Smithsonian Institution

Rank #770 of 1,000 by FY2025 federal contract value · Headquarters: CAMBRIDGE, MA

FY2025 contract value

$72,224,646

Oct 1, 2024 – Sep 30, 2025

FY2024 contract value

$69,545,131

FY2023 contract value

Top agency (FY2025)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

$72,224,646

Company profile

Legal name (as listed): SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
UEI: Q7N8CH7NR418
DUNS: 003261823
Headquarters: CAMBRIDGE, MA
Business types: Minority Owned BusinessNonprofitOther Minority Owned Business

Contract value trend, FY2023 – FY2025

Fiscal year	Contract value	Change vs prior year
FY2023	$0	—
FY2024	$69,545,131	—
FY2025	$72,224,646	+3.9%

FY2025 breakdowns

Top 10 in each category by FY2025 contract value.

Top awarding agencies

National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA

$72,224,646

Top places of performance (states)

MassachusettsMA

$72,224,646

Top industries (NAICS)

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences541710	$65,480,000
Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)541712	$5,779,692
Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)541715	$964,954

Top product & service codes (PSC)

R&D- SPACE: OTHER (BASIC RESEARCH)AR91	$63,950,000
R&D- SPACE: SCIENCE/APPLICATIONS (BASIC RESEARCH)AR21	$5,781,764
R&D- SPACE: SCIENCE/APPLICATIONS (APPLIED RESEARCH/EXPLORATORY DEVELOPMENT)AR22	$1,530,000
GENERAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY R&D SERVICES; GENERAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; BASIC RESEARCHAJ11	$634,426
EDUCATION, TRAINING, EMPLOYMENT, & SOCIAL SVCS R&D SVCS; EDUCATION SVCS R&D; BASIC RESEARCHAF11	$243,605
SPACE R&D SERVICES; SPACE FLIGHT, RESEARCH AND SUPPORTING ACTIVITIES; APPLIED RESEARCHAR12	$86,923
SPACE R&D SERVICES; SPACE FLIGHT, RESEARCH AND SUPPORTING ACTIVITIES; BASIC RESEARCHAR11	$0
SPACE R&D SERVICES; SPACE FLIGHT, RESEARCH AND SUPPORTING ACTIVITIES; EXPERIMENTAL DEVELOPMENTAR13	$0
SPACE VEHICLE COMPONENTS1820	-$2,072

Contract awards

Up to 20 awards with activity in FY2025, newest start date first. Amounts are individual award obligations, not company totals.

