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)

FY21 State Procurement Investments (2) $2.2 B

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

NASA Overall State Impact(1)

• Jobs Supported 36,771

• Economic Output $7,965,395,000

• State Tax Revenue $344,986,000

Moon to Mars Campaign State Impacts

• Jobs Supported 400

• Economic Output $86,636,000

• State Tax Revenue $3,848,000

Investments in Climate Change Research & 

Technology State Impacts

• Jobs Supported 6,425

• Economic Output $1,316,116,000

• State Tax Revenue $59,316,000

Sample Obligations(3)

Business $1,330,089,027 

• Other Than Small Business $677,067,591 

• Small Business $653,021,436 

 – 8(A) Program $234,046,469 

 – Economically Disadvantaged Women 

 Owned Small Business $96,523,423 

 – Historically Underutilized Business 

 (HUBZone) $5,830,448 

 – Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small

 Business $7,344,829 

 – Small Business Innovative Research $7,692,359 

 – Small Disadvantaged Business $604,583,760 

 – Veteran Owned Small Business $29,800,737 

 – Woman Owned Small Business $131,844,503 

 – Small Business Only $10,059,931 

Educational $112,171,857 

• Historically Black Colleges and Universities $677,005 

Government $964,733 

Non-profit Institutions $327,529,817 

Leading State-based NASA Business 

Contractors

Science Systems and Applications, Inc. $217,102,705

Science Applications International Corporation $159,021,930

Johns Hopkins University $146,416,082

KBR Wyle Technology Solutions, LLC $123,031,567

Arctic Slope Technical Services, Inc. $74,156,720

Leading State-based NASA Education Funding 

University of Maryland $37,960,295

University of Maryland, College Park $31,760,804

Johns Hopkins University $30,744,192

University of Maryland Baltimore County $10,178,735

University of Maryland Center for 

Environmental Science $845,923

Space Grant Consortium 

Johns Hopkins University $800,000

NASA Center:

Goddard Space Flight Center – Greenbelt, MD

MARYLAND
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for your state, go to:

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James Webb Space Telescope

Cycle 1 Hours of Access

NASA Astronauts

Richard “Ricky” Arnold

Robert Curbeam

Marsha Ivins

Tom Jones

Kenneth Reightler

Terry Virts

Jessica Watkins*

Reid G. Wiseman*

Christopher L. Williams**

There are 3,128 NASA federal jobs and 16,912

contractors* in the state of Maryland. 

For every NASA federal job located in Maryland, an additional 

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

million dollars’ worth of economic output generated by NASA 

federal jobs, an additional $4.2** million worth of output is 

sustained throughout the state economy.

* Represents NASA contractor employees and employees in the 

supply chain of those contractors.

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

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

MARYLAND

Goddard Space Flight Center—Greenbelt, MD

36,771

NASA Jobs

Supported

Maryland Institutions

21,898

Hours

* Current

** Candidate

PACE measurements of the ocean and atmosphere will inform 

water, air quality, and weather forecasts, improve national 

security, and our understanding of Earth’s climate.

The Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource 

Identification Security — Regolith Explorer 

spacecraft traveled to a near-Earth asteroid, 

called Bennu (formerly 1999 RQ36), and 

collected a sample to bring back to Earth 

for study. The mission will help scientists 

investigate how planets formed and how life 

began, as well as improve our understanding 

of asteroids that could impact Earth.

This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering 

stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region 

called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by 

NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals for 

 the first time previously invisible areas of star birth.

The FY21 Center budget was $4 billion.