National Institute of Aerospace Associates

Lunar obligations
$1.1M
as prime
Lunar awards
5
as prime
Its subcontractors
0
none reported
Primes it works for
1
$830K in subawards

Who it subcontracts to

No subawards reported under its lunar awards.

Who it works for

  1. SUBCONTRACT FUNDING

Lunar awards as prime

AwardDescriptionPeriodObligated
80JSC025F0034NOIS3-005 HUMAN LANDING SYSTEM COMPETITION (HLSC)2025-07-24 → 2026-09-30$830K
80LARC20F0058TRADE STUDY, MODELING, AND ANALYSIS OF LUNAR SURFACE POWER DISTRIBUTION OPTIONS. THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS TRADE STUDY IS TO DEVELOP TOP LEVEL CONCEPTUAL ARCHITECTURE DESIGNS FOR THREE DIFFERENT POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS AND TO PERFORM A TRADE STUDY COM2020-05-13 → 2020-12-17$115K
80LARC21FA004IDENTIFICATION AND ASSESSMENT OF TECHNOLOGY PUSH FOR HUMAN LANDING SYSTEM APPLICATIONS2021-09-08 → 2022-05-16$77K
80LARC19F0074TRADE STUDY, MODELING, AND ANALYSIS OF ROBOTIC DOCKING AND BERTHING AT THE LUNAR ORBITAL PLATFORM-GATEWAY. NASA SEEKS TO CONSTRUCT THE LUNAR ORBITAL PLATFORM-GATEWAY OVER A PERIOD STARTING FROM 2020 AND ENDING IN 2028. ALTHOUGH DESIGNED TO BE A MANNED SPACE STATION, IT IS EXPECTED THAT THE GATEWAY WILL BE UNOCCUPIED FOR LONG STRETCHES TOTALING OVER 90% OF ITS LIFESPAN. TASKS SUCH AS DOCKING, BERTHING, MAINTENANCE, AND OTHER MANIPULATION TASKS DURING THE UNOCCUPIED PHASES MUST BE PERFORMED BY ROBOTS. SINCE THE ROUND-TRIP COMMUNICATION TIME IS APPROXIMATELY 3 SECONDS, FULL TELEOPERATION IS NOT FEASIBLE, AND SOME DEGREE OF SUPERVISED AUTONOMY WILL BE REQUIRED. THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS WORK ARE TO: 1) PERFORM A STUDY INCLUDING THE MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF SENSING AND CONTROLS REQUIREMENTS TO ENABLE SUPERVISED AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS TO PERFORM DOCKING, BERTHING, AND MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS, AND 2) PERFORM A TRADE STUDY WHICH WILL ASSESS THE STATE OF THE ART IN PLANNED GATEWAY ROBOTS TO INFORM THE DESIGN OF NEW ROBOTIC TOOLS TO ASSIST IN DOCKING AND BERTHING.2019-05-29 → 2019-09-30$24K
80LARC21F0078LUNAR METEOROID EJECTA MODEL REVIEW. PARTICIPATE AS A MEMBER OF THE LUNAR METEOROID EJECTA MODEL REVIEW TEAM TO PROVIDE AN EVALUATION OF THE NEW NASA LUNAR METEOROID EJECTA MODEL2021-02-02 → 2021-12-31$13K

Source: USAspending.gov prime award and subaward data (public domain), refreshed daily; last refreshed 2026-10-19 06:18 UTC.

Amounts are obligated to date, not contract ceilings. An award counts as lunar when its published description is about the Moon, and programs are tagged from that text; repeated or impossible subaward reports are shown but not summed. Subawards are only as complete as primes report them.

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