80MSFC25F7006↗

Name: 80MSFC25F7006: Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative (Lsii) Under Ardes II 80Msfc20D0004
Creator: SpendQuery
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LUNAR SURFACE INNOVATION INITIATIVE (LSII) UNDER ARDES II 80MSFC20D0004

Delivery Order · National Aeronautics and Space Administration · to The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC (UEI C1HBCJ9RMBV3) · data as of 2026-10-20

Obligated to date$16.74M6 actions

Current value$20.78Mwith options exercised

Potential value$50.49Mif every option is used

Period2025-01-11 → 2026-12-31up to 2029-09-30 with options

Passed on$135.4Kto 2 subcontractors

Up for re-bid: ends 2026-12-31. Recompete brief → · NextSTEP-3 Appendix B: Moon Base Demonstrations ↗

What it is

Product or service: Space R&D Services; Space Flight, Research and Supporting Activities; Basic Research (PSC AR11)
Industry: Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (Except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology) (NAICS 541715)
Contracting office: Nasa Marshall Space Flight Center (80MSFC)
Competition: Not competed
Pricing: Cost plus fixed fee
How it was bought: Single-award IDIQ · under 80MSFC20D0004
Where the work is: Howard, MD · district MD-03

Obligations by fiscal year

FY2025$10.54M

FY2026$6.20M

SpendQuery holds FY2023 on; earlier years are on USAspending.gov.

Subcontractors: where the money went next

2 subawards totaling $135.4K (0.8% of what was obligated), as The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC reported them. Primes report subawards of $30,000 or more; smaller ones and unreported ones aren't here.

Subcontractor	Amount	Subawards	Where	First	Last
Caterpillar Inc.	$80.7K	1	IL	2025-02-19	2025-02-19
Carahsoft Technology Corp	$54.7K	1	VA	2025-10-23	2025-10-23

The largest single subawards

Date	To	Amount	For
2025-02-19	Caterpillar, Inc	$80.7K	SERVICES
2025-10-23	Carahsoft Technology Corp	$54.7K	MATERIALS

Every action

6 actions since 2024-12-17. Each is a modification or amendment with the money it added or took back.

Date	Modification	Kind	Amount	What the agency wrote
2026-08-13	P00005	Funding only	$95.0K	LUNAR SURFACE INNOVATION INITIATIVE (LSII) UNDER ARDES II 80MSFC20D0004
2026-06-23	P00004	Funding only	$2.50M	LUNAR SURFACE INNOVATION INITIATIVE (LSII) UNDER ARDES II 80MSFC20D0004
2025-12-16	P00003	Option exercised	$3.60M	LUNAR SURFACE INNOVATION INITIATIVE (LSII) UNDER ARDES II 80MSFC20D0004
2025-08-21	P00002	Supplemental agreement (work within scope)	$3.04M	LUNAR SURFACE INNOVATION INITIATIVE (LSII) UNDER ARDES II 80MSFC20D0004
2025-03-14	P00001	Funding only	$4.00M	LUNAR SURFACE INNOVATION INITIATIVE (LSII) UNDER ARDES II 80MSFC20D0004
2024-12-17	0		$3.50M	LUNAR SURFACE INNOVATION INITIATIVE (LSII) UNDER ARDES II 80MSFC20D0004

Source: USAspending.gov prime award transactions and FSRS subaward reports, as loaded by SpendQuery (data as of 2026-10-20). Amounts are obligations (money committed), not outlays. The official record on USAspending.gov ↗

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