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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency: $4.7B in contract awards
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency obligated $4.7B across 1,059 prime awards to 405 companies, Oct 1, 2023 to Oct 7, 2026, 0.4% of Department of Defense. Largest category: Defense systems R&D at $3.3B; largest recipient: Lockheed Martin Corporation at $655.4M.
| Obligated FY2024+ | $4.7B |
|---|---|
| Awards | 1,059 |
| Companies | 405 |
| FY2024 | $1.8B |
| FY2025 | $1.8B |
| FY2026 to date | $1.1B |
| Department | Department of Defense |
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| Award | Company | Obligated FY2024+ | What | Category | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR001125F0048 delivery order | Advanced Resource Technologies, Inc | $5.2M | Small business programs office support services | Professional services, other | Jun 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001123F0018 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $5.1M | Darpa research program support services | Defense systems R&D | Mar 23, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001120C0135 definitive contract | Nexus Photonics, Inc | $5.0M | Lasers for universal microscale optical systems (lumos) will bring efficient on-chip optical gain to highly-capable integrated photonics platforms and enable complete photonics functionality on a single substrate for disruptive optical ... | Defense systems R&D | Mar 17, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001124C0372 definitive contract | Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co | $5.0M | Energy web employing planar optics program. | Defense systems R&D | Nov 7, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001124C0326 definitive contract | Piasecki Aircraft Corp | $4.9M | Speed and runway independent technologies (sprint) | Defense systems R&D | Aug 12, 2024 DoD 90d |
| HR001124C0506 definitive contract | New York University | $4.9M | Darpa research program | Defense systems R&D | Apr 10, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001121C0134 definitive contract | Raytheon Company | $4.9M | Fast event-based neuromorphic camera and electronics (fence) aims to develop and demonstrate a low latency, low power, event-based camera and a new class of signal processing and learning algorithms that enable intelligent sensors. | Defense systems R&D | Jul 8, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001124C0423 definitive contract | The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc | $4.9M | Tellus program,tellus program is to develop the methodology to program microbial sense-and-respond devices to reliably detect a variety of chemical and physical stimuli. | Defense systems R&D | Sep 19, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001120F0048 delivery order | Four Points Technology, L.l.c | $4.9M | Cloud credit services | IT equipment and software | Dec 6, 2024 DoD 90d |
| HR001121C0164 definitive contract | Lockheed Martin Corporation | $4.9M | Influence campaign awareness and sensemaking (incas) program to develop techniques and tools that enable analysts to detect, characterize, and track geopolitical influence campaigns with quantified confidence. | Defense systems R&D | Apr 24, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001121C0058 definitive contract | AeroVironment, Inc | $4.9M | Darpa research project. | Defense systems R&D | Jan 29, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001125C0017 definitive contract | RTX BBN Technologies, Inc | $4.8M | Intelligent generation of tools for security (ingots) | Defense systems R&D | Jan 21, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001124F0325 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $4.7M | Darpa research support services | Defense systems R&D | May 5, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001124C0392 definitive contract | Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, LLC | $4.7M | Multiobjective engineering and testing of alloy structure program | Defense systems R&D | Feb 5, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001125C0009 definitive contract | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | $4.7M | Compact front-end filters at the element-level (coffee) program, technical area 2 (ta2) | Defense systems R&D | Jan 21, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001121C0132 definitive contract | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | $4.6M | Fast event-based neuromorphic camera and electronics (fence) aims to develop and demonstrate a low latency, low power, event-based camera and a new class of signal processing and learning algorithms that enable intelligent sensors. | Defense systems R&D | Jul 18, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001126FE019 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $4.6M | Darpa research support services under john hopkins university applied physics laboratory (jhu/apl) university affiliated research center (uarc) | Other R&D | May 22, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001119F0101 delivery order | Strategic Analysis, Inc | $4.5M | Dso acquisition&administrative support | Professional services, other | Mar 31, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001125C0026 definitive contract | Rockwell Collins, Inc | $4.5M | Compact front-end filters at the element-level (coffee) program | Defense systems R&D | Mar 24, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001124C0362 definitive contract | Arizona State University | $4.5M | University partnerships for tactical ai cybersecurity (uptaic) program | Defense systems R&D | Oct 30, 2024 DoD 90d |
| HR001121C0078 definitive contract | Raytheon Company | $4.5M | Darpa research project | Defense systems R&D | Apr 17, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001125C0052 definitive contract | International Business Machines Corporation | $4.4M | Darpa research project | Defense systems R&D | May 1, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001124C0463 definitive contract | RTX BBN Technologies, Inc | $4.4M | The inspired program, which aims to develop an optoelectronic detector modules that integrate squeezed-light measurement techniques into form factors thereby achieving sensitivity significantly beyond the quantum shot-noise limit. | Defense systems R&D | Dec 29, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001121C0194 definitive contract | Battelle Memorial Institute | $4.3M | Darpa research project | Defense systems R&D | Sep 3, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001123F0044 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $4.3M | Darpa research support services | Defense systems R&D | Aug 5, 2024 DoD 90d |
