Federal contractor · AUSTIN, TX

CESIUMASTRO INC

CESIUMASTRO INC received $500 in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 4 awards (−100% vs FY2025). Since FY2018: $13.5M. Its largest customer was Missile Defense Agency ($500).

Obligations · FY2026
$500
New awards
4
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
ETNXN97SBHG3
Parent company
CESIUMASTRO INC.
Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 724.6KFY2018
  2. 3.1MFY2019
  3. 1.7MFY2020
  4. 1.7MFY2021
  5. 15KFY2022
  6. 2.5MFY2023
  7. 3MFY2024
  8. 841.8KFY2025
  9. 500FY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Missile Defense Agency$500100%
    1 awards
  2. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$00.0%
    2 awards
  3. Department of the Air Force$00.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$500100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Madison County, AL$500100%

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. PROVIDE THE AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY (AFRL) WITH THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF A MEDIUM SIZED KA-BAND ACTIVE PHASED ARRAY (APA) SATCOM TERMINAL FROM CESIUM ASTRO.$2.6M
    Department of the Air Force· Bernalillo County, NM· Research & development· Sep 16, 2024 – Mar 5, 2026· FA945324CX053
  2. SBIR PHASE III - RADIO RANGING FIRMWARE MODIFICATIONS FOR STARLING EXTENDED MISSION$646.7K
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Travis County, TX· Research & development· Oct 22, 2024 – Dec 17, 2025· 80NSSC25CA009
  3. PHASE III - OPP001096-1 CESIUMASTRO - KASTLE SBIR PHASE 3$195.1K
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Travis County, TX· Research & development· Aug 5, 2025 – Feb 9, 2026· 80NSSC25C0425
  4. SCALABLE HOMELAND INNOVATIVE ENTERPRISE LAYERED DEFENSE (SHIELD) INITIAL ORDER.$500
    Missile Defense Agency· Madison County, AL· Research & development· Dec 19, 2025 – Jun 4, 2026· HQ085926FF501

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.

CESIUMASTRO INC received $0 in federal assistance in FY2026, on 2 actions (1 new awards). Its largest program was 31.007 · Export - Loan Guarantee/Insured Loans ($0).

Assistance · FY2026
$0
Loan face value
$280M
lent or guaranteed
Actions
2

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 0FY2026

By type

  1. Loans$00.0%
    $280M lent or guaranteed

Top programs

  1. 31.007 · Export - Loan Guarantee/Insured Loans$00.0%

Awarding agencies

  1. Export-Import Bank of the United States$00.0%

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 · 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

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $1.1M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $52K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $6.1M 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 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 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

3 companies · $7.2M reported

  1. NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION$6.1M
    MELBOURNE, FL · 4 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  2. BLUE ORIGIN FEDERATION, LLC$1.1M
    KENT, WA · 1 subaward · Scientific research and development services
  3. THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC$52K
    LAUREL, MD · 1 subaward · Computer systems design and related services

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 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 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 4 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. NEW FRONTIER AEROSPACE, INC.$3.8M−100% in FY2026
    TUKWILA, WA · 89% 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
  2. RECON RF, INC.$4.3M−100% in FY2026
    SAN DIEGO, CA · 89% 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
  3. HYBIRD SPACE SYSTEMS INC.$2.8M
    HUNTSVILLE, AL · 72% 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

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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 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026.