# General Atomics: space company profile

> General Atomics: General Atomics is a privately held defense and technology company running major programs in electromagnetic systems, nuclear technology, and national-security satellite systems.

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- Data as of: profile last verified 2026-02-09
- How the numbers are made: https://spacenexus.us/methodology#space-score

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## Profile facts

- Name: General Atomics
- What it does: General Atomics is a privately held defense and technology company running major programs in electromagnetic systems, nuclear technology, and national-security satellite systems. (SpaceNexus analyst note)
- Sector: defense, advanced-systems
- Headquarters: San Diego, California, US
- Founded: 1955
- Employees: 10000+
- Chief executive: Neal Blue
- Status: active
- Ownership: private
- Publicly traded: no
- Website: [https://www.ga.com](https://www.ga.com) (SpaceNexus profile)
- Profile claimed by the company: no
- Profile last verified: 2026-02-09

## Funding

- Raised privately: No private round on record (No private round on record. Debt, grants, state capital, owner funding and acquisitions are listed under Funding history by class and not added in.)

No funding round recorded on this profile.

- Rounds come from company announcements, regulatory filings and press reports. Amounts, valuations and investors are as reported and may be incomplete or later revised. Not investment advice, and not an offer or solicitation for any security.

## Space Score

- Score 660 of 1000.
- Not ranked: No measurable space activity in our data (space-coded federal awards or subcontracts, space revenue in the company’s SEC annual report, an orbital launch, or a space-segment profile: for a defense company or a diversified aerospace group, a subsector naming space work, and for a diversified group a space line cited at $100M or more): scored, but not ranked as a space company.
- 3 of 7 inputs measured, insufficient data, 63% of applicable pillar weight backed by data; measured 2026-10-14 02:10 UTC.
- Scale (38% of this total): 84 of 100; not measured: Market value, Reported revenue
- Government space demand (25% of this total): 64 of 100
- Capital access (19% of this total): not measured; counted at the roster median, 50; not measured: Capital raised (24 months)
- Momentum (19% of this total): not measured; counted at the roster median, 50; not measured: Open-role change (90 days)
- Flight record (20% nominal, dropped): does not apply
- Every input, value and percentile: [breakdown](https://spacenexus.us/rankings/space-score-methodology?company=general-atomics#breakdown)
- The Space Score is a 0 to 1000 snapshot of a space company's size and activity, relative to the other companies we track. It combines size (headcount, market value and revenue, 30%), U.S. federal space contracts (20%), equity raised (15%), momentum (15%) and, for launch companies, orbital launches (20%), so it leans heavily on size. It is descriptive: not a forecast, a rating or investment advice.
- The Space Score ranks companies relative to each other on public data we hold. It describes; it does not rate, forecast or recommend. It is not a credit rating and not investment advice.

## Government contracts (latest)

| Award date | Agency | Title | Value (USD) | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-04-29 | DoD | CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT MINIMUM GUARANTEE | $100K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA881926FB011_9700_FA881926DB008_9700) |
| 2025-06-10 | DoD | CONTRACTOR PROVIDED SPACE CRAFT AND GROUND TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION SHEET DELIVERY ORDER AS PART OF THE REQUIREMENT SPECIFIED IN SECTION M OF THE IDIQ | $5K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA880925FB020_9700_FA880925DB009_9700) |
| 2024-09-27 | NASA | SPRAY COAT II - IF MORE INFORMATION IS NEEDED, PLEASE CONTACT THE CO DIRECTLY. | $197K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80GRC024CA029_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2024-06-25 | NASA | SPACECRAFT IMAGE FILE, SPACECRAFT SUMMARY DATA SHEET, AND CORE SYSTEM PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS & SUBSYSTEM DETAILS FOR RAPID IV CONTRACT DATABASE AND CATALOG SETUP. | $500 | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80GSFC24FA042_8000_80GSFC24DA005_8000) |
| 2023-06-26 | NASA | SAFER II - PLEASE CONTACT THE CO DIRECTLY IF MORE INFORMATION IS NEEDED. | $3.5M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80GRC023CA002_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2021-04-09 | DARPA | DRACO Phase 1 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Reactor Design | $22.2M | [Source](https://aviationweek.com/space/general-atomics-wins-draco-nuclear-reactor-design-contract) |
| 2021-02-17 | NASA | SAFER, IF MORE INFORMATION IS NEEDED, PLEASE CONTACT THE CO DIRECTLY. | $1.4M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80GRC021C0010_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2020-09-02 | NASA | ELASTOMERIC REPAIR. IF MORE INFORMATION IS NEEDED, PLEASE CONTACT THE CO DIRECTLY. | $1.2M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80GRC020C0019_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2020-07-06 | NASA | TO PROVIDE SPACECRAFT DEVELOPMENT & TEST OBSERVATORY I&T OBSERVATORY TESTING SHIPMENT TO THE LAUNCH SITE SUPPORT OF LAUNCH OPERATIONS ON-ORBIT PERFORMANCE VERIFICATION OPERATION OF MISSION OPERATIONS… | $48.0M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80GSFC20C0093_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2019-04-04 | NASA | SPRAY COATING SCALE UP | $1.7M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80GRC019C0015_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2018-11-07 | DoD | IGF::OT::IGF HOSTED PAYLOAD SOLUTIONS ARGOS MISSION | $41.4M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA881419F0004_9700_FA881414D0005_9700) |
| 2018-08-30 | NASA | MULTI-ANGLE IMAGER FOR AEROSOLS (MAIA) HOSTING SERVICES | $10.6M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80LARC18C0012_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-) |

## Operations

- Open roles on the SpaceNexus jobs board: 0

## Sources

- [SpaceNexus company database](https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles): profile facts, with the verification date above
- Each funding round's cited source: SEC filings, company announcements and press reports, linked per round
- Federal award records: contract awards

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