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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FA873520C0001 definitive contract | Raytheon Company | $40.5M | Presidential and national voice conferencing (pnvc) integrator | Air Force | Dec 22, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HQ014719F0038 delivery order | Lockheed Martin Corporation | $40.4M | The purpose of this to is to define the requirements for the contractor to develop and deploy the command and control, battle management and communications (c2bmc) capability in multiple phases through fy 2022 and planning for future bmds ... | Missile Defense Agency | Apr 15, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HQ086225F0002 delivery order | Raytheon Company | $40.4M | Us an/tpy-2 development | Missile Defense Agency | Jun 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002423F8379 delivery order | The Pennsylvania State University | $40.2M | Depotdogs (san dieog-depot), building 585 deployable nodes | Navy | Jun 2, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HQ085125FE004 delivery order | Lockheed Martin Corporation | $40.1M | Effort required for sea-based weapon systems (ws) gpi capability development, including concept development, studies and analyses, requirements generation, design specifications across the aegis ws, and participation in meetings and ... | Missile Defense Agency | May 29, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807524F0006 delivery order | Booz Allen Hamilton Inc | $40.0M | Threat assessment and vulnerability analysis for space security and defense program and space warfighting analysis center | Air Force | Feb 24, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N6660424F3011 delivery order | Mclaughlin Research Corporation | $40.0M | Platform and payload integration engineering and technical services to include integrated logistics support | Navy | May 15, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W31P4Q25F0137 delivery order | Lockheed Martin Corporation | $39.8M | Sentinel a4 engineering services task order 04. | Army | May 28, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W9126019F0029 delivery order | Intrepid LLC | $39.7M | Base period labor | Army | Sep 25, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W58RGZ24F0003 delivery order | Modern Technology Solutions, Inc | $39.6M | General supply schedule, one acquisition solution for integrated services, small business pool 6 for future attack reconnaissance aircraft programmatic support services. | Army | May 19, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA870220F0003 delivery order | Carnegie Mellon University | $39.5M | Research and development carnegie mellon university software engineering institute | Air Force | Sep 24, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HQ003423F0116 delivery order | Modern Technology Solutions, Inc | $39.4M | Technical and engineering services | Washington Headquarters Services | May 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA868421CB002 definitive contract | Carahsoft Technology Corp | $39.3M | Rapid sustainment office, technology integration. | Air Force | Jul 25, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001122C0176 definitive contract | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | $39.2M | Darpa research project | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Mar 16, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W31P4Q24F0123 delivery order | Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp | $38.9M | Pacific air forces area of responsibility deployed range systems sustainment and support iib | Army | Jun 2, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807520F0056 delivery order | Mantech Tsg-2 Joint Venture | $38.8M | Navy maritime maintenance enterprise solution (nmmes) IT software research, development and engineering for naval sea systems command (navsea) o4i program management office for information technology (pmo-IT) | Air Force | Aug 28, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA248722FA002 delivery order | Booz Allen Hamilton Inc | $38.8M | Test & evaluation technologies for ranges, armaments and spectrum (tetras) - autonomous and automated weapon system design (a2wsd) | Air Force | May 1, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA880624FB002 delivery order | Quantech Services Inc | $38.8M | Ssc/bc and ssc/sz advisory and assistance services | Air Force | May 21, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807524F0028 delivery order | HII Mission Technologies Corp | $38.7M | Power and mobility research and development for the united states ARMY combat capabilities development command ground vehicle systems command | Air Force | Jun 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA861123F0017 delivery order | Lockheed Martin Corporation | $38.6M | F-22 technology maturation | Air Force | Jun 5, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HQ072724F1600 delivery order | Raytheon Company | $38.5M | The advanced technology support program (atsp) contract acquired progressive microelectronic capability solutions for integration, delivery, and testing of the mric prototype system | Defense Microelectronics Activity | May 27, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001125C0318 definitive contract | Radiance Technologies Inc | $38.4M | Secure advanced framework for simulation and modeling (safe-sim)phase iv | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Apr 17, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA873023F0021 delivery order | Leidos, Inc | $38.2M | System engineering integration (seic) contract ii | Air Force | Sep 23, 2024 DoD 90d |
