Federal contractor · CEDAR PARK, TX

FIREFLY AEROSPACE INC.

FIREFLY AEROSPACE INC. received $173.7M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 12 awards (+51% vs FY2025). Since FY2021: $525.6M. Its largest customer was National Aeronautics and Space Administration ($173.7M).

Obligations · FY2026
$173.7M
New awards
12
Sole-source
6.9%
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. 58.7MFY2021
  2. 37.9MFY2022
  3. 95.4MFY2023
  4. 44.9MFY2024
  5. 115MFY2025
  6. 173.7MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$173.7M100.0%
    9 awards
  2. Missile Defense Agency$5000.0%
    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$161.8M93%
  2. Transportation & logistics$11.9M6.9%

Where the work was performed

  1. Williamson County, TX$161.8M93%
  2. Harris County, TX$11.9M6.9%
  3. Madison County, AL$5000.0%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition6.9%
    US 39% · $11.9M
  • Sole-source awards6.9%
    US 30% · $11.9M
  • 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. COMMERCIAL LUNAR PAYLOAD SERVICES (CLPS)$117.2M
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Williamson County, TX· Research & development· Dec 18, 2024 – Sep 28, 2026· 80JSC025F7026
  2. COMMERCIAL LUNAR PAYLOAD SERVICES (CLPS) TASK ORDER CS-3$112.8M
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Williamson County, TX· Research & development· Mar 14, 2023 – Mar 30, 2026· 80JSC023F0041
  3. ENHAMCED LANDING AND MONILITY STUDY$110.6M
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Williamson County, TX· Research & development· Feb 4, 2021 – Sep 28, 2026· 80JSC021F0098
  4. COMMERCIAL LUNAR PAYLOAD SERVICES (CLPS) CONTRACT TASK ORDER CS-6.$86.5M
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Williamson County, TX· Research & development· Jul 29, 2025 – Sep 22, 2026· 80JSC025F7057
  5. FINALIZE THE MISSION DESIGN, EXECUTE LONG LEAD PROCUREMENTS TO SUPPORT THE AGGRESSIVE SCHEDULE, AND DELIVER ALL BASE MILESTONES AND PRODUCTS.$31.3M
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Williamson County, TX· Research & development· Jun 30, 2026 – Sep 15, 2026· 80JSC026F7019
  6. VENTURE-CLASS ACQUISITION OF DEDICATED AND RIDESHARE (VADR) UMBRELLA TASK ORDER$31.3M
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Harris County, TX· Transportation & logistics· Mar 29, 2023 – Sep 22, 2026· 80KSC023FA112
  7. COMMERCIAL LUNAR PAYLOAD SERVICES (CLPS)$19.3M
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Williamson County, TX· Research & development· Aug 25, 2023 – Jan 15, 2026· 80JSC023F0108
  8. VENTURE CLASS LAUNCH SERVICE DEMONSTRATION 2 (VCLS DEMO 2) CONTRACT$8M
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Williamson County, TX· Transportation & logistics· Dec 11, 2020 – Jul 6, 2026· 80KSC021C0004

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.

FIREFLY AEROSPACE INC. received $0 in federal assistance in FY2026, on 1 actions (0 new awards).

Assistance · FY2026
$0
New awards
0
Actions
1
Since FY2024
$995.7K

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 995.7KFY2024
  2. 0FY2026

Largest awards

  1. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS AGREEMENT, ANY AGENCY OR INSTRUMENTALITY OF A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT AND FIRMS, INSTITUTIONS OR BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS…$995.7K
    12.910 · Research and Technology Development· Defense Contract Management Agency· Other financial assistance· Dec 1, 2023 – May 19, 2026· HR00112430318

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 · FY2024–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

  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $2M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $69.8K 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

2 companies · $2.1M reported

  1. GENERAL ATOMICS$2M
    SAN DIEGO, CA · 1 subaward · Scientific research and development services
  2. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$69.8K
    LEXINGTON, MA · 1 subaward · Scientific research and development 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. INTUITIVE MACHINES, LLC$234M+272% in FY2026
    HOUSTON, TX · 58% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Nonscheduled air transportationAir Force · Scientific research and development services
  2. ASTROBOTIC TECHNOLOGY INC$113.1M+122% in FY2026
    PITTSBURGH, PA · 23% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Nonscheduled air transportationAir Force · Scientific research and development services
  3. BLUE ORIGIN, LLC$1.3B+594% in FY2026
    MERRITT ISLAND, FL · 3 entities · 66% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Nonscheduled air transportation

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 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 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.

Matched organizations

  • FIREFLY AEROSPACE, INC.AI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2025
$290K
4 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$760K
$760K in its own reports

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$90K
    4 reports
  2. 2024$280K
    4 reports
  3. 2025$290K
    4 reports
  4. 2026$100K
    4 reports

Top issues

  1. Aerospace10 reports
  2. Budget and appropriations2 reports
  3. Defense2 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES12 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE12 reports
  3. Defense - Dept of (DOD)5 reports

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

Lobbying firms hired

  1. WASHINGTON NAVIGATORS$70K
    2 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 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

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

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.