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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N6600124F0603 delivery order | Booz Allen Hamilton Inc | $1.9M | Engineering services | Navy | Apr 8, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001423C1054 definitive contract | Synoptic Engineering, LLC | $1.9M | Employ the characteristics of atmospheric ducting and its effects on rf propagation to categorize the elevation of an overwater rf emitter as being within the duct or above the duct. | Navy | May 26, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA865125FB033 delivery order | Science Applications International Corporation | $1.9M | Hypersonic infrared target sensing (hits) | Air Force | May 18, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001124C0479 definitive contract | Raytheon Company | $1.9M | Land based receive (lbr)system revival and defense applications of innovative remote sensing (dairs) program test support | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Feb 27, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002423F8295 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $1.9M | Joint cyber tools research development, evaluation, and testing 2 | Navy | Sep 17, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W911W624F0012 delivery order | The Boeing Company | $1.9M | Hydraulic pump qualification | Army | May 1, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N6833524C0180 definitive contract | Elemance, LLC | $1.9M | Research and development 873 authority | Navy | Apr 2, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N6833524F0285 delivery order | Sharp Vision Software LLC | $1.9M | Research and development | Navy | May 26, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA865123FA026 delivery order | The Boeing Company | $1.9M | Wosa modularity testbed | Air Force | Mar 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0003021C1025 definitive contract | Emcube Inc | $1.9M | Fy21 specialized system engineering | Navy | Dec 12, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA857125C0055 definitive contract | Perceptronics Solutions, Inc | $1.9M | Sbir phase iii af201-d002, airborne radio sustainment modernization | Air Force | Sep 24, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA237724CB048 definitive contract | Toyon Research Corporation | $1.9M | Offline learning and counter artificial intelligence for autonomous aircraft combat operations (aaco) tactical funding increase (tacfi) | Air Force | Sep 11, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA238424CB008 definitive contract | Alphamicron, Incorporated | $1.9M | F-35 electronically dimmable visors (edv) sequential phase ii | Air Force | Mar 31, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA239425CB037 definitive contract | City Labs, Inc | $1.9M | Enhanced tritium power source for autonomous nuclear tritium sensors (ants) | Air Force | Jan 9, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA252125C0007 definitive contract | Wallaroo Labs Inc | $1.9M | This tacfi will continue the research and development begun under the orbital prime sttr phase i and phase ii by investigating on-orbit ai-driven automation serving spaceport and range characterization analysis. | Air Force | Jan 7, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA254124CB020 definitive contract | Devorto Corporation | $1.9M | Sf241-d025 alternative position, navigation, and timing. this direct to phase ii contract aims to develop the initial high-altitude platform station (haps) embodiment of the tethered uni-rotor network (turn) aerial system. | Air Force | Apr 13, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA254124CB049 definitive contract | Hydrosat Inc | $1.9M | The air force, space force, and DOD have an acute need for high spatial and high temporal resolution thermal imaging satellite datasets. these datasets will provide the insights required for decision making and full spectrum awareness. | Air Force | Sep 30, 2024 DoD 90d |
| FA254125CB051 definitive contract | Plasma Controls, LLC | $1.9M | The end state of this project is to establish a robust and sustainable framework for space sustainment and maneuver, enabling companies to facilitate movement within the space domain across all orbital regimes, including travel to and from ... | Air Force | May 23, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA254125CB106 definitive contract | Elire LLC | $1.9M | F2d-17677 elire llc_d2p2_ussf human capital management modernization. the objective of this effort is to design, prototype, and pilot a modular, cloud-agnostic, mobile-accessible, analytics-rich human capital management (hcm) solution. | Air Force | Apr 20, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA488724C0004 definitive contract | Picogrid, Inc | $1.9M | The continued development of the active protection and reconnaissance technology for the barry m. goldwater range. | Air Force | Mar 19, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA489024P0010 purchase order | Pear Health Labs, Inc | $1.9M | Tactical funding increase to develop pre-natal fitness programming for the development of a postpartum fitness app which guides members through a personalized three phase fitness program. | Air Force | Sep 17, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA500424P0021 purchase order | Flightwave Aerospace Systems Corporation | $1.9M | Flightwave edge-130 vtol UAS tacfi | Air Force | Mar 31, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA714625F0071 delivery order | Quartermaster AI, Inc | $1.9M | Subscription and data related to the maritime security | Air Force | Sep 25, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA810024P0001 purchase order | Physna Inc | $1.9M | Small business innovation research, tactical funding increase (tacfi) sequential phase ii +, topic no. afx234-dcso2, multimodal image search capabilities in support of USAF digital material management (dmm) | Air Force | Aug 30, 2024 DoD 90d |
| FA857124C0024 definitive contract | Direct Kinetic Solutions Inc | $1.9M | Sbir sequential- tacfi- phase ii af221-dcso1 persistent power supplies to extend the life of asset tracking devices -company direct kinetic solutions inc | Air Force | Jun 4, 2024 DoD 90d |
| FA864923P1256 purchase order | Danti AI Inc | $1.9M | Semantic search system for earth observation data | Air Force | Sep 26, 2024 DoD 90d |
