Who is THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY?

THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY is a federal contractor registered under Unique Entity ID NPM2J7MSCF61. In the USAspending.gov records held here, the company appears on 1,537 federal prime contract awards totalling $3,431,730,237. This page reports what the federal contract award record contains. It is not a review, a rating, a recommendation or an endorsement, and nothing here is an assessment of the company or its work.

How many government contracts does THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY have?

1,537 federal prime contract awards are on file for THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY here. That is a count of one dataset, not of everything the company has ever done: this record covers federal PRIME contract awards (award types A, B, C and D) published by USAspending.gov. It does not include subcontracts, grants, loans, state or local government work, commercial revenue, or any award outside the fiscal years loaded here.

What kind of work is recorded on THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY's federal contracts?

Each award carries the six-digit NAICS code the buying agency used to classify the requirement. The largest by dollars on file is RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHYSICAL, ENGINEERING, AND LIFE SCIENCES (EXCEPT NANOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY) (NAICS 541715). That is how the government classified this work, which is not the same thing as a description of everything the company does.

Where does THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY perform its federal contract work?

Place of performance is where the work happens, not where the company is headquartered. Across the awards on file, the largest share of the award dollars is performed in Pennsylvania, with work also recorded in 15 other states.

How can I check these figures?

Every award listed on this page links to its own record on USAspending.gov, the federal government's official spending database. Nothing here is computed from a private data source: the figures are counts and sums over public records, and any of them can be checked against the government's own page in one click.

How do I compete for the same kind of work?

Award history tells you which agencies buy this work and roughly what they pay; open solicitations are what you can actually bid. BidGovContracts pulls federal SAM.gov postings and state portals into one feed and summarizes each one in plain English. You will also need an active SAM.gov registration with a UEI of your own before any federal award can be made to you.

Federal contract awards · UEI NPM2J7MSCF61

THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY government contracts

Q: Which agencies award contracts to THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY?

Across the awards on file, the largest total comes from Department of Defense: 1,392 awards worth $3,314,928,611. The buying agencies with the largest totals are listed on this page, ranked by total award dollars — that table is capped, so it is the top of the list rather than every agency on file.

1,537 federal prime contract awards to THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY are on file here, worth $3.4B between them, with periods of performance beginning between Apr 15, 2000 and Jul 9, 2026. Below: which agencies bought, what the work was classified as, where the work was performed, the largest awards and the most recent awards. Every award listed links to its own record on the government's own site.

This page reports what the federal contract award record contains. It is not a review, a rating, a recommendation or an endorsement, and nothing here is an assessment of the company or its work.

THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY federal awards, by the numbers

Awards on file: 1,537
Total awarded: $3.4B
Average award: $2.2M
Median award: $526.5K
Largest single award: $115.8M
Period covered: Apr 15, 2000 – Jul 9, 2026

Figures read from our copy of the USAspending.gov record on September 11, 2026. Federal spending data is published on a lag and is revised after the fact, so treat these as the record as it stood, not as a live balance.

Which agencies award contracts to THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY

Awarding agencies ranked by total contract dollars on file. If you are sizing up this market, this is the useful list: these offices have already bought this kind of work, they recompete it on a cycle, and the requirement is already written.

Awarding agency	Awards	Total awarded
1Department of Defense	1,392	$3,314,928,61196.6% of total
2National Aeronautics and Space Administration	15	$82,788,3092.4% of total
3Department of Health and Human Services	14	$6,464,9900.2% of total
4Nuclear Regulatory Commission	9	$6,219,5260.2% of total
5General Services Administration	37	$6,076,4720.2% of total
6Department of the Interior	8	$5,595,8110.2% of total
7Department of Agriculture	29	$2,614,490<0.1% of total
8Department of the Treasury	1	$2,339,262<0.1% of total
9Department of Transportation	6	$2,036,993<0.1% of total
10Department of Energy	6	$1,386,343<0.1% of total
11Department of Commerce	16	$660,427<0.1% of total
12National Science Foundation	1	$484,525<0.1% of total

What THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY is awarded work for

The six-digit NAICS codes recorded on these awards, ranked by dollars. The code is the buying agency's classification of the requirement — it is how the SBA decides who counts as a small business for that contract, and therefore who was eligible to compete for it. It is not a description of everything a company does.

