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Defense systems R&D: $104B in defense awards
$104B obligated across 31,432 DoD and DHS awards to 7,037 companies, Oct 1, 2023 to Oct 10, 2026, 90% of Research and development. Northrop Grumman Systems Corp leads with $7.6B; Department of the Air Force is the largest buyer at $43.9B.
| Obligated FY2024+ | $104B |
|---|---|
| Awards | 31,432 |
| Companies | 7,037 |
| FY2024 | $39.3B |
| FY2025 | $36.6B |
| FY2026 to date | $27.8B |
| Parent category | Research and development |
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| Award | Company | Obligated FY2024+ | What | Agency | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FA205724FB005 delivery order | The Boeing Company | $9.3M | Virtual warfare center (vwc) weapons instructor course - 24a - 27b | Air Force | Apr 28, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0017321C2008 definitive contract | Intelsat General Communications LLC | $9.3M | Provides research of radio frequency atmospheric exploration in support of DOD space and airborne assets utilizing large aperture antennas on the island of oahu, hi. | Navy | Apr 7, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W15QKN24F0290 delivery order | SRC Inc | $9.3M | Second task order | Army | Jun 5, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA714625C0016 definitive contract | Vantor Services Inc | $9.3M | Project gotham | Air Force | Mar 11, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HQ085425FE036 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $9.3M | See scope of work | Missile Defense Agency | Mar 25, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA865023C1172 definitive contract | Defense Engineering Corp | $9.3M | Sensors for unrivaled multi-function missions with integrated technologies | Air Force | Apr 27, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911QY25CA002 definitive contract | Compotech Inc | $9.3M | Extendable - panelized and collapsible shelter (e-pacs) design refinement, fabrication of additional units, training and support | Army | Mar 16, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HQ003425FE301 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $9.3M | Cdao support to provide analysis, research and development, systems engineering support, test and evaluation, experimental design and execution for national defense, intelligence, and security environments. | Washington Headquarters Services | Apr 30, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W5170124F0001 delivery order | Compound Eye Inc | $9.2M | Small business innovation research phase ii, compound eye catalyst enhancement topic supporting the visual inertial distributed aperture system (vidas) simultaneous localization and mapping (slam): undetectable, gps-denied mapping and ... | Army | Jul 22, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HQ072725FE003 delivery order | General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc | $9.2M | The advanced technology support program (atsp) contract acquires progressive microelectronics capability solutions for engineering services to mitigate obsolescence of the current airspace management shelter and upgrade software. | Defense Microelectronics Activity | Apr 9, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0017323C2005 definitive contract | Verus Research, LLC | $9.2M | Labor/materials/odcs | Defense Contract Management Agency | Apr 22, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA880924FB004 delivery order | Science Applications International Corporation | $9.2M | To maintain the xpro ground systems baseline architecture to allow for the growth of the system, addition of missions, and general sustainability of the current infrastructure. | Air Force | Apr 20, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA861222C6000 definitive contract | Rincon Research Corporation | $9.2M | Advance battle management system | Air Force | Jan 27, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001124C0375 definitive contract | RTX BBN Technologies, Inc | $9.2M | Darpa research project | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Apr 7, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807522F0060 delivery order | Booz Allen Hamilton Inc | $9.2M | Vulnerability and ballistics research, development, and engineering for soldier protection directorate | Air Force | May 20, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA228023C0007 definitive contract | Anduril Industries, Inc | $9.2M | Anduril swarming- swarming dev and integration events | Air Force | May 21, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HQ085220F0004 delivery order | Lockheed Martin Corporation | $9.2M | Test and program mgt - level of effort | Missile Defense Agency | Jun 10, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0002425F8569 delivery order | University of Texas at Austin | $9.2M | Fleet support for operational readiness | Navy | Feb 24, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA238425FB001 delivery order | Parallax Advanced Research Corp | $9.2M | Matrix to 4, research enabling accelerated decision superiority (reads) | Air Force | Nov 25, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W56KGU24C0031 definitive contract | Aspen Consulting Group Inc | $9.2M | The purpose of this action is to award a contract under baa w56kgu-23-r-rtid, topic gba-02 to aspen consulting group. | Army | May 7, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA875021C1515 definitive contract | Newbridge Partners, Inc | $9.2M | Geoint network architecture research for collaborative mission utility enhancement | Air Force | May 22, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001124F0318 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $9.2M | Darpa research support services | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | May 5, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA865124FB039 delivery order | University of Dayton | $9.1M | Development energetic materials (herd) this time and material task order has a ceiling not to exceed $9,864, 889 if additional funds come available. | Air Force | Mar 5, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HQ085222C0001 definitive contract | Bluehalo LLC | $9.1M | Eo14042 development of