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Research and development: $115B in defense awards
$115B obligated across 38,477 DoD and DHS awards to 8,167 companies, Oct 1, 2023 to Oct 10, 2026, 8.2% of all DoD and DHS obligations. Northrop Grumman Systems Corp leads with $7.6B; Department of the Air Force is the largest buyer at $48.4B.
| Obligated FY2024+ | $115B |
|---|---|
| Awards | 38,477 |
| Companies | 8,167 |
| FY2024 | $44.3B |
| FY2025 | $40.4B |
| FY2026 to date | $30.1B |
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| Award | Company | Obligated FY2024+ | What | Agency | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W50RAJ22F0002 delivery order | Radiance Technologies Inc | $16.1M | Directed energy common test support | Army | May 5, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001925F0147 delivery order | Lockheed Martin Corporation | $16.0M | Power margin & q105 test and certification uca | Navy | Mar 25, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0042124F0896 delivery order | Fuse Integration, Inc | $16.0M | E2d core production | Navy | Aug 26, 2024 DoD 90d |
| FA865021C2410 definitive contract | North Wind Systems LLC | $16.0M | Hifire flight controls (hf2-c) flight system development and test | Air Force | Apr 27, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA930024C6009 definitive contract | Sierra Space Corp | $16.0M | Sbir phase iii - maturation of the vr25k-a advanced upper stage engine. | Air Force | Apr 15, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0042124F0866 delivery order | KBR Wyle Services, LLC | $16.0M | Create to #2 | Navy | Apr 28, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N6660425FC429 delivery order | Science Applications International Corporation | $16.0M | Nixie base services (loe) | Navy | May 14, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W81XWH21C0097 definitive contract | The Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc | $16.0M | Non personal services for surveillance of emerging infectious diseases in kenya, uganda, tanzania and sub sahara africa for the walter reed ARMY institute of research - medical research detachment - africa. | Defense Health Agency | May 8, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HT001124F0029 delivery order | Goldbelt C6, LLC | $16.0M | Hearing center of excellence support services | Defense Health Agency | May 27, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807522F0042 delivery order | Booz Allen Hamilton Inc | $16.0M | Strategic capability and mission assurance analysis for headquarters united states strategic command | Air Force | Jun 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001424C1316 definitive contract | Hodges Transportation, Inc | $15.9M | Next generation medium tactical truck technology demonstrator | Navy | Apr 24, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001124C0310 definitive contract | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | $15.9M | Artificial intelligence reinforcements (air) | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Mar 16, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002424F8212 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $15.9M | Tang program systems thinking and design | Navy | Apr 7, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001922F2308 delivery order | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | $15.9M | Non-recurring engineering | Navy | Jun 1, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA238526CB001 definitive contract | Inversion Space Company | $15.8M | Stratfi - arc | Air Force | May 29, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA238524FB001 delivery order | Dzyne Technologies, LLC | $15.8M | Grasshopper cargo glider | Air Force | May 18, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA930023C6019 definitive contract | Stratolaunch, LLC | $15.8M | Flight experiments on testbed | Air Force | May 7, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W909MY23F0084 delivery order | Parsons Government Services Inc | $15.8M | Rs3-22-0052 enabling advanced sensors & enhanced capabilities (easec) | Army | May 27, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W56KGY23F0005 delivery order | Parsons Government Services Inc | $15.8M | The purpose of this action is to award a new task order in order to further and support the work performed on savant catalyst and totem hawk. | Army | Mar 19, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA875025CB027 definitive contract | Montana State University | $15.8M | The objective of this effort will expand the capabilities of applied quantum capacity and operational resilience and regional equity (q-core) test-bed facility to include heterogeneous entanglement capabilities. | Air Force | Jul 31, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA807524F0029 delivery order | Booz Allen Hamilton Inc | $15.8M | Strategic planning, assessment, and technical research and analysis for special operations command europe | Air Force | Apr 15, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001120C0099 definitive contract | SRI International | $15.7M | Darpa research project | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | May 28, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HQ086023C7200 definitive contract | Wyzkyds Consulting LLC | $15.7M | Sbir ph iii R&D thermally insensitive, radiation hardened telescope | Missile Defense Agency | Dec 9, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W56KGU23F0002 delivery order | Qed Systems, LLC | $15.7M | Rs3 contract under w15p7t17d0125 entitled "engineering support for c5isr positioning, navigation and timing division" | Army | Jun 3, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0017324F2003 