Federal contracting records show NASA has obligated $1,604,628,076 to the California Institute of Technology under a task order for Mars Sample Return Phase A work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The order runs through September 2028 under JPL's FFRDC contract vehicle; Congress's FY2026 appropriations bill, passed in January 2026, ended funding for the existing MSR program structure.

A NASA task order (award ID 80NM0018F0615) issued to the California Institute of Technology under its FFRDC sponsoring agreement to operate the Jet Propulsion Laboratory has reached $2,967,636,551.98 in total obligations for the Europa Clipper mission. The task order, issued under parent IDIQ 80NM0018D0004, has a period of performance from October 1, 2018 through September 30, 2028, with a base-and-all-options value of $3,889,273,743.00.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has awarded California Institute of Technology $258,697,495 to conduct pre-Phase A and Phase A planning for the Surface Biology and Geology mission, a next-generation Earth-observing satellite targeting ecosystem and geological monitoring.

The California Institute of Technology holds a $1.47 billion total obligation under NASA contract 80NM0018F0850 to operate the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) as a federally funded research and development center. The contract includes management of NASA's Deep Space Network and runs through September 2028.