
- $1.8B
- UEI
- C1HBCJ9RMBV3
- Percentile · top 5% nationally
- 98th
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Phy… vs all tracked contractors by lifetime obligations
Where this recipient's cumulative award total sits among every tracked prime, USAspending.gov lifetime ledgers
$1,843,686,430 Top 2% higher than 98% of 5,000 contractors
Contractors, banded by lifetime obligation dollars
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Source USAspending.gov · 2026-09-12
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Phy… federal award total
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC is a tracked USAspending.gov prime recipient; this page reports its lifetime obligations across every award action filed under one recipient ID.
PlainFedContract reports USAspending.gov /recipient/ lifetime ledgers for The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory 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 The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC's Federal Contract Record
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC appears on USAspending.gov's public record with cumulative federal contract obligations at the parent recipient level.
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC is one of the largest federal contractors tracked in this dataset, #118 of 5,000 tracked recipients, same order as the top-contractors rankings.
The sections below break the header figures into individual awards, yearly obligations and comparable recipients. 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 parent 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 in the header 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.
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory 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.
- Contract scale A+ $1,843,686,430 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.
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.
Closest lifetime-obligation totals
Top contracts on file for The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC
The 5 largest individual contract awards on file for this recipient, direct from USAspending.gov: not the lifetime aggregate above, but the actual awards behind it.
DRAGONFLY EXTENDED PHASE B MISSION UNDER 80MSFC20D0004 AEROSPACE RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING SUPPORT (ARDES) II.
Award 80MSFC22F0048 · 2022-03-04 to 2028-08-31
AEROSPACE RESEARCH, DESIGN, AND DEVELOPMENT TASKS FOR NASA
Award GSFC0199711DNAS597271 · 1997-10-01 to 2024-12-31
SOLAR PROBE PLUS (SPP) PHASE A ACTIVITIES THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PERFORM THE WORK THAT IS DESIGNATED IN TASK ORDERS ISSUED BY THE CONTRACTING OFFICER. THE OVERALL SCOPE OF WORK TO BE PERFORMED WILL SUPPORT ALL OF NASA'S MISSION DIRECTORATES. THESE EFFORTS CAN BE CHARACTERIZED AS AEROSPACE RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND ENGINEERING SUPPORT (ARDES). THE GENERAL NATURE OF THE TASKS TO BE DEVELOPED WILL BE TO CONDUCT SUPPORTING RESEARCH AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT DESIGNED TO MAKE CONTRIBUTIONS TO SPACE SCIENCE AND SPACE EXPLORATION AND ASSIST NASA IN THE FORMULATION AND EXECUTION OF ITS PROGRAMS BY PROVIDING NASA WITH TECHNICAL ADVICE, STUDIES, AND REPORTS OF INVESTIGATIONS. EFFORTS UNDERTAKEN BY THE CONTRACTOR, IN THE PERFORMANCE OF THE ASSIGNED TASKS, WHICH INCLUDE TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, PARTNERING AND COMMERCIALIZATION ACTIVITIES, SHALL SEEK TO ENHANCE THE VALUE AND CONTRIBUTION OF TECHNOLOGY TO THE NATION S TECHNOLOGICAL COMPETITIVENESS, PROSPERITY, QUALITY OF LIFE, AND OTHER NATIONAL PRIORITIES. INDIVIDUAL TASK ORDERS WILL FALL WITHIN ONE OF TWO BROAD CATEGORIES: 1) ESSENTIAL RESEARCH CAPABILITY OF SPACE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, AND RELATED WORK IN THE SUPPORTING ESSENTIAL RESEARCH CAPABILITIES OF SYSTEMS TEST AND EVALUATION, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, AND SIMULATION, MODELING AND OPERATIONS ANALYSIS. TASK ORDERS WITHIN THE CATEGORY OF ESSENTIAL RESEARCH CAPABILITIES ARE INTENDED TO PRESERVE THE NATION S CAPABILITIES TO PERFORM ROBOTIC SPACE MISSIONS OVER THE FULL MISSION LIFE CYCLE FROM CONCEPT FORMULATION THROUGH MISSION OPERATIONS AND DATA ANALYSIS. NASA IS CONTRACTING FOR SUPPORT IN SEVERAL KEY RESEARCH, ENGINEERING AND DEVELOPMENT COMPETENCIES THAT ARE FUNDAMENTAL TO THE PERFORMANCE OF THESE MISSIONS. 2) OTHER AEROSPACE RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND ENGINEERING SUPPORT. TASK ORDERS WITHIN THE CATEGORY OF OTHER AEROSPACE RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING SUPPORT ARE INTENDED TO INCLUDE A BROAD BASE OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES RELEVANT TO NASA PROGRAM RESPONSIBILITIES AND ASSIGNMENTS. REGARDLESS OF CATEGORY, TASK ORDERS MAY BE ISSUED RELATED TO AUTONOMOUS DEEP-SPACE AND EARTH-ORBITING SPACECRAFT OR MAJOR SUBSYSTEMS, EXPERIMENTS, INSTRUMENTS OR OTHER DEVICES THAT MAY BE CARRIED AS PAYLOADS ON THE SPACE SHUTTLE OR ON OTHER SPACECRAFT. TASK ASSIGNMENTS WILL EXPLICITLY DESCRIBE A BROAD RANGE OF HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS, AND MANAGEMENT EFFORTS INCLUDING PROGRAM AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION.
Award NNN10AA08T · 2010-05-17 to 2026-03-31
SUN EARTH CONNECTION LIVING WITH A STAR PROGRAM LETTER CONTRACT
Award GSFC0200012DNAS501072 · 2000-12-15 to 2016-07-15
INTERSTELLAR MAPPING AND ACCELERATION PROBE (IMAP) PHASE CD
Award 80MSFC21F0224 · 2021-07-21 to 2028-01-31
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 The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC rank among tracked federal contractors?
Tracked recipients are ordered by USAspending.gov lifetime obligation totals, the same sort as the top-contractors rankings; The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC's position is the Corpus rank in the header at the top of this page.
How much has The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC received in federal contracts?
The lifetime total is the Lifetime awards figure in the header at the top of this page. It sums every prime-award action reported under this recipient ID on USAspending.gov, modifications included, so it is a running ledger rather than one year's spending.
What is the UEI for The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC?
The Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) is shown in the header stat rail above; it is recorded at the parent recipient level.
Where does The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC's contract data come from?
All contract data for The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC is sourced from USAspending.gov prime-award records. No agency- or state-level breakdown is on file for this contractor.
How this record relates to the rest of the data
USAspending publishes 2 separate recipient records under the name The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC. This page covers one of them – the parent-level record registered as UEI C1HBCJ9RMBV3, 2nd largest of the group by lifetime obligations. The same registration also appears at the other recipient level.
- Child record · UEI C1HBCJ9RMBV3 same registration $1.8B
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 The Boeing Company ($1.8B) and just above National Steel and Shipbuilding Company ($1.8B), the nearest recipients by size that do not share its name.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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.