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 621

• Economic Output $133,567,000

• State Tax Revenue $5,606,000

Moon to Mars Campaign State Impacts

• Jobs Supported 38

• Economic Output $9,280,000

• State Tax Revenue $359,000

Investments in Climate Change Research & 

Technology State Impacts

• Jobs Supported 177

• Economic Output $35,905,000

• State Tax Revenue $1,605,000

Sample Obligations(3)

Business $9,078,236 

• Other Than Small Business $1,467,035 

• Small Business $7,611,201 

 – 8(A) Program $0 

 – Economically Disadvantaged Women 

 Owned Small Business $394,948 

 – Historically Underutilized Business 

 (HUBZone) $0 

 – Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small

 Business $0 

 – Small Business Innovative Research $4,129,378 

 – Small Disadvantaged Business $2,652,912 

 – Veteran Owned Small Business $0 

 – Woman Owned Small Business $1,135,819 

 – Small Business Only $1,179,662 

Educational $21,438,709 

Government $0 

Non-profit Institutions $1,074,306 

Leading State-based NASA Business 

Contractors

 CU Aerospace, LLC $1,330,988

 Applied Material Systems Engineering, Inc. $750,000

 MicroLink Devices, Inc. $750,000

 ZeCoat Corporation $749,973

 Runtime Verification, Inc. $749,847

Leading State-based NASA Education Funding 

University of Illinois $10,045,024

University of Chicago $8,842,553

Northwestern University $2,246,097

Illinois Institute of Technology $110,000

Northern Illinois University $108,978

Space Grant Consortium 

University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana $800,000 

ILLINOIS

FY21 State Procurement Investments (2) $38.8 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

Scott Altman

Lee Archambault

Zena Cardman*

Eugene Cernan

John Grunsfeld

Joan Higginbotham

Joe Kerwin

Sandy Magnus

Tom Mattingly

James McDivitt

Carl Meade

Steve Nagel

Joe Tanner

Charles Veach

There are 20 NASA federal jobs and 318* contractors in the 

state of Illinois. 

For every NASA federal job located in Illinois, an additional 

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

million dollars’ worth of economic output generated by NASA 

federal jobs, an additional $13** 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

ILLINOIS

621

NASA Jobs

Supported

* Current

The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory 

mission will provide insights into how 

Earth’s exosphere is influenced by 

changes in space, including the solar 

wind, shown here flowing from the Sun 

in this illustration.

Fifty-seven Illinois suppliers contributed 

to NASA’s Artemis program. An example 

of the state’s contributions is precision 

machining performed on valve hardware 

for the SLS rockets for RS-25 engines.

Illinois Institutions

1774

Hours