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United Launch Alliance, L.L.C
According to USAspending.gov, United Launch Alliance, L.L.C ranks in the upper tier of tracked federal contractors by lifetime obligations
- Corpus rank
- #751 of 5,000
- Lifetime awards
- $232.7M
- UEI
- MRQAVEBRXED5
- Percentile · top quartile nationally
- 85th
United Launch Alliance, L.L.C vs all tracked contractors by lifetime obligations
Where this recipient's cumulative award total sits among every tracked prime, USAspending.gov lifetime ledgers
$232,709,720 Top 15% higher than 85% of 5,000 contractors
Contractors, banded by lifetime obligation dollars
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Source USAspending.gov · 2026-09-12
United Launch Alliance, L.L.C federal award total
United Launch Alliance, L.L.C is a tracked USAspending.gov prime recipient; this page reports its lifetime obligations across every award action filed under one recipient ID.
PlainFedContract reports USAspending.gov /recipient/ lifetime ledgers for United Launch Alliance, L.L.C: cumulative prime obligations on this recipient ID, not a single fiscal year. Lifetime totals can exceed one year's national pool; do not read the scale bar as an annual share. Open linked agency or state breakdowns when present; see /methodology/#populations/.
Reading United Launch Alliance, L.L.C's Federal Contract Record
USAspending.gov's public ledger records United Launch Alliance, L.L.C's cumulative federal contract obligations at the parent recipient level.
United Launch Alliance, L.L.C ranks in the upper tier of tracked federal contractors by lifetime obligations, #751 of 5,000 tracked recipients, same order as the top-contractors rankings.
The sections below break the header figures into individual awards, yearly obligations and comparable recipients. See methodology.
How to read this obligation total (lifetime ledger, not annual spend)
This figure is a rolling aggregate of every prime-award action ever reported for this recipient ID, new awards, modifications, option exercises, and de-obligations all flow into the same total, so the dollar amount shown above is a lifetime ledger rather than an annual budget. Interpreting it as a single-year spend would overstate current activity; interpreting it as a guaranteed revenue stream would overstate commitment, because modifications can cut scope or scope can simply lapse unexercised. The parent classification also matters for how this record should be read: prime recipients hold the contract directly with a federal agency and are fully responsible for performance; parent-level rollups aggregate awards across subsidiaries, which can inflate totals for large conglomerates whose operating units compete separately. The UEI in the header is the post-2022 federal identifier that replaced the DUNS number, it persists across name changes, acquisitions, and reorganizations, making it the most reliable anchor for tracking this entity over time. For researchers, journalists, and procurement staff, the practical layer under this total is verification: USAspending.gov exposes every underlying transaction by award ID, so any totals on this page can be reconstructed action-by-action through the agency's advanced search. Contract amounts displayed here reflect obligations, money the government has committed, not outlays, which is cash actually disbursed, and the gap between obligation and outlay can span multiple fiscal years on multi-year contracts, so a large obligation total does not imply equivalent cash flow in any single period.
United Launch Alliance, L.L.C's federal contractor value score
One verdict number from this portal's own compiled award data, benchmarked against the tracked contractor corpus: scale, recent momentum, and revenue consistency.
- Contract scale A- $232,709,720 Total tracked federal contract value
- Recent momentum N/A N/A Most recent tracked year vs. the prior year
- Revenue consistency N/A N/A Year-over-year variation across every tracked year
Higher scale, stronger recent momentum, and steadier year-over-year revenue all score higher. A dimension with too little tracked history for this recipient drops out and its weight redistributes across the rest -- it never silently lowers the score. Full method: federal contractor value score.
Source: USAspending.gov · U.S. Department of the Treasury
Nationwide similar contractors
Data-derived peers across the USAspending recipient extract: nearest lifetime obligation total and nearest represented-agency count. Not geography, name-group siblings, or recommendations.
Closest lifetime-obligation totals
- United Launch Services, LLC $232.7M
- Forgen-Odin Jv $233.0M
- Forgen-Odin Jv $233.0M
- Core Tech-Hdcc-Kajima LLC $233.1M
- Tutor Perini Corporation $233.3M
- Tutor Perini Corporation $233.3M
United Launch Alliance, L.L.C's largest tracked contracts
The 5 largest individual contract awards on file for this recipient, direct from USAspending.gov: not the lifetime aggregate above, but the actual awards behind it.
BOEING LAUNCH SERVICES, INC.
