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 550

• Economic Output $91,302,000 

• State Tax Revenue $2,102,000 

Moon to Mars Campaign State Impacts

• Jobs Supported 17

• Economic Output $2,710,000 

• State Tax Revenue $63,000 

Investments in Climate Change Research & 

Technology State Impacts

• Jobs Supported 171

• Economic Output $30,159,000 

• State Tax Revenue $703,000 

Sample Obligations(3)

Business $101,901 

• Other Than Small Business $0 

• Small Business $101,901 

 – 8(A) Program $0 

 – Economically Disadvantaged Women 

 Owned Small Business $0 

 – Historically Underutilized Business 

 (HUBZone) $0 

 – Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small

 Business $0 

 – Small Business Innovative Research $11,014 

 – Small Disadvantaged Business $0 

 – Veteran Owned Small Business $0 

 – Woman Owned Small Business $90,887 

 – Small Business Only $20,739,236 

Educational $0 

Government $0 

Non-profit Institutions $0 

Leading State-based NASA Business 

Contractors

ABR, Inc. $90,887 

Copper River Information Technology, LLC. $15,117 

Leading State-based NASA Education Funding 

University of Alaska Fairbanks $20,695,742 

University of Alaska Anchorage $43,494 

Space Grant Consortium 

University of Alaska Fairbanks $800,000 

ALASKA

FY21 State Procurement Investments (2) $41 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

Deniz M. Burnham**

There are 2 NASA federal jobs and 368* contractors in the state 

of Alaska. 

For every NASA federal job located in Alaska, an additional 

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

million dollars’ worth of economic output generated by NASA 

federal jobs, an additional $93.9** 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

ALASKA

550

NASA Jobs

Supported

** Candidate

 Located in the Geophysical 

Institute at the University of 

Alaska Fairbanks, the Alaska 

Satellite Facility Distributed 

Active Archive Center (ASF 

DAAC) is supported by NASA to 

acquire, process, archive, and 

distribute synthetic aperture 

radar (SAR) data from polarorbiting satellite and airborne 

sensors to advance Earth 

science research. 

NASA conducts soundingrocket research at 

Poker Flat on the 

arctic atmosphere and 

ionosphere, including 

auroras (pictured in the 

launch photo here).

One Alaska supplier contributed to NASA’s Artemis 

program. An example of the state’s contributions is 

providing technical services and operations support to 

NASA’s Orion spacecraft at the agency’s Kennedy Space 

Center. This team supports human spacecraft assembly, 

testing, integration, and production.

Alaska Institutions

55.4

Hours