| FA873024PB016 purchase order | Aerocine Ventures, Inc | $1.9M | Sbir phase iib tacfi to deliver an over-water solar visual positioning system (vps) technology. see section j - attachment 1 statement of work. | Air Force | Jul 31, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA880725CB001 definitive contract | Infleqtion Quantum, LLC | $1.9M | Tiqker optical clock technology | Air Force | Jul 9, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA880924CB003 definitive contract | Apex Technology, Inc | $1.9M | Apex technology inc aries bus capability for rapidly accommodating a select set of serb experiment payloads as directed by ssc, along with the integration and flight qualification of a 6dof propulsion subsystem. | Air Force | Jul 31, 2024 DoD 90d |
| FA880925CB006 definitive contract | Agile Space Industries, Inc | $1.9M | Mobile payload processing center. | Air Force | Dec 22, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA881024CB004 definitive contract | Strategi Consulting, LLC | $1.9M | Tailored software solutions for the space force prototyping, assessment, and customized engineering lab | Air Force | Aug 11, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA930025C6018 definitive contract | Ursa Major Technologies, Inc | $1.9M | Subscale main injector development for reusable methane booster engines | Air Force | Sep 12, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA945124CX042 definitive contract | Oceanit Laboratories Inc | $1.9M | Proposal number: f2d-10150 - sbir phase ii - aircraft avoidance for small telescopes using passive detection | Air Force | Jun 3, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W5170125CA012 definitive contract | Elroy Air, Inc | $1.9M | Small business innovation research (sbir) phase ii, topic a234-p017, xtechsbir autonomy finalist open topic competition | Army | Apr 29, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W5170125CA045 definitive contract | Virtualitics Inc | $1.9M | Open call for innovative clear defense-related dual-purpose technologies/solutions with a clear air force stakeholder need (phase ii sequential) | Army | Dec 15, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W5170125CA145 definitive contract | Adena Power, LLC | $1.9M | Topic a234-p027 - energy demand reduction and clean energy tech open topic. this continues the effort started under phase i sbir w51701-24-c-0104. | Army | Jun 16, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA254125CB074 definitive contract | Vector Atomic Inc | $1.9M | To advance affordable, resilient, and interoperable technologies within the proliferated warfighter space architecture to enhance space capabilities, support joint warfighting operations, and enable all-domain command and control on a ... | Air Force | Sep 30, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W5170124C0125 definitive contract | Toyon Research Corporation | $1.9M | "toyon research corp." sbir phase ii | Army | Mar 26, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W5170124C0127 definitive contract | Inferlink Corp | $1.9M | Small business innovation research (sbir) phase ii "natural language processing" this is a continuation of the effort conducted under ph ii contract w51701-22-c-0035 | Army | Mar 6, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W5170124C0152 definitive contract | Primer Federal Inc | $1.9M | Sbir phase ii open topic a234-007, artificial intelligence (ai)/machine learning (ml). | Army | Oct 10, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W5170124C0037 definitive contract | Toyon Research Corporation | $1.9M | Small business innovation research (sbir) direct to phase ii. topic a234-020, deep-bim: dynamic enhanced environment perception - building information models. | Army | May 5, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W5170125CA111 definitive contract | Oceanit Laboratories Inc | $1.9M | Small business innovation research, phase ii topic a244-010, non-rf transceiver alternative communicator (nrf-tac) | Army | May 7, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W5170124C0074 definitive contract | Oceanit Laboratories Inc | $1.9M | "oceanit laboratories, in" sbir ph ii | Army | May 21, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA254125CB076 definitive contract | Management Sciences, Inc | $1.9M | Collaborate virtually and in-person space command subject matter experts (sme) to gather and define the functional and technical requirements for the space guardian system. | Air Force | Feb 12, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA955026CB002 definitive contract | Srico Inc | $1.9M | Topic: af23c-t002 f2-19041: tunable, integrated electro-optic frequency comb for space-based communications and precision, navigation and timing (pnt) applications | Air Force | Feb 25, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA945325CX037 definitive contract | Toyon Research Corporation | $1.9M | Tacfi sequential for toyon research corporation for space capability for opir ranking and evaluation (score) | Air Force | Feb 6, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA254124CB028 definitive contract | The Navsys Corporation | $1.9M | Sf241-d025 alternative position, navigation and timing. navsys propose under this effort to deliver an upgrade to existing broadband satcom terminals to operate in a gps denied environment. | Air Force | Sep 25, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W5170125CA152 definitive contract | Oceanit Laboratories Inc | $1.9M | Small business innovation research (sbir) phase ii, topic a234-p010, xtechsbir pacific finalist open topic competition (phase ii) (sbir phi contract# w51701-24-c-0098) | Army | Apr 14, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W5170124C0179 definitive contract | Notch Inc | $1.9M | Sbir phase ii award resultant from sbir topic #a234-p015 | Army | Dec 4, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA254126CB019 definitive contract | Pulsar Space Systems LLC | $1.9M | The goal of this phase ii effort is to develop a real-time software solution capable of detecting, tracking, and predicting the trajectory of high-speed objects transiting the upper atmosphere | Air Force | Mar 27, 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 16, 2026.
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