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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N0002426F8065 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $2.5M | Virginia class submarine cyber - sse10 | Navy | Apr 27, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002426F8072 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $2.5M | Morpheus fy26 (m8h50) | Navy | May 21, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N6600124C4016 definitive contract | Tai-Yang Research Company | $2.5M | Phase ia research iaw sow (base) for darpa principles of undersea magnetoydrodynamic pumps (pump) program | Navy | May 12, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W911SR24C0031 definitive contract | NCD Technologies LLC | $2.5M | 873authority small business innovation research (sbir) program phase iii titled non-toxic hydrophobic coatings for improved infrared and red phosphorus (rp) obscurant performance. | Army | Apr 14, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA862625FB022 delivery order | General Electric Company | $2.5M | Delivery order 7 for ngap for the contractor general electric | Air Force | Jun 2, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001124C0344 definitive contract | Starfire Industries LLC | $2.5M | Low-cost, mev-scale dc linear accelerators for e-beam & x-ray | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Nov 21, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA239424CB011 definitive contract | Apex Microdevices LLC | $2.5M | Bottom-up scalable epitaxial growth of gallium oxide with intergrated thermal management for next-gen electronics | Air Force | Mar 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA228025C0001 definitive contract | Near Earth Autonomy, Inc | $2.5M | Near earth autonomy (nea) inc. small business technology transfer (sttr ph iii) will further develop their autonomy core called captain to an initial prototype level including an integrated human machine interface that enables push button ... | Air Force | Apr 14, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA807521F0054 delivery order | Systems Planning and Analysis - Envisioneering, LLC | $2.5M | Columbia class propulsor government furnished equipment cost and construction trend analysis for naval sea systems command | Air Force | Feb 27, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0001424C2410 definitive contract | Arorae Corp | $2.5M | Distributed open ocean mission rehearsal (doomr) | Navy | Dec 17, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N6833523C0371 definitive contract | Excellerix, LLC | $2.5M | Research and development | Navy | Mar 31, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA881822F0020 delivery order | Asrc Federal System Solutions LLC | $2.5M | Nrol-174 mission | Air Force | Dec 18, 2024 DoD 90d |
| N6426724C0050 definitive contract | Ierus Technologies Inc | $2.5M | 873authority | Defense Contract Management Agency | Feb 3, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W900KK24C0020 definitive contract | Verus Research, LLC | $2.5M | Craft-agnostic radio frequency observing wireless network (crow) contract to develop a capability to fulfil the t&e need for instrumenting an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) | Army | May 6, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002424F8015 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $2.5M | Countering cbrne threats | Navy | Jul 29, 2024 DoD 90d |
| FA881024CB001 definitive contract | Lockheed Martin Corporation | $2.5M | This effort is for continued contractor logistics support for the data distribution architecture portion of foreign military sales case, letter of offer and acceptance at-d-qdd, between the united states. government and the government of ... | Air Force | Jun 4, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N6600123C4018 definitive contract | The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc | $2.5M | Darpa defense sciences office, neural evidence aggregation tool (neat)charles stark draper laboratory (finder)finding integrated neural determinants for emerging risk | Navy | Apr 21, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA875022C1005 definitive contract | Sarcos Group LC | $2.5M | Closed loop ubiquitous tasking & control of heterogeneous exploring sensors (clutches)-develop methods that autonomously control a heterogeneous sensing network for improved sensor data fusion and exploitation of the multiple sensor data ... | Air Force | May 28, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002424F8144 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $2.5M | Future cap abilities assessments | Navy | May 1, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N6833523C0552 definitive contract | Numerica Corporation | $2.5M | Research and development | Defense Contract Management Agency | Jan 20, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HQ003425F0002 delivery order | JJR Solutions LLC | $2.5M | Risk-based assessments | Washington Headquarters Services | Apr 20, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002424F8583 delivery order | University of Texas at Austin | $2.5M | Deployment of civil signal monitoring | Navy | Jul 2, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002425F8337 delivery order | The Pennsylvania State University | $2.5M | Full spectrum undersea warefare innovative navl prototype support | Navy | May 26, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HQ072723F1617 delivery order | Raytheon Company | $2.5M | The advanced technology support program (atsp) contract acquired progressive microelectronic capability solutions to analyze, design, prototype, demonstrate, integrate, test, and enhance system architecture. | Defense Microelectronics Activity | Aug 15, 2024 DoD 90d |
