Crucible · Firm report card

Payload Systems, Inc.

MA · SBIR awardee across 2 federal programs (DoD, NASA), first award 1987.

SBIR awards by program

Mission areas

• Air Force
• Army
• Navy
• Aeronautics
• Human Spaceflight & Life Support
• Science Instruments & Sensors
• Software & Modeling
• Spacecraft & Avionics

Full award history, follow-on contract detail, and cross-agency comparison in the Crucible app.

Data: SBIR.gov award records + USAspending.gov prime contracts, matched by recipient name. Follow-on dollars are association, not causation — they show where this firm's later federal prime-contract dollars landed, not that SBIR work caused them. Methodology