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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N0001925F2008 delivery order | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | $1.9M | Waimea phase 1 support | Navy | May 15, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA860425FB504 delivery order | Inkit Worldwide LLC | $1.9M | File intelligence platform and associated products and services. | Air Force | Apr 24, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W5170126CA104 definitive contract | Voyant Photonics Inc | $1.9M | Small business innovation research, direct to phase ii topic a254-021, ruggedized sensors to increase driving visibility and vehicle safety | Army | May 13, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N6833521F0261 delivery order | Jentek Sensors, Inc | $1.9M | Sbir phase ii.5 R&D for osd | Defense Contract Management Agency | Apr 2, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA881925FB025 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $1.9M | Joint radiant touchstone joint capability technology demonstration (jctd) | Air Force | Dec 18, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001124C0456 definitive contract | Physical Sciences Inc | $1.9M | Waste upcycling for defense (wud) | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Apr 20, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N6600124F0889 delivery order | VT Milcom Inc | $1.9M | Communication as a serivce (caas) procurement, integration and delivery | Navy | Sep 30, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0003923C9002 definitive contract | Makai Ocean Engineering Inc | $1.9M | Engineering services | Navy | May 13, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA945118C0053 definitive contract | Bluehalo LLC | $1.9M | Igf::ot::igf beam control aero-effects research and development | Air Force | Mar 2, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N6893625F0440 delivery order | Computer Systems Center Incorporated | $1.9M | Mission planning environment (mpe) software engineering support | Navy | Apr 23, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002424F8188 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $1.9M | Pma-271 strategic communications assessm | Navy | Dec 1, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0002425F8041 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $1.9M | Vipr tech refresh 5 | Navy | Jan 23, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HDTRA225FE003 delivery order | Diaconia LLC | $1.9M | High performance computing (hpc) technical support | Defense Threat Reduction Agency | Mar 5, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001924F0141 delivery order | Lockheed Martin Corporation | $1.9M | Electro-optical infrared (eo/ir) direct injection (eoirdi) system F-35 nextgen distributed aperture system (das) eo/ir interface development through critical design review. | Navy | Feb 18, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002426C3053 definitive contract | Horizon Defense Solutions LLC | $1.9M | Base | Navy | Mar 26, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001924F2579 delivery order | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | $1.9M | Hg-uesa phase 4a support | Navy | Feb 13, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001126FE016 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $1.9M | New amsterdam support services under johns hopkins university applied physics laboratory (jhu/apl) university affiliate research center (uarc) | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Apr 2, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002423F8214 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $1.9M | Sea change v | Navy | Apr 3, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA945319F0201 delivery order | Axient LLC | $1.9M | Rise - tactical command, control. and communications (c3) | Air Force | Jan 27, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HQ086025CE036 definitive contract | Exo-Atmospheric Technologies LLC | $1.9M | Sbir phase ii: non-eroding sonic throat (nest) | Missile Defense Agency | Sep 25, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA865022C9214 definitive contract | Praeses, LLC | $1.9M | Watchtower | Air Force | Feb 7, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA881825FB010 delivery order | Atk Launch Systems LLC | $1.9M | This task order procures a study for the design and development of three (3) hydraulic test carts to be used for aging surveillance (as) sustainment efforts | Air Force | Feb 26, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HQ085625FE003 delivery order | Gray Analytics, Inc | $1.9M | This requirement is to research, develop, test, and evaluate a secure, modernized software factory and associated continuous integration/continuous deployment (ci/cd) pipelines required to keep pace with the growing threat vectors. | Missile Defense Agency | Sep 8, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0002425CS032 definitive contract | Boston Engineering Corporation | $1.9M | Base award for sbir phase ii topic # n192-107. | Navy | Mar 23, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HQ086026CE010 definitive contract | 1aardvark, LLC | $1.9M | Sbir direct-to-phase ii advance sigint prompter (asp) | Missile Defense Agency | Apr 15, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA680026P0004 purchase order | Iotai Inc | $1.9M | Tacfi phase i proposal f2-19422 - picobadge and pico platform with iot/ai | Air Force | Mar 20, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA865124FB014 delivery order | Dynetics, Inc | $1.9M | Artificial intelligence, deep learning, and machine learning for munitions autonomous target acquisition | Air Force | Mar 19, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W5170124C0229 definitive contract | Directed Vapor Technologies International, Inc | $1.9M | Sbir phase ii sequential topic a17a-t013, scalable manufacturing of functional yarns for textile-based energy storage. | Army | Jun 18, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA238424CB004 definitive contract | Design Interactive, LLC | $1.9M | "squadsync" mobile application | Air Force | Feb 10, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA868424CB022 definitive contract | Synapsemx, Inc | $1.9M | Synapsemx - volt - enhanced quality assurance database (equad) | Air Force | Jun 28, 2024 DoD 90d |
