NAICS 541715
Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
Federal contractor footprint · 542 profiled contractors
Combined Contractor Footprint
$183.6B
Obligations under NAICS 541715 across the 542 GovExpress-profiled contractors that report the code. Not total federal spending in the code, and not de-duplicated across corporate families that file under more than one parent record.
Top Federal Contractors — Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
Obligations under NAICS 541715 across the 542 GovExpress-profiled contractors that report the code. Not total federal spending in the code, and not de-duplicated across corporate families that file under more than one parent record.
- LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP$31.4B
- FLUOR CORPORATION$25.1B
- CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$15.2B
- LEIDOS HOLDINGS, INC.$11.1B
- NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION$10.5B
- THE AEROSPACE CORPORATION$9.6B
- THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC$5.3B
- BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON HOLDING CORPORATION$4.8B
- THE MITRE CORPORATION$4.5B
- RTX CORPORATION$4.1B
Agencies Buying This Code
Estimated by weighting each profiled contractor's agency mix by its NAICS 541715 footprint. Directional, not an agency-by-code total.
- Department of Defense (Department of War)$113.7B
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$26.2B
- Department of Energy$19.7B
- General Services Administration$5.3B
- Department of Health and Human Services$4.3B
- Department of Homeland Security$3.2B
- Department of Transportation$2.4B
- Department of Veterans Affairs$2.1B
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Obligations under NAICS 541715 across the 542 GovExpress-profiled contractors that report the code. Not total federal spending in the code, and not de-duplicated across corporate families that file under more than one parent record. Spending data from FPDS-NG via USASpending.gov, read between 2026-09-22 and 2026-10-27. Standard 90-day reporting lag per FAR 4.606(c). Read the full methodology.