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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 7, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FA807525F0032 delivery order | Leidos, Inc | $54.2M | Signature training systems development, security, and operations for signature measurement technologies and systems division of naval surface warfare center, carderock division | Air Force | May 22, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807522F0049 delivery order | KBR Wyle Services, LLC | $54.0M | Aviation logistics environment logistics information technology system development and modification for naval air systems command program executive office, aviation common systems and commercial services log-IT | Air Force | Jun 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA251824F0006 delivery order | CACI, Inc - Federal | $53.8M | Advisory and assistance and knowledge based services for the joint navigation warfare center (jnwc) - task order one | Air Force | May 22, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807522F0041 delivery order | HII Mission Technologies Corp | $53.8M | Security cooperation advancement development research and development for defense security cooperation agency, information management & technology directorate | Air Force | May 5, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA861224CB002 definitive contract | Icr, Inc | $53.7M | Project thunderbolt | Air Force | Mar 27, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA867522F1001 delivery order | Raytheon Company | $53.6M | Advanced medium range air to air missile system- system improvement program (sip)- software development | Air Force | Mar 18, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA238524CB040 definitive contract | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | $53.5M | Specifically constrained low-volume aircraft multi-band, directional satcom antennas | Air Force | May 14, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA945322F0005 delivery order | Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory | $53.1M | Snapet to 08 advanced enterprise systems | Air Force | May 11, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002424F8358 delivery order | The Pennsylvania State University | $53.1M | Compact rapid attack weapon (craw) program of record (por) fy25-fy27 | Navy | Jun 5, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807521F0065 delivery order | Battelle Memorial Institute | $53.0M | Research, development, engineering, technical analysis, and solutions for opening, recovering, sustaining and supporting operational airbase infrastructure emerging capability and prototyping for the air force civil engineer center req. ... | Defense Contract Management Agency | May 29, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W909MY23F0055 delivery order | CACI Technologies, LLC | $52.9M | Task order for effort titled "development, testing, prototyping, and support services for active and passive electro-optic technology | Army | May 28, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HQ014719C0012 definitive contract | Dtechlogic LLC | $52.9M | Advanced research center support igf::ot::igf | Missile Defense Agency | May 21, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N6523623F3020 delivery order | Mantech Advanced Systems International, Inc | $52.8M | Support technical work in high-risk, high-payoff devel & demo of advanced space, air, maritime, ground weapons, platforms, systems & technologies includes scientific engineering & admin support for existing, planned technology programs for ... | Navy | May 27, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA880622F0008 delivery order | The Boeing Company | $52.6M | Software development | Air Force | May 21, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA861222FB006 delivery order | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | $52.1M | Digital infrastructure consortium for advanced battle management system | Air Force | Apr 27, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W5J9CQ23F0041 delivery order | Leidos, Inc | $52.1M | Provides aircraft integration, test and evaluation, and support for the overall hr3d buckeye program. for the indo-pacom area of responsibility, the contractor provides 1 be ii enhanced additional jet to integrate and test sensor systems. | Army | Feb 27, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911W622F704E delivery order | The Boeing Company | $51.7M | Improved tail rotor blade (AH-64) pre-qualification activities | Army | May 6, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807524F0031 delivery order | Battelle Memorial Institute | $51.5M | Chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear defense testing, analytics, and sustainment for ciisd | Air Force | Jun 1, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA861223CB007 definitive contract | Hypergiant Galactic Systems, Inc | $51.4M | Abms cbc2 user interface/user experience development | Air Force | Jun 5, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001121C0068 definitive contract | BAE Systems Information & Electronic Systems Integration Inc | $51.2M | Darpa research program | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Feb 25, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001422C1070 definitive contract | Seacorp, LLC | $51.2M | Electromagnetic maneuver warfare modular suite (emwms) | Navy | Jun 2, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA868423FB217 delivery order | Lockheed Martin Corporation | $51.2M | Abad phase 1 rdt&e development | Air Force | Jun 1, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807524F0036 delivery order | Leidos, Inc | $51.2M | Autonomous and automated systems design, system engineering, and life-cycle development engineering for naval information warfare center pacific | Air Force | Jun 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA810726FB001 delivery order | The Boeing Company | $50.8M | Modification of two (2) b-52 mtc-certified aircraft with the cerp modification, along with subsystem modeling updates. | Air Force | Jan 26, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W91CRB26FA082 