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$88,782,895

National Aeronautics and Space Administration·National Aeronautics and Space Administration

to COLUMBUS TECHNOLOGIES AND SERVICES, INC

aerospaceactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2025 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2025-04-09·LATEST ACTION2026-04-16·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_80GSFC25CA034_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-
Award description

STUDY, DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, FABRICATION, INTEGRATION, TESTING, VERIFICATION, AND OPERATIONS OF SPACE FLIGHT, AIRBORNE, AND GROUND SYSTEM HARDWARE, INCLUDING DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES TO ENABLE FUTURE SPACE AND SCIENCE MISSIONS.

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

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Design, develop, fabricate, and test space flight and ground system hardware for NASA missions and emerging space technologies.

Sub-sectors
space-systems-developmenthardware-integration-testingfuture-mission-enablement
Why this matters

Nearly $89M contract supports NASA's capability to develop next-generation space systems and validate technologies critical for future exploration and science missions.

Supply-chain signal

Large systems integrator contract signals demand for specialized aerospace suppliers, component manufacturers, and testing facilities across the space industrial base.

U.S.–China competition angle

U.S. investment in advanced space hardware development and technology validation directly counters China's expanding space capabilities and lunar ambitions.

Generated by award_classification v2.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-15. Cost: $0.002304.

Period of performance
Start
2025-04-09
End
2030-04-08
Status
activein 1422 days
Sources

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