Federal contractor · SAINT PAUL, MN

ASTER LABS, INC.

ASTER LABS, INC. received $899.5K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 1 awards. Since FY2017: $5M. Its largest customer was National Aeronautics and Space Administration ($899.5K).

Obligations · FY2026
$899.5K
New awards
1
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Small businessMinority-owned
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 918.9KFY2017
  2. 46.4KFY2018
  3. 249.5KFY2019
  4. 175KFY2020
  5. 1.1MFY2021
  6. 999.8KFY2022
  7. 300KFY2023
  8. 299.9KFY2024
  9. 0FY2025
  10. 899.5KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$899.5K100%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$899.5K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Ramsey County, MN$899.5K100%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition0.0%
    US 39% · $0
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.8% · $0
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Largest awards

  1. PHASE II STTR 80NSSC26C0038 T10.01-1001 AUTONOMOUS STORM DETECTION AND TRACKING USING RANDOM FINITE SETS$899.5K
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Ramsey County, MN· Research & development· Jul 13, 2026 – Jul 13, 2026· 80NSSC26C0038

Federal grants & assistance received

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

ASTER LABS, INC. received $0 in federal assistance in FY2026, on 1 actions (0 new awards), −100% vs FY2025.

Assistance · FY2026
$0
New awards
0
Actions
1
Since FY2021
$4.3M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 449.1KFY2021
  2. 1.7MFY2022
  3. 1.1MFY2023
  4. 499.8KFY2024
  5. 499.9KFY2025
  6. 0FY2026

Largest awards

  1. PRECISE WEARABLE SYSTEM FOR ACCURATE CONTINUOUS GAIT MONITORING TO INDICATE HEALTH DECLINE IN BLACK ADULTS WITH ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND…$499.9K
    93.866 · Aging Research· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Sep 15, 2025 – Jul 18, 2026· R43AG092851

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

By fiscal year

  • FY2023: $567K paid out · $0 received
  • FY2024: $95.5K paid out · $0 received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

2 companies · $662.5K reported

  1. UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA$567K
    GAINESVILLE, FL · 2 subawards
  2. THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES$95.5K
    ORLANDO, FL · 1 subaward

Primes that pay it

No prime reported paying it.

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 1 market (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. WINGBORNE AERONAUTICS CORPORATION$1.2M−100% in FY2026
    ATLANTA, GA · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Scientific research and development services
  2. IMPOSSIBLE SENSING LLC$1.2M−100% in FY2026
    SAINT LOUIS, MO · 98% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Scientific research and development services
  3. LAIRSON BRUCE$1.2M−74% in FY2026
    VENTURA, CA · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Scientific research and development services

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Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.