Federal contractor · VANDENBERG AFB, CA

SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP

SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP received $6.6M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 3 awards (−35% vs FY2025). Since FY2023: $16.8M. Its largest customer was Department of the Air Force ($6.6M).

Obligations · FY2026
$6.6M
New awards
3
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Parent company
SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP.
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 SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP. company family: 4 registered entities, $2.8B in FY2026 together. See the family

  1. SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP.HAWTHORNE, CA · Family page
    $2.8B
  2. SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORPMC GREGOR, TX
    $64.5K
  3. PIONEER AEROSPACE CORPMILTON, FL
    $31.2K

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 2.7KFY2023
  2. 89.8KFY2024
  3. 10.1MFY2025
  4. 6.6MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Air Force$6.6M99.8%
    1 awards
  2. U.S. Coast Guard$11.6K0.2%
    2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$6.6M99.8%
  2. IT & telecom$11.6K0.2%

Where the work was performed

  1. Santa Barbara County, CA$6.6M99.8%
  2. Sitka City and Borough, AK$8,5680.1%
  3. Anchorage Municipality, AK$3,0000.0%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $6.6M
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $6.6M
  • 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. SATELLITE PROCESSING FACILITY THAT CAN ACCOMMODATE UP TO 21 SATELLITES AND DISPENSER STACK, POST TRANSPORT FUNCTIONAL TESTING AS REQUIRED, AND MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL MATES TO THE DISPENSER HARDWARE.$16.7M
    Department of the Air Force· Santa Barbara County, CA· Research & development· Dec 11, 2024 – Mar 2, 2026· FA240125C0001
  2. US COAST GUARD AIR STATION SITKA STARLINK INTERNET SERVICES$17K
    U.S. Coast Guard· Sitka City and Borough, AK· IT & telecom· Jul 28, 2025 – Jun 26, 2026· 70Z03525PKETC0081
  3. STARLINK COMMERCIAL INTERNET AT USCG SECTOR WESTERN ALASKA$6,000
    U.S. Coast Guard· Anchorage Municipality, AK· IT & telecom· Mar 28, 2025 – Apr 1, 2026· 70Z04525PKODI0061

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.

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 companies · $73.6M reported

  1. LEIDOS, INC.$62.3M
    RESTON, VA · 1 subaward · Scientific research and development services
  2. TELEDYNE BROWN ENGINEERING, INC.$11.3M
    HUNTSVILLE, AL · 1 subaward · Scientific research and development services

Primes that pay it

30 companies · $628.2M reported

  1. NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION$471.2M
    MELBOURNE, FL · 9 subawards · Other professional, scientific, and technical services
  2. L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES INTEGRATED SYSTEMS L.P.$42.5M
    GREENVILLE, TX · 38 subawards · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  3. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF WISCONSIN$37.1M
    MADISON, WI · 2 subawards

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

  1. UNITED LAUNCH SERVICES, LLC$2.5B−51% in FY2026
    CENTENNIAL, CO · 2 entities · 27% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Nonscheduled air transportationDefense Contract Management Agency · Nonscheduled air transportationNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing+1 more
  2. BLUE ORIGIN, LLC$1.3B+594% in FY2026
    MERRITT ISLAND, FL · 3 entities · 12% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Aerospace product and parts manufacturingAir Force · Nonscheduled air transportationNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Nonscheduled air transportation
  3. BLUE ORIGIN MANUFACTURING, LLC$1.7B−38% in FY2026
    HUNTSVILLE, AL · 11% 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 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 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 SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP. (4 recipients).

Matched organizations

  • SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP.AI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2025
$2.9M
22 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$10.2M
$10.2M in its own reports
PAC giving · 2026
$1.1M
1 PAC

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$2.9M
    28 reports
  2. 2024$2.9M
    27 reports
  3. 2025$2.9M
    22 reports
  4. 2026$1.5M
    10 reports

Top issues

  1. Aerospace71 reports
  2. Defense50 reports
  3. Telecommunications45 reports
  4. Budget and appropriations28 reports
  5. Agriculture13 reports
  6. Transportation13 reports
  7. Environment and Superfund10 reports
  8. Clean air and water6 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES78 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE70 reports
  3. Natl Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA)26 reports
  4. Commerce - Dept of (DOC)23 reports
  5. Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP)21 reports
  6. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)19 reports
  7. Interior - Dept of (DOI)18 reports
  8. Office of Management & Budget (OMB)16 reports
  9. Transportation - Dept of (DOT)16 reports
  10. Defense - Dept of (DOD)14 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. Invariant LLC$1.3M
    14 reports
  2. Miller Strategies, LLC$840K
    14 reports
  3. Forbes-Tate$740K
    14 reports
  4. CAPITOL ALLIANCE GROUP, INC$480K
    10 reports
  5. Bedrock Strategies, LLC$280K
    14 reports
  6. Polispace-James A.M. Muncy$130K
    7 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

PAC giving to candidates by party, 2026 cycle

  1. Republican$1M91%
  2. Democratic$87K7.9%
  3. Other or none$17.5K1.6%

PACs sponsored

  • SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP. PAC$3.4M 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 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 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 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.