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The Trustees of Princeton University
According to USAspending.gov, The Trustees of Princeton University ranks in the upper tier of tracked federal contractors by lifetime obligations
- Corpus rank
- #661 of 5,000
- Lifetime awards
- $274.3M
- UEI
- NJ1YPQXQG7U5
- Percentile · top quartile nationally
- 87th
The Trustees of Princeton University vs all tracked contractors by lifetime obligations
Where this recipient's cumulative award total sits among every tracked prime, USAspending.gov lifetime ledgers
$274,254,630 Top 13% higher than 87% of 5,000 contractors
Contractors, banded by lifetime obligation dollars
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Source USAspending.gov · 2026-09-12
The Trustees of Princeton University federal award total
The Trustees of Princeton 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 Trustees of Princeton 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 Trustees of Princeton University's Federal Contract Record
The Trustees of Princeton University appears on USAspending.gov's public record with cumulative federal contract obligations at the child recipient level.
The Trustees of Princeton University ranks in the upper tier of tracked federal contractors by lifetime obligations, #661 of 5,000 tracked recipients, same order as the top-contractors rankings. The largest share of its state-attributed obligations runs through New Jersey (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.
The Trustees of Princeton University: annual change, 2019–2024
Across the calendar years on file, The Trustees of Princeton University’s annual contract obligations fell from $185.9M in 2023 to $169.3M in 2024. 8.9% vs 2023 The strongest year on file is 2023 at $185.9M.
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 Trustees of Princeton 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- $274,254,630 Total tracked federal contract value
- Recent momentum F -8.9% Most recent tracked year vs. the prior year
- Revenue consistency A 11.5% 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
- E.F. Kearney, Limited $274.9M
- Airbus US Space & Defense Inc $275.3M
- Airbus US Space & Defense Inc $275.3M
- Kearney & Company, P.C. $273.1M
- The Haskell Company $273.0M
- The Haskell Company $273.0M
The Trustees of Princeton University's largest tracked contracts
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.
MANAGEMENT AND OPERATING CONTRACT FOR THE OPERATION OF THE PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY (PPPL)
Award DEAC0209CH11466 · 2009-01-31 to 2032-03-31
OPERATION OF PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY
Award DEAC0276CH03073 · 1999-10-13 to 2009-03-31
INTERSTELLAR MAPPING AND ACCELERATION PROBE (IMAP) IS A WATERSHED MISSION THAT SIMULTANEOUSLY INVESTIGATES THE ACCELERATION OF ENERGETIC PARTICLES AND INTERACTION OF THE SOLAR WIND WITH THE LOCAL INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM. IMAP WILL 1) ADVANCE THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL EVOLUTION OF THE BOUNDARY REGION IN WHICH THE SOLAR WIND AND INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM INTERACT, 2) IDENTIFY AND ADVANCE THE UNDERSTANDING OF PROCESSES RELATED TO THE INTERACTIONS OF THE MAGNETIC FIELD OF THE SUN AND THE LOCAL INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM, 3) IMPROVE THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE COMPOSITION AND PROPERTIES OF THE LOCAL INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM, AND 4) IDENTIFY AND ADVANCE THE UNDERSTANDING OF PARTICLE INJECTION AND ACCELERATION PROCESSES NEAR THE SUN, IN THE HELIOSPHERE AND HELIOSHEATH. IMAP IS BASED ON A COMPLETE AND SYNERGISTIC SET OF OBSERVATIONS. IN SITU AT 1AU, THIS REQUIRES DETAILED OBSERVATIONS OF THE SOLAR WIND ELECTRONS AND IONS SUPRATHERMAL, PICKUP, AND ENERGETIC ION POPULATIONS AND MAGNETIC FIELD. FOR THE OUTER HELIOSPHERE INTERACTION, IT REQUIRES ADVANCED GLOBAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE REMOTE PLASMA AND ENERGETIC IONS OVER A BROAD ENERGY RANGE VIA ENERGETIC NEUTRAL ATOM (ENA) IMAGING, AS WELL AS PRECISE OBSERVATION OF THE NEUTRAL INTERSTELLAR ATOMS PENETRATING THE HELIOSPHERE. COMPLEMENTARY OBSERVATIONS OF INTERSTELLAR DUST AND THE UV GLOW OF INTERSTELLAR NEUTRALS, WHILE NOT REQUIRED FOR THE THRESHOLD MISSION, ADD IMPORTANT CONTEXT AND INSIGHTS TO DEEPEN PHYSICAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE BASELINE MISSION. THESE OBSERVATIONAL NEEDS WILL REQUIRE AN INTEGRATED AND COORDINATED SUITE OF 10 INSTRUMENTS THAT SPAN BOTH THE IN SITU AND REMOTE IMAGING ASPECTS OF THE INVESTIGATION. AS THE PI INSTITUTION PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OVERSEES THE DEVELOPMENT OF IMAP TO ENSURE COST, RISK, AND SCIENCE OBJECTIVES ARE MET IN THE CONTEXT OF AN OVERALL PLAN TO DEVELOP, INTEGRATE, TEST, LAUNCH, COMMISSION, AND OPERATE THE IMAP MISSION. PRINCETON WILL DEVELOP THE SOLAR WIND AND PICKUP ION (SWAPI) INSTRUMENT, MANAGE THE MISSION SCIENCE TEAM, DEVELOP THE INTERSTELLAR DUST EXPERIMENT (IDEX) INSTRUMENT DATA PIPELINE, INITIATE THE FUTURE LEADERS PROGRAM, AND OVERSEE THE MISSION STUDENT COLLABORATION.
