NASA's $10.6B Award Landscape: Small Business Set-Asides Capture One-Quarter of Opportunities as SpaceX Dominates Prime Awards
WinAContract · Oct 14, 2026
NASA's 46 major awards totaling $10.6 billion are heavily concentrated among five primes, yet 305 current small business set-asides and 139 new opportunities in the past month signal sustained subcontracting and specialized supplier demand across analytical instruments, R&D services, and space technology.
71
Open right now
1,250
On record
46
Awards
$10,631,401,133
Total awarded
NASA's contracting portfolio reflects the agency's dual posture: massive prime awards clustering around established aerospace giants like SpaceX ($5.9B) and Ares Technical Services ($739M), paired with a robust secondary market of smaller opportunities. With 71 open opportunities today and 139 added in the last month, the agency is actively building its supplier ecosystem across multiple tiers. The real opportunity for small and mid-size firms lies not in chasing the headline awards, but in recognizing where NASA's work actually fragments into manageable pieces.
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