NASA contract obligations
ObservedContract dollars obligated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (awarding agency) in each fiscal year.
Ingestedfrom U.S. GovernmentfreshJSON export
Current value, United States
15.78BUS dollars
period 2024-10-01- Geography
- United States (USA)
- Observation date
- 2024-10-01
- Unit
- US dollars
- Frequency
- annual
- Ingested
- 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1-year change+768.59Mcontextual+5.12%2023-10-01 to 2024-10-01from 15.02B to 15.78B US dollars
10-year trend+2.37% per yearcontextual+26.39%2014-10-01 to 2024-10-01compound annual growth rate; total +3.3B US dollars, from 12.49B to 15.78B US dollars
Historical series
NASA contract obligations, United States
Observed
Data table (18 rows)
| Period | Value (US dollars) | Source revision | Ingested at |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-01 | 15,784,687,360.99 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2023-10-01 | 15,016,100,043.39 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2022-10-01 | 16,129,086,435.76 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2021-10-01 | 15,239,515,399.13 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2020-10-01 | 15,011,100,654.96 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2019-10-01 | 14,713,527,058.59 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2018-10-01 | 14,228,415,950.24 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2017-10-01 | 14,589,145,794.68 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2016-10-01 | 13,469,957,651.13 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2015-10-01 | 13,153,295,347.16 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2014-10-01 | 12,488,503,020.67 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2013-10-01 | 12,214,407,497.8 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2012-10-01 | 12,563,756,219.17 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2011-10-01 | 13,492,321,689.45 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2010-10-01 | 14,256,258,443.44 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2009-10-01 | 15,548,552,298.23 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2008-10-01 | 15,011,894,085.17 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2007-10-01 | 14,871,074,358.14 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
Definition
What this measures
Total obligations on federal contract awards (award types A, B, C and D: definitive contracts, purchase orders, delivery orders and BPA calls) where the awarding top-tier agency is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, summed over the federal fiscal year from transaction-level data reported to FPDS and published on USAspending.gov. Obligations are amounts the government committed, not outlays; de-obligations reduce the total. Fiscal years run 1 October to 30 September; only closed fiscal years are stored.
- Direction
- contextual, not scored
- Geography level
- country
- Slug
- us-nasa-contract-obligations
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Provenance and methodologysource, series, ingestion, revisions
- Classification
- Observedpublished by the cited source, ingested without transformation
- Source organization
- U.S. Government, USAspending API v2
- Series ID
spending_over_time:nasa-contractslast fetch: ok- Source links
- Source homepage: https://www.usaspending.gov
- License and attribution
- Approved with attributionUSAspending.gov, U.S. Department of the Treasury.
- Last source update
- 2026-09-07(source revision label as published by the provider)
- Last ingestion
- last successful runfresh
- Last run
- success2026-09-07 20:16 UTC
- Parser version
- usaspending-v2/1.0.0
- Methodology version
- 1.0
- Quality and confidence
- USAspending is refreshed daily as agencies report; Department of Defense contract actions are published with a 90 day delay, so the most recent closed year keeps moving for a quarter after it ends. The running fiscal year is a total to date and is not stored (set include_current_fiscal_year on the series to add it). A changed fiscal-year total is stored as a new row labelled with the fetch date. Searchable data begin fiscal year 2008.Ingestion rejects values outside 100,000,000 to 1,000,000,000,000 US dollars.18 periods with values for this geography, 2007-10-01 to 2024-10-01.
- Revisions
- Values reported for the latest period (2024-10-01) by each source revision ingested. Earlier rows are never deleted; the newest ingested row is shown as current.
Source revision Value (US dollars) Ingested at Status 2026-09-07 15,784,687,360.99 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC current No superseded rows for this geography: every period has been ingested once.