* 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 related entities is
generated by querying the nearest neighbors of
embeddings generated using an extension of the methodology
described in our report: Reports of a Silicon Valley/Military Divide Have Been
Greatly Exaggerated . While the focus is on entities with similar contracting
patterns, this is not meaningful for companies which have
few direct federal contracts. We therefore augment the
contracting co-occurrence scores using the SEC peer groups
described in our second report,Death and Taxes , along with manually curated official partnerships.