Who is NASA's biggest contractor in FY2020?

California Institute of Technology, with $2.6B obligated in FY2020. Second is The Boeing Company at $1.4B.

Where does this ranking come from?

It is computed from USASpending.gov award records, which are U.S. government works and in the public domain. Each figure is the total NASA obligated to that recipient in FY2020. TheFiscalFinder does the ranking; the underlying figures are the government's own.

How many recipients are shown?

The top 100 for FY2020. Each row opens that recipient's own page, where the same money is broken out by year, by counterparty and by place.

Does a high position mean anything is wrong?

No. This is a description of where public money went in FY2020, computed from public records. It is not an allegation about anyone on it.

Rankings

Top contractors of NASA: FY2020

FY2020 · complete year · data as of 2026-07-12

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California Institute of Technology received more money from NASA than any other recipient in FY2020: $2.6B in obligations. Ranked by what NASA obligated to each recipient in FY2020, so the list is about this agency's money rather than a contractor's overall size. Combined corporate families count once. Computed

Ranked from USASpending records. FY2020 to FY2026 are loaded.

Quick findings

Computed

The top 10 account for 65% of the $15.2B combined total of all 100 recipients listed.

Rank	Name	FY2020
01	California Institute of Technology0 awards	$2.6B
02	The Boeing Company0 awards	$1.4B
03	Lockheed Martin Corporation0 awards	$1.3B
04	Amentum Technology, Inc.0 awards	$1B
05	Space Exploration Technologies Corp.0 awards	$904M
06	Orbital Sciences LLC0 awards	$755.9M
07	KBR, Inc.0 awards	$650.7M
08	Science Applications International Corporation0 awards	$495.1M
09	Aerojet Rocketdyne of DE, Inc0 awards	$398.5M
10	Leidos, Inc.0 awards	$389M
11	Atk Launch Systems LLC0 awards	$327.7M
12	United Launch Services, LLC0 awards	$275.8M
13	Science Systems and Applications, Inc.0 awards	$273.2M
14	The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC0 awards	$256.7M
15	Science Applications International Corporation0 awards	$242.7M
16	Blue Origin Federation, LLC0 awards	$230.2M
17	Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation0 awards	$222.3M
18	Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc.0 awards	$217.1M
19	Syncom Space Services LLC0 awards	$197.4M
20	Peraton Corp.0 awards	$161.5M
21	Lanteris Space LLC0 awards	$151.5M
22	Universities Space Research Association0 awards	$144.1M
23	Ata Aerospace LLC0 awards	$142.1M
24	Russia Space Agency0 awards	$136.4M
25	BAE Systems, Inc.0 awards	$130.5M
26	The Regents of the University of Colorado0 awards	$117.4M
27	Southwest Research Institute0 awards	$114.4M
28	Arctic Slope Technical Services, Inc.0 awards	$110.7M
29	Axient LLC0 awards	$105M
30	RTX Corporation0 awards	$95.6M
31	Amentum Services, Inc.0 awards	$86.2M
32	Trax International Corporation0 awards	$81.9M
33	Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc.0 awards	$71.4M
34	University of Maryland, College Park0 awards	$68.7M
35	The Aerospace Corporation0 awards	$64.9M
36	General Dynamics Corporation0 awards	$61.2M
37	University of Oklahoma0 awards	$57.7M
38	University of Arizona0 awards	$55.2M
39	Pae Applied Technologies LLC0 awards	$52.5M
40	Booz Allen Hamilton Inc0 awards	$50.7M
41	The Regents of the University of California0 awards	$42M
42	All Points Logistics, LLC0 awards	$37M
43	Colsa Corp0 awards	$34.7M
44	The University of Iowa0 awards	$33.3M
45	Engility Services, LLC0 awards	$32.8M
46	CACI International Inc0 awards	$29.7M
47	Regents of the University of Michigan0 awards	$29.2M
48	Arizona State University0 awards	$26.5M
49	Massachusetts Institute of Technology0 awards	$23.6M
50	The Johns Hopkins University0 awards	$22.9M
51	General Atomics0 awards	$22.8M
52	AECOM Technical Services, Inc.0 awards	$21.7M
53	University of Washington0 awards	$21.4M
54	University of Hawaii0 awards	$20.6M
55	The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York0 awards	$20.1M
56	University of California, Los Angeles0 awards	$19.8M
57	General Electric Company0 awards	$19.3M
58	University Corporation for Atmospheric Research0 awards	$18.9M
59	The Leland Stanford Junior University0 awards	$18M
60	Thundercat Technology, LLC0 awards	$14.7M
61	Baylor College of Medicine0 awards	$14.4M
62	V2X, Inc.0 awards	$14.2M
63	CH2M Hill, Inc0 awards	$12.8M
64	The Trustees of Princeton University0 awards	$12.7M
65	V2X Aerospace LLC0 awards	$12.6M
66	Sauer Construction, LLC0 awards	$12.4M
67	Georgia Tech Research Corp0 awards	$12.1M
68	Four Points Technology, L.l.c.0 awards	$12M
69	National Academy of Sciences0 awards	$12M
70	The Pennsylvania State University0 awards	$11.4M
71	Trustees of Boston University0 awards	$10.8M
72	The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.0 awards	$10.1M
73	Purdue University0 awards	$9.9M
74	University of Wisconsin System0 awards	$9.8M
75	University of Wisconsin System0 awards	$9.8M
76	The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees0 awards	$9M
77	Washington University, the0 awards	$8.9M
78	University of Alabama at Birmingham0 awards	$8.6M
79	Colorado State University0 awards	$8.6M
80	University of Texas at Austin0 awards	$8.5M
81	Montana State University0 awards	$8.4M
82	University of Florida0 awards	$8.4M
83	University of Delaware0 awards	$8.4M
84	University of Alaska Fairbanks0 awards	$7.5M
85	University of California, Santa Barbara0 awards	$7.2M
86	Sterling Computers Corporation0 awards	$7.2M
87	University of California, Davis0 awards	$6.7M
88	University of Illinois0 awards	$6.6M
89	Regents of the University of Minnesota0 awards	$6.5M
90	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution0 awards	$6.2M
91	President and Fellows of Harvard College0 awards	$6M
92	University of California Irvine0 awards	$5.6M
93	Oregon State University0 awards	$5.5M
94	The University of Chicago0 awards	$5.2M
95	Logistics Management Institute0 awards	$5.1M
96	Four LLC0 awards	$5M
97	Minburn Technology Group, LLC0 awards	$4.9M
98	Ohio State University, the0 awards	$4.9M
99	Affigent, LLC0 awards	$4.7M
100	Deloitte LLP0 awards	$4.6M

Obligations are the dollars the agency committed, which is not the same as dollars paid out. A recipient can appear on several agencies' lists; each ranks only its own money.

Questions

Who is NASA's biggest contractor in FY2020?: California Institute of Technology, with $2.6B obligated in FY2020. Second is The Boeing Company at $1.4B.
Where does this ranking come from?: It is computed from USASpending.gov award records, which are U.S. government works and in the public domain. Each figure is the total NASA obligated to that recipient in FY2020. TheFiscalFinder does the ranking; the underlying figures are the government's own.
How many recipients are shown?: The top 100 for FY2020. Each row opens that recipient's own page, where the same money is broken out by year, by counterparty and by place.
Does a high position mean anything is wrong?: No. This is a description of where public money went in FY2020, computed from public records. It is not an allegation about anyone on it.

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