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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 10, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N0017323C6000 definitive contract | DCS Corporation | $917K | Eo ir & isr rd 12 month effort | Navy | Aug 19, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0017325F0020 delivery order | Science Applications International Corporation | $913K | To #5 - environmental applications research and development (classified) | Navy | May 26, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911NF24C0019 definitive contract | Icf Incorporated, L.l.c | $910K | Research and analysis "computational modeling for team-based assignment" | Army | Jun 2, 2026 DoD 90d |
| 70RSAT22CB0000010 definitive contract | National Alliance for Public Safety Gis Foundation | $909K | Urban search and rescue innovation lrbaa award | Office of Procurement Operations | Feb 13, 2026 |
| W912HQ24C0067 definitive contract | Regents of the University of Minnesota | $908K | Award of serdp project wp24-4147 "targeted interfacial rheology for next generation pfas-free firefighting foam formulations." purpose: identify/develop per-and poly- fluoroalkyl (pfas)-free firefighting formulations that lower surface ... | Army | Mar 17, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA520924C0003 definitive contract | Cross Compass, LTD | $906K | Itc ipac-universal transfer of knowledge between various cognitive substrates | Air Force | Mar 9, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912CG23C0022 definitive contract | Trusted Science and Technology, Inc | $905K | New darpa sbir phase ii contract entitled, "hermes: hardware attacks evaluation, resilience and mitigation in exemplar systems." solicitation af191-063 | Army | Jun 13, 2024 DoD 90d |
| 70RSAT23FR0000047 delivery order | The MITRE Corporation | $900K | New hssedi task order: s&t ose tcd engineering trade studies project. | Office of Procurement Operations | Jul 25, 2024 |
| 70RSAT23FR0000067 delivery order | The MITRE Corporation | $900K | The purpose of task order 70rsat23fr0000067 is for the 5g-advanced/xg gaps assessments and mitigations requirement | Office of Procurement Operations | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 70RSAT23FR0000136 delivery order | The MITRE Corporation | $900K | New hssedi task order for forced labor analytics large language model (llm) evaluation and demonstration. | Office of Procurement Operations | Jul 26, 2024 |
| W912HQ25C0051 definitive contract | Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc | $900K | Estcp project ew25-8508 passive condenser loop for improving building energy efficiency and performance | Army | Feb 26, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911NF23F0023 delivery order | Tier 1 Performance Solutions LLC | $900K | Base: R&D svc, travel, other costs - | Army | Dec 11, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W911QX24F0077 delivery order | Delux Advanced Manufacturing, LLC | $900K | Additive manufacturing and 3d printing | Army | Sep 4, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W911NF24C0033 definitive contract | Personnel Decisions Research Institutes, LLC | $900K | R&d services, travel, odcs -(base)_ | Army | Jun 2, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912CG24C0021 definitive contract | Ziva Corporation | $900K | New darpa sibr ii - ziva corporation seeks to develop lightweight wireless two-way time transfer system integrated into a modern radio frequency. | Army | May 6, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W911NF24C0040 definitive contract | Icf Incorporated, L.l.c | $900K | New start contract from baa for proposed work entitled: "enhancing interpersonal competencies of junior noncommissioned officers." | Army | May 18, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912CG23C0019 definitive contract | Twinleaf LLC | $900K | New darpa sbir ii - twinleaf llc, seeks to develop a targeted sensor for magnetic navigation. this work combines a novel physical operating technique with rugged wafer scale packaging. | Army | Jun 14, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W912CG23C0018 definitive contract | Twinleaf LLC | $899K | New darpa sbir ii - twinleaf llc, seeks to develop a modern helium-3 magnetic field sensor. IT serves as a true absolute magnetic field calibration system and IT could allow for record low-power magnetic detection with excellent sensitivity | Army | Jun 14, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W912CG25CA001 definitive contract | Northwestern University | $898K | This research and development requirement is for a scalable ultra-low variation analog-time neural network (s-uatn) accelerator. | Army | Apr 9, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912CG23C0020 definitive contract | Twinleaf LLC | $898K | Base period--twinleaf llc, "accurate and reliable quantum vector magnetometer". | Army | Jun 14, 2024 DoD 90d |
| 70RSAT24FR0000017 delivery order | The MITRE Corporation | $897K | New task order for cyber forensics subject matter expertise and integration support follow-on. | Office of Procurement Operations | Oct 25, 2024 |
| W912CG26CA006 definitive contract | MSB Associates | $896K | Defense advanced research project agency (darpa) small business innovative research (sbir) phase ii for compartmentalised chrome demonstrator (ccd). | Army | May 29, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W913E524C0018 definitive contract | Trustees of Dartmouth College | $895K | Research & development baa 22-0011 - subsurface anomalies detection and classification using multi-data and advanced signal processing approaches u437g00 | Army | Jan 13, 2026 DoD 90d |
| SP800025C0004 definitive contract | Vulcan Elements Inc | $895K | Domestic rare earth magnet qualification | Defense Logistics Agency | Apr 30, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W56KGU22C0049 definitive contract | Patchadvisor, Inc | $891K | The purpose of this action is to award a firm fixed price contract associated with baa topic s1829 | Army | Oct 25, 2023 DoD 90d |