Award ID	Amount	Awarding agency	Description	Start date	NAICS	PSC	Place
CONT_AWD_HE125425FE578_9700_HE125424D0008_9700	$215,075	Department of Defense	AMERICAN ART RESOURCES PROVIDED ON DEMAND FROM THE SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM TO ALL OF OUR REQUESTING TEACHERS, K-12, IN DODEA. HE125424D0008 POC EMILY ATKINSON	Aug 20, 2025	—	—	DC
CONT_AWD_80NSSC25PB457_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-	$243,605	National Aeronautics and Space Administration	MAGIXS-3 SAO SUPPORT	Jun 1, 2025	—	—	MA
CONT_AWD_33330425P00515981_3300_-NONE-_-NONE-	$20,720,456	Smithsonian Institution	CAPITAL GALLERY RENT	Nov 8, 2024	—	—	DC
CONT_AWD_W912HQ24P0038_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-	$250,000	Department of Defense	SERDP PROJECT RC24-4289, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: "A THERMAL LANDSCAPE APPROACH FOR CUMULATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT OF SPOTTED TURTLE VULNERABILITY TO MULTIPLE STRESSORS"	Jul 10, 2024	—	—	VA
CONT_AWD_80GSFC24CA013_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-	$1,939,600	National Aeronautics and Space Administration	ECCCO - A WIDE-FIELD EXTREME ULTRA-VIOLET IMAGER AND A UNIQUE IMAGING EUV SPECTROGRAPH PHASE A	May 17, 2024	—	—	MA
CONT_AWD_80NSSC24PA547_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-	$215,987	National Aeronautics and Space Administration	CONTRACT TO HARVARD FOR DSCOVR FARADAY CUP INSTRUMENT	May 1, 2024	—	—	MA
CONT_AWD_80MSFC24CA004_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-	$4,006,943	National Aeronautics and Space Administration	THE TROPOSPHERIC EMISSIONS: MONITORING OF POLLUTION (TEMPO) CONTRACT, WILL CONDUCT THE NECESSARY RESEARCH, DEVELOP ALGORITHMS, AND PROVIDE NEAR REAL-TIME PRODUCTS FOR NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA'S) HINOD MISSION.	Mar 26, 2024	—	—	MA
CONT_AWD_80MSFC22CA013_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-	$325,979	National Aeronautics and Space Administration	MARSHALL GRAZING INCIDENT X-RAY SPECTROMETER (MAGIXS) 2 MISSION	Jul 1, 2022	—	—	MA
CONT_AWD_80MSFC21C0003_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-	$1,842,257	National Aeronautics and Space Administration	HIGH RESOLUTION CORONAL IMAGER (HI-C) FLARE ROCKET	Mar 4, 2021	—	—	MA
CONT_AWD_NNM15AA15C_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-	$1,732,756	National Aeronautics and Space Administration	MARSHALL GRAZING INCIDENT X-RAY SPECTROMETER (MAGIXS)	Oct 1, 2015	—	—	MA
CONT_AWD_NNL13AA09C_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-	$31,944,970	National Aeronautics and Space Administration	"IGF::OT::IGF" OTHER FUNCTIONS - TROPOSPHERIC EMISSIONS: MONITORING OF POLLUTION (TEMPO) - THE TEMPO INVESTIGATION WAS SELECTED UNDER THE NASA SECOND STAND ALONE MISSIONS OF OPPORTUNITY NOTICE (SALMON-2) ANNOUNCEMENT OF OPPORTUNITY (AO) PROGRAM ELEMENT APPENDIX J, NNH12ZDA006O-EVI1 FOR THE EARTH VENTURE INSTRUMENT-1 (EVI-1) ELEMENT OF THE EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE PATHFINDER (ESSP) PROGRAM OFFICE'S EARTH VENTURE LINE. TEMPO MEASURES POLLUTION OF NORTH AMERICA, FROM MEXICO CITY TO THE CANADIAN TAR/OIL SANDS, AND FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC, HOURLY