delivery order | Joint Technical Solutions, LLC | $50.7M | Redstone test and engineering services - task order year 3. | Army | Jun 3, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001920C0026 definitive contract | Lockheed Martin Corporation | $50.7M | Fy20 level of effort hours for the initial design of the common reprogramming tools | Navy | Mar 24, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002423F8717 delivery order | University of Washington | $50.4M | Fy23 stafac amfip production | Navy | Sep 15, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA807522F0014 delivery order | Battelle Memorial Institute | $50.3M | Advanced threats research, development, test and evaluation for the joint program executive office for chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear defense | Air Force | Jun 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HQ072724F1408 delivery order | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | $49.9M | The advanced technology support program (atsp) contract acquired progressive microelectronic capability solutions to add capability, improve performance, and increase availability of the microelectronics-based counter-unmanned aircraft ... | Defense Microelectronics Activity | Oct 9, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N6523623C8003 definitive contract | Chameleon Consulting Group, LLC | $49.8M | Phase i - crafty brewer janus project | Navy | Apr 20, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807522F0039 delivery order | Science Applications International Corporation | $49.6M | Intelligence warfighting function research, development, integration, and analysis for united states ARMY forces command | Air Force | May 18, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001924F2604 delivery order | Lockheed Martin Corporation | $49.5M | Sc26 infrastructure | Navy | Jun 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W81XWH20C0030 definitive contract | Cellphire, Inc | $49.4M | Cryopreserved platelet (cpp) development for us fda licensure | Defense Health Agency | Apr 14, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA861222FB005 delivery order | Raytheon Company | $49.3M | Digital infrastructure consortium for advanced battle management system | Air Force | May 12, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807523F0004 delivery order | Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp | $49.2M | Accelerating solutions for electronic warfare for the office of the under secretary of defense for research and engineering electromagnetic warfare and countermeasures | Air Force | Jun 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001123C0020 definitive contract | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | $48.7M | Darpa research project | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | May 12, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA875023F1004 delivery order | Invictus International Consulting LLC | $48.5M | Remiel | Air Force | Jun 3, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HQ086125F4100 delivery order | Amentum Technology, Inc | $48.5M | The purpose of this task order is to sustain the mdsea space operations center (soc) and mdsea for future R&D of experimental mental or developmental missile defense missile defense system space capabilities system space capabilities. | Missile Defense Agency | May 28, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA881013C0002 definitive contract | Lockheed Martin Corp | $48.3M | Igf::ot::igf sustainment support fiscal year 12-16 | Air Force | Nov 26, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HQ085724F8800 delivery order | Amentum Technology, Inc | $48.0M | The objective of this effort is to provide a near-real time detect capability with visibility into cyber activities across mission system networks and other related mission sets. additional objective of enterprise cyber-security system ... | Missile Defense Agency | Apr 1, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA865022C5292 definitive contract | Arctos Technology Solutions, LLC | $47.8M | Rapid assessment, maturation, prototyping, and transition of emerging structural technologies | Air Force | Jun 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807524F0037 delivery order | KBR Wyle Services, LLC | $47.6M | Operational safety, suitability, and effectiveness engineering tasks for air force life cycle management center | Air Force | May 6, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001117C0025 definitive contract | Raytheon Company | $47.6M | Igf::ot::igf hypersonic air-breathing weapon concept (hawc) phase 2 | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Dec 1, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HQ014718F0043 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $47.5M | Engineering and tech support rdte funds igf::ot::igf | Missile Defense Agency | May 11, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N6893622C0036 definitive contract | Amentum Technology, Inc | $47.5M | Altc/ultc | Navy | Nov 19, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA807523F0030 delivery order | Booz Allen Hamilton Inc | $47.4M | Stand-in force strategic planning and analysis for iii marine expeditionary force | Air Force | Jul 10, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HQ003424F0001 delivery order | Avantus Federal LLC | $47.0M | Technical, professional, and administrative support services | Washington Headquarters Services | Aug 20, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001125F0451 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $47.0M | Darpa research program support services | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Nov 12, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N6523623C8004 definitive contract | Peraton Labs Inc | $46.8M | Darpa janus program | Navy | May 28, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA248623FA003 delivery order | DCS Corporation | $46.8M | Seek eagle modeling and analysis tools support (semats) 3 | Air Force | May 14, 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 9, 2026.
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