Award KSC00200006DNAS1000001 · 2000-06-16 to 2013-06-30
NASA LAUNCH SERVICES
Award KSC00200006DNAS1000060 · 2000-06-16 to 2015-07-13
CRYOGENIC (H2-O2) SMART PROPULSION FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION
Award 80MSFC21CA004 · 2021-09-21 to 2027-07-31
IGF::OT::IGF ULA ADVANCED DEVELOPMENT INTERGRATED VEHICLE FLUID TESTING
Award NNM13AA59C · 2013-10-01 to 2017-09-01
HEAVY LIFT&PROPULSION TECHNOLOGY (HLPT) SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND TRADE STUDY THIS SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND TRADE STUDY SHALL IDENTIFY HOW ALTERNATIVE HEAVY LIFT SYSTEM SOLUTIONS ADDRESS KEY DECISION ATTRIBUTES/FIGURES OF MERIT/MEASURES OF EFFECTIVENESS, INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING: PROVIDE A RECOMMENDED LIST OF KEY DECISION ATTRIBUTES AND RATIONALE ASSOCIATED WITH EACH. PROVIDE A RECOMMENDATION FOR THE WEIGHTING OF THE RECOMMENDED KEY DECISION ATTRIBUTES. IDENTIFY HOW CHANGES TO THE WEIGHTING OF KEY DECISION ATTRIBUTES AFFECT THE ARCHITECTURES. IDENTIFY HOW ALTERNATIVE GROUND RULES AND ASSUMPTIONS IMPACT THE IDENTIFIED ALTERNATIVE SYSTEM SOLUTIONS. IDENTIFY HOW INNOVATIVE OR NON-TRADITIONAL PROCESSES OR TECHNOLOGIES CAN BE APPLIED TO THE HEAVY LIFT SYSTEMS TO DRAMATICALLY IMPROVE ITS AFFORDABILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY. IDENTIFY HOW ASPECTS OF A HEAVY LIFT SYSTEM (INCLUDING STAGES, SUBSYSTEMS, AND MAJOR COMPONENTS) COULD HAVE COMMONALITY WITH OTHER USER APPLICATIONS, INCLUDING NASA, DOD, COMMERCIAL, AND INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS. IDENTIFY HOW INCREMENTAL DEVELOPMENT TESTING, INCLUDING GROUND AND FLIGHT TESTING, OF HEAVY LIFT SYSTEM ELEMENTS CAN ENHANCE THE HEAVY LIFT SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT. IDENTIFY CAPABILITY GAPS ASSOCIATED WITH THE HEAVY LIFT SYSTEM, AND FOR EACH CAPABILITY GAP IDENTIFY SPECIFIC AREAS WHERE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT MAY BE NEEDED. IDENTIFY CAPABILITY GAPS ASSOCIATED WITH THE FIRST-STAGE MAIN ENGINE FUNCTIONAL PERFORMANCE AND PROGRAMMATIC CHARACTERISTICS REQUIRED TO SUPPORT EACH HEAVY LIFT SYSTEM STUDIED. IDENTIFY CAPABILITY GAPS ASSOCIATED WITH THE UPPER-STAGE MAIN ENGINE FUNCTIONAL PERFORMANCE AND PROGRAMMATIC CHARACTERISTICS REQUIRED TO SUPPORT EACH HEAVY LIFT SYSTEM STUDIED. IDENTIFY ANY IMPACTS TO OVERALL LIFE CYCLE COSTS OF THE HEAVY LIFT SYSTEM BASED ON THE ENGINE STUDIED. IDENTIFY CAPABILITY GAPS ASSOCIATED WITH ALL OTHER TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF HEAVY LIFT SYSTEM, E.G. TANKS, PROPELLANT AND PRESSURIZATION SYSTEMS, INTEGRATED SYSTEM HEALTH MANAGEMENT, AUXILIARY PROPULSION SYSTEMS, AVIONICS AND CONTROL SYSTEMS, STRUCTURES. IDENTIFY TEST AND INTEGRATED DEMONSTRATIONS TO MITIGATE RISK ASSOCIATED WITH THE GAPS. IDENTIFY CAPABILITY GAPS ASSOCIATED WITH THE IN-SPACE SPACE PROPULSION ELEMENTS FUNCTIONAL PERFORMANCE AND PROGRAMMATIC CHARACTERISTICS REQUIRED TO SUPPORT EACH HEAVY LIFT SYSTEM STUDIED. IDENTIFY ANY IMPACTS TO OVERALL LIFE CYCLE COSTS OF THE HEAVY LIFT SYSTEM BASED ON THE ENGINES STUDIED. IDENTIFY CAPABILITY GAPS ASSOCIATED WITH ALL OTHER TECHNICAL ELEMENTS OF THE IN-SPACE SPACE PROPULSION ELEMENT, E.G. TANKS, PROPELLANT AND PRESSURIZATION SYSTEMS, CRYOGENIC FLUID MANAGEMENT, INTEGRATED SYSTEM HEALTH MANAGEMENT, AUXILIARY PROPULSION SYSTEMS, AVIONICS AND CONTROL SYSTEMS, STRUCTURES, AUTONOMOUS RENDEZVOUS AND DOCKING. IDENTIFY TEST AND INTEGRATED DEMONSTRATIONS TO MITIGATE RISK ASSOCIATED WITH THE GAPS. IDENTIFY WHAT IN-SPACE SPACE PROPULSION ELEMENTS, IF ANY, WHICH SHOULD BE DEMONSTRATED VIA SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS.
Award NNM11AA16C · 2010-11-22 to 2011-11-08
Disclaimer: This data is for informational purposes only. Contract amounts are aggregated from USAspending.gov and may not reflect the most current data. Do not use this data for business decisions without verifying with official sources.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where does United Launch Alliance, L.L.C rank among tracked federal contractors?
Tracked recipients are ordered by USAspending.gov lifetime obligation totals, the same sort as the top-contractors rankings; United Launch Alliance, L.L.C's position is the Corpus rank in the header at the top of this page.
How much has United Launch Alliance, L.L.C received in federal contracts?
The lifetime total is the Lifetime awards figure in the header at the top of this page. It sums every prime-award action reported under this recipient ID on USAspending.gov, modifications included, so it is a running ledger rather than one year's spending.
What is the UEI for United Launch Alliance, L.L.C?
The Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) is shown in the header stat rail above; it is recorded at the parent recipient level.
Where does United Launch Alliance, L.L.C's contract data come from?
All contract data for United Launch Alliance, L.L.C is sourced from USAspending.gov prime-award records. No agency- or state-level breakdown is on file for this contractor.
How this record relates to the rest of the data
This name appears once in the tracked recipient set, so the parent-level record on this page is the only USAspending recipient record carrying it.
By lifetime obligations this record sits just below Forgen-Odin Jv ($233.0M) and just above United Launch Services, LLC ($232.7M), the nearest recipients by size that do not share its name.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure on PlainFedContract is rendered directly from USAspending.gov federal contract data, no number is typed in by an editor. Contractor figures are computed directly from USAspending.gov data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a correction.