USAspending.gov · Child recipient
The Leland Stanford Junior University
According to USAspending.gov, The Leland Stanford Junior University is one of the largest federal contractors tracked in this dataset
- Corpus rank
- #275 of 5,000
- Lifetime awards
- $769.7M
- UEI
- HJD6G4D6TJY5
- Percentile · top 5% nationally
- 95th
The Leland Stanford Junior University vs all tracked contractors by lifetime obligations
Where this recipient's cumulative award total sits among every tracked prime, USAspending.gov lifetime ledgers
$769,684,405 Top 5% higher than 95% of 5,000 contractors
Contractors, banded by lifetime obligation dollars
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Source USAspending.gov · 2026-09-12
The Leland Stanford Junior University federal award total
The Leland Stanford Junior University 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 Leland Stanford Junior University: 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 Leland Stanford Junior University's Federal Contract Record
USAspending.gov's public ledger records The Leland Stanford Junior University's cumulative federal contract obligations at the child recipient level.
The Leland Stanford Junior University is one of the largest federal contractors tracked in this dataset, #275 of 5,000 tracked recipients, same order as the top-contractors rankings. The Leland Stanford Junior University'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 California (100%).
To see what makes up the header figures, read the largest awards, the year-by-year trend and the nearest peers below. 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 child 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.
2019–2024 trend for The Leland Stanford Junior University
Across the calendar years on file, The Leland Stanford Junior University’s annual contract obligations fell from $768.4M in 2023 to $692.1M in 2024. 9.9% vs 2023 The strongest year on file is 2023 at $768.4M.
Calendar-year prime contract obligations by action date (award types A-D). This annual series is a separate population from the lifetime total above and does not sum to it.
The Leland Stanford Junior University'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+ $769,684,405 Total tracked federal contract value
- Recent momentum F -9.9% Most recent tracked year vs. the prior year
- Revenue consistency A- 14.8% swing Year-over-year variation across every tracked year (lower is steadier)
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
- Lockheed Martin Corporation $767.5M
- M1 Support Services, L.P. $775.6M
- M1 Support Services, L.P. $775.6M
- Lockheed Martin Corp $777.1M
- The Timken Company $779.4M
- V3gate, LLC $779.8M
Similar represented-agency count
This record appears under 1 awarding agency in the available linked extract.
- 24 Asset Management Corp 1 agencies
- Aar Government Services, Inc. 1 agencies
- Abt Global LLC 1 agencies
- Acacia Center for Justice 1 agencies
- Accelgov LLC 1 agencies
- Adams and Associates Inc 1 agencies
Top contracts on file for The Leland Stanford Junior University
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.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE LINEAR ACCELLERATOR
Award DEAC0276SF00515 · 1978-11-20 to 2027-09-30
SOLAR DYNAMICS OBSERVATORY PROJECT HELIOSEISMIC AND MAGNETIC IMAGER INVESTIGATION (HMI) PHASE B/C/D/E THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PROVIDE PERSONNEL, MATERIALS, EQUIPMENT, FACILITIES AND RESOURCES NECESSARY FOR DESIGN, ANALYSIS, DEVELOPMENT, FABRICATION, ASSEMBLY, INTEGRATION, TESTING, CALIBRATION, QUALIFICATION AND DELIVERY OF A FLIGHT INSTRUMENT FOR SPACECRAFT INTEGRATION. DURING SPACECRAFT INTEGRATION ACTIVITIES, THE CONTRACTOR SHALL SUPPORT INSTRUMENT INSTALLATION AND INTEGRATION, INTEGRATED SPACECRAFT TESTING AND FLIGHT QUALIFICATION, LAUNCH PROCESSING AND LAUNCH. FOLLOWING LAUNCH, THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PROVIDE THE NECESSARY ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE RESOURCES TO PERFORM INITIAL ON-ORBIT CHECKOUT AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THE INSTRUMENT AND SHALL CONDUCT SCIENCE OPERATIONS FOR THE REMAINING DURATION OF THE MISSION. THE PRINCIPAL HARDWARE DELIVERABLES OF THIS EFFORT ARE THE FLIGHT HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE CONSTITUTING THE FLIGHT INSTRUMENT PACKAGE AND THE NECESSARY SCIENCE PROCESSING AND SCIENCE OPERATIONS GROUND SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE REQUIRED TO ANALYZE, PROCESS, DISTRIBUTE AND ARCHIVE THE SCIENCE MEASUREMENTS PERFORMED BY THE INSTRUMENT.
Award GSFC0200210DNAS502139 · 2002-10-15 to 2027-09-30
GAMMA RAY LARGE AREA SPACE TELESCOPE (GLAST). THE CONTRACTOR SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR SUPPORTING NASA REVIEWS&DIRECTED ENGINEERING ANALYSIS, OBSERVATION PLANNING, MISSION SCHEDULING, SATELLITE OPERATIONS, SCIENCE DATA PROCESSING SUPPORT, SPACECRAFT HEALTH/SAFETY/PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS, INSTRUMENT PERFORMANCE SUPPORT ANALYSIS, FLIGHT/GROUND SYSTEM&SOFTWARE, AND ANOMALY RESOLUTION&ANALYSIS.
Award GSFC0200005DNAS500147 · 2000-05-03 to 2027-03-01
GRAVITY PROBE B SCIENCE MISSION INTERIAM CONTRACT
Award MSFC0199501DNAS839225 · 2004-09-21 to 2008-09-30
PRONTO STUDY - RESEARCH IN SECURING OUR NATIONAL INTERNET INFRASTRUCTURE USING MEASUREMENT, CONTROL, AND VERIFICATION FOR CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL OF NETWORKS
Award HR001120C0107 · 2020-05-22 to 2024-05-22
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 Leland Stanford Junior University rank among tracked federal contractors?
Tracked recipients are ordered by USAspending.gov lifetime obligation totals, the same sort as the top-contractors rankings; The Leland Stanford Junior University's position is the Corpus rank in the header at the top of this page.
How much has The Leland Stanford Junior University 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 Leland Stanford Junior University?
The Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) is shown in the header stat rail above; it is recorded at the child recipient level.
Where does The Leland Stanford Junior University's contract data come from?
All contract data for The Leland Stanford Junior University is sourced from USAspending.gov prime-award records. Agency and state breakdowns, where present, are in the record above.
How this record relates to the rest of the data
USAspending publishes 2 separate recipient records under the name The Leland Stanford Junior University. This page covers one of them – the child-level record registered as UEI HJD6G4D6TJY5, the largest of the group by lifetime obligations. The same registration also appears at the other recipient level.
- Parent record · UEI HJD6G4D6TJY5 same registration $366.1M
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 M1 Support Services, L.P. ($775.6M) and just above Lockheed Martin Corporation ($767.5M), 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.