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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70Z02326F93130009 delivery order | The MITRE Corporation | $750K | This contract provides mission planning tool that will aid in visualizing operational risks for flight planning. | U.S. Coast Guard | Sep 11, 2026 |
| FA955024CB003 definitive contract | Miller Scientific Incorporated | $750K | Optimization and manufacturing of opacified fibrous insulation (ofi) | Air Force | Jun 20, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA955024CB002 definitive contract | Faraday Technology, Inc | $750K | Concentric ultra-dark solar-thermal absorber/metasurface thermal emitter for thermophotovoltaic power conversion | Air Force | Aug 7, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA955025CB001 definitive contract | Intellisense Systems Inc | $750K | Metalens for infrared light emitting diodes and photodiodes | Air Force | Jun 20, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W911NF24C0082 definitive contract | Personnel Decisions Research Institutes, LLC | $750K | Small unmanned aircraft systems ksbs: leader training and utilization | Army | Apr 24, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA955025CB002 definitive contract | Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co | $750K | Sbir phase ii proposal f2-17004- covert mwir laser transmitter | Air Force | Mar 24, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA955024CB004 definitive contract | Triton Systems, Inc | $750K | Sttr phase ii efficient thermal insulation system for space transport | Air Force | Mar 21, 2025 DoD 90d |
| 70RSAT25C00000029 definitive contract | Yotta Navigation Corporation | $750K | Mass fatality tracking system (mfts) sbir phase 3 award | Office of Procurement Operations | Aug 7, 2026 |
| W911NF24C0034 definitive contract | Fors Marsh Group LLC | $748K | Ns ari award on: "mitigating the impacts of personnel turnover for teams in the foe." | Army | Jun 2, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA702224F0025 delivery order | Ensco Inc | $747K | Professional services for meteorological modeling, simulation and engineering. | Air Force | Nov 22, 2023 DoD 90d |
| FA251825F0018 delivery order | Linquest Corporation | $747K | Multiband spectrum study | Air Force | May 1, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ25C0079 definitive contract | Sandbox Archaeology LLC | $745K | Estcp rc25-8870 new start integrating remote sensing survey technologies in DOD cultural resource compliance | Army | May 30, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912CG23C0010 definitive contract | Ierus Technologies Inc | $744K | Darpa sbir ii - titled enhanced modeling and simulations of hypersonics. | Army | Jan 24, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W911NF25CA016 definitive contract | DCS Corporation | $742K | This research will assess the skills and abilities related with success in cyber work, for ARMY to identify high-potential candidates, meet demand for these personnel, accurately predict performance, and reduce attrition during the ... | Army | May 28, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N3943023C0074 definitive contract | Battelle Memorial Institute | $742K | Bench scale evaluation | Navy | Mar 31, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W56KGU23C0014 definitive contract | The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc | $740K | Award off of baa w56kgu23rrtid, topic low altitude apnt system (laas) for ftuas | Army | Jul 24, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ22C0008 definitive contract | George Washington University (the) | $737K | Serdp project er21-1070 | Army | Jan 15, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ21C0045 definitive contract | Geosyntec Consultants, Inc | $735K | Geosyntec project er21-1224 | Army | Apr 21, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HT942525CE005 definitive contract | Knot Technology Solutions, L.l.c | $735K | Enhancing inventory management and biosecurity surveillance using radio frequency identification (rfid) | Defense Health Agency | May 18, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA805124C0002 definitive contract | Auburn University | $732K | This contract is a result of proposal sent under timber call #1 related to baa: fa805124s0001. resistance functions for clt-only and composite-clt panels under two-way action with effects of fenestration and panel-to-panel connections. | Air Force | Oct 15, 2024 DoD 90d |
| HC104726F0023 delivery order | Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation | $730K | Support for radio frequency modeling and simulation, data services that are reliant on, utilize, and impact rapidly changing technologies, and electromagnetic environmental effects expertise focused on models and other associated technical ... | Defense Information Systems Agency | Jun 2, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA702225F0054 delivery order | Ensco Inc | $729K | Aims modernization | Air Force | Jan 23, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0017318C6005 definitive contract | The Keyw Corporation | $727K | Igf::ot::igf pr 71-3006-16 laboratory and at sea acoustic techniques | Navy | May 15, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W56KGU24C0032 definitive contract | Leidos, Inc | $722K | Award off of a baa | Army | Jun 26, 2025 DoD 90d |
| 70RSAT24CB0000015 definitive contract | 1st Detect Corporation | $718K | Research, development, and maturation of etd for DHS next generation explosive trace detection lrbaa award | Office of Procurement Operations | Jul 27, 2026 |
| W911SR25C0020 definitive contract | Mainstream Engineering Corp | $717K | Migrate the hazard and actively decomposes or detoxifies the wide range of chemical warfare agents and toxic industrial chemicals. | Army | Jul 2, 2025 DoD 90d |
| 70B03C25F00001165 delivery order | Traxyl Inc | $716K | Task order for installation of fibertrax at CBP | U.S. Customs and Border Protection | Sep 23, 2025 |
