Federal contractor · LAFAYETTE, CO

BLUE CANYON TECHNOLOGIES LLC

BLUE CANYON TECHNOLOGIES LLC received $3.8M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 7 awards (−75% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $161.1M. Its largest customer was National Aeronautics and Space Administration ($2.6M).

Obligations · FY2026
$3.8M
New awards
7
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
22%
UEI
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Other than small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 3.9MFY2017
  2. 2.8MFY2018
  3. 6.7MFY2019
  4. 38MFY2020
  5. 39.3MFY2021
  6. 21.8MFY2022
  7. 21.1MFY2023
  8. 8.9MFY2024
  9. 15MFY2025
  10. 3.8MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$2.6M69%
    4 awards
  2. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency$1.2M31%
    1 awards
  3. Department of the Air Force$00.0%
    2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$2.1M56%
  2. Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$1.7M44%

Where the work was performed

  1. Boulder County, CO$3.8M100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition22%
    US 39% · $826.8K
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions22%
    US 8.7% · $826.8K
  • 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. BLACKJACK PROGRAM PHASES 2 AND 3, WHICH IS AN ARCHITECTURE DEMONSTRATION INTENDING TO SHOW THE HIGH MILITARY UTILITY OF GLOBAL LEO CONSTELLATIONS AND MESH NETWORKS OF LOWER SIZE, WEIGHT, AND COST SPACECRAFT NODES.$74.4M
    Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency· Boulder County, CO· Research & development· Jun 10, 2020 – Apr 16, 2026· HR001120C0094
  2. SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS (SSA) MICRO-SATELLITE BUS (AGILESAT)$25.2M
    Department of the Air Force· Boulder County, CO· Research & development· Nov 23, 2021 – May 4, 2026· FA865022C9211
  3. SUPER-SYNCHRONOUS SMALL SATELLITE SPACE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM$14.3M
    Department of the Air Force· Boulder County, CO· Research & development· Dec 11, 2020 – May 13, 2026· FA865021C9217
  4. XB6 SPACECRAFT BUS$11M
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Boulder County, CO· Research & development· Sep 30, 2019 – Jul 6, 2026· 80NSSC19C0624
  5. THIS IS A LETTER CONTRACT FOR POLARIZED SUBMILLIMETER ICE-CLOUD RADIOMETER (POLSIR). THE MISSION CALLS FOR TWO 12-U SPACECRAFT, EACH CARRYING A DUAL-FREQUENCY POLARIMETRIC RADIOMETER. THIS CONTRACT IS FOR THE BUILT OF THE TWO 12-U CUBESATS.$8.4M
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Boulder County, CO· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Apr 12, 2024 – Sep 28, 2026· 80GSFC24CA030
  6. SPACECRAFT (S/C) BUS FOR ARCSTONE INCLUDING INTERFACE DOCUMENTS, BUILDING THE 6U CUBESAT S/C, INTEGRATION WITH ARCSTONE, FUNCTIONAL/RADIOMETRIC VERIFICATION, LAUNCH AND ON-ORBIT SUPPORT, AND COMMAND/TELEMETRY LINKS BETWEEN THE BUS AND GROUND SYSTEM.$3.2M
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Hampton city, VA· Research & development· Jan 24, 2022 – Dec 8, 2025· 80LARC22CA002
  7. CLICK (CUBESAT LASER INFRARED CROSSLINK)$1.4M
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Boulder County, CO· Research & development· Sep 22, 2021 – Jul 8, 2026· 80NSSC21C0041

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.

BLUE CANYON TECHNOLOGIES LLC received $0 in federal assistance in FY2026, on 2 actions (0 new awards).

Assistance · FY2026
$0
New awards
0
Actions
2
Since FY2021
$454K

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 454KFY2021
  2. 0FY2022
  3. 0FY2024
  4. 0FY2025
  5. 0FY2026

Largest awards

  1. DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT (DPA) TITLE III NEXT GENERATION REACTION WHEELS PROJECT$2.8M
    12.777 · Defense Production Act Title Iii (Dpa Title III)· Department of the Air Force· Cooperative agreement· Apr 14, 2021 – Jul 10, 2026· FA86502025504

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 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

  • Sub-contracts: $1.3M (3 subawards)

1 prime

  1. JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC, THE$1.3M100%
    LAUREL, MD · 3 subawards

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $2.9M received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $16.9M received
  • FY2023: $114.9K paid out · $8.4M received
  • FY2024: $752.1K paid out · $14.8M received
  • FY2025: $396.6K paid out · $34.3K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $1.3M 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

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

Companies it pays

7 companies · $1.3M reported

  1. SOLAERO TECHNOLOGIES CORP.$621.7K
    ALBUQUERQUE, NM · 3 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  2. REVOLV SPACE S.R.L.$313K
    TORINO, IT · 1 subaward · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  3. IMMIXTECHNOLOGY INC$114.9K
    MC LEAN, VA · 1 subaward · Scientific research and development services

Primes that pay it

14 companies · $44.4M reported

  1. BAE SYSTEMS LAND & ARMAMENTS L.P.$18.8M
    YORK, PA · 8 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  2. THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC$13.2M
    LAUREL, MD · 10 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  3. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$4.4M
    LEXINGTON, MA · 17 subawards · Scientific research and development services

Showing the top 3 of each list. Open the profile for potential partners and the full lists.

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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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 5 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. PSIQUANTUM, CORP.$10.8M−100% in FY2026
    PALO ALTO, CA · 39% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development services
  2. ROBOTIC CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.$10.7M−100% in FY2026
    DENVER, CO · 39% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development services
  3. ANTARES NUCLEAR, INC.$11.5M+198% in FY2026
    REDONDO BEACH, CA · 40% 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.