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National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Federal agency · top-tier · the money flowing out to recipients.
$22.9B
obligated · FY2025
218
recipients
19,528
awards
1
sub-agencies

Obligations by year

≈ computed
$20.1B
FY20
$20.4B
FY21
$21.3B
FY22
$22.2B
FY23
$21.4B
FY24
$22.9B
FY25
▲ 14%
since FY20

Where this money goes

✓ from source
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND
TOP RECIPIENTS
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
$22.9B
FY2025 obligated
California Institute
$2.4B
Space Exploration
$2.1B
The Boeing
$1.5B
Lockheed Martin
$1.3B
Northrop Grumman
$1.2B
213 other recipients
$14.2B
band width = obligations · FY2025 · source: USASpending.gov

How it spends

≈ computed · awards by type
9,808contracts
8,777grants
943contract vehicles

What it funds

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)$8.1B
Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing$3.4B
Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation$1.4B
Engineering Services$1.2B
Science$1.2B
Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)$1.2B
Facilities Support Services$982.7M
Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences$646.4M

Sub-agencies

National Aeronautics and Space Administration$22.9B

Largest awards

International Space Station
awarded 1993$22.4B
Design, Development, Test & Evaluation of Project Orion
awarded 2006$15.6B
Provide Developmental Hardware and Test Articles, and Manufacture and Assemble…
awarded 2007$10.5B
Joint US/Russian Human Space Flight Activities
awarded 1993$4.7B
First DDT and E, Ares I-X, and Flight Tests
awarded 2006$4.4B
James Webb Space Telescope (Jwst) Phase 2 Observatory Contractor Shall Be…
awarded 2003$4.3B
RS-25 Production Restart to Be Undertaken by the Contractor in Support of…
awarded 2015$3.4B
Work Required for the Design, Development, Manufacture, Test, Launch…
awarded 2020$3.2B

The agency’s biggest individual awards by total value, largest first.

Congressional oversight

House Committee on AppropriationsHouse Committee on Science, Space, and TechnologySenate Committee on AppropriationsSenate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

≈ inferred the congressional committees whose jurisdiction covers this agency (curated). Oversight is context, not control, and not a claim of influence over any award.

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