Federal contractor · COLUMBIA, MD

CORNELL TECHNICAL SERVICES LLC

CORNELL TECHNICAL SERVICES LLC received $8.5M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 26 awards (−33% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $136.3M. Its largest customer was National Aeronautics and Space Administration ($8.5M).

Obligations · FY2026
$8.5M
New awards
26
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 7.6MFY2017
  2. 19.7MFY2018
  3. 17.1MFY2019
  4. 13.2MFY2020
  5. 20.2MFY2021
  6. 12.7MFY2022
  7. 13.6MFY2023
  8. 11.1MFY2024
  9. 12.7MFY2025
  10. 8.5MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$8.5M100%
    26 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$8.5M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Howard County, MD$8.7M100%

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. 2025 ASTROPHYSICS SMALL EXPLORER PROPOSALS TECHNICAL, MANAGEMENT, AND COST EVALUATION.$6.6M
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Howard County, MD· Professional services· Mar 31, 2025 – Sep 9, 2026· 80LARC25F7021
  2. HELIOPHYSICS EXPLORERS PROGRAM 2022 SMALL EXPLORER (SMEX) CONCEPT STUDY REPORT (CSR) EVALUATION.$5.4M
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Howard County, MD· Professional services· Apr 26, 2024 – Aug 4, 2026· 80LARC24F0020
  3. SCIENCE OFFICE FOR MISSION ASSESSMENTS PLANNING TASK$4.5M
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Howard County, MD· Professional services· Sep 14, 2022 – Sep 3, 2026· 80LARC22F0051
  4. 2023 EARTH SYSTEM EXPLORERS (ESE) CONCEPT STUDY REPORT (CSR) EVALUATION$4.3M
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Howard County, MD· Professional services· Mar 13, 2025 – Aug 5, 2026· 80LARC25F7017
  5. 2023 ASTROPHYSICS PROBE EXPLORER (APEX) CONCEPT STUDY REPORT (CSR) EVALUATION$3.1M
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Howard County, MD· Professional services· Sep 15, 2025 – May 8, 2026· 80LARC25F7045
  6. DYNAMIC CONCEPT STUDY REPORT (CSR) EVALUATION$2.3M
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Howard County, MD· Professional services· Feb 10, 2025 – Aug 4, 2026· 80LARC25F7016
  7. THE SUBJECT TASK ORDER IS TO SUPPORT THE ASTROPHYSICS STRATEGIC MISSIONS PROGRAM OFFICE (ASMPO)$1.6M
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Hampton city, VA· Professional services· Nov 3, 2020 – Jul 24, 2026· 80LARC21F0015
  8. COST MODEL PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS FOR USE ON 2025 EVALUATIONS INCLUDING EARTH SYSTEM EXPLORER (ESE) STEP 2, DYNAMIC STEP 2, 2025 ASTROPHYSICS SMALL EXPLORER (SMEX), AND ASTROPHYSICS PROBE EXPLORER (APEX) STEP 2.$1.2M
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Howard County, MD· Professional services· Feb 26, 2025 – Jul 24, 2026· 80LARC25F7022

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. NEW HORIZONS AERONAUTICS, LLC$38.4M−9.7% in FY2026
    CHANTILLY, VA · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Scientific research and development services
  2. KATALYST SPACE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC$37M−78% in FY2026
    FLAGSTAFF, AZ · 93% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Scientific research and development services
  3. STI LEGACY, INC.$24.4M+85% in FY2026
    LEXINGTON, KY · 75% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · 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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.