Federal contractor · BOULDER, CO

SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE

SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE received $100.2K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 2 awards (+250% vs FY2025). Since FY2025: $128.9K. Its largest customer was National Aeronautics and Space Administration ($100.2K). It also received $4.1M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$100.2K
New awards
2
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 28.7KFY2025
  2. 100.2KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$100.2K100%
    2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$80K80%
  2. Research & development$20.3K20%

Where the work was performed

  1. Boulder County, CO$100.2K100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $100.2K
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $100.2K
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · $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. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$100.2K
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. SUB-AWARD TO SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE$80K
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Boulder County, CO· Professional services· Jul 21, 2026 – Jul 21, 2026· 80NSSC26P1053
  2. THIS WORK REQUIRES THE DEVELOPMENT AND CUSTOMIZATION OF SUBLIMATION/DESORPTION AND OUTGASSING MODELS FOR LUNAR VOLATILES SPECIFIC TO THE CLPS-MNP PROJECT.$48.9K
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Boulder County, CO· Research & development· Jun 26, 2025 – May 7, 2026· 80NSSC25PB317

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.

SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE received $4.1M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 47 actions (8 new awards), −35% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 43.001 · Science ($1.8M).

Assistance · FY2026
$4.1M
New awards
8
Actions
47
Since FY2021
$31.1M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 7.2MFY2021
  2. 4.8MFY2022
  3. 6.1MFY2023
  4. 2.8MFY2024
  5. 6.2MFY2025
  6. 4.1MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$4.1M100%

Top programs

  1. 43.001 · Science$1.8M44%
  2. 47.050 · Geosciences$881.3K22%
  3. 47.076 · Stem Education (Formerly Education and Human Resources)$754.2K19%
  4. 81.049 · Office of Science Financial Assistance Program$612.8K15%
  5. 47.049 · Mathematical and Physical Sciences$14.5K0.4%

Awarding agencies

  1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$1.8M44%
  2. National Science Foundation$1.6M41%
  3. Department of Energy$612.8K15%

Largest awards

  1. NASA HAS INSPIRED THE PUBLIC FOR DECADES WITH ITS MISSION TO EXPLORE NEW FRONTIERS AND TO DRIVE ADVANCES IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY…$10.2M
    43.001 · Science· National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Cooperative agreement· Jan 27, 2021 – Mar 25, 2026· NNX16AE30A
  2. 22-LWS22_2-0028 ADVANCED STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE SOLAR WIND CONTROL OF MAGNETOSPHERIC ACTIVITY AND MAGNETOSPHERIC PARTICLE POPULATIONS$1M
    43.001 · Science· National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Project grant· May 1, 2023 – Jul 22, 2026· 80NSSC23K0904
  3. GEOMAGNETIC PERTURBATIONS RELATED TO A VARIETY OF PHENOMENA IN THE NEAR-EARTH SPACE ENVIRONMENT INDUCE ELECTRIC FIELDS AT THE EARTH S…$841K
    43.001 · Science· National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Project grant· Oct 22, 2020 – May 12, 2026· 80NSSC19K0907
  4. MAPLI: MAPPING AND DATA VISUALIZATION ACTIVITIES CO-DEVELOPED WITH RURAL PUBLIC LIBRARIES -OUR WORLD IS INCREASINGLY DRIVEN BY DATA…$754.2K
    47.076 · Stem Education (Formerly Education and Human Resources)· National Science Foundation· Project grant· Aug 24, 2026 – Aug 24, 2026· 2622051
  5. MULTI-SCALE STUDY OF THE 3-D NATURE OF COLLISIONLESS FLUX ROPES IN THE LABORATORY$612.8K
    81.049 · Office of Science Financial Assistance Program· Department of Energy· Project grant· Aug 21, 2026 – Aug 21, 2026· DESC0026674
  6. QUANTIFYING HELIOSEISMIC MEASUREMENTS OF SOLAR MAGNETIC FIELDS WITH LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS AND SIMULATIONS -THIS PROJECT WILL DEVELOP A NEW…$539.7K
    47.050 · Geosciences· National Science Foundation· Project grant· Jul 29, 2026 – Jul 29, 2026· 2601762

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 · FY2021–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

  • Sub-grants: $74.8K (1 subaward)

1 sub-recipient

  1. PURDUE UNIVERSITY$74.8K100%
    WEST LAFAYETTE, IN · 1 subaward

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $512.2K (8 subawards)

8 primes

  1. UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY$93.4K18%
    BALTIMORE, MD · 1 subaward
  2. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS$88.6K17%
    RICHARDSON, TX · 1 subaward
  3. EARTH AND PLANETARY EXPLORATION SCIENCES LLC$76.3K15%
    WASHINGTON, DC · 1 subaward
  4. EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY, INC.$75.9K15%
    DAYTONA BEACH, FL · 1 subaward
  5. CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY$67.5K13%
    CLEVELAND, OH · 1 subaward
  6. CAL STATE LA UNIVERSITY AUXILIARY SERVICES INC$61.9K12%
    LOS ANGELES, CA · 1 subaward
  7. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO$36.6K7.2%
    SAN ANTONIO, TX · 1 subaward
  8. CORNELL UNIVERSITY$12K2.3%
    ITHACA, NY · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $30K paid out · $631K received
  • FY2022: $432K paid out · $632K received
  • FY2023: $1M paid out · $1.1M received
  • FY2024: $1.4M paid out · $1.4M received
  • FY2025: $867.9K paid out · $435.2K received
  • FY2026: $74.8K paid out · $512.2K 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

20 companies · $3.8M reported

  1. VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY$454.5K
    BLACKSBURG, VA · 2 subawards
  2. THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC$426K
    LAUREL, MD · 2 subawards
  3. INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING INNOVATION$410.1K
    PORTLAND, OR · 1 subaward

Primes that pay it

30 companies · $4.7M reported

  1. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES$659.1K
    LOS ANGELES, CA · 13 subawards
  2. NMC, INC.$493K
    LOS ALAMOS, NM · 5 subawards
  3. REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$300K
    ANN ARBOR, MI · 1 subaward

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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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 1 market (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. J2F ENGINEERING$137.2K
    CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Scientific research and development services
  2. MICRO HARMONICS CORPORATION$149K−100% in FY2026
    FINCASTLE, VA · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Scientific research and development services
  3. APPTRONIK INC$149.1K
    AUSTIN, TX · 100% 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.