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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W911NF24C0027 definitive contract | Drasgow Consulting Group LLC | $518K | R&d services, travel, odcs - (base) | Army | Jun 3, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA489025C0016 definitive contract | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $518K | Information related capabilities (irc) modeling services | Air Force | Feb 27, 2026 DoD 90d |
| 70RDAD23FR0000003 delivery order | The MITRE Corporation | $517K | Otds mission services: innovation in process, engineering, cybersecurity & data office of intelligence & analysis | Office of Procurement Operations | Dec 13, 2023 |
| W912HZ25C0024 definitive contract | A.m.s Network, LLC | $515K | Baa 24-0062, improved performance mats for wheeled vehicle transport over low cbr soils | Army | Mar 7, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0017324F6003 delivery order | SRI International | $515K | Flight detectors options- idiq 22d6000, sow par 4.2.5. individual task order. see section j- attachments for the statement of work/technical proposal. | Navy | Mar 26, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ24C0093 definitive contract | Nutter & Associates Inc | $515K | New start estcp er24-8187 phytoremediation of pfas-impacted soil & groundwater | Army | Jan 22, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ24C0063 definitive contract | University of Notre Dame Du Lac | $514K | New start serdp er24-4137 real-time analysis of gas-phase products of incomplete destruction during the thermal treatment of pfas | Army | Jan 23, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911NF24C0083 definitive contract | Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc | $512K | New start contarct on "enhancing metacognition across the officer lifecyle." | Army | May 28, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ21C0050 definitive contract | University of Texas at Austin | $512K | Estcp project er21-5229 | Army | Aug 26, 2025 DoD 90d |
| 70RSAT24FR0000025 delivery order | Battelle National Biodefense Institute, LLC | $511K | This is a new task order for sterilized lab waste and site services. | Office of Procurement Operations | Apr 2, 2024 |
| W912HQ26CA030 definitive contract | Haley & Aldrich, Inc | $511K | Estcp er26-9234 enhancing technology transfer through a.i.-powered knowledge management and decision support | Army | Mar 6, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ23C0036 definitive contract | Corrdesa LLC | $509K | Corrdesa, llc wp21-3473 | Army | May 6, 2026 DoD 90d |
| 70RSAT25FR0000022 delivery order | Signature Science LLC | $508K | Support for critical infrastructure security and resilience research (cisrr) program. | Office of Procurement Operations | Sep 23, 2025 |
| W912CG25FA011 delivery order | University of Southern California | $508K | Dynamic evaluation of leadership thinking architectures using large language models (delta-llm) | Army | Jul 25, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W912HZ25F0046 delivery order | GXM Technologies LLC | $507K | First task order for framework for at/fp support (fast) idiq u438170 | Army | Jan 29, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ25C0030 definitive contract | Black Tusk Geophysics Inc | $506K | New start estcp project mr25-8796 "demonstration of physics-based and machine learning tools for delineation of saturated response areas" | Army | May 15, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ22C0046 definitive contract | University of Washington | $504K | Serdp project rc22-3437 | Army | Apr 17, 2026 DoD 90d |
| SP800024C0009 definitive contract | Lightpath Technologies, Inc | $504K | R&d acquisition to develop a process for qualifying chalcogenide optical materials to substitute for germanium. | Defense Logistics Agency | Feb 11, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911NF23C0007 definitive contract | Augmntr, Inc | $502K | Sbir phase ii base award-- augmented reality for chemical and biological defense (arcbad) | Army | Jun 10, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W56KGU23C0022 definitive contract | Oceanit Laboratories Inc | $501K | The purpose of this action is to award a definitive ffp sbir phase ii contract associated with sbir topic a21-111. | Army | Aug 21, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W912CG22C0027 definitive contract | Strategic Analysis Enterprises, Inc | $501K | New darpa sbir phase ii contract DOD sbir solicitation 2016.3, topic no. sb163-008 | Army | Apr 9, 2025 DoD 90d |
| 70US0924F1DHS2109 delivery order | The MITRE Corporation | $500K | Digital evidence repository and management prototype | U.S. Secret Service | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 70US0925C70093961 definitive contract | The MITRE Corporation | $500K | Scalable sensor video alarm platform (ssvap) integration | U.S. Secret Service | Sep 11, 2025 |
| FA714623C0021 definitive contract | Quartermaster AI, Inc | $500K | Iuuf mastlink | Air Force | Jul 18, 2024 DoD 90d |
| HT001125F0063 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $500K | Services for four developmental tasks in medical artificial intelligence and advanced analytics supporting combat casualty care information technology and environmental modeling for the us ARMY telemedicine and advanced technology research ... | Defense Health Agency | Nov 27, 2024 DoD 90d |
| SP470123C0054 definitive contract | Bally Ribbon Mills | $500K | Direct to phase ii a continuous and automated manufacturing breakthrough, securing a robust domestic supply chain of affordable high temperature reinforcement for hypersonic thermal protection system applications | Defense Logistics Agency | Nov 7, 2023 DoD 90d |
