These Are NASA's Top 10 Contractors презентация

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2013 – 11% of all funds spent on outside contractors last year.

That made CalTech NASA’s No. 1 biggest contractor for the year.

Caltech Submillimeter Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Data source: Bloomberg.

NASA’s No. 2 contractor.

Among publicly-traded companies, Boeing was NASA’s biggest beneficiary, winning more than 10% of contract funds.

NASA contracts made up nearly 2% of Boeing’s revenues.

Boeing’s Atlas V. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

10% of NASA’s contracts.

LockMart won $1.61 billion in NASA work in 2013 – 3.6% of annual revenues, and enough to make it NASA’s No. 3 contractor.

Lockheed’s Delta IV rocket is even bigger than Boeing’s Atlas V. Photo : Wikimedia Commons.

was another big NASA beneficiary.

It took home 4.2% of NASA funds – $452 million.

Jacobs Engineering helps support operations at the Johnson Space Center. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

the rise.

Elon Musk’s privately held space exploration company won 3.4% of NASA contracts in 2013 – $532 million.

SpaceX wants to help NASA hop into the future with “Grasshopper.” Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

find Raytheon on this list.

Raytheon took home nearly 3% of NASA work last year – $459 million, and 2% of revenues.

Raytheon built the infrared sensors for NASA’s NPP Suomi weather satellite. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

Hawks help with the first half of that mission, and Northrop is well paid for the help.

For drones and other work, it collected $373 million from NASA – 1.5% of revenues and 2.4% of NASA’s outlays.

NASA uses Northrop’s Global Hawk to monitor hurricane formation. Photo : Northrop Grumman.

as privately-held SpaceX. But that’s okay, so long as the checks clear...

NASA’s No. 8 contractor won $305 million in NASA work in 2013.

SGT helps NASA monitor the polar ice sheets with ICESat. Photo : Wikimedia Commons

U.S. Air Force, ULA operates a near-monopoly on such work, and is paid handsomely for it – $298 million in 2013.

United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at liftoff. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

is responsible for Russia’s space program, and also does general aerospace research.

In addition to funds from Russian taxpayers, Roskosmos took in $285 million from NASA last year.

Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

bat, we can see that Boeing and Lockheed Martin are two of America's top 10 contractors for NASA.

Every time NASA spends $10, Boeing and Lockheed Martin collect more than $1 each.

NASA than that.

You see, NASA's No. 9 top contractor, United Launch Alliance, is actually a 50-50 joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin.

That means you can basically take ULA's $297.8 million NASA budget, split it down the middle, and give half each to Boeing and LockMart.

contractor, but its No. 1 top contractor!

$1.84 billion.

That's how much money Boeing got from NASA last year.

of "their own" money, plus another $149 million from ULA, gives Lockheed Martin $1.76 billion in NASA revenue.

And lifts Lockheed Martin into second place.

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