| FA807524F0040 delivery order | Booz Allen Hamilton Inc | $38.2M | Technical analysis for munitions planning, assessment, and analysis | Air Force | Jun 2, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807521F0059 delivery order | KBR Wyle Services, LLC | $38.1M | Program analysis for united states (u.s.) ARMY program executive office (peo) missiles and space (ms) for united states (u.s.) ARMY program executive office (peo) missiles and space (ms) | Air Force | Jun 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807524F0019 delivery order | HII Mission Technologies Corp | $38.1M | Joint force development research and analysis for joint staff j7 deputy director, joint warfighting development see section j, attachment 1, p1 22-2398 performance work statement | Air Force | May 12, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W56HZV24F0051 delivery order | DCS Corporation | $38.0M | Technical and engineering services (tes) support for the ground vehicle survivability and protection (gvsp) directorate and their associated customers | Army | May 29, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0017320F2029 delivery order | Analex Corporation | $37.9M | Labor | Navy | Jun 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HDTRA123F0029 delivery order | Applied Research Associates, Inc | $37.9M | Target assessment technologies support | Defense Threat Reduction Agency | Apr 30, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0042124F0120 delivery order | The Mil Corporation | $37.8M | Establish mse task order n00421-24-f-0120 of idiq n00421-24-d-0002 incrementally fund | Navy | Jun 5, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HQ003420F0033 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $37.7M | Systems engineering, operational analysis of component architectures, technology concept exploration, analysis and performance assessments | Washington Headquarters Services | Sep 12, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0016423CJR84 definitive contract | Amentum Technology, Inc | $37.6M | Site activation test and evaluation and sustainment in support of the underwater launch test capability program | Navy | May 20, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA861222FB003 delivery order | Leidos, Inc | $37.6M | Digital infrastructure consortium for advanced battle management system | Air Force | May 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0002424F8187 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $37.5M | Initegrated fun weapon systems and command and control | Navy | May 28, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA875021F1012 delivery order | Booz Allen Hamilton Inc | $37.4M | C-SUAS command and control (c2), radio frequency, intercepto | Air Force | Feb 26, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA867225FB004 delivery order | Raytheon Company | $37.2M | Sip 25+ | Air Force | Apr 2, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N6833523C0248 definitive contract | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | $37.2M | Arc upgrade iii | Navy | Apr 2, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807521F0078 delivery order | Leidos, Inc | $37.1M | Acoustic and visual signature generation analysis | Air Force | May 21, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001424C1515 definitive contract | Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp | $37.0M | This effort is to investigate the extension of swarming autonomy from expendable, autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (uavs) to enable heterogeneity across sensor modalities, and super swarm systems. | Navy | Apr 16, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807525F0001 delivery order | KBR Wyle Services, LLC | $36.7M | P1 23-2513, naval air systems command unmanned aviation integration, demonstration, and prototyping for the navair program executive office, unmanned aviation and strike weapons | Air Force | May 18, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807524F0024 delivery order | KBR Wyle Services, LLC | $36.6M | United states air force bomber reliability and sustainment improvement for air force life cycle management center, b-52 system program officep1-22-2367 | Air Force | May 11, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001422C1042 definitive contract | Innovative Defense Technologies, LLC | $36.5M | No description on the record | Navy | Apr 17, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W56KGY26F0035 delivery order | Tcom, LP | $36.2M | This requirement is for product director sensor-aerial intelligence for juon 0587 support. | Army | Apr 10, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807521F0037 delivery order | Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp | $35.9M | Command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems engineering, development, and integration for naval surface warfare center, panama city division | Air Force | May 8, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA945322F0010 delivery order | Linquest Corporation | $35.9M | Ussf decision analysis support | Air Force | Apr 13, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HDTRA123F0016 delivery order | Booz Allen Hamilton Inc | $35.9M | Data science support | Defense Threat Reduction Agency | May 19, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA807523F0032 delivery order | KBR Wyle Services, LLC | $35.9M | Program executive office combat support & combat services support (peo cs&css) portfolio of products, vehicles, and systems research and development (R&D) for ARMY peo cs&css | Air Force | May 20, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA881920F1005 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $35.8M | Development of a capability that leverages physics-based modeling, simulation, and analysis | Air Force | Feb 11, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA248724FB030 delivery order | Intuitive Research and Technology Corporation | $35.8M | Army g2 intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance task force (isr tf) | Air Force | May 21, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N6600120F3500 delivery order | Booz Allen Hamilton Inc | $35.6M | Global positioning system (gps) enterprise engineering services | Navy | Jun 9, 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 9, 2026.
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