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Science and technology R&D: $5.5B in defense awards
$5.5B obligated across 3,564 DoD and DHS awards to 1,371 companies, Oct 1, 2023 to Oct 7, 2026, 4.8% of Research and development. Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp leads with $379.6M; Department of the Army is the largest buyer at $2.4B.
| Obligated FY2024+ | $5.5B |
|---|---|
| Awards | 3,564 |
| Companies | 1,371 |
| FY2024 | $2.2B |
| FY2025 | $2.0B |
| FY2026 to date | $1.3B |
| Parent category | Research and development |
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| Award | Company | Obligated FY2024+ | What | Agency | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W911NF24C0041 definitive contract | Partow Technologies LLC | $1.7M | Atomic fusion wafer bonding tool for ultra-high-power switches | Army | Jan 20, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ23C0045 definitive contract | Starfire Industries LLC | $1.7M | Starfire indutstries er21-3524 research and development contract | Army | Feb 12, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911NF23F0021 delivery order | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | $1.7M | Management, administration, and outreach | Army | Mar 3, 2026 DoD 90d |
| 70Z02326F93130010 delivery order | The MITRE Corporation | $1.7M | Study to determine the feasibility of incorporating unmanned systems. | U.S. Coast Guard | Sep 15, 2026 |
| W911NF21C0007 definitive contract | Two Six Labs, LLC | $1.7M | Mimesis - multi-informed models emerging from social investigations and semiotics | Army | Apr 24, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W9132T24C0010 definitive contract | University of Illinois | $1.7M | Baa 24-0010 - university of illinois u435100 | Army | Jul 9, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA862626FB008 delivery order | Rolls-Royce Corporation | $1.7M | T56 component improvement program (cip) | Air Force | Apr 28, 2026 DoD 90d |
| 70RSAT24FR0000033 delivery order | The MITRE Corporation | $1.7M | This requisition is for a new ffrdc agreement task order oic CBP economic analytics. | Office of Procurement Operations | Jun 3, 2024 |
| W912HZ24C0020 definitive contract | Sepro Corp | $1.7M | Baa el-22-0010 research services for the project titled automated injection of peroxide-based algaecid | Army | Apr 16, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911NF24C0059 definitive contract | Tb2 Aerospace | $1.6M | Sbir phase ii | Army | Jun 11, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W911NF24C0060 definitive contract | Lift Aircraft Inc | $1.6M | Sbir phase ii | Army | Jun 11, 2024 DoD 90d |
| N0017319C6000 definitive contract | SRI International | $1.6M | Pr 81-4040-17 low frequency high power satellite calibration research and development | Navy | Aug 7, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA805125C0003 definitive contract | Haley & Aldrich, Inc | $1.6M | Pfas destruction using a uv/sulfite-based technology | Air Force | Jan 15, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ24C0020 definitive contract | The Administrators of Tulane Educational Fund | $1.6M | Serdp project rc23-3707 "improving sea level information at DOD sites for risk assessments using hybrid modelling and data-fusion (isidod)" | Army | Jan 27, 2026 DoD 90d |
| 70RSAT26FR0000049 delivery order | The MITRE Corporation | $1.6M | New ffrdc s&t irss pnt security. | Office of Procurement Operations | Sep 2, 2026 |
| W912CG24C0009 definitive contract | Icon Technology Inc | $1.6M | New darpa sbir ii - icon technology proposes developing software that will radically simplify the process of designing, building, and accrediting secure areas, sensitive compartmented information facilities, and special access program ... | Army | Jun 4, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W81XWH20F0452 delivery order | Odyssey Systems Consulting Group, LTD | $1.6M | This requirement is providing administrative, microbiological, biochemical, immunological, and research non-personal support services for department of diarrheal disease research (ddr). | Defense Health Agency | Aug 18, 2025 DoD 90d |
| 70US0924F1DHS2892 delivery order | The MITRE Corporation | $1.6M | Cloud computing implementation | U.S. Secret Service | Mar 13, 2025 |
| HS002126FE024 delivery order | University of Maryland, College Park | $1.6M | This is a new requirement to test and develop prototypes for credibility assessment technologies. refer to section j attachment 0001 for the performance work statement (pws). | Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency | Mar 27, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ25C0026 definitive contract | Haley & Aldrich, Inc | $1.6M | Estcp er24-8922 demonstration of complete destruction of afff concentrate using a non-thermal treatment train | Army | Mar 17, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ24C0011 definitive contract | University of California San Diego | $1.6M | Estcp project cr23-7797 "recommendations for updates and expansions to the department of defense regional sea level (drsl) database" | Army | Mar 11, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0017320C2007 definitive contract | General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc | $1.6M | Modification, production, maintenance and at sea operational support of naval research laboratory's autonomous underwater vehicles. | Navy | Mar 17, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA714624F0050 delivery order | University of Maryland, College Park | $1.6M | Services | Air Force | Apr 24, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA805124F0069 delivery order | Kipper Tool Company | $1.6M | Provide an updated airfield damage repair (adr) concept of operations under the adr modernization program that provides updates capabilities to rapidly recover damaged conus and oconus airfieldpavements. | Air Force | Sep 30, 2024 DoD 90d |
