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Space R&D Services; Space Flight, Research and Supporting Activities; Basic Research

Space R&D Services; Space Flight, Research and Supporting Activities; Basic Research recorded $1.8 billion of federal contract obligations for this product or service in fiscal year 2026, which ranks 69 of 2,291 products and services with a figure in FY2026.

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Identifiers

Product and Service Code
AR11
Registered name
SPACE R&D SERVICES; SPACE FLIGHT, RESEARCH AND SUPPORTING ACTIVITIES; BASIC RESEARCH

The record

Reported figures for Space R&D Services; Space Flight, Research and Supporting Activities; Basic Research, each linked to its source
Obligated · FY2026The Product and Service Code says what was bought, which is a different question from who sold it. Contracts only: an assistance award has no product code.$1,809,238,010USD
Rank among products and services · FY202669 of 2,291by obligations
Share of all products and services · FY2026Of $662.7 billion, which is what every product or service the publisher reported obligated in FY2026 — not the federal total, which is larger.0.3%percent

By fiscal year

Space R&D Services; Space Flight, Research and Supporting Activities; Basic Research: federal contract obligations for this product or service, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearObligated
FY2022$1,994,964,909
FY2023$1,883,131,867
FY2024$1,923,228,724
FY2025$1,777,687,036
FY2026$1,809,238,010

The publisher holds five fiscal years of this breakdown. A year missing from this table is a year this product or service was not reported in, not a year of no spending.

The nearest ranks

products and services ranked nearest Space R&D Services; Space Flight, Research and Supporting Activities; Basic Research, FY2026
Rankproduct or serviceObligated
66UNMANNED AIRCRAFT$1,857,940,191
67NON-NUCLEAR SHIP REPAIR (WEST)$1,850,596,621
68NON-NUCLEAR SHIP REPAIR (EAST)$1,838,869,427
70FUEL OILS$1,793,390,727
71SUPPORT- MANAGEMENT: FINANCIAL$1,779,280,120
72ARCHITECT AND ENGINEERING- GENERAL: OTHER$1,757,606,171

What this data cannot show

  • The fiscal year is not over. These are obligations recorded so far, and a figure here is not comparable with a full year.
  • An obligation is a binding commitment to pay, not money paid. Outlays are reported separately and the two are never equal in the same year.
  • The Product and Service Code says what was bought, which is a different question from who sold it. Contracts only: an assistance award has no product code.
  • This page is built from the database rather than from the committed extract, so it covers every product or service the publisher reported and not only the largest hundred the ranking names. Both come from the same ingest on the date above.

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