USAspending.gov · federal agency · CY2024 · code 080
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Federal contract spending profile, contract obligations, budget authority and top contractors, from USAspending.gov.
- Corpus rank
- #7 of 65
- Contract obligations (CY2024)
- $14.9B
- Budget authority
- $43.5B
- Agency
- NASA
Year-over-year change, 2019–2024
Across the calendar years on file, National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s annual contract obligations fell from $16.0B in 2023 to $14.9B in 2024. 7% vs 2023 The strongest year on file is 2023 at $16.0B.
Calendar-year prime contract obligations by action date (award types A-D). Annual figures share the calendar-year basis of the CY2024 headline above; budget authority is a separate measure.
How National Aeronautics leads the CY2024 obligation board
$14.9B · #7 of 65 by CY2024 contract obligations (top 10% nationally) - a top-third USAspending agency by calendar-2024 contract obligations (same board as the agencies listing). See methodology.
From calendar 2019 to 2024, National Aeronautics and Space Administration held #7 of 66 agencies in the annual contract-obligation series. Its share of that year’s tracked agency total moved from 2.52% to 1.98%. Across the available annual series, its obligations ranged from $14.3B in 2019 to $16.0B in 2023, a 1.1x spread.
California Institute of Technology is the largest listed prime contractor at $2.2B, or 14.5% of this agency’s calendar-2024 obligation total. The table below shows the remaining named prime recipients in the extract. Contract obligations ($14.9B) sit in a mid band versus the $43.5B budget-authority ceiling. Methodology documents the distinct populations and the Treasury source fields.
Top Contractors
| # | Contractor | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | California Institute of Technology | $2.2B |
| 2 | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. | $1.4B |
| 3 | The Boeing Company | $1.1B |
| 4 | Lockheed Martin Corp | $607.3M |
| 5 | Blue Origin Washington, LLC | $503.0M |
| 6 | Aerojet Rocketdyne of De, Inc | $444.7M |
| 7 | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $442.6M |
| 8 | Peraton Inc. | $388.6M |
| 9 | The Boeing Company | $317.5M |
| 10 | Kbr Wyle Services, LLC | $317.5M |
| 11 | Amentum Technology, Inc. | $313.6M |
| 12 | Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. | $262.8M |
| 13 | Bechtel National, Inc. | $259.5M |
| 14 | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | $238.6M |
| 15 | Science Systems and Applications, Inc. | $190.6M |
| 16 | Axiom Space Inc | $153.2M |
| 17 | Bae Systems Space & Mission Systems Inc. | $153.1M |
| 18 | Air Products and Chemicals, Inc | $131.9M |
| 19 | Space Network Solutions LLC | $128.0M |
| 20 | Hamilton Sundstrand Space Systems International, Inc. | $125.5M |
Source: USAspending.gov · U.S. Department of the Treasury
Nearby mega-scale agencies
Data-derived peers across the USAspending agency extract: nearest contract-obligation scale and nearest budget authority. Not recommendations or same-department siblings.
Closest CY2024 contract obligations
Similar budget authority
Disclaimer: Data from USAspending.gov public records. For informational purposes only. Contract amounts are aggregated and may not reflect the most current modifications or de-obligations. Always verify with official sources.
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