Federal contractor · SAN FRANCISCO, CA

SAMARA AEROSPACE, INC.

SAMARA AEROSPACE, INC. received $1.3M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 3 awards (−40% vs FY2025). Since FY2024: $4.7M. Its largest customer was National Aeronautics and Space Administration ($1.3M). It also received $1.2M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$1.3M
New awards
3
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. 1.2MFY2024
  2. 2.1MFY2025
  3. 1.3MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$1.3M100%
    2 awards
  2. 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$1.3M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. San Francisco County, CA$1.3M100%

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. RESILIENT HIGH PRECISION SPACECRAFT POINTING USING NOVEL ATTITUDE CONTROL$3.2M
    Department of the Air Force· Boulder County, CO· Research & development· Aug 27, 2024 – Jun 3, 2026· FA864924P1017
  2. SBIR PHASE II$1.3M
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· San Francisco County, CA· Research & development· Sep 24, 2026 – Sep 24, 2026· 80NSSC26C0162
  3. SBIR I ACTIVE SPACECRAFT JITTER CANCELLATION USING DEPLOYABLE PANELS$150K
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· San Francisco County, CA· Research & development· Aug 29, 2025 – Jan 29, 2026· 80NSSC25C0339

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.

SAMARA AEROSPACE, INC. received $1.2M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 1 actions (1 new awards). Its largest program was 47.084 · Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships ($1.2M).

Assistance · FY2026
$1.2M
New awards
1
Actions
1
Since FY2024
$1.5M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 275KFY2024
  2. 1.2MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$1.2M100%

Top programs

  1. 47.084 · Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships$1.2M100%

Awarding agencies

  1. National Science Foundation$1.2M100%

Largest awards

  1. SBIR PHASE II: A RELIABLE AND EFFICIENT NEW METHOD FOR SATELLITE ATTITUDE CONTROL -- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.$1.2M
    47.084 · Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships· National Science Foundation· Cooperative agreement· Jun 3, 2026 – Jun 3, 2026· 2507700

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.

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 2 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. RECON RF, INC.$4.3M−100% in FY2026
    SAN DIEGO, CA · 92% 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. NEW FRONTIER AEROSPACE, INC.$3.8M−100% in FY2026
    TUKWILA, WA · 83% 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. BUSEK CO., INC.$5M+721% in FY2026
    NATICK, MA · 94% 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.