| W912HQ24C0029 definitive contract | University of Miami | $715K | University of miami ew23-7621 - advanced hvac load management using cascade controls integrating chillers, air handling units, and terminal boxes | Army | Jan 28, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N6600123C4701 definitive contract | Expedition Technology, LLC | $711K | Radio-frequency (rf) machine learning systems software integration (sea otter) 873authority | Navy | May 11, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912HZ26FA031 delivery order | Summerwind Consultants Inc | $710K | Fifth task order for the anti-terrorism/force protection (at/fp) decision support tools. reference summerwind consultant cost and technical proposal submitted 17 december 2025. the period of performance shall be 12 months from award. | Army | Apr 16, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912HZ25CA019 definitive contract | Crosstek Solutions LLC | $710K | Gsl-25-0036, mobile multichannel analysis of surface waves (masw) for ultrashallow subsurface characterization, submitted in response to broad agency announcement w912hz25baa01, topic gsl-2, geophysics | Army | Jan 23, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ24C0068 definitive contract | University of Delaware | $709K | Serdp project wp24-4296 "designing a high-throughput cell-based screen for n-oxygenase engineering" to create bacterial strains in which aromatic and heterocyclic nitro compounds are stabilized, to design genetically encoded biosensors. | Army | Feb 18, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HT942524C0041 definitive contract | Search Research Foundation | $708K | Emerging infectious disease surveillance in thai clinical sites | Defense Health Agency | Jun 1, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W913E524C0008 definitive contract | Track 2 Analytics LLC | $702K | Baa-crrel-23-0009 task 0 and task 1 | Army | Jan 9, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912CG25F0001 delivery order | University of Southern California | $701K | University affiliated research contract - modeling and simulation research | Army | Jun 1, 2026 DoD 90d |
| 70RSAT20CB0000011 definitive contract | Maxentric Technologies LLC | $700K | New contract for hands-free presence-of-life through walls detection, localization, alert and recording system | Office of Procurement Operations | Nov 5, 2024 |
| FA239624FB092 delivery order | National Academy of Sciences | $700K | Department of the air force studies board digital transformation study | Air Force | Jan 21, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ25C0066 definitive contract | Nreca Research | $700K | Estcp project ew24-8935, "microgridup deployment acceleration and dissemination" to create a sustainable and repeatable open core and services business model, thereby making microgridup available to DOD facilities planning microgrid ... | Army | Feb 23, 2026 DoD 90d |
| 70RSAT24CB0000011 definitive contract | Brigham Young University | $700K | Uei: jwsyc7rumjd1 this contract is between the united states department of homeland security (hereafter "DHS," "government," or "department") and brigham young university. this contract is identified by its procure | Office of Procurement Operations | Aug 26, 2026 |
| W912HQ23C0089 definitive contract | University of Notre Dame Du Lac | $700K | Serdp project er23-3696 "a complete strategy for pavements contaminated with pfass: rapid quantification, leaching kinetics, in-situ stabilization, thermal treatment, and reusability" | Army | May 21, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911NF24C0087 definitive contract | Icf Incorporated, L.l.c | $699K | Research and devlopment services "developing nco promotion situational judgment test" | Army | Aug 7, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0002426F8324 delivery order | The Pennsylvania State University | $699K | United states marine corps (USMC) condition based maintenance plus (cbm+) fuel automated reporting system (fars) integration fy26 | Navy | Feb 13, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W31P4Q19F0424 delivery order | Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp | $699K | Arrays on commercial timescales -integration and validation (act-iv) puck program, pop 20 feb 2020 | Army | Apr 2, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W911NF26CA008 definitive contract | Luna Labs USA LLC | $699K | Robust materials capable of rapid uptake and decontamination of threat chemicals are sought after to protect personnel. porous organic polymers (pops) provide enhanced processability and maintain high uptake capacities for various threat ... | Army | May 15, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911NF26CA007 definitive contract | Akita Innovations LLC | $697K | New start sttr phase ii titled: scalable intrinsically porous organic polymers | Army | May 14, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912CG24C0016 definitive contract | Unknot.id Inc | $697K | Cosmos - cosine optimized system for military operations with superior localization. | Army | May 1, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0017324C2012 definitive contract | Amentum Technology, Inc | $695K | Advanced pnt | Navy | Apr 30, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ23C0047 definitive contract | University of Rhode Island | $690K | Serdp project no. er22-3225 | Army | Mar 3, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912CG25F0005 delivery order | University of Southern California | $675K | University affiliated research contract - research and development in modeling and simulation. generative ai for micro-tailored adaptation (gaima) to train context-aware suicide prevention and resilience project | Army | Mar 23, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ23C0061 definitive contract | Geosyntec Consultants, Inc | $675K | Serdp er22-3214 | Army | May 21, 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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