| N0017325C2441 definitive contract | General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc | $1.6M | Black pearl auv | Navy | May 14, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911NF25CA019 definitive contract | Actus Advanced Systems Inc | $1.6M | Countering contested logistics with claw (container lifting autonomous-docking winch) | Army | Sep 15, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HT942525FE016 delivery order | The MITRE Corporation | $1.6M | Blast injury research coordinating project for the blast injury research coordinating office | Defense Health Agency | Aug 24, 2025 DoD 90d |
| 70RSAT25FR0000029 delivery order | Battelle Memorial Institute | $1.6M | This is a new task order for electromagnetic signatures of explosives laboratory. | Office of Procurement Operations | May 28, 2026 |
| N0017323F2021 delivery order | Science Applications International Corporation | $1.6M | Numerical weather prediction R&D tasks | Navy | Aug 13, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA239425CB025 definitive contract | America's Phenix, Inc | $1.6M | Application of blackgold coating and meerer finish process for KC-46 | Air Force | May 26, 2026 DoD 90d |
| 70FA5023F00000125 delivery order | The MITRE Corporation | $1.6M | Ccd fy23 - mitre follow-on contract (ffrdc) | Federal Emergency Management Agency | Aug 24, 2026 |
| W912HQ24C0049 definitive contract | Gsi Environmental Inc | $1.6M | Estcp project er24-8156 thermal steam plasma treatment of volatile pfas emissions from thermal destructive technologies | Army | May 14, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA301625P0167 purchase order | Delta Development Team, Inc | $1.6M | Research and development, sbir tactical funding increase for a transportable blood storage system | Air Force | Jul 10, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W911NF25CA031 definitive contract | Allen Control Systems, Inc | $1.6M | Bullfrog ai powered CUAS remote weapon station feasibility study | Army | Sep 25, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ24C0051 definitive contract | Montana State University | $1.5M | Serdp project wp24-4099 "coating deterioration: impacts of multi-domain biofilms and preventative measures" to characterize biological defacement of military coatings applied to DOD tactical vehicles by establishing a model lab biofilm ... | Army | May 28, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911QX25CA011 definitive contract | Sugpiat Defense, LLC | $1.5M | Cyber security services | Army | May 7, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HC104722F0008 delivery order | Peraton Inc | $1.5M | A5700 ambit engineering support | Defense Information Systems Agency | Jul 24, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ24C0088 definitive contract | Tetra Tech, Inc | $1.5M | Estcp project er24-8236 "application of novel in-situ flushing technique for treatment of pfas impacted soil" to demonstrate and validate amendment-enhanced in situ flushing technique as a cost-effective mass removal technology to treat ... | Army | Aug 30, 2024 DoD 90d |
| HT942524F0267 delivery order | The MITRE Corporation | $1.5M | Blast injury research coordinating office (birco)/joint trauma analysis and prevention of injury research coordinating office (jtapic) blast injury research coordinating project | Defense Health Agency | Aug 26, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W911NF23C0004 definitive contract | Leidos, Inc | $1.5M | Phase 1: base period_ | Army | Dec 30, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W912HZ25C0034 definitive contract | Marshall University Research Corporation | $1.5M | Baa 24-0069 physics based investigation of wave propagation in elastic media in relation to seismic analysis and tomography u438180 | Army | Aug 12, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W911QY20C0088 definitive contract | Morsecorp, Inc | $1.5M | Research and development | Army | Jan 28, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W911NF24C0085 definitive contract | Mach Industries Inc | $1.5M | Baa strategic strike | Army | Sep 5, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W911NF24F0001 delivery order | Texas A&m Engineering Experiment Station | $1.5M | 2nd generation marsupial robots deployment system for military vehicles | Army | Dec 21, 2023 DoD 90d |
| W911NF25FA025 delivery order | The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc | $1.5M | This effort will support the united states ARMY combat capabilities development command armaments center (devcom-ac) and product manager force sustainment systems (pdm fss) jpads program. | Army | Sep 26, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W911NF26FA018 delivery order | Anduril Industries, Inc | $1.5M | Ivy mass and pcc6 development and event execution | Army | Jun 3, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W9132T22C0024 definitive contract | University of Illinois | $1.5M | Baa #21-064 "feasibility study on large-area nanostructured functional coatings based on flow-limited field-injection electrostatic spraying" u435cfm | Army | Apr 1, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W912CG24C0020 definitive contract | Kitware Inc | $1.5M | New darpa sbir ii - marina: maritime acoustic recognition and identification with novel algorithms | Army | Mar 16, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912CG24C0007 definitive contract | Bluerisc Inc | $1.5M | Darpa sbir ii - side channels for heterogenous ics | Army | Aug 19, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W912CG25CA021 definitive contract | Physical Sciences Inc | $1.5M | Next-generation atmospheric water extraction enabled by deliquescent polymers | Army | May 19, 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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