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) $2.1 B

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

NASA Overall State Impact(1)

• Jobs Supported 32,739

• Economic Output $6,800,350,000

• State Tax Revenue $273,302,000

Moon to Mars Campaign State Impacts

• Jobs Supported 3,392

• Economic Output $899,885,000

• State Tax Revenue $32,632,000

Investments in Climate Change Research & 

Technology State Impacts

• Jobs Supported 4,017

• Economic Output $833,420,000

• State Tax Revenue $28,331,000

Sample Obligations(3)

Business $1,059,306,420 

• Other Than Small Business $838,371,242 

• Small Business $220,935,178 

 – 8(A) Program $1,040,389 

 – Economically Disadvantaged Women 

 Owned Small Business $8,245,655 

 – Historically Underutilized Business 

 (HUBZone) $20,321,472 

 – Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small

 Business $48,111,602 

 – Small Business Innovative Research $10,447,852 

 – Small Disadvantaged Business $62,803,640 

 – Veteran Owned Small Business $63,999,672 

 – Woman Owned Small Business $23,517,318 

 – Small Business Only $78,039,729 

Educational $16,428,025 

• Historically Black Colleges and Universities $3,533,987 

Government $3,634,068 

Non-profit Institutions $42,226,264 

NASA Center:

1 Langley Research Center — Hampton, VA

NASA Facility:

2 Wallops Flight Facility — Wallops Island, VA

 Managed by Goddard Space Flight Center

VIRGINIA

Leading State-based NASA Business 

Contractors

Northrop Grumman $300,076,415

Peraton, Inc. $201,225,891

Jacobs Technology, Inc. $79,549,487

Bechtel National, Inc. $67,277,500

Booze Allen Hamilton, Inc. $40,703,853

Leading State-based NASA Education Funding 

George Mason University $5,088,129

Virginia Polytechnic Institute $4,368,982

The University of Virginia $1,888,476

Virginia Commonwealth University $433,000

Christopher Newport University $426,020

Space Grant Consortuim

Virginia Space Grant Consortium $800,000

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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

Ken Bowersox

David Brown

Andre Douglas**

Joe Edwards

Guy Gardner

Leland Melvin

Bill Oefelein

John Phillips

Robert “Bobby” Satcher

Mark Vande Hei*

Peter J.K. (Jeff) Wisoff

There are 2,477 NASA federal jobs and 16,594

contractors* in the state of Virginia. 

For every NASA federal job located in Virginia, an additional 

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

million dollars’ worth of economic output generated by NASA 

federal jobs, an additional $4.6** 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

VIRGINIA

32,739

NASA Jobs

Supported

Virginia Institutions

879

Hours

* Current

** Candidate

Langley Research Center—Hampton, VA

Wallops Flight Facility — Wallops Island, VA

NASA’s Low-Earth Flight Test of an Inflatable 

Decelerator (LOFTID) demonstrated a crosscutting aeroshell — a type of heat shield — 

for atmospheric re-entry.

NASA’s aeronautics 

researchers find 

ways to fly that 

are faster, cheaper, 

safer, and cleaner. 

They also build 

systems that will 

help drones take on 

jobs from package 

delivery to search 

and rescue.

Langley scientists and their 

partners create tools for 

studying the atmospheric and 

energy systems that drive 

Earth’s weather and changing 

climate.

NASA has developed and 

made available to industry an 

autonomous flight termination 

unit that is opening up launch 

opportunities for small 

commercial providers at 

Wallops and at other federal 

launch ranges. This technology 

is a requirement for DOD 

launches beginning in 2025, 

and is already enabling U.S. 

launches for Rocket Lab.

The FY21 LaRC budget was $864 million. The FY21 WFF budget was $289.5 million.