| W911NF26FA009 delivery order | National Academy of Sciences | $500K | Board on ARMY research and development (board) future of battery technology options (bto) | Army | Apr 1, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911QX23C0029 definitive contract | Textron Systems Corporation | $500K | The completion of a flight termination system (fts) and surge support services for field testing of quadrotor autonomy. | Army | Jul 1, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W912CG23C0012 definitive contract | Microlink Devices Inc | $500K | New darpa sbir phase ii contract solicitation af221-dcso1 | Army | Dec 12, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ22C0080 definitive contract | Texas A&m Agrilife Research | $500K | Serdp project er19-1420 (fo er18-1620)"small-scale demonstration of ex situ remediation of pfas-impacted investigation-derived wastes by electron beam technology" | Army | May 28, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ25C0005 definitive contract | Oregon State University | $500K | Serdp project er24-4250 - biomimetic chromatography for rapid assessment of bioaccumulation (biocrab) in pfas-impacted aquatic food webs. purpose: enable an understanding of pfas bioaccumulation that could be directly applied to pfas risk ... | Army | May 13, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W913E524C0006 definitive contract | Northern Social-Environmental Research Inc | $500K | Research & development baa 22-0017 for northern social-environmental research proposal titled advancing methods to engage and apply indigenous knowledge for increased understanding of arctic coastal systems through community-based research ... | Army | Aug 5, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W911NF22C0007 definitive contract | Episys Science Inc | $500K | Sbir phase ii base award | Army | Dec 28, 2023 DoD 90d |
| W912CG22C0007 definitive contract | Assured Information Security, Inc | $500K | New darpa sttr phase ii contract solicitation hr001120s0019-20 | Army | Nov 15, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W911NF24C0038 definitive contract | Applied Systems Engineering Incorporated | $500K | Baa-ministrike the proposed technical objectives of this effort are to build and deliver inert ministrike prototypes, integrate on a group 3 UAS, develop the fire control and targeting system, and conduct a demonstration. | Army | May 14, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W912CG23C0007 definitive contract | Charles River Analytics, Inc | $500K | New darpa sbir ii - artificial social intelligence (asi) for group learning and optimization of collaborative workflows (aglow) | Army | Jun 6, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W912CG22C0017 definitive contract | Geegah LLC | $500K | New darpa sbir phase ii contract nsf sbir solicitation 17-595, topic no. it4: cybersecurity authentication privacy | Army | Feb 13, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W31P4Q25F0161 delivery order | The University of Alabama in Huntsville | $500K | Research & development on digital thread experiment supporting combat capabilities development command (devcom) aviation and missile center (avmc). | Army | Apr 28, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ23C0072 definitive contract | North Carolina State University | $500K | Serdp project er23-3683 "pfas transport and interaction with portland cement and asphalt concrete: a field and laboratory study" | Army | Jan 29, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911NF23C0050 definitive contract | Inertial Labs, Inc | $500K | Cannon artillery pointing and sighting system (capss) | Army | Mar 26, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W912CG22C0016 definitive contract | Shared Spectrum Company | $500K | New darpa sbir phase ii contract solicitation sb162-011 | Army | Oct 18, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W911NF24C0086 definitive contract | CFD Research Corporation | $500K | New cpff contract - pbpk/pd of general anesthetics during hemorrhage | Army | Mar 11, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HT942524F0127 delivery order | Eitr Biologics, Inc | $500K | Develop a novel odin therapeutic medical countermeasure capable of protecting against pneumonic unencapsulated y. pestis. | Defense Health Agency | May 16, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W913E525C0009 definitive contract | University of Alaska Fairbanks | $500K | Research & development baa 24-0004 remote assessment of terrain characteristics relevant to ARMY operations and maneuver in interior alaska across all seasons through eddy covariance measurements and modeling u437a00 | Army | Sep 25, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W911NF26CA009 definitive contract | Personnel Decisions Research Institutes, LLC | $500K | This research will modernize ARMY aa composites by using advances in classification methodology and recent criterion data. | Army | May 28, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911NF24C0080 definitive contract | Icf Incorporated, L.l.c | $500K | Icf incorporated l.l.c. - self-development decision-making in ARMY officers | Army | Jun 3, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912CG22C0034 definitive contract | Technology Assessment & Transfer, Inc | $500K | New darpa sbir ii - cmc combustor on the path to 3100of | Army | Jan 29, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HR001125FE002 delivery order | University of Maryland, College Park | $500K | Darpa research program support services | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Oct 7, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA890322C0024 definitive contract | Geosyntec Consultants, Inc | $499K | Treatment of perfluorinated alkylated substances (pfas) in mixed media | Air Force | May 29, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911SR24C0038 definitive contract | Alakai Defense Systems, Inc | $499K | This contract results from a broad agency announcement with the overall objective to expand the library, test, and further evaluate a handheld ultraviolet raman sensor for standoff trace detection of chemicals. | Army | Aug 28, 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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