Award 80GSFC19C0027 · 2018-12-18 to 2028-01-31
IGF::OT::IGF THIS CONTRACT IS FOR IBEX INTERSTELLAR BOUNDARY EXPLORER (IBEX) SUPPORT. THIS CONTRACT IS A RESULT OF A PI TRANSFER FROM NNG05EC85C. THE CONTRACTOR SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONDUCT OF ALL PHASES AND ASPECTS OF THE IBEX MISSION INCLUDING: 1) LIFE-CYCLE PROJECT MANAGEMENT 2) DESIGN, TEST, DEVELOPMENT, AND OPERATIONS (PAYLOAD, SPACECRAFT, LAUNCH VEHICLE, SPACECRAFT TO LAUNCH-VEHICLE INTERFACES, LAUNCH AND FLIGHT OPERATIONS) AND 3) POST-OPERATIONS DATA ANALYSIS AND ARCHIVING. IN PERFORMANCE OF THIS EFFORT, THE IBEX TEAM SHALL: A. MANAGE THE PROJECT, PROVIDE COST AND SCHEDULE INFORMATION TO NASA AS SPECIFIED IN 3.0 MANAGEMENT, ABOVE. B. PROVIDE DAY-TO-DAY MANAGEMENT AND COORDINATION OF THE PROJECT AS DELEGATED BY THE PI TO THE PROJECT MANAGER (PM), INCLUDING MONITORING AND REPORTING TECHNICAL PROGRESS AND FINANCIAL STATUS, IMPLEMENTING THE RISK MANAGEMENT PLAN AND CONDUCTING MISSION LEVEL REVIEWS AS SPECIFIED IN SECTION 4.3, SYSTEM LEVEL REVIEWS. C. CONDUCT REVIEWS FOR ALL PAYLOAD SENSORS, PAYLOAD SUPPORT INFRASTRUCTURE AND ASSOCIATED GSE. D. PERFORM SCIENTIFIC ANALYSES IN SUPPORT OF THE MISSION SCIENCE REQUIREMENTS. E. PERFORM SYSTEMS ENGINEERING TO COORDINATE THE DESIGN OF THE INSTRUMENT COMPLEMENT AND SPACECRAFT BUS COMPONENTS AND TO ENSURE THE COMPATIBILITY OF THE SPACE-TO-GROUND AND NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS. F. PERFORM TRADE STUDIES TO ELIMINATE AND MITIGATE RISKS G. DELIVER THE IBEX FLIGHT SEGMENT TO VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE (VAFB), SUPPORT INTEGRATION WITH THE LAUNCH VEHICLE, AND ASSIST THE LAUNCH OPERATIONS H. ESTABLISH THE MISSION CONTROL CENTER (MCC) AND IBEX SCIENCE OPERATIONS AND DATA ANALYSIS CENTER (ISOC) INCLUDING ALL COMPUTERS, NETWORKS, AND OPERATING SOFTWARE, INSTRUMENT DATABASES AND PROCEDURES NECESSARY TO FUNCTIONALLY TEST AND LATER CONTROL THE SPACECRAFT I. HOLD SCIENCE TEAM MEETINGS AS WELL AS TECHNICAL INTERCHANGE MEETINGS. J. BASELINE THE SCIENCE REQUIREMENTS AND SCIENCE ANALYSIS PLAN INTO AN IBEX MISSION DEFINITION REQUIREMENTS AGREEMENT (MDRA) AND THE IBEX DATA MANAGEMENT PLAN. K. IMPLEMENT AN APPROVED MISSION ASSURANCE PLAN. L. IMPLEMENT A SYSTEMS ENGINEERING FUNCTION TO VERIFY PERFORMANCE SPECIFICATION COMPLIANCE TO THE MISSION SCIENCE REQUIREMENTS. M. DESIGN, FABRICATE, INTEGRATE AND TEST THE PAYLOAD, SPACECRAFT, SOLID ROCKET MOTOR AND LAUNCH VEHICLE ADAPTER, AND INTEGRATE THE IBEX FLIGHT SEGMENT WITH THE LAUNCH VEHICLE. N. IMPLEMENT A SAFETY PROGRAM INCLUDING THE GENERATION OF THE MISSILE SYSTEM PRE-LAUNCH SAFETY PACKAGE (MSPSP). O. SUPPORT LAUNCH, PERFORM ON-ORBIT CHECKOUT, AND ESTABLISH ON-ORBIT DATA ACQUISITION CONTACT WITH THE PAYLOAD. WITHIN THE FIRST 30 DAYS AFTER LAUNCH, INITIAL ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE CHECKOUT AND VERIFICATION OF SPACECRAFT IN-FLIGHT OPERATION WILL BE PERFORMED. P. PROVIDE THE SERVICES OF THE MCC AND THE ISOC. Q. CONDUCT THE E/PO PROGRAM IN COOPERATION WITH THE IDENTIFIED TEAM MEMBERS.
Award NNG17FC93C · 2017-03-23 to 2026-09-30
IGF::OT::IGF BASE PERIOD: ULTRASENSITIVE RAPID EBOLA VIRUS ANTIGEN DIAGNOSTIC ASSAY
Award HDTRA116C0025 · 2016-05-02 to 2019-10-01
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Frequently Asked Questions
Where does The Trustees of Princeton 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 Trustees of Princeton University's position is the Corpus rank in the header at the top of this page.
How much has The Trustees of Princeton 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 Trustees of Princeton 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 Trustees of Princeton University's contract data come from?
All contract data for The Trustees of Princeton 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 Trustees of Princeton University. This page covers one of them – the child-level record registered as UEI NJ1YPQXQG7U5, one of several the source reports at a similar size. The same registration also appears at the other recipient level.
- Parent record · UEI NJ1YPQXQG7U5 same registration $274.3M
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 E.F. Kearney, Limited ($274.9M) and just above Kearney & Company, P.C. ($273.1M), the nearest recipients by size that do not share its name.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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