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Defense systems R&D: $104B in defense awards
$104B obligated across 31,436 DoD and DHS awards to 7,037 companies, Oct 1, 2023 to Oct 14, 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 | 31,436 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N6833525C0250 definitive contract | Aerospace Mass Properties Analysis Inc | $3.6M | Sbir phase iii | Navy | May 29, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001123C0129 definitive contract | Applied Research Associates, Inc | $3.6M | Darpa triage challenge (dtc) virtual testbed for the signatures of trauma for algorithm-assisted clinical assessment, triage,and observation (stacato) program | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Jul 15, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0002425F8152 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $3.6M | Nato seasparrow dev bla46 | Navy | Jun 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA237726CB005 definitive contract | DCS Corporation | $3.6M | Assessment of sensing-autonomy sensor exploitation technologies (asset) | Air Force | Jun 1, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001920C0628 definitive contract | RTX BBN Technologies, Inc | $3.6M | Ground replay system development | Defense Contract Management Agency | Jun 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001124C0487 definitive contract | Cromulence LLC | $3.6M | Enhanced sbom for optimized software sustainment (e-boss) program. | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | May 18, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002425F8306 delivery order | The Pennsylvania State University | $3.6M | Onr s&t and R&D development | Navy | Jun 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002425F8802 delivery order | University of Hawaii | $3.6M | Afrl lwir instrument retrofit critical design, fabrication and integration | Navy | Apr 8, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA865020F5606 delivery order | University of Dayton | $3.6M | Operations maintenance energy efficient technologies support | Air Force | Jul 23, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0001424C1317 definitive contract | Makai Ocean Engineering Inc | $3.6M | Ultra compact heat exchanger development | Navy | Sep 26, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA239425CB056 definitive contract | Minco Technologies LLC | $3.6M | Modular operationally resilient fuel-flexible extreme-efficiency UAS-engine system | Air Force | May 6, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA862025FB109 delivery order | Raytheon Company | $3.6M | Big safari | Air Force | Nov 19, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA945320C0024 definitive contract | Bluehalo Labs, LLC | $3.6M | Heterogeneous optical w/v-band demonstration (howd) | Air Force | May 8, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N6600121C0004 definitive contract | Tdi Technologies, Inc | $3.6M | Engineering services | Navy | Sep 24, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HDTRA125C0002 definitive contract | RTX BBN Technologies, Inc | $3.6M | Real-time analysis of biosecurity threats from sequencing (rabits) | Defense Threat Reduction Agency | Apr 14, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001125C0050 definitive contract | Raytheon Company | $3.6M | Heterogenous adaptively produced photonic interfaces (happi) program | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Dec 8, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HQ085422F0036 delivery order | Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp | $3.5M | Research and development | Missile Defense Agency | Mar 17, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA945319C0400 definitive contract | Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc | $3.5M | Next-generation space environment technologies (nset) basic award | Defense Contract Management Agency | Feb 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911SR23P0005 purchase order | Goldbelt Professional Services, LLC | $3.5M | Risk manager | Army | Nov 21, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0002425F8087 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $3.5M | Strategic systems test and evaluation | Navy | Jun 17, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HDTRA125FE037 delivery order | Applied Research Associates, Inc | $3.5M | Research and development requirement to improve for operational readiness, codes that feature mathematical backgrounds derived from functional architecture-based reduced order modelling (rom) techniques that may derive from agent- based ... | Defense Threat Reduction Agency | Apr 22, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA865023F2201 delivery order | Booz Allen Hamilton Inc | $3.5M | Advancing design, analysis, prototyping, and testing for aircraft structures | Air Force | Apr 30, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA875021C1504 definitive contract | Invictus International Consulting LLC | $3.5M | Operational simulated cyber environment for enhanced resiliency (oscer) | Air Force | Mar 30, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA945324C0001 definitive contract | Blacksky Geospatial Solutions, LLC | $3.5M | Blacksky global moving target engagement | Air Force | Dec 29, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W9113M23F0003 delivery order | Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp | $3.5M | High powered microwave and distributed aperture support (hpmdas) | Army | Sep 12, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA945122F0002 delivery order | Leidos, Inc | $3.5M | The purpose is to build two new high