National Aeronautics and

Space Administration

(2) NASA contracts sourced in the state in FY21; see FY21 NASA Economic Impact Report (3) Categories are not additive. For more information on FY21 Sample Obligations, please visit: NASA Acquisition Internet Service (NAIS)

(1) For more information please visit: Value of NASA 

NASA Overall State Impact(1)

• Jobs Supported 485

• Economic Output $107,556,000 

• State Tax Revenue $4,820,000 

Moon to Mars Campaign State Impacts

• Jobs Supported 86

• Economic Output $19,202,000 

• State Tax Revenue $963,000 

Investments in Climate Change Research & 

Technology State Impacts

• Jobs Supported 238

• Economic Output $48,976,000 

• State Tax Revenue $2,254,000 

Sample Obligations(3)

Business $33,293,123 

• Other Than Small Business $24,626,769 

• Small Business $8,666,354 

 – 8(A) Program $0 

 – Economically Disadvantaged Women 

 Owned Small Business $0 

 – Historically Underutilized Business 

 (HUBZone) $0 

 – Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small

 Business $323,009 

 – Small Business Innovative Research $3,585,307 

 – Small Disadvantaged Business $974,329 

 – Veteran Owned Small Business $339,639 

 – Woman Owned Small Business $274,999 

 – Small Business Only $4,479,042 

Educational $4,269,956 

Government $35,952 

Non-profit Institutions $24,905,365 

Leading State-based NASA Business 

Contractors

Hamilton Sundstrand Space Systems 

International, Inc. $7,499,014 

Air-Lock, Inc. $5,253,772 

United Technologies Corporation $5,233,844 

Raytheon Technologies Corporation $3,806,374 

Gartner, Inc. $3,229,491 

Leading State-based NASA Education Funding 

Yale University $1,822,793 

University of Connecticut $1,397,058 

University of Hartford $812,500 

Wesleyan University $255,866 

Space Grant Consortium 

University of Hartford $800,000 

CONNECTICUT

FY21 State Procurement Investments (2) $38.1 M
For more information about the

Economic Impact Report

for your state, go to:

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NASA Headquarters

300 E Street, SW

Washington, DC 20546

www.nasa.gov/centers

www.nasa.gov

James Webb Space Telescope

Cycle 1 Hours of Access

NASA Astronauts

Dan Barry

Dan Burbank

Jack Hathaway**

Richard Mastracchio

Kathleen “Kate” Rubins*

Sherwood “Woody” Spring

 Pierre Thuot

There are 9 NASA federal jobs and 281* contractors in the state 

of Connecticut. 

For every NASA federal job located in Connecticut, an additional 

52.9** jobs are supported in the state economy. For every 

million dollars’ worth of economic output generated by NASA 

federal jobs, an additional $24.7** million worth of output is 

sustained throughout the state economy. 

* Indirect effects are the purchases of goods and services by 

government agencies and private sector contractors, as well as by 

the industries that supply them.

** Multiplier based on IMPLAN Input Output (I-O) model. To learn more, 

please visit: https://blog.implan.com/understanding-implan-multipliers

CONNECTICUT

485

NASA Jobs

Supported

* Current

** Candidate

Forty-nine Connecticut suppliers 

contributed to NASA’s Artemis 

program. An example of the 

state’s contributions included 

providing separation and 

deployment systems for the 

SLS Moon rocket and Orion 

Spacecraft. 

Connecticut 

Institutions

1269.4

Hours