* The total 'potential' contract value figure requires the most care -- and, ideally, manual analysis -- as there can be double-counting between the potential value of a parent award (e.g., an Indefinite Delivery Contract) and one of its subawards (e.g., a Delivery Order). But, due to disk space constraints, we cannot store all contract information and have only uploaded subaward linkages back to mid-2019. For this reason and others, for the sake of consistency we compute the sum of the potential contract values in the naive manner with the understanding that it is usually only a slight overestimate of a number which is, even when carefully computed, often a very loose upper bound on eventually exercised options values.
The following list of 'similar contractors' is
generated by querying the nearest neighbors of
embeddings generated using the methodology described in
our report: Reports of a Silicon Valley/Military Divide Have Been
Greatly Exaggerated . We note that the generated neighbors are less
meaningful for companies which have few direct federal
contracts.