command, acquire, track, assess, engage, and analyze (catana) cloud focused on research, development and assessment of new components and the integration and deployment of novel components for the missile defense ... | Missile Defense Agency | May 7, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002423F8202 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $9.1M | Advanced uuv engineering and software | Navy | Jan 6, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0042124F0365 delivery order | The Mil Corporation | $9.1M | Material | Navy | Sep 11, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0002423F8204 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $9.1M | Zumwalt class destroyer program | Navy | Jan 21, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001425C1116 definitive contract | Pacific Defense Strategies, Inc | $9.1M | Icmoss 2 | Navy | May 9, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001122C0139 definitive contract | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | $9.1M | Darpa research project | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Mar 27, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA875025CB001 definitive contract | Qubitekk, Inc | $9.1M | Afrl quantum network the objective of this effort is to perform research and development in quantum networking to establish secure and robust systems for the united states air force (USAF) and the air force research laboratory (afrl). | Air Force | Mar 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA881925FB023 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $9.1M | Provide technical development expertise, systems engineering and analysis, modeling and simulation, and hardware and software prototyping. | Air Force | Dec 12, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA875023F1007 delivery order | CNF Technologies Corporation | $9.1M | Mystic eagle | Air Force | Aug 21, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N6600125F3506 delivery order | Koam Engineering Systems, Inc | $9.1M | Tactical systems integration (tsi) testbed systems engineering, computer systems operations, test support, maintenance & field engineering, and network systems IT operations support services | Navy | Mar 18, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA460023F0102 delivery order | Linquest Corporation | $9.0M | Jnwc iii operations and maintenance and research, development, test & evaluation support | Air Force | Jun 13, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA875024CB067 definitive contract | RTX BBN Technologies, Inc | $9.0M | Wild card | Air Force | Jun 2, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001121C0108 definitive contract | Kudu Dynamics LLC | $9.0M | Program analysis for capability excellence (pace) | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Oct 28, 2024 DoD 90d |
| FA877125C0006 definitive contract | Private Tech Inc | $9.0M | Cape - stratfi, sequential sbir phase ii | Air Force | Apr 10, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA882025FB002 delivery order | Anduril Industries, Inc | $9.0M | Single award indefinite delivery indefinite quantity task order for anduril industries to provide network operations and remote monitoring for existing and future space domain awareness and space surveillance network sensors. | Air Force | Mar 25, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HQ072725FE051 delivery order | Raytheon Company | $9.0M | The advanced technology support program (atsp) contract acquires progressive microelectronic capability solutions for battle management command and control (bmc2) enhancement program, cet 25-558. | Defense Microelectronics Activity | May 29, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001126CE034 definitive contract | Toyon Research Corporation | $9.0M | Multi-wave adaptation through phased learning (mapl) for air combat | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Apr 10, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001424C1324 definitive contract | University of Maine System | $9.0M | Investigate and enhance the manufacturing technologies used for the fabrication of unmanned surface vessels (usvs) and related maritime structures develop digital manufacturing software tools which are process-aware that drive design ... | Navy | Feb 18, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA239424CB002 definitive contract | The Global Connective Center LLC | $9.0M | Grape - sustainable solar-hydrogen microgrid | Air Force | Jan 26, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W56KGU24C0012 definitive contract | Camgian Corporation | $9.0M | D-hesl | Army | Dec 19, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA237724FB002 delivery order | BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems Inc | $9.0M | Trusted and elastic military platforms and electronic warfare system technologies - radio frequency electronic warfare focused laboratory evaluations of critical technologies | Air Force | Jun 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA930023C6017 definitive contract | Istari Federal LLC | $9.0M | Flyer one - towards digital-first airworthiness certification | Air Force | Oct 2, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA930024C6022 definitive contract | Firehawk Aerospace Inc | $9.0M | Advanced hybrid rocket engine development | Air Force | Sep 29, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA865023C1067 definitive contract | Matrix Research Inc | $9.0M | Multi-spectral sensing technologies research & development 3-in-1 | Air Force | Jun 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HDTRA223F0003 delivery order | Applied Research Associates, Inc | $9.0M | Weapons effects test and analysis support | Defense Threat Reduction Agency | May 19, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001121C0129 definitive contract | RTX BBN Technologies, Inc | $9.0M | Darpa research project | Defense Contract Management Agency | Jul 8, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA239126CB021 definitive contract | Autonomous Defense Technologies Corp | $9.0M | Automated low-cost aerostructure mass production | Air Force | Jun 3, 2026 DoD 90d |
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 13, 2026.
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