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National Aeronautics and Space Administration·National Aeronautics and Space Administration

to COLUMBUS TECHNOLOGIES AND SERVICES, INC

aerospaceactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2025 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2025-04-09·LATEST ACTION2026-04-16·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_80GSFC25CA034_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-
Award description

STUDY, DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, FABRICATION, INTEGRATION, TESTING, VERIFICATION, AND OPERATIONS OF SPACE FLIGHT, AIRBORNE, AND GROUND SYSTEM HARDWARE, INCLUDING DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES TO ENABLE FUTURE SPACE AND SCIENCE MISSIONS.

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

Design, develop, fabricate, and test space flight and ground system hardware for future NASA science and exploration missions.

Sub-sectors
space-systems-developmenthardware-integration-testingtechnology-validation
Why this matters

This 2025-launched contract supports NASA's ability to develop next-generation space systems and validate emerging technologies critical to sustained U.S. space leadership.

Supply-chain signal

Signals demand for specialized aerospace manufacturing, systems integration, and testing capabilities across the space industrial base.

U.S.–China competition angle

Directly supports U.S. technological advantage in space systems development as competition for space leadership intensifies.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-30. Cost: $0.002966.

Period of performance
Start
2025-04-09
End
2030-04-08
Status
activein 1378 days
Sources

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