The weekly federal-spending brief. One email a Sunday. Free. No tracking.
The BuildoutBeta

$37,239,061

National Aeronautics and Space Administration·National Aeronautics and Space Administration

to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO

aerospaceactive
ACTION DATE2026-04-07·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_80GSFC19C0069_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-
Award description

PROVIDE ENGINEERING ANALYSES, HARDWARE & SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT, FABRICATION, INTEGRATION, TEST, EVALUATION, INTEGRATION WITH SPACECRAFT, LAUNCH, INSTRUMENT ACTIVATION, CALIBRATION, VALIDATION, & OPERATIONS THROUGH 60-DAY CHECKOUT FOR TSIS2 PAYLOAD.

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

The Buildout's read

What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Engineering, hardware/software development, fabrication, integration, testing, and operations of the TSIS2 payload instrument for NASA.

Sub-sectors
nasa-space-missionsinstrument-developmentspacecraft-integration
Why this matters

TSIS2 measures total solar irradiance critical for climate modeling and understanding Earth's energy balance and climate change.

Supply-chain signal

Signals demand for specialized aerospace component suppliers, integration contractors, and test facilities supporting NASA's Earth science missions.

U.S.–China competition angle

U.S. maintains independent capability in advanced Earth observation and climate monitoring satellites, reducing reliance on foreign data sources.

Generated by award_classification v2.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-15. Cost: $0.002277.

Period of performance
Start
2019-08-06
End
2026-12-12
Status
activein 209 days
Other awards from this recipient
Sources

The Buildout does not edit federal records. Any inaccuracy reflects the upstream source; it will update here when corrected there.

$37.2M National Aeronautics and Space Administration — The Buildout — The Buildout