| N0002424F8100 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $1.9M | Med34 pms408 electronic warfare omn | Navy | Jul 1, 2024 DoD 90d |
| N6833524C0066 definitive contract | Spectral Sciences, Inc | $1.9M | Research and development | Navy | Jul 8, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N6833524C0020 definitive contract | First RF Corporation | $1.9M | Research and development | Navy | May 19, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N6833524C0070 definitive contract | Hypercomp Inc | $1.9M | Research and development | Navy | Jun 24, 2025 DoD 90d |
| SP470125C0013 definitive contract | Materials Research & Design Inc | $1.9M | Materials research & design: sbir phase ii proposal number:l2s-0059 proposal title: high-temperature composite nozzle extensions for space access and propulsion topic number:dla23a-003 | Defense Logistics Agency | Dec 23, 2024 DoD 90d |
| FA875025CB039 definitive contract | Systems & Technology Research LLC | $1.9M | Public and non-exquisite decision analytics (panda) software prototype creating advanced, interoperable multimodal veracity, fusion algorithms for publicly and commercially available information (pai, cai) and isr sources to strengthen ... | Air Force | Apr 14, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W5170125CA142 definitive contract | Trident Solutions Group LLC | $1.9M | Topic a254-002 explosive ordnance disposal visual ordnance identification database (eodvoid). | Army | Jul 29, 2025 DoD 90d |
| SP470124C0013 definitive contract | LMI Consulting, LLC | $1.9M | Wssp award - lmi "improving lead time estimation" incrementally funded for $225,000 | Defense Logistics Agency | Jan 26, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA865125FB017 delivery order | Karagozian & Case, Inc | $1.9M | Lethality, vulnerability, survivability weapons assessment methodologies 2024 (lvs wam 2024) | Air Force | May 15, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W5170126CA077 definitive contract | Teradar, Inc | $1.9M | Small business innovation research phase ii sequential, topic a224-009: perception sensing advancements for autonomous ground systems. this furthers the efforts conducted under the initial phase ii sbir contract w5170123c0021. | Army | May 13, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W56HZV22FL101 delivery order | Asrc Federal Professional Services, LLC | $1.9M | Ground vehicle robotics test and evaluation project. | Army | Apr 14, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001125CE024 definitive contract | SRI International | $1.9M | Provably weird network deployment and detection (pwnd2) | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Jan 20, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HQ086026CE038 definitive contract | Utron Kinetics LLC | $1.9M | Sbir phase ii non eroding high temperature propulsion nozzle materials for 2800 degc oxidizing environments using advanced refractory ceramic matrix composites | Missile Defense Agency | Mar 6, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N6833526F1046 delivery order | Icr, Inc | $1.9M | Sbir phase iii topic# af191-009 | Navy | May 7, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HQ086025CE023 definitive contract | Saaz Micro, Inc | $1.9M | Unhides - uncover nimble hypersonic objects by imaging in dual-band event-based sensing | Missile Defense Agency | Sep 19, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HQ085021C0011 definitive contract | General Atomics | $1.9M | Basic award under hq085021s0002 for the demonstration of laser interconnectivity and networking communications system (lincs) air-to-space laser communication terminal (lct). | Air Force | Jun 5, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N6833525C0470 definitive contract | Virewirx, Inc | $1.9M | Research and development | Navy | Oct 15, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HQ085426FE020 delivery order | Peopletec, Inc | $1.9M | This requirement is available to support all department of war (dow) military departments and activities requiring advanced model-based systems engineering (mbse) capabilities, digital capability development, and integrated modeling ... | Missile Defense Agency | Mar 31, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HY023325PE013 purchase order | Umapav Corp | $1.9M | Fy24 sbir/sttr topic#: osd234-p002| federated 3d geopositioning and targeting (f3d-gt) in maritime and terrestrial environments | Immediate Office of the Secretary of Defense | Jun 17, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HQ072721F1420 delivery order | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | $1.9M | Ch-53k upc v3 software architecture upgrade | Defense Microelectronics Activity | Aug 14, 2024 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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