National Aeronautics and Space Administration federal obligations

$258.2 billion across 28,343 NASA awards

The precise obligation total is $258,227,646,381.10. Divided by 28,343 awards, the implied mean is about $9.11 million per award. Large prime contracts for vehicles, satellites, and center support pull the mean up; university grants pull it down. The packet does not publish a program-office split of the 28,343 rows, so Artemis, science, or aeronautics shares are not stated here.

Fiscal year 2026 is the latest year. Multi-year spacecraft contracts can remain open across the window, so $258,227,646,381.10 is not a single launch campaign’s cash. USAspending.gov is the source.

That mix is the research takeaway from the two packet facts together. 28,343 awards at a mean near $9.11 million fit center operations and spacecraft contracts plus a thinner grant tail. A later extract can change both the dollar total and the award count as multi-year vehicle contracts remain open inside FY 2026.

CGAC 080 and the NASA hub URL

SpendingVault keys NASA to /agencies/080/. CGAC 080 is the awarding-agency identifier on USAspending rows. Centers may appear as awarding or funding offices on child records while still summing into $258,227,646,381.10. The 28,343 figure counts award records, not flights, patents, or civil servants.

Award-file obligations versus NASA’s budget book

NASA’s congressional budget justification uses different scorekeeping than USAspending award files. The $258,227,646,381.10 figure is an obligation rollup through FY 2026 on public award records. It is not an outlay, not a full-cost mission estimate, and not a count of international partner contributions that never appear as U.S. award rows.

Researchers sometimes treat an agency obligation total as cash already paid. For National Aeronautics and Space Administration, that reading is wrong. A mission-by-mission full-cost estimate, a launch count, or international partner contributions that never appear as U.S. award rows belong in other publications. The USAspending figure on this hub remains an obligation sum through FY 2026. Multi-year vehicle contracts remain open inside FY 2026.

Where NASA obligations are coded by state

Place-of-performance for NASA work often follows center and prime-contractor locations. A vehicle contract coded to one state can dominate that cell of $258,227,646,381.10 even when subcontractors work elsewhere. The state table is a coding view of the 28,343 awards through FY 2026, not an employment map of the aerospace workforce.

Place-of-performance is a coding field, not a complete economic-impact model. On this agency, center and prime-contractor locations often dominate state cells even when subcontractors work elsewhere. Read the state table after the agency hub, not instead of it. Read CGAC 080 as an awarding-agency rollup, not a program-office scorecard.

Reading NASA on the all-agencies list

Compare $258,227,646,381.10 and 28,343 awards only with other obligation totals from this extract. A higher dollar rank with fewer awards describes larger average actions, not a judgment of scientific return. The hub offers no procurement advice.

The all-agencies list is useful only inside this extract’s obligation definition and FY 2026 cap. 28,343 awards at a mean near $9.11 million fit center operations and spacecraft contracts plus a thinner grant tail. Ranking on dollars alone hides that mix. Read CGAC 080 as an awarding-agency rollup, not a program-office scorecard.

NASA’s award file versus the budget justification

NASA’s congressional justification uses different scorekeeping than USAspending. This hub cites $258,227,646,381.10 on 28,343 awards tagged 080 through FY 2026. That is an obligation rollup from public award records, not an outlay and not a classified program list.

Directorate or mission shares are not in the packet. The mean near $9.11 million is a quotient. Rank NASA on the all-agencies list only against other obligation totals from this extract. CGAC 080 is the awarding-agency identifier on every row in this rollup, and the overlay path stays /agencies/080/. The award population is 28,343 records. Those rows still sum to the same obligation total through fiscal year 2026. Readers who need place-of-performance should open the state table from that hub; readers who need peer context should open the all-agencies list. Neither view converts obligations into outlays. CGAC 080 is the awarding-agency identifier on every row in this rollup, and the overlay path stays /agencies/080/. The award population is 28,343 records. Those rows still sum to the same obligation total through fiscal year 2026. Readers who need place-of-performance should open the state table from that hub; readers who need peer context should open the all-agencies list. Neither view converts obligations into outlays.

Questions

How much has NASA obligated on USAspending through FY 2026?

NASA awarding-agency records (CGAC 080) sum to $258,227,646,381.10 across 28,343 awards in this extract. That figure is an obligation total from USAspending.gov through fiscal year 2026, not a mission-by-mission outlay and not a launch count.

What is CGAC 080?

CGAC 080 is the USAspending awarding-agency code for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. SpendingVault’s NASA hub uses that code in the URL. The $258,227,646,381.10 obligation total and 28,343 award count roll up rows carrying 080 through FY 2026.

Why is NASA’s award count lower than some cabinet departments?

The 28,343 count is the number of award records tagged to CGAC 080. Large center and spacecraft contracts can each carry a substantial share of the $258,227,646,381.10 book. A modest row count with a nine-digit-million mean is a size-mix fact, not a finding about under-awarding.

Where can I see NASA spending by state?

The state table from the CGAC 080 agency page splits the same obligation extract by place of performance. Geography rows still sit under $258,227,646,381.10 and 28,343 awards through FY 2026 and often follow center and prime locations.