frequency, high power hpem sources for free-field effects data collection. | Air Force | May 20, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HQ003425FE095 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $3.5M | In support of the ousd(re) mission, the department of defense (DOD) office of strategic capital (osc) attracts and scales private capital to technologies critical to the national security of the us. | Washington Headquarters Services | Feb 19, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA864924P0978 purchase order | Crgo, Inc | $3.5M | Proposal f2d-12912: logistics UAS configuration and analysis software (lucas) and optimal air vehicle configurations | Air Force | Sep 12, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001124C0469 definitive contract | Raytheon Company | $3.5M | The uwbgs program will develop foundational, high-quality ultra-wide bandgap (uwbg) materials and electrical contacts necessary for realization of practical electronics that enable uwbg applications. | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Jan 14, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA945123CA008 definitive contract | Stellar Science LTD Co | $3.5M | Hpem effects and simulation development tool hpem system of new hpem performance modeling and simulation tools. | Air Force | Apr 27, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N6833523C0705 definitive contract | Geooptics, Inc | $3.5M | Progress report #1 | Navy | Apr 14, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA881924CB003 definitive contract | Scout Space Inc | $3.5M | Demonstrate the performance of a set of algorithms and processes to obtain and maintain custody of resident space objects (rsos) by developing advanced algorithms that will inform mission taskings. | Air Force | May 6, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HT942525C0019 definitive contract | Goldbelt Apex, LLC | $3.5M | Base period: vetmed support services | Defense Health Agency | May 27, 2026 DoD 90d |
| SPE7L126F3746 delivery order | SRI International | $3.5M | 8511911911 R&D-other: advanced developm | Defense Logistics Agency | Feb 10, 2026 DoD 90d |
| SP470125F0100 delivery order | Advanced Technology International | $3.5M | Sp470123d5001, sp470124f0005, advanced technology international (ati), DLA emergent metal castings program, aluminum casting performance initiative (acpi) | Defense Logistics Agency | May 21, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA237725CB035 definitive contract | Systems & Technology Research LLC | $3.5M | Maritime automated ingestion for scene-aware identification and localization (mainsail) | Air Force | May 26, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA875024CB056 definitive contract | Cromulence LLC | $3.5M | Maelstrom: complementary tools for 5g | Air Force | Mar 31, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807521F0029 delivery order | Booz Allen Hamilton Inc | $3.5M | Mission equipment systems branch (mesb) research, development, engineering, and demonstration | Air Force | Feb 17, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002423F8362 delivery order | The Pennsylvania State University | $3.5M | Nuwc keyport modular threat countermeasure emulator (motce) test resource management center (trmc) | Navy | May 14, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002424F8008 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $3.5M | Ssw uuv system of systems | Navy | Jun 3, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001422C1055 definitive contract | Serco Inc | $3.5M | Serco inc. | Navy | Apr 1, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HDTRA124C0002 definitive contract | Regents of the University of Michigan | $3.5M | R&d services for development of 3d gamma ray detector | Defense Threat Reduction Agency | Apr 6, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N6833522F0412 delivery order | Platform Systems, Incorporated | $3.5M | Sbir phase iii R&D | Navy | Jul 11, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA238525CB014 definitive contract | Mission Systems Davenport Inc | $3.5M | The statement of work (sow), entitled small hybrid aerial refueling kit, dated 08/15/2024 is under attachment 1. | Air Force | Jun 25, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA860425CB007 definitive contract | Inkit Worldwide LLC | $3.5M | Inkit phase iii apollo effort | Air Force | Mar 13, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA945324CX019 definitive contract | Frontgrade Colorado Springs LLC | $3.5M | Development of magnetoresistive random access memory (mram) for domestic production --- note p00001 changed psc code to ac22 | Air Force | Apr 25, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0002423F8913 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $3.5M | Air national guard hvaa pod | Navy | Mar 26, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0002424F8232 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $3.5M | Mcisre dead center intergration | Navy | Sep 11, 2024 DoD 90d |
| FA252125C0027 definitive contract | Beast Code LLC | $3.5M | Sequential phase ii small business innovation research assured access to space (aats) common operating picture (cop) | Air Force | May 6, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W5170124C0012 definitive contract | Sky Park Labs LLC | $3.5M | 873authority. sbir phase ii sequential award to sky park labs llc, for the research of advanced machine learning for munition inspections for ARMY combat capabilities development command (devcom) armaments center. | Army | Dec 18, 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 16, 2026.
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