National Aeronautics and Space Administration Contract Awards FY2021

Fiscal Years:FY1994
Total Awarded$25.2B
Contracts5,038
Top ContractorBLUE ORIGIN, LLC

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded $25.2B across 5,038
federal contracts in FY2021. ▲ 30.8% vs FY2020
The largest single contractor was BLUE ORIGIN, LLC.

ℹ️ FY2021 = Oct 2020 – Sep 2021 (U.S. federal fiscal year)  | 
Data covers largest contracts by award amount. Source: USASpending.gov (FPDS).

Top Contractors

Notable Awards

Date Recipient Amount Description
2020-12-16 BLUE ORIGIN, LLC $15000.0M NASA LAUNCH SERVICES (NLS) II CONTRACT
2020-12-17 CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY $3911.2M MARS SAMPLE RETURN (MSR) PROGRAM – PHASE A 40-108270
2021-06-16 CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY $546.3M MASS CHANGE (MC) PRE-PHASE A AND PHASE A PLAN (89-109861)
2021-07-21 THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC $407.7M INTERSTELLAR MAPPING AND ACCELERATION PROBE (IMAP) PHASE CD
2021-08-01 RAYTHEON COMPANY $275.0M EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM DATA AND INFORMATION SYSTEM (EOSDIS) EVOLUTION AND DEVELO
2021-09-01 CGI FEDERAL INC. $188.5M PROGRAM SUPPORT SERVICES (CPSS) PROGRAMMATIC SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT (SME) IDIQ TA
2021-09-30 GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY $179.1M THE REQUIREMENT IS TO ASSIST NASA IN ACCELERATING THE INTRODUCTION OF MEGAWATT C
2021-07-23 SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP. $178.3M EUROPA CLIPPER LAUNCH SERVICE
2021-03-23 REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE $165.6M THE COMPTON SPECTROMETER AND IMAGER (COSI)
2021-06-16 CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY $164.7M SURFACE BIOLOGY & GEOLOGY (SBG): PRE-PHASE A AND PHASE A PLAN
2021-02-04 FIREFLY AEROSPACE INC. $112.1M ENHAMCED LANDING AND MONILITY STUDY
2020-10-01 THE AEROSPACE CORPORATION $107.8M NASA-WIDE SPECIALIZED ENGINEERING, EVALUATION AND TEST SERVICES (NSEETS) TO PROV
2021-02-01 AGILE DECISION SCIENCES, LLC $107.5M SCIENCE MISSION DIRECTORATE (SMD) SOLICITATION PEER REVIEW PROGRAM PORTFOLIO SUP
2021-08-06 LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP $85.1M TIPPING POINT CRYOGENIC DEMONSTRATION MISSION (CDM) DELIVER GROUND AND MISSION D
2021-09-21 UNITED LAUNCH ALLIANCE, L.L.C $82.6M CRYOGENIC (H2-O2) SMART PROPULSION FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION
2021-02-10 REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE $79.2M GLOBAL LYMAN-ALPHA IMAGERS OF THE DYNAMIC EXOSPHERE (GLIDE) INSTRUMENT PROGRAM D
2021-09-30 MAGNIX USA INC $74.4M THE REQUIREMENT IS TO ASSIST NASA IN ACCELERATING THE INTRODUCTION OF MEGAWATT C
2021-09-20 CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY $71.6M JPL PLANETARY DATA SYSTEMS (PDS) NODES AND SUB-NODES (93-109847)
2021-04-26 LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION $66.5M MULTI-SLIT SOLAR EXPLORER (MUSE) MISSION PHASE A
2021-03-04 NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION $63.7M MARS ASCENT PROPULSION SYSTEM (MAPS)