| W911NF23C0045 definitive contract | Human Resources Research Organization (humrro) | $890K | R&d services, odcs enhancing officer classification | Army | Jun 3, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W913E524C0019 definitive contract | Nevada System of Higher Education | $887K | Cso "data integration and uncertainty quantification for snow mobility maps" u437a00 | Army | Mar 5, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ22C0071 definitive contract | The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology | $886K | Serdp project er21-3562 "fundamentals of particulate amendment transport and compaction in hydraulic fractures and the application to effective remediation in low-permeability clay" | Army | May 28, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911NF25F0008 delivery order | Texas A&m Engineering Experiment Station | $885K | To conduct advanced technology development research, primarily in hypersonics. strategic hypersonic weapon systems experience increased material degradation when exposed to adverse atmospheric weather conditions, which threatens mission ... | Army | Feb 18, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0017320C2022 definitive contract | Reallaer, L.l.c | $881K | Research and development services - adaptive machine learning | Navy | Sep 13, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ24C0081 definitive contract | Gsi Environmental Inc | $876K | Estcp project er24-8200. title - two pfas remediation models for understanding and managing pfas in the saturated zone. objective - develop 2 models to leverage existing code, interfaces, and knowledge for remediation decision-making | Army | Mar 3, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ23C0083 definitive contract | Gsi Environmental Inc | $870K | Estcp project er23-7754 "assessing mass discharge from pfas vadose vs. saturated zone vs. matrix diffusion sources to improve conceptual models and DOD ri/fs" | Army | May 18, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ25C0015 definitive contract | The Trustees of Princeton University | $868K | Estcp project cr24-8407 "assessment of decadal climate predictions in support of DOD activities to bridge across the weather-to-climate continuum" for analysis and prediction of climate dynamics on weather-to-climate scales. | Army | Dec 12, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ24C0043 definitive contract | Icf Incorporated, L.l.c | $866K | Icf - cr23-7838 enhancing decision-making capabilities through analysis of severe weather impacts to department of defense installations | Army | May 16, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W911QX20F0130 delivery order | Parsons Government Services Inc | $864K | C5isr integrated operations for high performance computing - machine learning | Army | Feb 26, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W911SR26FA004 delivery order | Murtech, Inc | $864K | Retrieval, storage, inventory, distribution and disposal of anthrax vaccine absorbed (ava). | Army | Jan 26, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911QY25C0006 definitive contract | Revision Military Limited | $864K | Broad agency announcement for research and development to further improve enhanced ballistic protection eyewear systems through integration of advanced technologies into hybrid protective eyewear in relevant form factors/formats. | Army | Jun 3, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911QX24C0027 definitive contract | University of Dayton | $863K | Research and development in autonomous sensing and information fusion - baa | Army | May 20, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912CG23C0009 definitive contract | CFD Research Corporation | $855K | Darpa sbir ii - titled novel computational framework for optimization of obscurant dissemination and optical performance | Army | Dec 2, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W911NF23C0053 definitive contract | Spectral Energies LLC | $852K | Small business technology transfer research biologically-informed uncrewed underwater vehicles | Army | Apr 14, 2025 DoD 90d |
| H9240526FE002 delivery order | University of Maryland, College Park | $850K | Umd arlis idiq | U.S. Special Operations Command | Jan 23, 2026 DoD 90d |
| 70RSAT24FR0000038 delivery order | The MITRE Corporation | $850K | New hssedi ffrdc task order for s&t ose action plan and guidebook | Office of Procurement Operations | Jun 15, 2024 |
| 70RSAT24FR0000060 delivery order | The MITRE Corporation | $850K | Hssedi task order for program management execution | Office of Procurement Operations | Aug 22, 2025 |
| W911NF23C0052 definitive contract | Nanohmics Inc | $850K | Magnetic-free non-reciprocal and topological integrated microwave components based on tunable filter network | Army | Apr 7, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W911NF23C0027 definitive contract | Truventic LLC | $850K | Sttr phase ii awarded under the DOD 21.c sttr program baa-twisted graphene-based josephson junction detectors | Army | Sep 24, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W911NF23C0023 definitive contract | Synthio Chemicals Inc | $850K | Sttr phase ii-office of the secretary of defense-basic research office (osd-bro) proposal o2-1937 entitled modular continuous energetic production system | Army | Apr 14, 2025 DoD 90d |
| 70RSAT24FR0000019 delivery order | Battelle National Biodefense Institute, LLC | $850K | This is a new task order for rapid detection of novel and divergent targets. | Office of Procurement Operations | Mar 18, 2024 |
| W911NF23C0028 definitive contract | Aptima Inc | $850K | Sttr phase ii awarded under the DOD 21.c sttr program baa - entitled project consolidate ii | Army | Apr 30, 2025 DoD 90d |
| 70B06C26F00000262 delivery order | The MITRE Corporation | $850K | Technical assessment of commercial products, | U.S. Customs and Border Protection | May 6, 2026 |
| W911NF23C0024 definitive contract | Goniotech LLC | $850K | Small business technology transfer research (sttr) phase ii: solid state non-reciprocal microwave devices | Army | May 16, 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 13, 2026.
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