delivery order | Cutlass Systems Engineering LLC | $15.6M | Base year labor (priced) | Navy | Apr 8, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001424C1305 definitive contract | Hyliion Inc | $15.6M | Assessment of naval energy storage systems | Navy | Jan 29, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807521F0008 delivery order | Booz Allen Hamilton Inc | $15.6M | Survivability and combat effectiveness analysis for air force life cycle management center (aflcmc) combat effectiveness and vulnerability analysis branch (ezja) | Air Force | Feb 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA830717F0004 delivery order | General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc | $15.6M | Igf::ot::igf medium largesat common solution (mlcs) | Air Force | Feb 6, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807521F0073 delivery order | Battelle Memorial Institute | $15.6M | Characterization and assessment of threats by experiment analysis and research for the department of homeland security science and technology directorate probabilistic analysis of national threats, hazards, and risks program | Air Force | Jun 1, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807520C0001 definitive contract | Cloud Lake Technology LLC | $15.6M | Department of defense information analysis center program management office research&analysis | Air Force | May 28, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002425F8120 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $15.6M | Nc3 trident mission assurance (snc31) scd- c | Navy | Mar 23, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA702221C0010 definitive contract | L3Harris Technologies, Inc | $15.6M | Data fabric modernization and international atomic energy agency tracker is to integrate, develop, and expose data across the air force technical applications center. | Air Force | Aug 20, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001124C0438 definitive contract | Leidos, Inc | $15.5M | Darpa research project to develop a hybrid quantum-classical communication network architecture to enable quantum enhancements to security and covertness on today's classical networks. | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Jan 21, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W909MY22F7004 delivery order | Qinetiq Inc | $15.5M | Prototyping integration facility (pif) | Army | May 19, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N6600123C4038 definitive contract | Systems & Technology Research LLC | $15.5M | Darpa willow - str base award for research iaw sow | Navy | Jun 1, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807522F0009 delivery order | Booz Allen Hamilton Inc | $15.5M | Environmental analysis and assessment for headquarters special operations command central j5 directorate | Air Force | May 14, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807525F0034 delivery order | Leidos, Inc | $15.4M | Sculpin analysis for naval information warfare center pacific | Air Force | Jun 2, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0017323C2015 definitive contract | Peraton Inc | $15.4M | Ocean dynamics, prediction engineering and software development | Navy | Jun 2, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001924C0026 definitive contract | Lockheed Martin Corporation | $15.4M | Air system integration | Navy | Oct 29, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0017322C6003 definitive contract | Alaire Technologies Inc | $15.4M | Research and development | Navy | Jun 5, 2026 DoD 90d |
| H9240524C0005 definitive contract | Advanced Systems Supportability Engineering Technologies and Tools, Inc | $15.3M | Platform integrated control system (pics) & critical battery management system (cbms) small business innovation & research (sbir) phase iii | U.S. Special Operations Command | Apr 30, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA875023C1004 definitive contract | Kudu Dynamics LLC | $15.3M | Denali ta5a | Air Force | Jun 1, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HQ014718F0028 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $15.3M | Engineering and tech support rdte funds | Missile Defense Agency | Aug 26, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HDTRA224F0002 delivery order | Southwest Research Institute | $15.3M | Engineering services | Defense Threat Reduction Agency | Mar 25, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HQ086023C0021 definitive contract | Elbit Systems BMD and Land Ew - Elisra LTD | $15.3M | Israel test bed program | Missile Defense Agency | Apr 29, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA875022F1008 delivery order | Booz Allen Hamilton Inc | $15.3M | Collaborative low-altitude unmanned aircraft systems integration effort utm rdt&e, maturation, productization, operational assessment, and deployment (clue iii) | Air Force | Feb 23, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N6660425FC847 delivery order | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | $15.3M | Anguilla services | Navy | May 27, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA239424CB047 definitive contract | 3m Company | $15.2M | Develop & demo advanced film technology | Air Force | Mar 18, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA238523CB007 definitive contract | Castelion Corporation | $15.2M | Future operational capabilities for the us (focus) | Air Force | Sep 24, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA239424FB004 delivery order | Azimuth Corporation | $15.2M | Marss ii to 3 | Air Force | Jun 2, 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 13, 2026.
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