Federal contractor · CHANDLER, AZ

ORBITAL SCIENCES LLC

ORBITAL SCIENCES LLC received $7.7M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 8 awards (+144% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $252.3M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($7.7M).

Obligations · FY2026
$7.7M
New awards
8
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Parent company
NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION
Other than small business
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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.

Part of the NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION company family: 159 registered entities, $11.1B in FY2026 together. See the family

  1. NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATIONMELBOURNE, FL · Family page
    $1.1B
  2. NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPROY, UT
    $2.9B
  3. NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATIONROLLING MEADOWS, IL
    $575.3M
  4. NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATIONREDONDO BEACH, CA
    $547.3M
  5. NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATIONSAN DIEGO, CA
    $543.6M

AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-10-05

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 54.7MFY2017
  2. 66.1MFY2018
  3. 26.7MFY2019
  4. 51.1MFY2020
  5. 28.5MFY2021
  6. 6.8MFY2022
  7. 1.4MFY2023
  8. 6.1MFY2024
  9. 3.2MFY2025
  10. 7.7MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Navy$7.7M100%
    8 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Equipment maintenance$7.7M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Maricopa County, AZ$6.4M82%
  2. Ventura County, CA$1.4M18%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $7.7M
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $7.7M
  • 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.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. Department of the Navy$7.7M
    Department of Defense · 7 awards

Largest awards

  1. DEPLOYABLE CHAFF SYSTEM NRE$3.2M
    Department of the Navy· Maricopa County, AZ· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Jan 30, 2019 – Dec 10, 2025· N0001919F2423
  2. JAPAN CHU-SAM-KAI TASK ORDER$2.5M
    Department of the Navy· Maricopa County, AZ· Equipment maintenance· Mar 26, 2026 – Jun 3, 2026· N6893626F5130
  3. GQM-163A O&M$1.8M
    Department of the Navy· Maricopa County, AZ· Equipment maintenance· Oct 2, 2025 – Apr 20, 2026· N6893626F0009
  4. ENGINEERING SERVICES$1.6M
    Department of the Navy· Maricopa County, AZ· Equipment maintenance· Jan 8, 2026 – May 18, 2026· N6893626F0060
  5. GQM-163A OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE$1.4M
    Department of the Navy· Ventura County, CA· Equipment maintenance· Mar 2, 2026 – Mar 2, 2026· N6893626F5107
  6. GQM-163A MISSION TRAJECTORIES DEVELOPMENT$313.7K
    Department of the Navy· Maricopa County, AZ· Equipment maintenance· Mar 12, 2026 – May 5, 2026· N6893626F5119
  7. TRAJECTORY DEVELOPMENT$274.4K
    Department of the Navy· Maricopa County, AZ· Equipment maintenance· May 29, 2026 – May 29, 2026· N6893626F5228
  8. GQM-163A O&M$170K
    Department of the Navy· Maricopa County, AZ· Equipment maintenance· Nov 20, 2025 – Apr 28, 2026· N6893626F0032

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

  • Sub-contracts: $72.3K (1 subaward)

1 sub-recipient

  1. SYSTEM CONSULTANTS SOUTHWEST LLC$72.3K100%
    TUCSON, AZ · 1 subaward

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

Its reported sub-contracts equal 0.9% of its FY2026 contract obligations.

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $169M received
  • FY2022: $6.4M paid out · $46.5M received
  • FY2023: $2M paid out · $82.1M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $37.5M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $9.3M received
  • FY2026: $72.3K paid out · $0 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

2,682 companies · $59.5B reported

  1. L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES INTEGRATED SYSTEMS L.P.$7.6B
    GREENVILLE, TX · 622 subawards · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  2. GULF PROJECT SOLUTIONS GENERAL TRADING & CONTRACTING CO/EZZ YAQOUB & PARTNERS$5.3B
    SALMIYA, KWT · 30 subawards · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  3. OPTX IMAGING SYSTEMS LLC$5.3B
    LORTON, VA · 6 subawards · Architectural, engineering, and related services

Primes that pay it

104 companies · $50.2B reported

  1. LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$43B
    FORT WORTH, TX · 6,189 subawards · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  2. THE BOEING COMPANY$2B
    SAINT LOUIS, MO · 696 subawards · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  3. ELECTRIC BOAT CORPORATION$1.8B
    GROTON, CT · 226 subawards · Ship and boat building

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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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 164 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. RAYTHEON COMPANY$84.4B−24% in FY2026
    TUCSON, AZ · 227 entities · 74% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Aerospace product and parts manufacturingNavy · Aerospace product and parts manufacturingNavy · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing+16 more
  2. THE BOEING COMPANY$74.6B+20% in FY2026
    SAINT LOUIS, MO · 99 entities · 60% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Aerospace product and parts manufacturingNavy · Aerospace product and parts manufacturingArmy · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing+12 more
  3. L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES INTEGRATED SYSTEMS L.P.$22.8B−25% in FY2026
    GREENVILLE, TX · 154 entities · 25% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Aerospace product and parts manufacturingAir Force · Architectural, engineering, and related servicesNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Scientific research and development services+10 more

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.

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 NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION (159 recipients).

Matched organizations

  • NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATIONAI match · 100%
  • Northrop Grumman Systems CorporationAI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2025
$8.4M
25 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$30.7M
$30.7M in its own reports
PAC giving · 2026
$1.3M
1 PAC

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$10.2M
    36 reports
  2. 2024$8.4M
    29 reports
  3. 2025$8.4M
    25 reports
  4. 2026$3.7M
    21 reports

Top issues

  1. Defense81 reports
  2. Budget and appropriations74 reports
  3. Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code45 reports
  4. Aerospace29 reports
  5. Intelligence and surveillance24 reports
  6. Foreign relations14 reports
  7. Government issues14 reports
  8. Science and technology14 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES106 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE102 reports
  3. Navy - Dept of22 reports
  4. Air Force - Dept of19 reports
  5. Army - Dept of (Other)19 reports
  6. Defense - Dept of (DOD)19 reports
  7. Natl Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA)15 reports
  8. State - Dept of (DOS)14 reports
  9. Office of the Secretary of Defense13 reports
  10. Executive Office of the President (EOP)6 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. The Duberstein Group Inc.$780K
    14 reports
  2. 535 GROUP, LLC$630K
    14 reports
  3. Kadesh & Associates, LLC$525K
    14 reports
  4. INNOVATIVE FEDERAL STRATEGIES, LLC$450K
    9 reports
  5. Etherton and Associates, Inc.$420K
    14 reports
  6. Covington & Burling LLP$240K
    4 reports
  7. Avoq, LLC$220K
    5 reports
  8. RESTON STRATEGY GROUP, LLC$160K
    14 reports

13 firms in all. Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

PAC giving to candidates by party, 2026 cycle

  1. Republican$695.5K55%
  2. Democratic$563K44%
  3. Other or none$10K0.8%

PACs sponsored

  • EMPLOYEES OF NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION PAC$3.3M raised this cycle

PACs these organizations sponsor (connected organizations in FEC records). A PAC gives employees' and members' voluntary contributions, not the company's own money.

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 5, 2026, loaded Oct 5, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 5, 2026, loaded Oct 5, 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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.