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) $4.5 B

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

NASA Overall State Impact(1)

• Jobs Supported 66,236

• Economic Output $15,243,585,000

• State Tax Revenue $742,015,000

Moon to Mars Campaign State Impacts

• Jobs Supported 11,640

• Economic Output $2,867,051,000

• State Tax Revenue $135,224,000

Investments in Climate Change Research & 

Technology State Impacts

• Jobs Supported 9,972

• Economic Output $2,252,439,000

• State Tax Revenue $105,986,000

Sample Obligations(3)

Business $1,938,319,677 

• Other Than Small Business $1,550,191,156 

• Small Business $388,128,521 

 – 8(A) Program $7,205,330 

 – Economically Disadvantaged Women 

 Owned Small Business $21,617,924 

 – Historically Underutilized Business 

 (HUBZone) $18,462,777 

 – Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small

 Business $9,398,159 

 – Small Business Innovative Research $59,865,217 

 – Small Disadvantaged Business $161,285,578 

 – Veteran Owned Small Business $11,771,549 

 – Woman Owned Small Business $73,090,013 

 – Small Business Only $141,274,577 

Educational $2,518,978,523 

Government $8,656,217 

Non-profit Institutions $132,812,100 

Leading State-based NASA Business 

Contractors

Aerojet Rocketdyne of DE, Inc. $435,145,607

Space Exploration Technologies Corporation $398,918,264

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation $243,144,302

Lockheed Martin Corporation $104,265,595

Space Systems/Loral, LLC $77,109,000

Leading State-based NASA Education Funding 

California Institute of Technology $2,385,382,677

The University of California $51,655,709

University of California, Los Angeles $18,045,267

Stanford University $13,119,807

University of California, San Diego $12,766,823

Space Grant Consortium 

University of California, San Diego $881,419

NASA Centers:

1 Ames Research Center – Silicon Valley, CA

2 Armstrong Flight Research Center – Edwards Air Force Base, CA

3 Jet Propulsion Laboratory – Pasadena, CA

CALIFORNIA

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2

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Economic Impact Report

for your state, go to:

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NASA Astronauts

There are 1,812 NASA federal jobs and 33,700

contractors* in the state of California. 

For every NASA federal job located in California, an additional 

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

million dollars’ worth of economic output generated by NASA 

federal jobs, an additional $16.3** 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

CALIFORNIA

Ames Research Center – Silicon Valley, CA

Armstrong Flight Research Center – Edwards Air Force Base, CA

Jet Propulsion Laboratory – Pasadena, CA

66,236

NASA Jobs

Supported

California Institutions

24,949.5

Hours

* Current

** Candidate

Joseph M. Acaba*

Tracy CaldwellDyson*

Josh A. Cassada*

Gregory Chamitoff

Kevin P. Chilton

Michael Clifford

Michael Coats

Victor J. Glover*

Frederick Hauck

Jose Hernandez

Jonny Kim*

Steven W. Lindsey

Stanley G. Love

Nicole A. Mann*

William C. McCool

Michael J. McCulley

Pamela Melroy

Barbara Morgan

Bryan D. O’Connor

Ellen Ochoa

John D. Olivas

Alan G. Poindexter

Sally Ride

Stephen Robinson

Frank Rubio*

Frederick Sturckow

James van Hoften

Rex J. Walheim

A. Jessica Wittner**

John Young

Ames Research Center

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Climate Research Advanced Air Mobility Entry Systems

Sustainable

Flight

Supersonic Flight

Research

Airborne

Science

Surface Water &

Ocean Topography

NASA-ISRO Synthetic 

Aperture Radar

Mars Sample Return

The FY21 ARC budget was $805 million.

The FY21 AFRC budget was $348.3 million.

The FY21 JPL budget was $2.3 billion.