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Defense systems R&D: $104B in defense awards
$104B obligated across 31,435 DoD and DHS awards to 7,037 companies, Oct 1, 2023 to Oct 13, 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 | 31,435 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N0001926F0178 delivery order | The Boeing Company | $4.7M | Research and development - acoustic operational flight program (aofp) dynamic configuration/rapid prototyping and acoustic software improvements (to 6) | Navy | Mar 12, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001124F0325 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $4.7M | Darpa research support services | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | May 5, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001124C0392 definitive contract | Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, LLC | $4.7M | Multiobjective engineering and testing of alloy structure program | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Feb 5, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA870225FB036 delivery order | Carnegie Mellon University | $4.7M | Carnegie mellon university software engineering institute ffrdc research and development | Air Force | May 7, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA868424CB015 definitive contract | Pvilion, Inc | $4.7M | Pvilion hext and spis phase iii for rder | Air Force | Sep 22, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA865022F6466 delivery order | DCS Corporation | $4.7M | Cognitive and physical performance in operational environments | Air Force | Dec 22, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA701424F0083 delivery order | Mantech Advanced Systems International, Inc | $4.7M | Pkh-weston-teixeira task order 1 for config mgmt and analytic support | Air Force | Sep 27, 2024 DoD 90d |
| FA701425C0002 definitive contract | Unlabel Innovation LLC | $4.7M | Provide the government software as a service to improve innovation idea management operations to ingest, curate, evaluate, and collaborate on subject matter experts ideas. | Air Force | May 18, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA237725CB031 definitive contract | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | $4.7M | Combat identification automatic target recognition technology (catch) call 1 | Air Force | Apr 20, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001918C1004 definitive contract | Lockheed Martin Corporation | $4.7M | Igf::ot::igf dca and sdb ii phase ii | Navy | Mar 11, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA868422CB008 definitive contract | Redhorse Corporation | $4.7M | Rapid sustainment office, innovative analytics for cbm+ | Air Force | Oct 18, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W56KGU23C0013 definitive contract | Leidos, Inc | $4.7M | Award against baa w56kgu-23-r-rtid topic fc-02 | Army | Apr 2, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N6523620F3909 delivery order | Scientific Research Corporation | $4.7M | Task order | Navy | Jul 23, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HDTRA122C0032 definitive contract | Ministry of Defence | $4.7M | Non ionic surfactant vesicles (nisvs) as a drug delivery and targeting systems for antimicrobials | Defense Threat Reduction Agency | May 19, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA875024CB041 definitive contract | Red Balloon Security, Inc | $4.7M | Boosting effectiveness through testing and evaluation of reliability for pipelined reasoning of verifiers enabling robust systems (better provers) | Air Force | May 5, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N6833523F0252 delivery order | AeroVironment, Inc | $4.7M | Sbir phase iii R&D | Navy | Feb 17, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002426F8041 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $4.7M | Warcom eng exp fy26 | Navy | Apr 24, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002424F8026 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $4.7M | Tallahassee phase 4 | Navy | Jan 30, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HQ086025C6000 definitive contract | The Research Foundation for the State University of New York | $4.7M | Research and development | Missile Defense Agency | May 27, 2025 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 Advanced Research Projects Agency | Jan 21, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HC102824F0645 delivery order | Agile Defense, LLC | $4.7M | Cdes t&e support services (pws task 6.2) | Defense Information Systems Agency | May 29, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA875024CB035 definitive contract | BAE Systems Information & Electronic Systems Integration Inc | $4.7M | Software analysis, verification and validation environment (savve) effort is to provide multiple system under test (suts) to demonstrate, evaluate and drive the pipelined reasoning of verifiers enabling robust systems (provers) ... | Air Force | Apr 27, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002422F8503 delivery order | University of Texas at Austin | $4.6M | Arl/ut - fy2017- fy2022 requirements - medium unmanned underwater vehicle (uuv) capabilities package development | Navy | Jun 3, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0003921F1030 delivery order | Fuse Integration, Inc | $4.6M | T3 | Navy | Jun 30, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA865124FB040 delivery order | Raytheon Company | $4.6M | Low cost air to ground radar | Air Force | Mar 19, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N6523623C8012 definitive contract | Saab, Inc | $4.6M | Linc program | Navy | Feb 10, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA945319C0009 definitive contract | BAE Systems Information & Electronic Systems Integration Inc | $4.6M | This requirement is to perform research and development to improve the density, performance and power consumption of future space-system memory by adapting and hardening advanced state-of-art technologies. | Defense Contract Management Agency | Apr 21, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W31P4Q25F0204 delivery order | General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc | $4.6M | Technical service memorandum (tsm) ga-asi-25-0056 entitled, "air force special operations command flight operations support | Army | Sep 22, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W912CH26F0055 delivery order | DCS Corporation | $4.6M | Technical and engineering services (tes) support for solider survivability (pm ssv) and their peo and pm customers. | Army | Mar 3, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA239424CB056 definitive contract | Titan Robotics Inc | $4.6M | Agile factory floor is a two-year effort aimed at minimizing the amount of permanent infrastructure necessary for safe amm operation in depot processes. | Air Force | Sep 26, 2024 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 Advanced Research Projects Agency | Jul 18, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N6660418F3022 delivery order | Serco-Ips Corporation | $4.6M | Autonomous maritime systems test center (amstc) engineering and technical services | Defense Contract Management Agency | Apr 21, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HC102824F0994 delivery order | Agile Defense, LLC | $4.6M | Unified instrumentation (ui) | Defense Information Systems Agency | Jun 1, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001425C1126 definitive contract | V2x Systems LLC | $4.6M | Advanced naval spectrum dependent systems integration effort develops concepts, algorithms, and prototype systems to access, utilize, and synthesize data, to improve NAVY sds performance and capabilities and provide new cutting-edge ... | Navy | Jun 3, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N6833525F0023 delivery order | Stottler Henke Associates, Inc | $4.6M | Sbir phase iii research & development | Navy | Nov 26, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA945121C0029 definitive contract | Eotech, LLC | $4.6M | Beam control research and development (bcrd) | Air Force | May 22, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA868424FB023 delivery order | Anduril Industries, Inc | $4.6M | Open architecture standards management | Air Force | Aug 1, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N6523624C8009 definitive contract | Peraton Labs Inc | $4.6M | Bpl baa ta2 | Navy | Feb 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA714625C0015 definitive contract | Allen Integrated Solutions LLC | $4.6M | Project wizard | Air Force | Apr 20, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001424C2414 definitive contract | Neurowave Systems Inc | $4.6M | Closed loop sedation and anesthesia delivery system for accs delivery system for accs | Navy | Apr 9, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA239424CB042 definitive contract | Impossible Objects, Inc | $4.6M | Optimization of high-speed post-processing equipment tactical funding increase | Air Force | Jul 10, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HQ085422F0027 delivery order | Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp | $4.6M | Research and development | Missile Defense Agency | Mar 18, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0042122C0003 definitive contract | J.f Taylor, Inc | $4.6M | Eo14042: lab operations | Navy | Nov 24, 2025 DoD 90d |
| H9240222C0002 definitive contract | Freedom Flight Works, Inc | $4.6M | Engineering and contract management | U.S. Special Operations Command | May 15, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002425F8332 delivery order | The Pennsylvania State University | $4.6M | Manned submersible propulsor program | Navy | Feb 19, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA868424FB001 delivery order | Lockheed Martin Corporation | $4.6M | Future tanker study | Air Force | Jan 19, 2024 DoD 90d |
| N0017325C2407 definitive contract | Peraton Inc | $4.6M | Manpower, personnel, training, and education (mpte) | Navy | Apr 22, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002423F8546 delivery order | University of Texas at Austin | $4.6M | Advanced technology software upgrade package | Navy | Apr 30, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N6600122F0008 delivery order | Noblis MSD LLC | $4.6M | Engineering services | Navy | Mar 18, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002423F8215 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $4.6M | Advanced situational awareness systems | Navy | Jan 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 15, 2026.
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