The weekly federal-spending brief. One email a Sunday. Free. No tracking.
The BuildoutBeta

$197,821,846

National Aeronautics and Space Administration·National Aeronautics and Space Administration

to S P KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE PUBLIC CORPORATION ENERGIA

aerospaceactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2006 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2006-08-04·LATEST ACTION2026-06-01·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_NNJ06GA16C_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-
Award description

ENERGIA WILL PROVIDE HARDWARE AND SERVICES THAT SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

The Buildout's read

What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Latest obligation on a 2006 NASA contract with Russia's Energia for ISS hardware and services through 2028.

Sub-sectors
international-space-stationm&o-contractongoing-modification
Why this matters

Sustains critical U.S.-Russia human spaceflight partnership on the ISS despite geopolitical tensions; ensures crew resupply and station operations.

Supply-chain signal

Reflects continued reliance on Russian Soyuz vehicles and Energia-supplied modules for ISS logistics; limits U.S. domestic alternatives.

U.S.–China competition angle

ISS partnership with Russia complicates U.S. space strategy amid China's parallel lunar and orbital ambitions; demonstrates Cold War-era cooperation persisting despite modern rivalries.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-21. Cost: $0.003084.

Period of performance
Start
2006-08-04
End
2028-12-31
Status
activein 915 days
Sources

The Buildout does not edit federal records. Any inaccuracy reflects the upstream source; it will update here when corrected there.