Blue Origin, LLC

Blue Origin, LLC (doing business as Blue Origin Florida LLC) is a for-profit aerospace and commercial space launch contractor that operates as a prime contractor on national security and civilian space missions, with no subcontractor activity in its federal footprint. The company competes exclusively full-and-open, holding no SBA set-aside designations. Blue Origin Florida is a subsidiary of Blue Origin Washington, LLC, headquartered in Kent, Washington, with Florida operations centered at Merritt Island.

Blue Origin's federal portfolio spans launch services, orbital logistics, lunar payload delivery, deep-space communications, and advanced manufacturing research. Representative prime work includes a $660 million firm fixed-price definitive contract with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (awarded September 1, 2026) for design, development, integration, and launch of a high-performance Mars telecommunications orbiter system supporting Mars sample return and future Mars surface, orbital, and human exploration missions, with full operational readiness targeted for calendar year 2030 and a five-year minimum operational lifetime through December 31, 2035. A $234.2 million delivery order (May 26, 2026) under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services IDIQ (task order CX-2A) funds lunar payload delivery services to the lunar surface, and a second concurrent $234.2 million CLPS delivery order (task order CX-2B, same date) provides parallel lunar logistics capability. A $78.256 million definitive contract with the Space and Missile Systems Center (October 6, 2025) funds government investment into a space vehicle processing facility on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, with completion by January 30, 2028. On the national security launch side, a $200 million delivery order (April 14, 2025) under the National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 2 single-award IDIQ procures launch services through April 2027, and a $130.4 million delivery order under NSSL Phase 3 Lane 1 (May 28, 2026) covers launch service task order work (NTO-4) through March 2028. Blue Origin also holds a $16.187 million Other Transaction prototype agreement with the Office of the Secretary of Defense (April 15, 2026) extending through April 2029 and a $10,000 Air Force OTA for the SB-AMTI program (June 2, 2026) supporting small business advanced manufacturing and technology integration.

Customer concentration centers on space and national security agencies. NASA Kennedy Space Center leads by potential value, holding five awards worth $25.1 billion combined, anchored by the Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) $5 billion multiple-award IDIQ (February 2, 2022, through January 27, 2032) for suborbital and rideshare launch services. NASA Johnson Space Center accounts for five awards totaling $4.74 billion, driven by the Commercial Lunar Payload Services IDIQ and multiple task orders under it. The Space and Missile Systems Center (Air Force Space Command) drives nine awards worth $20.79 billion, spanning national security launch contracts, orbital services, and launch support across two major IDIQs. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center, and the Missile Defense Agency round out the top customers. These five agencies account for 100% of combined potential value across 23 awards (77% of award count). The two top-value rankings align closely — Kennedy and the Air Force Space Command dominate both volume and dollars.

Blue Origin holds position on six primary vehicle families. The VADR IDIQ ($5 billion ceiling, 2 task orders, $5 billion combined potential value) is a Kennedy Space Center multiple-award vehicle supporting dedicated and rideshare launch services up to 1,000 kg to various orbits. The National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 1 IDIQ (a $17 billion multiple-award vehicle through June 13, 2029, with 2 task orders carrying $135.4 million combined potential value) provides assured national security space launch access; Blue Origin also holds a complementary single-award National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 2 IDIQ ($2.386 billion ceiling through April 3, 2033, with 2 task orders worth $201.97 million combined potential value). The Commercial Lunar Payload Services IDIQ (4 task orders, $543.2 million combined potential value) is a NASA Johnson vehicle for commercial lunar payload delivery. An Orbital Services Program 4 on-ramp award ($986 million ceiling through October 10, 2028) provides expanded launch services procurement capacity. The Missile Defense Agency's Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) $151 billion multiple-award IDIQ (January 21, 2026, through December 28, 2035) covers advanced multi-domain defense systems and supports research, prototyping, systems engineering, and production work across multiple classification levels. NASA's Flight Opportunities Program 4 IDIQ ($395 million ceiling through February 28, 2029, issued November 4, 2024) funds New Shepard suborbital flight and payload integration services from Van Horn, Texas.

Activity shows strong recent growth. Blue Origin received one award in 2022, two in 2023, eight in 2024, six in 2025, and ten in 2026 (through September 1, 2026), reflecting trajectory acceleration toward national security space and lunar logistics work. Nine awards (combined potential value $955.3 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, exposing the company to recompete activity on CLPS and NSSL Phase 3 contracts in that window.

Service Contract Inventory data captures a narrow slice of Blue Origin's federal work — only SCI-reportable prime service contracts above $150,000, excluding goods, launch products, and classified work. SCI shows $6.8 million invoiced in FY2023 across 4.4 FTEs, $10.3 million in FY2024 across 6.6 FTEs, and $0 invoiced in FY2025 across 0 reported FTEs in the SCI dataset. Across SCI-reportable contracts, Blue Origin self-performed all hours with zero subcontractor engagement. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI contracts ranged from a 10th percentile of $690.36 per hour to a median of $881.45 per hour and a 90th percentile of $1,002.85 per hour, reflecting engineering and technical labor. SCI invoicing is immaterial to Blue Origin's overall federal revenue — the company's primary federal work flows through firm fixed-price launch services and space vehicle contracts not captured in SCI's service-contract focus.

Blue Origin operates 100% as a prime contractor across its federal footprint with zero subcontractor sub-awards, signaling a vertically integrated delivery model centered on internal capability for launch operations, spacecraft design and manufacturing, and space logistics. The company does not appear in federal databases as a named subcontractor to other primes, indicating it pursues work as an independent prime rather than as a feeder to larger contractors.