Federal contractor · BURLINGTON, VT

BENCHMARK SPACE SYSTEMS INC

BENCHMARK SPACE SYSTEMS INC received $3.2M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 5 awards (−58% vs FY2025). Since FY2019: $22.8M. Its largest customer was Department of the Air Force ($2.2M).

Obligations · FY2026: $3.2M
New awards: 5
Sole-source: 0.0%
Single offer: 67%

UEI: RNZLNG2CWG15
Parent company: BENCHMARK SPACE SYSTEMS, INC.

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Company family

Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.

2 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $3.2M in FY2026 together.

BENCHMARK SPACE SYSTEMS INCBURLINGTON, VT · Family page
Reported parent$3.2M
ALAMEDA APPLIED SCIENCES CORPORATIONOAKLAND, CA
Reported parent$0

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

800.9KFY2019
1.2MFY2020
761.5KFY2021
0FY2022
2.8MFY2023
6.2MFY2024
7.7MFY2025
3.2MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Department of the Air Force$2.2M67%
3 awards
National Aeronautics and Space Administration$1.1M33%
2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Research & development$3.2M100%

Where the work was performed

Chittenden County, VT$3.2M100%

Integrity signals

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

Low competition67%
US 39% · $2.2M
Sole-source awards0.0%
US 30% · $0
Single-offer competitions67%
US 8.8% · $2.2M
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

A RESTARTABLE ASCENT-BASED UPPER STAGE ENGINE USING THERMAL IGNITION$12.4M
Department of the Air Force· Chittenden County, VT· Research & development· May 21, 2021 – Jan 26, 2026· FA930021C6017
F2D-14649 BENCHMARK SPACE SYSTEMS, INC. - THE WORK TO BE ACCOMPLISHED INCLUDES CONDUCTING A THOROUGH CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS AND SYSTEMS REQUIREMENT REVIEW, REFINING DESIGN REFERENCE MISSIONS (DRMS), PERFORMING DETAILED MISSION SIMULATIONS.$3M
Department of the Air Force· Chittenden County, VT· Research & development· Jun 25, 2025 – Apr 20, 2026· FA254125CB057
RAPID ASCENT PROPELLANT LOADING EQUIPMENT$1.9M
Department of the Air Force· Chittenden County, VT· Research & development· Aug 28, 2025 – Feb 6, 2026· FA930025C6020
SBIR PHASE II$1.1M
National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Chittenden County, VT· Research & development· Sep 27, 2026 – Sep 27, 2026· 80NSSC26C0100
PHASE II SBIR, 80NSSC25C0108, AQUILA - CHEMICAL-ELECTRIC HYBRID TRANSFER STAGE$847.4K
National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Chittenden County, VT· Research & development· Aug 8, 2025 – Jun 16, 2026· 80NSSC25C0108

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: $0 paid out · $135K received
FY2025: $0 paid out · $100K 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

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

2 companies · $235K reported

UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE$135K
BURLINGTON, VT · 1 subaward
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$100K
LEXINGTON, MA · 1 subaward · Scientific research and development services

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 2 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

STRATOLAUNCH, LLC$17.8M−93% in FY2026
MOJAVE, CA · 93% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development servicesNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Scientific research and development services
BTAS INC$13.9M−32% in FY2026
BEAVERCREEK, OH · 81% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development services
CARILLON TECHNOLOGIES MANAGEMENT CORPORATION$14.1M
ARLINGTON, VA · 81% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development services

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

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.

Lobbying and PAC activity

Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.

Across the company family of BENCHMARK SPACE SYSTEMS INC (2 recipients).

Matched organizations

Benchmark Space SystemsAI match · 100%

Lobbying · 2026: $70K; 2 reports
Lobbying · 2025–2026: $80K

Lobbying by year

2025$10K
1 reports
2026$70K
2 reports

Top issues

Aerospace2 reports
Budget and appropriations2 reports
Defense2 reports

Who was contacted

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES2 reports
U.S. SENATE2 reports

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

Van Scoyoc Associates$80K
3 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Sep 30, 2026.

Congress: members and bills

Through the organizations matched to this company: members of Congress whose campaigns received contributions from their PACs, and the bills their lobbying reports named. Shown beside the company's contracts as a comparison, not a cause.

Bills named in its lobbying reports

H.R. 8800 · National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20271 report
119th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2026
H.R. 9495 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20271 report
119th Congress · Introduced · 2026
S. 4784 · National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20271 report
119th Congress · Reported by committee · 2026

1 of 3 reports (2025–2026) name at least one bill. Bills and resolutions the current reports name in their issue descriptions, by number of reports. A report names what it lobbied on, not which side it took.

Amounts, members and bills are as recorded, shown side by side. They say nothing about why a contribution was made, how a member voted or what a report sought. A bill number written in a report is read as the measure of the Congress its context points to (a law's number, the Congress written next to it, the title), else of the Congress then sitting.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.

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.