| N0017823PC617 purchase order | Applied Physical Electronics, LC | $2.5M | Phase 1 - engineering | Navy | Aug 21, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W911QX23C0019 definitive contract | Guroo LLC | $2.5M | Mobile communication services | Army | Mar 14, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001125F0028 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $2.5M | Human-ai communication for deontic reasoning devops (codord) | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Apr 20, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002424F8559 delivery order | University of Texas at Austin | $2.5M | Forward site guam equipment and technical support | Navy | Jan 30, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N6600124F0030 delivery order | Booz Allen Hamilton Inc | $2.5M | Engineering services | Navy | Jun 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N6523626CE003 definitive contract | Bowhead Program Management & Operations, LLC | $2.5M | Expeditionary prototyping, systems engineering, networking, cross domain solutions, hardware engineering, software development and integration, testing, configuration management, quality control, logistics, command andcontrol systems ... | Navy | May 27, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002424F8304 delivery order | The Pennsylvania State University | $2.5M | Enhanced survivability of structures iv | Navy | Mar 1, 2024 DoD 90d |
| SP470124F0355 delivery order | Scale AI, Inc | $2.5M | Base year task order awarded to scale ai under their indefinite delivery indefinite quantity idiq for emergent ivbaa0001-22 hackathon amendment 15 for large language models (llm) for the defense logistics agency (DLA) | Defense Logistics Agency | Apr 9, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001123C0106 definitive contract | Bifrost Biosystems Inc | $2.5M | Phase ii sbir robust operational ultra-high throughput cell lineage tracking for rapid bioengineering and pathogen detection | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Jun 2, 2026 DoD 90d |
| SP470125C0014 definitive contract | Talon Nickel (usa) LLC | $2.5M | Emergent iv baa0001-22 award to talon nickel (USA), llc to build a domestic supply chain for clean energy | Defense Logistics Agency | Mar 9, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA862625FB021 delivery order | RTX Corporation | $2.5M | Delivery order 7 for ngap for the contractor pratt and whitney | Air Force | Dec 15, 2025 DoD 90d |
| SPRRA226F0094 delivery order | Intuitive Research and Technology Corporation | $2.5M | This delivery order provides funding for enterprise architecture & digital engineering in support of space systems command (ssc) program executive officer (peo) for operational test and training infrastructure (otti). | Defense Logistics Agency | May 22, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001123C0104 definitive contract | SRI International | $2.5M | Phase 3 - rational integrated design of energetics (ride) program | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Nov 18, 2024 DoD 90d |
| N0002425F8326 delivery order | The Pennsylvania State University | $2.5M | Arl/psu - fy2023 - fy 2028 requirement | Navy | Apr 21, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HQ003424F0280 delivery order | County of Grand Forks | $2.5M | Research on unmanned aerial systems | Washington Headquarters Services | Feb 20, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA240124C0003 definitive contract | Rockwell Collins, Inc | $2.5M | Warlock program | Defense Contract Management Agency | Feb 26, 2025 DoD 90d |
| SP470124C0022 definitive contract | Deloitte Consulting LLP | $2.5M | Emergent iv baa0001-22 award to deloitte for joint additive manufacturing that will enable DLA to commercially contract for additive manufacturing items and scale up this manufacturing capability. | Defense Logistics Agency | May 12, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HY023326FE004 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $2.5M | Provide engineering and scientific expertise to identify and mature appropriate technologies and develop operational prototypes for the rapid transition of maturing technologies to meet warfighters needs. includes testing/validation of ... | Immediate Office of the Secretary of Defense | Jun 2, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001125C0044 definitive contract | North Carolina State University | $2.5M | The heterogenous adaptively produced photonic interfaces (happi) program aims to create a 1000x increase in the information transmission density within a microsystem by exploiting photonic signaling. | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Dec 8, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N6600124F1032 delivery order | Kratos Defense & Rocket Support Services, Inc | $2.5M | Engineering services | Navy | May 14, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001124F0300 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $2.5M | Darpa research program support services | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Aug 28, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0002425F8111 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $2.5M | Smwdc swtd | Navy | May 2, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0002423F8274 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $2.5M | Furure technology studies | Navy | Jul 22, 2024 DoD 90d |
| N0002424F8300 delivery order | The Pennsylvania State University | $2.5M | System modeling for countering advanced conventional weapons and next generation threat system | Navy | May 28, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA862626FB005 delivery order | General Electric Company | $2.4M | Fy26 j85-5 engine component improvement program | Air Force | May 5, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002425F8048 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $2.4M | Pms408 electronic warfare omn (med35) | Navy | Aug 25, 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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