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National Aeronautics and Space Administration: $15.8B in contracts in FY2025
NASA buys rockets, spacecraft and the science that rides on them, and it buys the engineering, research, IT and operations that run ten centers. Its commercial programs put much of the money into fixed-price services contracts, and SEWP, which NASA runs, is the government's busiest IT products vehicle.
Its mission, in its own words
Drive advances in science, technology, aeronautics, and space exploration to enhance knowledge, education, innovation, economic vitality, and stewardship of Earth.
As recorded on USAspending.gov; 2 sub-agencies and bureaus buy under it. www.nasa.gov
- Small-business set-asides
- $1.5B
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 contract obligations under a small-business set-aside, read 2026-11-05.
- Set-aside share
- 9.4%
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 set-aside obligations over all contract obligations, read 2026-11-05.
What NASA buys, by code
The NAICS codes with the most NASA contract dollars in FY2025: together $12.3B, 77.7% of everything it obligated. Each code links to its own page with the buyers under it across government.
| NAICS code | FY2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| $6B | 37.8% | |
| $3.1B | 19.4% | |
| $913M | 5.8% | |
| $612M | 3.9% | |
| $363M | 2.3% | |
| $287M | 1.8% | |
| $226M | 1.4% | |
| $225M | 1.4% | |
| $211M | 1.3% | |
| $146M | 0.9% | |
| $142M | 0.9% | |
| $112M | 0.7% |
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 contract obligations by NAICS code, read 2026-11-05.
The small-business share
$1,478,111,411 of NASA’s FY2025 contract dollars, 9.4% of the total, went out under a small-business set-aside: competitions and sole-source awards reserved for small firms, 8(a) participants, HUBZone, service-disabled veteran-owned and women-owned businesses. The dollars primes placed with small subcontractors sit on top of that and are not counted here.
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 set-aside obligations, read 2026-11-05.
The vehicles
SEWP VI
The governmentwide IT products and solutions vehicle NASA operates.
Artemis and commercial crew and cargo contracts
The human landing system, launch and resupply services.
Center services contracts
Engineering, research, operations and IT at each center.
SBIR and STTR
NASA's technology topics, a frequent first award for small firms.
What GovSmith does with this
How GovSmith wins at NASA for you
GovSmith tracks the center-level services recompetes and the SBIR topics for engineering and research clients, the SEWP order stream for IT resellers, and the subcontracts the large NASA primes place, and the vCM finds the center whose mission fits the client.