AND AT HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION. TEMPO SPECTROSCOPIC MEASUREMENTS IN THE ULTRAVIOLET AND VISIBLE AND PROVIDES A TROPOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT SUITE THAT INCLUDES THE KEY ELEMENTS OF TROPOSPHERIC AIR POLLUTION CHEMISTRY. MEASUREMENTS ARE FROM GEOSTATIONARY ORBIT, TO CAPTURE THE INHERENT HIGH VARIABILITY IN THE DIURNAL CYCLE OF EMISSIONS AND CHEMISTRY. A SMALL PRODUCT SPATIAL FOOTPRINT RESOLVES POLLUTION SOURCES AT SUB-URBAN SCALE. TOGETHER, THIS TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMPROVES EMISSION INVENTORIES, MONITORS POPULATION EXPOSURE, AND ENABLES EFFECTIVE EMISSION-CONTROL STRATEGIES. TEMPO TAKES ADVANTAGE OF A GEOSTATIONARY (GEO) HOST SPACECRAFT TO PROVIDE A MODEST COST MISSION THAT MEASURES THE SPECTRA REQUIRED TO RETRIEVE O3, NO2, SO2, H2CO, C2H2O2, H2O, AEROSOLS, CLOUD PARAMETERS, AND UVB RADIATION. TEMPO THUS MEASURES THE MAJOR ELEMENTS, DIRECTLY OR BY PROXY, IN THE TROPOSPHERIC O3 CHEMISTRY CYCLE. MULTI-SPECTRAL OBSERVATIONS PROVIDE SENSITIVITY TO O3 IN THE LOWERMOST TROPOSPHERE, REDUCING UNCERTAINTY IN AIR QUALITY PREDICTIONS BY 50%. TEMPO QUANTIFIES AND TRACKS THE EVOLUTION OF AEROSOL LOADING. IT PROVIDES NEAR-REAL-TIME AIR QUALITY PRODUCTS THAT WILL BE MADE WIDELY, PUBLICLY AVAILABLE. TEMPO MAKES THE FIRST TROPOSPHERIC TRACE GAS MEASUREMENTS FROM GEO, BY BUILDING ON THE HERITAGE OF FIVE SPECTROMETERS FLOWN IN LOW-EARTH-ORBIT (LEO). THESE LEO INSTRUMENTS MEASURE THE NEEDED SPECTRA, ALTHOUGH AT COARSE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS, TO THE PRECISIONS REQUIRED FOR TEMPO AND USE RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS DEVELOPED FOR THEM BY TEMPO SCIENCE TEAM MEMBERS AND CURRENTLY RUNNING IN OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS. THIS MAKES TEMPO AN INNOVATIVE USE OF A WELL PROVEN TECHNIQUE, ABLE TO PRODUCE A REVOLUTIONARY DATASET. TEMPO PROVIDES MUCH OF THE ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT CAPABILITY RECOMMENDED FOR GEO-CAPE IN THE 2007 NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL DECADAL SURVEY, EARTH SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS FROM SPACE: NATIONAL IMPERATIVES FOR THE NEXT DECADE AND BEYOND. GEO-CAPE IS NOT PLANNED FOR IMPLEMENTATION THIS DECADE, HOWEVER, EUROPE (SENTINEL 4) AND ASIA (GEMS) WILL FORM PARTS OF A GLOBAL GEO CONSTELLATION FOR POLLUTION MONITORING, WITH A MAJOR FOCUS ON INTERCONTINENTAL POLLUTION TRANSPORT. TEMPO WILL LAUNCH AT A PRIME TIME TO BE A COMPONENT OF THIS CONSTELLATION.	Mar 29, 2013	—	—	MA
CONT_AWD_NNM07AB07C_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-	$47,629,836	National Aeronautics and Space Administration	SOLAR B X RAY TELESCOPE PHASE E	Dec 1, 2006	—	—	MA
CONT_AWD_HSCG3205CR00017_7008_-NONE-_-NONE-	$1,046,818	Department of Homeland Security	CONTRACT AWARD	Sep 21, 2005	—	—	VA
CONT_AWD_00032200309DDTCG3203CR00016_7008_-NONE-_-NONE-	$0	Department of Homeland Security	MODIFICATION	Mar 21, 2005	—	—	DC
CONT_AWD_MSFC0200308DNAS803060_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-	$1,347,228,052	National Aeronautics and Space Administration	FOLLOW ON CONTRACT TO PROVIDE OPERATIONS AND SCIENCE SUPPORT TO THE CXO	Aug 31, 2003	—	—	MA

