Federal contractor · TUKWILA, WA

STARFISH SPACE INC.

STARFISH SPACE INC. received $60.6M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 5 awards (+100% vs FY2025). Since FY2021: $111.5M. Its largest customer was Department of the Air Force ($55.4M).

Obligations · FY2026: $60.6M
New awards: 5
Sole-source: 80%
Single offer: 12%

UEI: QM7PN38M94U7

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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

1.8MFY2021
1.4MFY2022
9.6MFY2023
7.8MFY2024
30.3MFY2025
60.6MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Department of the Air Force$55.4M91%
2 awards
National Aeronautics and Space Administration$5.2M8.5%
3 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Equipment maintenance$48.5M80%
Research & development$12.1M20%

Where the work was performed

King County, WA$53.7M89%
Brevard County, FL$6.9M11%

Integrity signals

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

Low competition92%
US 39% · $55.6M
Sole-source awards80%
US 30% · $48.5M
Single-offer competitions12%
US 8.8% · $7.1M
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

Department of the Air Force$48.5M
Department of Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

STARFISH SPACE, INC. OTTER SBIR PHASE III WITH THE APFIT PROGRAM$48.5M
Department of the Air Force· King County, WA· Equipment maintenance· Jan 30, 2026 – Mar 10, 2026· FA881126CB001
STRATEGIC FUNDS INCREASE (STRATFI) PROJECT FOR SPACE MOBILITY AND LOGISTICS (SML) TECH USING STARFISH SPACE OTTER SPACECRAFT TO IMPROVE MANEUVERABILITY ON-ORBIT AND ENABLE DYNAMIC SPACE OPERATIONS DOCKING AND MANEUVERING DOD ASSETS ON-ORBIT BY 2026.$32.6M
Department of the Air Force· Brevard County, FL· Research & development· May 17, 2024 – Apr 30, 2026· FA252124C0013
FY24 SBIR PHASE III - SSPICY - STARFISH SPACE ORBITAL DEBRIS INSPECTION MISSION$15M
National Aeronautics and Space Administration· King County, WA· Research & development· Aug 16, 2024 – Jul 27, 2026· 80NSSC24CA187
SBIR PHASE III - LRO REPOSITIONING BASELINE PHASE$174.6K
National Aeronautics and Space Administration· King County, WA· Research & development· Aug 4, 2026 – Sep 1, 2026· 80NSSC26C0422
SBIR PHASE III 80NSSC25C0426 STARFISH SPACE'S OTTER AS AN EFFICIENT, HIGH V CARGO DELIVERY AND RETURN VEHICLE BETWEEN LEO AND THE LUNAR VICINITY$150K
National Aeronautics and Space Administration· King County, WA· Research & development· Sep 3, 2025 – Jan 14, 2026· 80NSSC25C0426

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

IMPULSE SPACE, INC.$58.8M−52% in FY2026
REDONDO BEACH, CA · 49% 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
AEGIS AEROSPACE INC$43.2M−19% in FY2026
HOUSTON, TX · 3 entities · 43% 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
DEFENSE ENGINEERING CORP$36.7M−18% in FY2026
BEAVERCREEK, OH · 35% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · 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 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.

Matched organizations

Starfish SpaceAI match · 100%

Lobbying · 2025: $10K; 4 reports
Lobbying · 2025–2026: $10K

Lobbying by year

2025$10K
4 reports
2026$0
2 reports

Top issues

Budget and appropriations4 reports
Defense4 reports

Who was contacted

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES4 reports
U.S. SENATE4 reports

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

Lobbying firms hired

TANAGRA ENTERPRISES LLC$10K
6 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 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.

Congress: members and bills

Through the organizations matched to this company: members of Congress whose campaigns received contributions from their PACs, and the bills their lobbying reports named. Shown beside the company's contracts as a comparison, not a cause.

Bills named in its lobbying reports

H.R. 4016 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20263 reports
119th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2025–2026
S. 2572 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20262 reports
119th Congress · Reported by committee · 2025–2026
H.R. 1 · An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.1 report
119th Congress · Became law · 2025
H.R. 1968 · Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 20251 report
119th Congress · Became law · 2025
H.R. 3838 · Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20261 report
119th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2025
S. 2296 · National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20261 report
119th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2025

4 of 6 reports (2025–2026) name at least one bill. Bills and resolutions the current reports name in their issue descriptions, by number of reports. A report names what it lobbied on, not which side it took.

Amounts, members and bills are as recorded, shown side by side. They say nothing about why a contribution was made, how a member voted or what a report sought. A bill number written in a report is read as the measure of the Congress its context points to (a law's number, the Congress written next to it, the title), else of the Congress then sitting.

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

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.

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.