Contract award

SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE

LUCY IS A PLANNED NASA SPACE PROBE THAT WILL TOUR FIVE JUPITER TROJANS, ASTEROIDS WHICH SHARE JUPITER'S ORBIT AROUND THE SUN, ORBITING EITHER AHEAD OF OR BEHIND THE PLANET AND ONE MAIN BELT ASTEROID. ALL TARGET ENCOUNTERS WILL BE FLY-BY ENCOUNTERS.

PIID: NNM16AA08C
Award key: CONT_AWD_NNM16AA08C_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-
Recipient UEI: PB11V1KH3KV4
Source as of: Aug 6, 2026

Current award value

$170,903,125³

Obligated to date

$74,931,168²

Potential with options

$170,903,125³

Awarding agency: National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
Contractor: SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE
NAICS: 541330 · Engineering Services
PSC: AR14 · SPACE R&D SERVICES; SPACE FLIGHT, RESEARCH AND SUPPORTING ACTIVITIES; R&D ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES
Place of performance: San Antonio, Texas
Set-aside: No set-aside used
Pricing: COST PLUS FIXED FEE
Competition: —1 offers received
Period of performance: Nov 13, 2015 — Feb 28, 2034Through Feb 28, 2034 if all options are exercised
Benchmark category: Engineering Services

Against comparable awards

Where this award sits in the published Engineering Services distribution.

At $170,903,125, this award is above the top quartile. The median is $838,451 across 413 comparable awards.

Comparison uses the same measure (current award value) and the snapshot published Aug 10, 2026. See the full benchmark.

Transaction history

Every action recorded against this award, in the order the government reported them.

Mod	Action date	Reason	Obligation	Value at action
P00054	Mar 19, 2026	FUNDING ONLY ACTION	$4,007,000.00	$170,903,124.70
P00055	May 1, 2026	FUNDING ONLY ACTION	-$2,300,000.00	$170,903,124.70
P00056	May 6, 2026	FUNDING ONLY ACTION	$2,300,000.00	$170,903,124.70
P00057	Jun 26, 2026	OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE	$0.00	$170,903,124.70
P00058	Jul 16, 2026	FUNDING ONLY ACTION	$2,500,000.00	$170,903,124.70

Provenance

Which source record produced each displayed rollup figure.

Field	Source	File	Retrieved	Parser	Artifact hash
awarding_agency_id	USAspending.gov	FY2026_All_Contracts_Full_20260807_1.csv	Aug 10, 2026	usaspending_contract_csv@2026.08.1	24edb1916585
contractor_id	USAspending.gov	FY2026_All_Contracts_Full_20260807_1.csv	Aug 10, 2026	usaspending_contract_csv@2026.08.1	24edb1916585
current_award_value	USAspending.gov	FY2026_All_Contracts_Full_20260807_1.csv	Aug 10, 2026	usaspending_contract_csv@2026.08.1	24edb1916585
naics_code	USAspending.gov	FY2026_All_Contracts_Full_20260807_1.csv	Aug 10, 2026	usaspending_contract_csv@2026.08.1	24edb1916585
potential_award_value	USAspending.gov	FY2026_All_Contracts_Full_20260807_1.csv	Aug 10, 2026	usaspending_contract_csv@2026.08.1	24edb1916585
psc_code	USAspending.gov	FY2026_All_Contracts_Full_20260807_1.csv	Aug 10, 2026	usaspending_contract_csv@2026.08.1	24edb1916585
total_obligated	USAspending.gov	FY2026_All_Contracts_Full_20260807_1.csv	Aug 10, 2026	usaspending_contract_csv@2026.08.1	24edb1916585

Sources and method

Figures on this page are computed from public federal award records. Numbers are never estimated or generated; where a figure is withheld, the reason is stated rather than filled in.

This page is a record of one federal award, assembled from the transactions the government published against it. Note 1 describes where the rollup came from. Values are award values, not unit prices.

1Rollup values derive from 5 transaction records parsed from USAspending.gov (FY2026_All_Contracts_Full_20260807_1.csv), retrieved Aug 10, 2026 by transform awards@2026.08.1.
2Obligations are the sum of signed federal action obligations across all transactions; deobligations are negative and remain negative.
3Current and potential award values are taken from the latest reported action, not summed across modifications.