Federal contractor · PACOIMA, CA

TRANS ASTRONAUTICA CORPORATION

TRANS ASTRONAUTICA CORPORATION received $249.7K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 4 awards (−95% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $14M. Its largest customer was Department of the Air Force ($249.7K). It also received $1M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$249.7K
New awards
4
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
100%
UEI
S463GJG7XJN3
Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 124.1KFY2017
  2. 1.4MFY2020
  3. 879.3KFY2021
  4. 0FY2022
  5. 4.9MFY2023
  6. 1.8MFY2024
  7. 4.6MFY2025
  8. 249.7KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Air Force$249.7K100%
    2 awards
  2. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$00.0%
    2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$249.7K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Alameda County, CA$249.7K100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $249.7K
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions100%
    US 8.7% · $249.7K
  • 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. CCRPP 80NSSC25C0432 TRANSASTRA CAPTURE BAG FOR LARGE DEBRIS REMEDIATION - DEMONSTRATION PAYLOAD DEVELOPMENT$2.5M
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Los Angeles County, CA· Research & development· Sep 3, 2025 – May 21, 2026· 80NSSC25C0432
  2. TRANSASTRA TACFI SEQUENTIAL SBIR PHASE II$1.8M
    Department of the Air Force· Los Angeles County, CA· Research & development· Dec 4, 2024 – May 18, 2026· FA945325CX020
  3. SBIR PHASE II IGNITE - MINI BEE CAPTURE BAG FOR ACTIVE DEBRIS REMEDIATION$1.2M
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Los Angeles County, CA· Research & development· Aug 25, 2023 – Jan 15, 2026· 80NSSC23CA188
  4. PROVIDE ENGINEERING SERVICES TO CONTAINERIZE THEIA, CREATE AN INTEGRATION GUIDE, DEVELOP A PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS TOOL, AND DELIVER PROGRAM MANAGEMENT AND CDRLS$249.7K
    Department of the Air Force· Alameda County, CA· Professional services· May 15, 2026 – May 15, 2026· FA881926CB007

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.

TRANS ASTRONAUTICA CORPORATION received $1M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 2 actions (1 new awards). Its largest program was 12.910 · Research and Technology Development ($1M).

Assistance · FY2026
$1M
New awards
1
Actions
2
Since FY2021
$1.6M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 374.8KFY2021
  2. 249.7KFY2022
  3. 0FY2023
  4. 1MFY2026

By type

  1. Other assistance$1M100%

Top programs

  1. 12.910 · Research and Technology Development$1M100%

Awarding agencies

  1. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency$1M100%
    Department of Defense

Largest awards

  1. DARPA RESEARCH PROJECT$1M
    12.910 · Research and Technology Development· Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency· Other financial assistance· Feb 3, 2026 – Mar 26, 2026· HR0011263E069

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

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $110K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $235K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $387.5K 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

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

2 companies · $732.5K reported

  1. CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE IN SPACE INC.$387.5K
    MERRITT ISLAND, FL · 1 subaward
  2. THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES$345K
    ORLANDO, FL · 2 subawards

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

  1. WECOSO, INC.$5.5M−95% in FY2026
    HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA · 81% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Scientific research and development servicesAir Force · Scientific research and development services
  2. ETA SPACE LLC$5.7M−74% in FY2026
    ROCKLEDGE, FL · 81% 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 · 75% 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

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.

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

  • Trans Astronautica CorporationAI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2025
$0
4 reports
Lobbying · 2024–2026
$20K

Lobbying by year

  1. 2024$20K
    3 reports
  2. 2025$0
    4 reports
  3. 2026$0
    2 reports

Top issues

  1. Defense1 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES1 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE1 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. HOLLAND & KNIGHT LLP$20K
    9 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Oct 5, 2026.

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.