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National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Federal agency · top-tier · the money flowing out to recipients.
$21.4B
obligated · FY2024
225
recipients

Obligations by year

≈ computed
$22.2B
FY23
$21.4B
FY24
$22.9B
FY25
▲ 3%
since FY23

Where this money goes

✓ from source
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND
TOP RECIPIENTS
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
$21.4B
FY2024 obligated
California Institute
$2.2B
Space Exploration
$2B
The Boeing
$1.5B
Lockheed Martin
$1.3B
Amentum Technology,
$1B
220 other recipients
$13.3B
band width = obligations · FY2024 · source: USASpending.gov

What it funds

No categories recorded.

Top recipients

California Institute of Technology$2.2B
Space Exploration Technologies Corp.$2B
The Boeing Company$1.5B
Lockheed Martin Corporation$1.3B
Amentum Technology, Inc.$1B
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp$932.4M
KBR, Inc.$755.5M
Blue Origin Washington, LLC$503.9M
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC$430.3M
Leidos, Inc.$380.3M

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$3.3B
Work Required for the Design, Development, Manufacture, Test, Launch…
awarded 2020$3B

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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