Awards/COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT (B)

$34,666,528

Department of Defense·Department of the Air Force

to UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION

aerospaceactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2020 CONTRACT

WORK BEGAN2020-12-16·LATEST ACTION2026-05-19·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_FA94532120064_097

Award description

THE RECIPIENT, NAMED USRA, SHALL PERFORM WORK IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF WORK DATED 09 DECEMBER 2020, ENTITLED "AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY

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

Obligation on USRA's 2020 Air Force Research Laboratory cooperative agreement for aerospace research.

Sub-sectors

space-researchair-force-research-labcooperative-r&d

Why this matters

U.S.-China competition in space domain awareness and satellite technology drives sustained AFRL research investment.

Supply-chain signal

USRA's research operations typically subcontract to aerospace firms and universities for modeling, testing, and advanced systems development.

U.S.–China competition angle

U.S. space domain awareness and satellite capabilities face Chinese competition; AFRL research supports U.S. technical edge.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-06-16. Cost: $0.013448.

Period of performance

Start

2020-12-16

End

2027-03-16

Status

activein 259 days

Recipient

UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION

UEI VPWMMPGGPJ74

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Sources

USAspending.gov — all awards for this UEI →
SAM.gov entity registration →
Award record ingested from usaspending. Source identifier ASST_NON_FA94532120064_097.

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