$809M to 148 subs
- Moog$38M
- Everyone else$244M
Award and teaming radar
Who is winning the Moon, and who they hire.
Every federal contract and grant whose description is about the Moon since October 2018, with the subcontracts primes report under them. Small firms mostly enter big lunar programs as subcontractors, so this shows where that money already flows.
Lunar obligations
$13Bobligated to date, not ceilings
Lunar awards
2,477contracts and grants
Prime recipients
639companies, universities, labs
Subcontractors
473$1.1B in reported subawards
Where the money goes
Obligations from each program group to the twelve largest lunar primes.
- Moon Base and CLPS landers
- Human Landing System
- Artemis transport and Gateway
- Rovers and ISRU
- Lunar science and tech
Every lunar award since FY2019
Each dot is one award: when it started and how much has been obligated (log scale). Hover for details; click to open it on USAspending.
- Moon Base and CLPS landers
- Human Landing System
- Artemis transport and Gateway
- Rovers and ISRU
- Lunar science and tech
Biggest lunar primes
Obligations by program group, and how many subcontractors each has reported.
- 1Space Exploration Technologies$3.2B—
- 2Blue Origin Manufacturing$2.2B—
- 3Northrop Grumman Systems$1.8B148 subs
- 4Blue Origin Federation$516M11 subs
- 5Intuitive Machines$470M—
- 6Axiom Space$415M—
- 7California Institute of Technology$391M1 subs
- 8Firefly Aerospace$336M—
- 9Dynetics$300M61 subs
- 10Blue Origin$175M—
- 11The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory$152M24 subs
- 12Arizona State University$144M22 subs
- 13Astrobotic Technology$135M6 subs
- 14Southwest Research Institute$129M37 subs
- 15Lunar Outpost$124M—
Programs
- Moon BaseNASA's phased plan for a lasting outpost near the lunar south pole.$7.8M5 awards
- CLPS and CLPS 2.0Commercial Lunar Payload Services: NASA buys deliveries to the Moon as task orders.$1.2B28 awards
- Human Landing SystemThe crewed landers that take Artemis astronauts to the surface.$6.5B53 awards
- Lunar Terrain VehicleRovers for Artemis crews, bought as a service.$225M6 awards
- GatewayThe lunar-orbit station, paused in its current form under the Moon Base plan.$1.9B21 awards
- Artemis transportRockets, spacecraft, suits and ground systems whose award text names Artemis.$626M156 awards
- ISRU and regolithUsing lunar soil, water and volatiles: excavation, oxygen, construction.$279M228 awards
- Lunar science and techEvery other award that is about the Moon: instruments, missions, research, SBIRs.$2.0B1980 awards
Who the primes hire
The eight primes that report the most subcontracting on lunar work, and their largest subcontractors. Bars compare subs within each prime.
$39M to 17 subs
- Everyone else$4.2M
$25M to 22 subs
- Intuitive Machines$3.1M
- Honeybee Robotics$1.9M
- Busek Co$1.7M
- Everyone else$9.8M
$17M to 37 subs
- Lockheed Martin$4.0M
- The Aerospace$1.7M
- Honeybee Robotics$1.5M
- Everyone else$7.0M
$13M to 61 subs
- Psionic$940K
- Everyone else$8.0M
$13M to 24 subs
- Lunar Outpost$1.6M
- Everyone else$3.8M
$12M to 6 subs
- X Energy$2.4M
- Aerojet Rocketdyne$1.4M
- Everyone else$286K
$10M to 18 subs
- Ilc Dover$6.8M
- Aerojet Rocketdyne$1.7M
- Biztek International$202K
- Everyone else$1.3M
Latest awards to start
- Deloitte Consulting LLPHuman Landing System · THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PROVIDE HLS PROGRAM SUPPORT FOR SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, INTEGRATION, REQUIREMENTS DEVELOPMENT, RISK MITIGATION, PROJECT MANAGEMENT, AND CERTIFICATION EXPERTISE ACROSS LUNAR LANDING MISSIONS AT NASA MSFC.$1.2M2026-10-07
- Zozude LLCMoon Base · DESIGNING SOLUTIONS FOR NASA'S MOON BASE$600K2026-10-06
- Precision Fabricating & Cleaning Company, Inc.Artemis transport · KSC ARTEMIS HARDWARE PRECISION CLEANING AND CALIBRATION OFF-SITE SERVICES$18K2026-10-05
- Modulate Space CorporationLunar science and tech · DEVELOP A MINIMUM VIABLE SOLUTION OF A 5G NEW RADIO (5G-NR) USER EQUIPMENT (UE) AND 5G NETWORK-IN-A-BOX (NIB) FOR SUBSEQUENT LUNAR MISSIONS.$13M2026-10-01
- Booz Allen Hamilton IncMoon Base · MOON BASE PROGRAM ASSESSMENT$5.7M2026-10-01
- Booz Allen Hamilton IncArtemis transport · ARTEMIS HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT MISSION DIRECTORATE STRATEGIC ASSESSMENT II$1.7M2026-10-01
- Metgreen Solutions IncArtemis transport · REDHAT RHEL ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR ARTEMIS$1.3M2026-10-01
- Peraton Inc.Artemis transport · ARTEMIS - PERATON OS/COMET ANNUAL MAINTENANCE$700K2026-10-01
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