CONT_AWD_HE125425FE578_9700_HE125424D0008_9700

$215,075

Awarding agency: Department of Defense

Description: AMERICAN ART RESOURCES PROVIDED ON DEMAND FROM THE SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM TO ALL OF OUR REQUESTING TEACHERS, K-12, IN DODEA. HE125424D0008 POC EMILY ATKINSON

Start date: Aug 20, 2025

NAICS: —

PSC: —

Place: DC

CONT_AWD_80NSSC25PB457_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-

$243,605

Awarding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Description: MAGIXS-3 SAO SUPPORT

Start date: Jun 1, 2025

NAICS: —

PSC: —

Place: MA

CONT_AWD_33330425P00515981_3300_-NONE-_-NONE-

$20,720,456

Awarding agency: Smithsonian Institution

Description: CAPITAL GALLERY RENT

Start date: Nov 8, 2024

NAICS: —

PSC: —

Place: DC

CONT_AWD_W912HQ24P0038_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-

$250,000

Awarding agency: Department of Defense

Description: SERDP PROJECT RC24-4289, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: "A THERMAL LANDSCAPE APPROACH FOR CUMULATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT OF SPOTTED TURTLE VULNERABILITY TO MULTIPLE STRESSORS"

Start date: Jul 10, 2024

NAICS: —

PSC: —

Place: VA

CONT_AWD_80GSFC24CA013_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-

$1,939,600

Awarding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Description: ECCCO - A WIDE-FIELD EXTREME ULTRA-VIOLET IMAGER AND A UNIQUE IMAGING EUV SPECTROGRAPH PHASE A

Start date: May 17, 2024

NAICS: —

PSC: —

Place: MA

CONT_AWD_80NSSC24PA547_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-

$215,987

Awarding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Description: CONTRACT TO HARVARD FOR DSCOVR FARADAY CUP INSTRUMENT

Start date: May 1, 2024

NAICS: —

PSC: —

Place: MA

CONT_AWD_80MSFC24CA004_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-

$4,006,943

Awarding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Description: THE TROPOSPHERIC EMISSIONS: MONITORING OF POLLUTION (TEMPO) CONTRACT, WILL CONDUCT THE NECESSARY RESEARCH, DEVELOP ALGORITHMS, AND PROVIDE NEAR REAL-TIME PRODUCTS FOR NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA'S) HINOD MISSION.

Start date: Mar 26, 2024

NAICS: —

PSC: —

Place: MA

CONT_AWD_80MSFC22CA013_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-

$325,979

Awarding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Description: MARSHALL GRAZING INCIDENT X-RAY SPECTROMETER (MAGIXS) 2 MISSION

Start date: Jul 1, 2022

NAICS: —

PSC: —

Place: MA

CONT_AWD_80MSFC21C0003_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-

$1,842,257

Awarding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Description: HIGH RESOLUTION CORONAL IMAGER (HI-C) FLARE ROCKET

Start date: Mar 4, 2021

NAICS: —

PSC: —

Place: MA

CONT_AWD_NNM15AA15C_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-

$1,732,756

Awarding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Description: MARSHALL GRAZING INCIDENT X-RAY SPECTROMETER (MAGIXS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015