Industry (NAICS)	Awards	Total awarded
1RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHYSICAL, ENGINEERING, AND LIFE SCIENCES (EXCEPT NANOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY)541715	812	$2,164,109,74363.1% of total
2RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHYSICAL, ENGINEERING, AND LIFE SCIENCES (EXCEPT BIOTECHNOLOGY)541712	497	$940,163,25227.4% of total
3RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHYSICAL, ENGINEERING, AND LIFE SCIENCES541710	31	$284,032,3088.3% of total
4COLLEGES, UNIVERSITIES, AND PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS611310	21	$11,443,1900.3% of total
5PROFESSIONAL AND MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT TRAINING611430	46	$7,252,5380.2% of total
6ALL OTHER PROFESSIONAL, SCIENTIFIC, AND TECHNICAL SERVICES541990	12	$5,780,3500.2% of total
7RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN BIOTECHNOLOGY541711	1	$3,738,1610.1% of total
8EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES611710	2	$2,765,980<0.1% of total
9VETERINARY SERVICES541940	28	$2,603,463<0.1% of total
10RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES541720	7	$2,401,655<0.1% of total
11COMPUTER SYSTEMS DESIGN SERVICES541512	1	$2,339,262<0.1% of total
12CUSTOM COMPUTER PROGRAMMING SERVICES541511	1	$1,840,479<0.1% of total

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Where THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY performs federal contract work

Place of performance is where the work happens, not where the company is headquartered. Ranked by total award dollars.

Showing the 12 states with the largest totals, of 16 where work on these awards was performed.

Place of performance	Awards	Total awarded
1Pennsylvania	1,467	$3,369,990,58998.2% of total
2Virginia	13	$44,644,1821.3% of total
3District of Columbia	9	$4,452,2450.1% of total
4Florida	2	$4,361,3510.1% of total
5Maryland	9	$2,424,935<0.1% of total
6Ohio	1	$2,230,000<0.1% of total
7Iowa	11	$1,141,636<0.1% of total
8Washington	1	$958,014<0.1% of total
9New York	3	$458,961<0.1% of total
10Texas	6	$412,459<0.1% of total
11California	6	$244,762<0.1% of total
12Illinois	4	$232,464<0.1% of total

Federal contracting in these states

Largest federal awards to THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY

The biggest contract awards on file by reported amount. Every card links to the same award on USAspending.gov, so you can check the amount, the buyer and the dates against the government's own record.

THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
$115,835,032
Department of Defense · Department of the Navy
541715 · RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHYSICAL, ENGINEERING, AND LIFE SCIENCES (EXCEPT NANOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY)
Place of performance
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA
Work started
Sep 11, 2018
Through
Dec 31, 2022
Contract
N0002418F8410
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THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
$92,491,825
Department of Defense · Department of the Navy
541715 · RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHYSICAL, ENGINEERING, AND LIFE SCIENCES (EXCEPT NANOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY)
Place of performance
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA
Work started
Sep 20, 2023
Through
Sep 19, 2026
Contract
N0002423F8401
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THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
$88,238,384
Department of Defense · Department of the Navy
541712 · RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHYSICAL, ENGINEERING, AND LIFE SCIENCES (EXCEPT BIOTECHNOLOGY)
Place of performance
STATE COLLEGE, PA
Work started
Jan 31, 2013
Through
Mar 31, 2017
Contract
0016
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THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
$81,172,062
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
541710 · RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHYSICAL, ENGINEERING, AND LIFE SCIENCES
Place of performance
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA
Work started
Apr 15, 2000
Through
Aug 31, 2027
Contract
GSFC0200004DNAS500136
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THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
$80,052,504
Department of Defense · Department of the Navy
541715 · RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHYSICAL, ENGINEERING, AND LIFE SCIENCES (EXCEPT NANOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY)
Place of performance
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA
Work started
Sep 28, 2020
Through
Dec 31, 2025
Contract
N0002420F8355
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THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
$54,297,000
Department of Defense · Department of the Navy
541710 · RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHYSICAL, ENGINEERING, AND LIFE SCIENCES
Place of performance
STATE COLLEGE, PA
Work started
Jan 3, 2003
Through
Mar 13, 2006
Contract
0074
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THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
$53,021,842
Department of Defense · Department of the Navy
541715 · RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHYSICAL, ENGINEERING, AND LIFE SCIENCES (EXCEPT NANOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY)
Place of performance
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA
Work started
Jun 2, 2021
Through
Sep 30, 2024
Contract
N0002421F8307
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THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
$50,492,822
Department of Defense · Department of the Navy
541715 · RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHYSICAL, ENGINEERING, AND LIFE SCIENCES (EXCEPT NANOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY)
Place of performance
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA
Work started
Sep 9, 2024
Through
Sep 8, 2027
Contract
N0002424F8358
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Most recently started work

Ordered by period-of-performance start date, the latest beginning Jul 9, 2026. Contracts whose end date is twelve to eighteen months out are the ones headed for recompete — that is the window in which an agency starts market research, long before anything is posted.

THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
$54,370
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
611310 · COLLEGES, UNIVERSITIES, AND PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS
Place of performance
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA
Work started
Jul 9, 2026
Through
Jan 11, 2027
Contract
80NSSC26P0974
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THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
$4,890
Department of Agriculture · Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
541940 · VETERINARY SERVICES
Place of performance
AMES, IA
Work started
Jun 1, 2026
Through
May 31, 2027
Contract
12639526F0591
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THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
$46,000
Department of Defense · Department of the Navy
541715 · RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHYSICAL, ENGINEERING, AND LIFE SCIENCES (EXCEPT NANOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY)
Place of performance
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA
Work started
May 15, 2026
Through
May 8, 2027
Contract
N0002426F8345
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THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
$35,000
Department of Defense · Department of the Navy
541715 · RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHYSICAL, ENGINEERING, AND LIFE SCIENCES (EXCEPT NANOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY)
Place of performance
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA
Work started
May 13, 2026
Through
May 6, 2027
Contract
N0002426F8316
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THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
$401,128
Department of Defense · Department of the Navy
541715 · RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHYSICAL, ENGINEERING, AND LIFE SCIENCES (EXCEPT NANOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY)
Place of performance
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA
Work started
May 13, 2026
Through
Mar 12, 2029
Contract
N0002426F8340
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THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
$3,000
Department of Agriculture · Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
541940 · VETERINARY SERVICES
Place of performance
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA
Work started
May 12, 2026
Through
May 11, 2027
Contract
12639526F0534
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THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
$1,710,680
Department of Defense · Department of the Navy
541715 · RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHYSICAL, ENGINEERING, AND LIFE SCIENCES (EXCEPT NANOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY)
Place of performance
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA
Work started
Apr 30, 2026
Through
Jul 29, 2027
Contract
N0002426F8348
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THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
$400,000
Department of Defense · Department of the Navy
541715 · RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHYSICAL, ENGINEERING, AND LIFE SCIENCES (EXCEPT NANOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY)
Place of performance
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA
Work started
Apr 29, 2026
Through
Apr 28, 2027
Contract
N0002426F8331
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Where these figures come from

Source. Every figure on this page is public federal spending data from USAspending.gov, the federal government's official record of its own spending. Public record, free to read, with no data vendor in between. Each award below links to its own record there, so any number here can be checked against the government's own page.
Scope. This record covers federal PRIME contract awards (award types A, B, C and D) published by USAspending.gov. It does not include subcontracts, grants, loans, state or local government work, commercial revenue, or any award outside the fiscal years loaded here. It is a slice of one company's federal contracting and not a complete business history — treat the totals as a floor.
Identity. Awards are grouped by Unique Entity ID (NPM2J7MSCF61), not by name, because the same company files under several spellings and unrelated companies share names. The name shown is the spelling that appears most often on these awards, reproduced as stored.
Missing values. Where USAspending records no amount, agency, NAICS code or location, we leave it out instead of filling it in. An award with no reported amount is still counted as an award but does not enter any total or average, which is why a row's award count can outrun its dollars.
Corrections. Federal award data is revised by the agencies that report it. If something here disagrees with the linked USAspending record, the government's record is authoritative and ours is the copy that needs fixing — the link on each award is there so you never have to take our word for it.

This page reports what the federal contract award record contains. It is not a review, a rating, a recommendation or an endorsement, and nothing here is an assessment of the company or its work. We publish it because federal award history is public record and because knowing who currently holds a contract is the single most useful thing a small business can learn before bidding against them.

THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY government contracts — common questions

Who is THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY?: THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY is a federal contractor registered under Unique Entity ID NPM2J7MSCF61. In the USAspending.gov records held here, the company appears on 1,537 federal prime contract awards totalling $3,431,730,237. This page reports what the federal contract award record contains. It is not a review, a rating, a recommendation or an endorsement, and nothing here is an assessment of the company or its work.
How many government contracts does THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY have?: 1,537 federal prime contract awards are on file for THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY here. That is a count of one dataset, not of everything the company has ever done: this record covers federal PRIME contract awards (award types A, B, C and D) published by USAspending.gov. It does not include subcontracts, grants, loans, state or local government work, commercial revenue, or any award outside the fiscal years loaded here.
Which agencies award contracts to THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY?: Across the awards on file, the largest total comes from Department of Defense: 1,392 awards worth $3,314,928,611. The buying agencies with the largest totals are listed on this page, ranked by total award dollars — that table is capped, so it is the top of the list rather than every agency on file.
What kind of work is recorded on THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY's federal contracts?: Each award carries the six-digit NAICS code the buying agency used to classify the requirement. The largest by dollars on file is RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHYSICAL, ENGINEERING, AND LIFE SCIENCES (EXCEPT NANOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY) (NAICS 541715). That is how the government classified this work, which is not the same thing as a description of everything the company does.
Where does THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY perform its federal contract work?: Place of performance is where the work happens, not where the company is headquartered. Across the awards on file, the largest share of the award dollars is performed in Pennsylvania, with work also recorded in 15 other states.
How can I check these figures?: Every award listed on this page links to its own record on USAspending.gov, the federal government's official spending database. Nothing here is computed from a private data source: the figures are counts and sums over public records, and any of them can be checked against the government's own page in one click.
How do I compete for the same kind of work?: Award history tells you which agencies buy this work and roughly what they pay; open solicitations are what you can actually bid. BidGovContracts pulls federal SAM.gov postings and state portals into one feed and summarizes each one in plain English. You will also need an active SAM.gov registration with a UEI of your own before any federal award can be made to you.

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