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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FA239424CB063 definitive contract | National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining | $8.6M | Advanced air mobility for advancing northeast ohio (aamen) | Air Force | Sep 27, 2024 DoD 90d |
| HR001122C0013 definitive contract | Lockheed Martin Aculight Corporation | $8.6M | Darpa research project | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Apr 16, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N6833524F0079 delivery order | AeroVironment, Inc | $8.6M | Sbir phase iii R&D | Navy | May 7, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002424F8177 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $8.6M | Maritime technology research program | Navy | May 26, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA875020C1002 definitive contract | L3Harris Technologies Integrated Systems LP | $8.6M | Advanced exploitation of electronic intelligence (elint) signals (axes) | Air Force | Jun 2, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001122C0151 definitive contract | Cynnovative, LLC | $8.6M | Signature management using operational knowledge and environments (smoke) program | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Apr 6, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001123C0005 definitive contract | BAE Systems Information & Electronic Systems Integration Inc | $8.6M | Darpa research project | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Apr 17, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001423C1035 definitive contract | General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc | $8.6M | This effort will provide programmatic and engineering services required to execute the following tasks in support of the office of naval research (onr): program management, operational security planning, amps requirements expansion, amps ... | Navy | Sep 30, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HDTRA120F0039 delivery order | Applied Research Associates, Inc | $8.6M | Mines development | Defense Threat Reduction Agency | Jan 12, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HQ085121F0003 delivery order | Raytheon Company | $8.6M | Ib sustaining engineering - threat upgrade technical refresh (tutr) task order | Missile Defense Agency | Mar 19, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002423F8297 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $8.6M | Platform and force level technology prototyping | Navy | Sep 3, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0017323F2017 delivery order | Technology Service Corp | $8.6M | Modeling, analysis, research, and simulation (mars) | Navy | Jun 11, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001124C0300 definitive contract | Battelle Memorial Institute | $8.6M | Darpa research project | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Mar 6, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N6893625F0177 delivery order | Bell Textron Inc | $8.5M | H1 bell | Navy | May 14, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA861223CB015 definitive contract | Gapingvoid Culture Design Group LLC | $8.5M | Advanced battle management systems | Air Force | Mar 12, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA860425CB011 definitive contract | Collaboration.ai, LLC | $8.5M | Digital first ecosystem scaling effort | Air Force | Mar 25, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA945323F0013 delivery order | Viasat Inc | $8.5M | Vast to 04 sand^2 | Air Force | Dec 2, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA239425CB061 definitive contract | Luxium Solutions, LLC | $8.5M | Edge-defined film-fed growth of beta-phase gallium oxide substrates for high power electronics (efg of gox substrates) | Air Force | Dec 4, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W56KGU21C0005 definitive contract | Vantor Services Inc | $8.5M | Sbir phase iii "predictive geospatial analysis tool" activities in support of the enhanced by: completing additional research and developmental and integration tasks that extend or are derived from the earlier sbir i and sbir ii work. | Army | May 18, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA881826FB001 delivery order | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | $8.5M | This task order procures the launch(es) of two alpha flight test vehicles (aftvs) under the sounding rocket program-4 (srp-4) basic idiq. | Air Force | Jun 5, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HQ072726FE037 delivery order | Lockheed Martin Corporation | $8.5M | The advanced technology support program (atsp) contract acquires progressive microelectronic capability solutions for ragnarok. | Defense Microelectronics Activity | May 22, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W5170125FA003 delivery order | Near Earth Autonomy, Inc | $8.5M | Statement of work - enhancement task order: w51701-25-f-a003 issued to near earth autonomy, inc. under idiq w51701-25-d-a002. | Army | Aug 26, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0001926F0134 delivery order | General Atomics | $8.5M | Nre, design, and test | Navy | Apr 7, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002424F8204 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $8.5M | Electronic warfare backfit engineering | Navy | Feb 11, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911QX22F0029 delivery order | Fibertek, Inc | $8.5M | Battlefield R&D, analysis and verification experimentation (brave) services. | Army | Mar 5, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA489026F0085 delivery order | World Wide Technology LLC | $8.5M | To5 offutt implementation phase ii, tyndall and beale assessment phase i, and robins rack installation | Air Force | Jul 1, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA239425FB015 delivery order | University of Dayton | $8.4M | Pervasive research and evaluation for complex-solutions in operational and urgent systems task order 0002 | Air Force | Apr 8, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002423F8323 delivery order | The Pennsylvania State University | $8.4M | Advanced development and analysis for undersea warefare iv | Navy | May 13, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001123C0010 definitive contract | Lockheed Martin Corporation | $8.4M | Darpa research project | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Feb 26, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA875026FB010 delivery order | Assured Information Security, Inc | $8.4M | The objective of donjon is to research, select, apply, and deliver ai/ml-based enhancements in in three areas critical to helping the USAF and its partnering combatant commands achieve cyber superiority. | Air Force | May 8, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002425F8077 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $8.4M | Slcm-n engineering studies | Navy | May 20, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002426C3075 definitive contract | Integrated Solutions for Systems, Inc | $8.4M | Base | Navy | Mar 20, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001424C1314 definitive contract | Raytheon Company | $8.4M | Advanced technologies for reduced platform susceptibility and vulnerability. 831 authority | Navy | Apr 20, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002423F8089 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $8.4M | Sm engineering & evaluation for sm-2 blk iiic | Navy | Apr 22, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA228025F0014 delivery order | Anduril Industries, Inc | $8.4M | This task order leverages the thunderdome digital engineering and simulation environments to rapidly develop modular autonomous UAV capabilities for a variety of use cases. | Air Force | Nov 26, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA228025F0027 delivery order | Anduril Industries, Inc | $8.4M | This task order leverages the thunderdome digital engineering and simulation environments to rapidly develop modular autonomous UAV capabilities for a variety of use cases. | Air Force | Feb 20, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N6523623C8002 definitive contract | Peraton Labs Inc | $8.4M | Darpa baa linc program | Navy | May 6, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HDTRA123F0022 delivery order | Leidos, Inc | $8.4M | Electromagnetic pulse advance testing and technical assistance for systems vulnerabilities and assessments | Defense Threat Reduction Agency | Jan 23, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA239425CB017 definitive contract | GKN Aerospace GTC, LLC | $8.4M | Scale ti am for critical airframe structures | Air Force | Feb 25, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA865022C1026 definitive contract | Defense Engineering Corp | $8.4M | Development, integration, experimentation of sensors for enhanced lethality (diesel) | Air Force | Jun 1, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001124C0315 definitive contract | Regents of the University of Michigan | $8.4M | Ice control enhancement with closed loop molecular design | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Jan 22, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002425F8154 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $8.4M | Navy strategic communications assessment | Navy | May 8, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001925F0122 delivery order | The Boeing Company | $8.4M | Fleet support and sustainment | Navy | Jun 2, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0042123F0151 delivery order | Sierra Nevada Company, LLC | $8.3M | Landing systems upgrade program (lsup) block v | Navy | Sep 8, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HT942524F0325 delivery order | Chenega Services & Federal Solutions, LLC | $8.3M | Research, test, development, and evaluation support services | Defense Health Agency | Mar 26, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N6600123F3513 delivery order | Tactical Engineering & Analysis, Inc | $8.3M | Naval tactical grid (ntg) integration, test, engineering and networking (iten) | Navy | Apr 29, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001925F0144 delivery order | DCS Corporation | $8.3M | Cmpc additional software development | Navy | Jun 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA714625C0018 definitive contract | Accrete AI Government LLC | $8.3M | Sbir phase 2 multi-modal language ai | Air Force | Jun 10, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA945124CX011 definitive contract | Leidos, Inc | $8.3M | To investigate and advance compact, pulsed-power technologies suitable for driving high-power electromagnetic (hpem) sources. | Air Force | May 11, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807525F0024 delivery order | Booz Allen Hamilton Inc | $8.3M | Chemical and biological defense research and development for the united states ARMY combat capabilities development command chemical biological center | Air Force | May 28, 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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