NAICS: —

PSC: —

Place: MA

CONT_AWD_NNL13AA09C_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-

$31,944,970

Awarding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Description: "IGF::OT::IGF" OTHER FUNCTIONS - TROPOSPHERIC EMISSIONS: MONITORING OF POLLUTION (TEMPO) - THE TEMPO INVESTIGATION WAS SELECTED UNDER THE NASA SECOND STAND ALONE MISSIONS OF OPPORTUNITY NOTICE (SALMON-2) ANNOUNCEMENT OF OPPORTUNITY (AO) PROGRAM ELEMENT APPENDIX J, NNH12ZDA006O-EVI1 FOR THE EARTH VENTURE INSTRUMENT-1 (EVI-1) ELEMENT OF THE EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE PATHFINDER (ESSP) PROGRAM OFFICE'S EARTH VENTURE LINE. TEMPO MEASURES POLLUTION OF NORTH AMERICA, FROM MEXICO CITY TO THE CANADIAN TAR/OIL SANDS, AND FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC, HOURLY AND AT HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION. TEMPO SPECTROSCOPIC MEASUREMENTS IN THE ULTRAVIOLET AND VISIBLE AND PROVIDES A TROPOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT SUITE THAT INCLUDES THE KEY ELEMENTS OF TROPOSPHERIC AIR POLLUTION CHEMISTRY. MEASUREMENTS ARE FROM GEOSTATIONARY ORBIT, TO CAPTURE THE INHERENT HIGH VARIABILITY IN THE DIURNAL CYCLE OF EMISSIONS AND CHEMISTRY. A SMALL PRODUCT SPATIAL FOOTPRINT RESOLVES POLLUTION SOURCES AT SUB-URBAN SCALE. TOGETHER, THIS TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMPROVES EMISSION INVENTORIES, MONITORS POPULATION EXPOSURE, AND ENABLES EFFECTIVE EMISSION-CONTROL STRATEGIES. TEMPO TAKES ADVANTAGE OF A GEOSTATIONARY (GEO) HOST SPACECRAFT TO PROVIDE A MODEST COST MISSION THAT MEASURES THE SPECTRA REQUIRED TO RETRIEVE O3, NO2, SO2, H2CO, C2H2O2, H2O, AEROSOLS, CLOUD PARAMETERS, AND UVB RADIATION. TEMPO THUS MEASURES THE MAJOR ELEMENTS, DIRECTLY OR BY PROXY, IN THE TROPOSPHERIC O3 CHEMISTRY CYCLE. MULTI-SPECTRAL OBSERVATIONS PROVIDE SENSITIVITY TO O3 IN THE LOWERMOST TROPOSPHERE, REDUCING UNCERTAINTY IN AIR QUALITY PREDICTIONS BY 50%. TEMPO QUANTIFIES AND TRACKS THE EVOLUTION OF AEROSOL LOADING. IT PROVIDES NEAR-REAL-TIME AIR QUALITY PRODUCTS THAT WILL BE MADE WIDELY, PUBLICLY AVAILABLE. TEMPO MAKES THE FIRST TROPOSPHERIC TRACE GAS MEASUREMENTS FROM GEO, BY BUILDING ON THE HERITAGE OF FIVE SPECTROMETERS FLOWN IN LOW-EARTH-ORBIT (LEO). THESE LEO INSTRUMENTS MEASURE THE NEEDED SPECTRA, ALTHOUGH AT COARSE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS, TO THE PRECISIONS REQUIRED FOR TEMPO AND USE RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS DEVELOPED FOR THEM BY TEMPO SCIENCE TEAM MEMBERS AND CURRENTLY RUNNING IN OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS. THIS MAKES TEMPO AN INNOVATIVE USE OF A WELL PROVEN TECHNIQUE, ABLE TO PRODUCE A REVOLUTIONARY DATASET. TEMPO PROVIDES MUCH OF THE ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT CAPABILITY RECOMMENDED FOR GEO-CAPE IN THE 2007 NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL DECADAL SURVEY, EARTH SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS FROM SPACE: NATIONAL IMPERATIVES FOR THE NEXT DECADE AND BEYOND. GEO-CAPE IS NOT PLANNED FOR IMPLEMENTATION THIS DECADE, HOWEVER, EUROPE (SENTINEL 4) AND ASIA (GEMS) WILL FORM PARTS OF A GLOBAL GEO CONSTELLATION FOR POLLUTION MONITORING, WITH A MAJOR FOCUS ON INTERCONTINENTAL POLLUTION TRANSPORT. TEMPO WILL LAUNCH AT A PRIME TIME TO BE A COMPONENT OF THIS CONSTELLATION.

Start date: Mar 29, 2013

NAICS: —

PSC: —

Place: MA

CONT_AWD_NNM07AB07C_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-

$47,629,836

Awarding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Description: SOLAR B X RAY TELESCOPE PHASE E

Start date: Dec 1, 2006

NAICS: —

PSC: —

Place: MA

CONT_AWD_HSCG3205CR00017_7008_-NONE-_-NONE-

$1,046,818

Awarding agency: Department of Homeland Security

Description: CONTRACT AWARD

Start date: Sep 21, 2005

NAICS: —

PSC: —

Place: VA

CONT_AWD_00032200309DDTCG3203CR00016_7008_-NONE-_-NONE-

Awarding agency: Department of Homeland Security

Description: MODIFICATION

Start date: Mar 21, 2005

NAICS: —

PSC: —

Place: DC

CONT_AWD_MSFC0200308DNAS803060_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-

$1,347,228,052

Awarding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Description: FOLLOW ON CONTRACT TO PROVIDE OPERATIONS AND SCIENCE SUPPORT TO THE CXO

Start date: Aug 31, 2003

NAICS: —

PSC: —

Place: MA

NAICS and PSC are not reported for these awards in USAspending.

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