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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 7, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0001 delivery order | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | $83.9M | Igf::ct::igf task order 0001 for DOD line funding | Air Force | May 14, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807522F0062 delivery order | Booz Allen Hamilton Inc | $83.4M | Survivability and lethality analysis for pacific theater and futures capabilities for the pacific air forces | Air Force | Jun 2, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA238524CB037 definitive contract | Raytheon Company | $82.1M | Specifically constrained low-volume aircraft multi-band, directional satcom antennas | Air Force | May 28, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W91CRB24F0094 delivery order | Joint Technical Solutions, LLC | $81.2M | Award of year one (1) task order for redstone test and engineering support services at rtc. includes labor and odcs. | Army | Feb 19, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001926C0115 definitive contract | Lockheed Martin Corporation | $81.0M | The romania integration contract execution to provide initial setup, program management, maintenance, and follow-on support for a new country purchasing f-35s. | Navy | Apr 21, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA875022F1005 delivery order | Booz Allen Hamilton Inc | $80.8M | Chad skeletor integration (csi) | Air Force | Dec 18, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N6660424F3004 delivery order | Rite-Solutions, Inc | $80.4M | This is a requirement for imaging and electronic warfare systems engineering and technical services in support of the naval undersea warfare center division, newport (nuwcdivnpt) code 34. | Navy | May 29, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807524F0020 delivery order | Booz Allen Hamilton Inc | $80.3M | Ground system technology and laboratory research and development for the united states ARMY ground vehicle systems center | Air Force | May 20, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001906C0081 definitive contract | Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation | $78.6M | Capture delivery of sdd cap items. | Navy | Jun 29, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA870217F0004 delivery order | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | $78.6M | Igf::ot::igf transition of severable projects | Air Force | Jun 5, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807522F0011 delivery order | Mantech Tsg-2 Joint Venture | $78.5M | Unmanned aircraft systems engineering and analysis for naval air systems command and naval surface warfare center, crane division | Air Force | Jun 1, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001123C0087 definitive contract | General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc | $77.5M | Longshot unmanned air vehicle - phase iii | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | May 21, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W31P4Q24C0006 definitive contract | Raytheon Company | $77.0M | United arab emirates modernization phase 1 | Army | May 21, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807522F0058 delivery order | Mantech Tsg-2 Joint Venture | $75.1M | Research and development for portfolio manager command element systems, marine corps system command (marcorsyscom) program manager intelligence systems (pmis) | Air Force | Mar 25, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HQ072724F1602 delivery order | Raytheon Company | $75.0M | The purpose of this task is to acquire engineering services to analyze, design, develop, prototype, test, and improve factory capacity enhancements and build prototype interceptors. | Defense Microelectronics Activity | Jan 16, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807524F0003 delivery order | Mantech Tsg-2 Joint Venture | $74.7M | Systems engineering analysis for systems engineering directorate, marine corps systems command | Air Force | Jun 3, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA231825FB002 delivery order | Leidos, Inc | $74.7M | Systems engineering integration contract (seic) ii task order 15 | Air Force | May 7, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0042125F7048 delivery order | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | $74.7M | Ng and their subs will serve as lsi for testing and experimentation of providence system to enhance blos capability for multiple platforms | Navy | May 18, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA875019C1507 definitive contract | Two Six Labs, LLC | $74.6M | Project ike | Air Force | May 26, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N6523623C8008 definitive contract | BAE Systems Information & Electronic Systems Integration Inc | $74.3M | Darpa janus program | Navy | Apr 24, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HDTRA119F0005 delivery order | Applied Research Associates, Inc | $73.2M | Combating weapons of mass destruction analysis and planning tool development | Defense Threat Reduction Agency | May 5, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA862625FB014 delivery order | RTX Corporation | $73.0M | Delivery order 6 is derived from the original basic idiq contract fa8626-22-d-0002. thus, all relevant clauses existing as part of the idiq are applicable to this action and will flow down to this delivery order. | Air Force | Sep 26, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA861225FB015 delivery order | General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc | $73.0M | Development of a multi-function processor hardware architecture that provides platforms an ability to extend the abms digital infrastructure to the airborne layer and enable bidirectional data exchange across the daf battle network. | Air Force | Apr 23, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911QX25C0002 definitive contract | Ecs Federal, LLC | $72.8M | Contract to research, develop, modify, deploy, operate, and maintain artificial intelligence/machine learning (ai/ml) algorithms and models. | Army | Jun 3, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HQ085724F5900 delivery order | Amentum Technology, Inc | $72.5M | The missile defense system (mds) command, control, battle mgmt, and communications (c2bmc) infrastructure, engineering & event svcs, task order provides engineering products & svcs, and mission op activities for mda, c2bmc program office. | Missile Defense Agency | May 19, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807523F0040 delivery order | Science Applications International Corporation | $71.9M | Transformational technology analysis for defense systems for naval information warfare center (niwc) atlantic | Air Force | Jun 2, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W31P4Q25C0026 definitive contract | Lockheed Martin Corporation | $71.6M | This award definitizes uca for remote interceptor guidance (rig-360) engineering, manufacturing, and design (emd) development program. | Army | Jun 2, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911QX24F0113 delivery order | Palantir USG Inc | $70.7M | Task order off a commercial solutions opening (cso) for research and development for maven smart system (mss) production licenses. | Army | Sep 15, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA861123F0022 delivery order | Applied Research Associates, Inc | $68.7M | F-22 te-reccs ii | Air Force | Jun 1, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0042123F1885 delivery order | American Electronic Warfare Associates, Incorporated | $67.9M | Award first task order under idiq n0042123d0005. | Navy | Jun 2, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001919C0050 definitive contract | Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC | $67.0M | Systems engineering and development | Navy | Jun 2, 2026 DoD 90d |
| H9240824F0002 delivery order | Lockheed Martin Corp | $66.6M | Tactical flight management system (tfms 2.0) | U.S. Special Operations Command | Dec 4, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0018924FR517 delivery order | JJR Solutions LLC | $66.0M | Nadacs nsy implementation | Navy | May 13, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA875023F1006 delivery order | Assured Information Security, Inc | $65.8M | Azrael | Air Force | May 8, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HDTRA123F0030 delivery order | Leidos, Inc | $65.7M | Target assessment technologies support | Defense Threat Reduction Agency | May 14, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W900KK26CA002 definitive contract | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | $65.7M | Rangehawk (rh) prototype development and demonstration rh universal payload architecture prototype is a novel, high-altitude long endurance airborne test resource to improve the agility and adaptability of high speed systems test data ... | Army | Jun 5, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807524F0007 delivery order | HII Mission Technologies Corp | $65.3M | Research, development, test and evaluation of vertical launching systems interface test sets and combat systems for the naval surface warfare center port hueneme division | Air Force | Apr 23, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001423C1022 definitive contract | Raytheon Company | $63.6M | The objective of future advanced strike (fast) is to enable the customers intended concept of operations (conop) to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (isr) and precision strike capability. | Navy | Mar 24, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N6600124F0495 delivery order | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | $63.3M | Engineering services rgs-a task order 3 | Navy | Mar 30, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA240125C0004 definitive contract | Kratos Technology & Training Solutions, Inc | $62.9M | Advanced fire control ground infrastructure (afcgi) | Air Force | May 11, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA865022C1017 definitive contract | University of Dayton | $62.9M | Eo14042 soaring otter | Air Force | May 22, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807521F0005 delivery order | Booz Allen Hamilton Inc | $62.8M | Microelectronics assurance for secure trustworthy electronics research (master) | Air Force | Jan 29, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807523F0013 delivery order | HII Mission Technologies Corp | $62.6M | Experimentation, integration, and transition program for ARMY research laboratory (arl) photonics, electronics, and quantum sciences division (peqs) | Air Force | May 28, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HQ072724F1400 delivery order | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | $61.4M | The advanced technology support program (atsp) contract acquired progressive microelectronic capability solutions to improve performance, improve reliability and maintainability of the microelectronics-based g/ator rsp refresh system | Defense Microelectronics Activity | Dec 4, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA807523F0016 delivery order | Battelle Memorial Institute | $61.3M | Ongoing force health protection analysis, assessment, and evaluation for NAVY and marine corps public health center | Air Force | Apr 20, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA239425FB014 delivery order | University of Dayton | $61.3M | Pervasive research and evaluation for complex-solutions in operational and urgent systems task order 0001 | Air Force | Jun 2, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA862522FB001 delivery order | Lockheed Martin Corp | $61.1M | Proposal prep for NAVY tacamo office | Air Force | Jan 21, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HY023326C0002 definitive contract | Raytheon Company | $60.8M | Complete design, build and delivery of a specified number of prototypes that integrate into existing systems and components as well as new innovations in accordance with the statement of work. | Immediate Office of the Secretary of Defense | Mar 23, 2026 DoD 90d |
| H9240825FE006 delivery order | Technology Service Corp | $60.8M | Isr service fy2025 | U.S. Special Operations Command | May 27, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807521F0041 delivery order | Mantech Tsg-2 Joint Venture | $60.1M | Research, development, test, and evaluation (rdt&e) of radar and electronic warfare (ew) systems, subsystems, and interface equipment for radar technologies division (wxp), naval surface warfare center (nswc), crane division | Air Force | Jun 4, 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 9, 2026.
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