| HR001120C0154 definitive contract | A2 Labs, LLC | $4.2M | Open, programmable, secure 5g (ops-5g) program award | Defense systems R&D | Jul 21, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001125C0012 definitive contract | Leidos, Inc | $4.2M | Expeditionary carbon utilization for energy resilience and stabilization (excursion) | Defense systems R&D | Aug 5, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001122C0153 definitive contract | Punch Cyber Corp | $4.2M | Signature management using operational knowledge and environments (smoke) program. | Defense systems R&D | Jun 26, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001123C0003 definitive contract | Lockheed Martin Aculight Corporation | $4.2M | Melt seeks to develop a laser tile as the building block for compact, scalable, panelized high energy laser (hel) sources. | Defense systems R&D | Dec 3, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001121C0211 definitive contract | SRI International | $4.2M | Darpa research project | Defense systems R&D | Feb 25, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001124C0497 definitive contract | Accelint AI, LLC | $4.2M | Objective prediction of team effectiveness via models of performance outcomes (op tempo)phase 1 (base) | Defense systems R&D | Dec 22, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001122C0032 definitive contract | SRI International | $4.2M | Computational cultural understanding | Defense systems R&D | Jun 26, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001122C0054 definitive contract | California Institute of Technology | $4.2M | Eo14042. novel orbital and moon manufacturing, materials, and mass-efficient design (nom4d) program. | Defense systems R&D | Mar 12, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001123F0023 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $4.1M | Darpa research program support services | Defense systems R&D | Mar 11, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001122C0033 definitive contract | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | $4.1M | Computational cultural understanding | Defense systems R&D | Sep 29, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001123C0028 definitive contract | RTX BBN Technologies, Inc | $4.1M | Resilient supply-and-demand network (rsdn) program. | Defense systems R&D | Nov 19, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001123F0043 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $4.1M | Darpa research support services | Defense systems R&D | Dec 20, 2024 DoD 90d |
| HR001121C0054 definitive contract | Seakr Engineering, LLC | $4.1M | Blackjack program phases 2 and 3, which is an architecture demonstration intending to show the high military utility of global leo constellations and mesh networks of lower size, weight, and spacecraft nodes. | Defense systems R&D | May 29, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001124C0442 definitive contract | HRL Laboratories, LLC | $4.0M | Synthetic quantum nanostructures | Defense systems R&D | May 26, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001124C0432 definitive contract | Six24 Cyber Labs LLC | $4.0M | Cyber agents for security testing and learning environments (castle) program. | Defense systems R&D | Jan 8, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001124C0313 definitive contract | Reach Power, Inc | $4.0M | Configurable energy receiver & transmitter and microgrid augmentation with kilowatt energy relay | Defense systems R&D | Jul 29, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001124C0348 definitive contract | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | $4.0M | Energy well power generation utilizing intelligent power management system | Defense systems R&D | Mar 10, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001125F0460 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $4.0M | Darpa research program support services | Defense systems R&D | Sep 10, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001121C0076 definitive contract | Lockheed Martin Corporation | $4.0M | Darpa research project | Defense systems R&D | Jun 5, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001125C0043 definitive contract | SRI International | $4.0M | The heterogenous adaptively produced photonic interfaces (happi) program aims to create a 1000x increase in the information transmission density within a microsystem by exploiting photonic signaling. | Defense systems R&D | Dec 5, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001124C0453 definitive contract | Lockheed Martin Corporation | $4.0M | Space wireless on-demand optical power (swoop) | Defense systems R&D | Oct 3, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001121C0005 definitive contract | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc | $3.9M | Darpa research project | Defense systems R&D | Jan 29, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001120C0123 definitive contract | Kitware Inc | $3.9M | Semantic forensics (semafor) program technical area 1 performer | Defense systems R&D | Feb 23, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001124C0488 definitive contract | Galois, Inc | $3.9M | Enhanced sbom for optimized software sustainment (e-boss) program. | Defense systems R&D | Apr 28, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001125C0013 definitive contract | Narf Industries LLC | $3.8M | Intelligent generation of tools for security (ingots) | Defense systems R&D | Jan 21, 2026 DoD 90d |
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Source: USAspending.gov prime award data (FPDS), DoD and DHS contracts, orders and IDVs with any action since Oct 1, 2023. Obligated FY2024+ sums the obligations on those actions; total obligated is the award's lifetime figure. DoD contract actions publish on USAspending about 90 days after signing (DFARS PGI 204.6), so the latest DoD actions here trail the calendar by about 3 months. Data as of Oct 9, 2026.
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