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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR001122C0153 definitive contract | Punch Cyber Corp | $4.2M | Signature management using operational knowledge and environments (smoke) program. | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Jun 26, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HQ085123F0019 delivery order | Raytheon Company | $4.2M | Other sustaining engineering b&p - for r-fast w/ options | Missile Defense Agency | May 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA875023C0519 definitive contract | SRI International | $4.2M | Trinityns: trustworthy, robust and interoperable neuro-symbolic world modeling and reasoning | Air Force | Jun 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HQ085526FE001 delivery order | Marzen Group LLC | $4.2M | Dtw has a need to conduct wargames and exercises in multiple locations. services include the maintenance, transportation, set up, network connection, cybersecurity compliance and operation of the (tdacs) workstations currently owned by dtw. | Missile Defense Agency | Apr 15, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA714625C0050 definitive contract | Strider Technologies, Inc | $4.2M | Strider renewal and expanded support | Air Force | Sep 29, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA714625C0051 definitive contract | Strider Technologies, Inc | $4.2M | Strider renewal and expanded support | Air Force | Sep 29, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0001924F0139 delivery order | Raytheon Company | $4.2M | Non-recurring engineering order for test and evaluation technical support on the emd effort. | Navy | Dec 17, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W911SR24F0056 delivery order | Patricio Enterprises, Inc | $4.2M | This requirement is for the development of a modernized m8 chemical agent detector paper to expand the classes of detectable chemical warfare agents (cwa) to include non-traditional agents (ntas) and to decrease false positive responses. | Army | Jan 29, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA680024C0013 definitive contract | Betaflix, Inc | $4.2M | Sbir phase iii to design, develop, and deliver the remaining technical order-driven modules as part of a complete integrated ar/vr b-52 fuel systems trainer. | Air Force | Dec 13, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0002424F8511 delivery order | University of Texas at Austin | $4.2M | Advanced sonar capability integration package 1 | Navy | Jan 14, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA945326CX009 definitive contract | Antares Nuclear, Inc | $4.2M | Nuclear electric propulsion to achieve dynamic space operations (nepadso) | Air Force | Jan 30, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0018924FR439 delivery order | United Mesh Solutions LLC | $4.2M | Nadacs mesh upgrade support | Navy | Sep 25, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W56KGU20F0001 delivery order | CACI, Inc - Federal | $4.2M | Rs3 task order for c5isr hq operations support | Army | Mar 12, 2026 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 Advanced Research Projects Agency | Dec 3, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0002423F8141 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $4.2M | Combat system and guided missiles | Navy | May 27, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002425F8503 delivery order | University of Texas at Austin | $4.2M | Small unmanned underwater vehicle sensor system configuration | Navy | May 14, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA875023C1006 definitive contract | Peraton Labs Inc | $4.2M | Denali ta5c | Air Force | Jun 5, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001121C0211 definitive contract | SRI International | $4.2M | Darpa research project | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Feb 25, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HDTRA125FE048 delivery order | Leidos, Inc | $4.2M | Environmental data enterprise (ede) | Defense Threat Reduction Agency | May 28, 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 Advanced Research Projects Agency | Dec 22, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0001423C1019 definitive contract | Cana LLC | $4.2M | Optimization models for an integrated military logistics, operations, and maintenance planning tool | Navy | May 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002422F8539 delivery order | University of Texas at Austin | $4.2M | Critical technologies research and development for SSN(x) | Navy | Dec 19, 2024 DoD 90d |
| HR001122C0032 definitive contract | SRI International | $4.2M | Computational cultural understanding | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Jun 26, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA881920F1010 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $4.2M | Technical expertise on technology solutions, systems trades, and systems engineering | Air Force | Jan 15, 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 Advanced Research Projects Agency | Mar 12, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002424F8170 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $4.2M | Advanced air asw technology development sensor system | Navy | Jan 27, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA861226FB004 delivery order | Science Applications International Corporation | $4.2M | Digital infrastructure network developer - saic | Air Force | Jun 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA875025FB016 delivery order | Assured Information Security, Inc | $4.2M | Defense enterprise network access level innovation (denali) objective is to research, develop, integrate, procure and deploy cross domain access technology and its components. | Air Force | Apr 8, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002425F8328 delivery order | The Pennsylvania State University | $4.2M | Pms406 umnanned maritime systems development and systems engineering support fy25-28 | Navy | Apr 28, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002426F8005 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $4.2M | Integrated nuclear weapons system surety fy26 | Navy | May 21, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001422C1028 definitive contract | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc | $4.2M | Next generation networking waveform (ngnw) development support | Navy | Dec 31, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0002425F8183 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $4.2M | Sensor and system test | Navy | Feb 11, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002424F8007 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $4.1M | Inwss independent eval fy24 | Navy | Jul 17, 2024 DoD 90d |
| HR001123F0023 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $4.1M | Darpa research program support services | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Mar 11, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0042123F0891 delivery order | Raytheon Company | $4.1M | Labor - rdt&e | Navy | Jan 15, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001422C2008 definitive contract | Pacific Science & Engineering Group, Inc | $4.1M | User-centered design (ucd) for command and control (c2) | Navy | Apr 2, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001122C0033 definitive contract | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | $4.1M | Computational cultural understanding | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Sep 29, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA875024CB102 definitive contract | Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, LLC | $4.1M | Gband highly integrated array transceivers (ghiat) | Air Force | Apr 3, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N6600125C0023 definitive contract | Ausgar Technologies, Inc | $4.1M | Services - radiac - base | Navy | May 18, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA238424CB003 definitive contract | DCS Corporation | $4.1M | Science of human augmentation, resiliency and cognition (sharc) | Air Force | Apr 17, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0016424CWS69 definitive contract | Vadum Inc | $4.1M | Research and development and platform integration services for aew projects: ream, rocs, si12,emwram, and alrt. | Navy | May 21, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002423F8289 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $4.1M | Jhu/apl - fy2023 - fy2027 requirements | Navy | Sep 3, 2024 DoD 90d |
| FA861223CB003 definitive contract | New Trail Logistics LLC | $4.1M | Acquisition study on diminishing supplies/parts. | Air Force | May 21, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N6660424FC428 delivery order | Mikel Inc | $4.1M | Base year services (loe) | Navy | May 26, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911QX25FA049 delivery order | Applied Research Associates, Inc | $4.1M | Task order for joint antiair combat effectiveness (j-ace) integrated product team (ipt) and products: joint antiair model (jaam) and endgame manager (em) support. | Army | May 13, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001123C0028 definitive contract | RTX BBN Technologies, Inc | $4.1M | Resilient supply-and-demand network (rsdn) program. | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Nov 19, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HQ085722F8900 delivery order | Amentum Technology, Inc | $4.1M | Provide property management and warehousing services for property owned/managed by mda/is | Missile Defense Agency | Aug 7, 2024 DoD 90d |
| SP470125C0059 definitive contract | The Chemours Co FC LLC | $4.1M | Recovery of scandium, vanadium, and mixed rare earth elements from the metal chloride co-product of chloride process titanium dioxide production | Defense Logistics Agency | May 27, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0002423F8716 delivery order | University of Washington | $4.1M | Fy24 rdt&e acoustic systems | Navy | Jul 18, 2024 DoD 90d |
| N0001423FM002 delivery order | The Pennsylvania State University | $4.1M | Manufacturing technology (mantech)electronics manufacturing center of excellence (emc) | Navy | Jul 7, 2025 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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