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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W5J9CQ23F0029 delivery order | Leidos, Inc | $460K | Task order base period aip the agc-aip must support multiple high-resolution data sources and performance timelines and provide support for ingest, data validation, and other data conditioning and dissemination efforts | Army | May 20, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ23C0077 definitive contract | Tetra Tech, Inc | $459K | Serdp er22-3450 | Army | Oct 21, 2025 DoD 90d |
| 70RWMD23C00000004 definitive contract | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $457K | Dhs cwmd obaa ts 12 cpff award to johns hopkins applied physics laboratory for multi sensor domain awareness R&D services. | Office of Procurement Operations | Aug 26, 2024 |
| FA805125C0007 definitive contract | Carnegie-Mellon University | $457K | This contract is a result of a proposal sent under baa fa8051-24-s-0001, call #2 - automated heavy machinery (amu). automating machinery in mixed human environments see attachment 1 - statement of work (sow), dated 3 sept 25. | Air Force | Jan 16, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ24C0080 definitive contract | University of California, Los Angeles | $457K | Estcp cr24-8423 new start comprehensive evaluation of w2cc precipitation predictions, and downscaling and calibration to improve their resolution and accuracy | Army | Sep 20, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W56KGU23C0016 definitive contract | R-Dex Systems, Inc | $455K | A21-108 the electronic warfare surrogate system (ewss) for improved battle damage assessment | Army | Aug 25, 2025 DoD 90d |
| 70RDA226FR0000067 delivery order | The MITRE Corporation | $454K | Task order to provide support services for advancing commercial space operations and spaceport security for the department of homeland security (DHS) office of policy (plcy)/trade and economic security (tes). task order is being issued ... | Office of Procurement Operations | Sep 23, 2026 |
| W912HQ23C0065 definitive contract | University of Pittsburgh - of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education | $452K | Serdp project er21-3954 "robust and cost-effective encapsulated protein sorbents for pfas removal" | Army | May 28, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ23C0001 definitive contract | RTX Corporation | $451K | Serdp project wp22-3068 "development of chromium-free composite coatings for zinc and zinc-nickel plating" | Army | Feb 18, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912CG25FA005 delivery order | University of Southern California | $450K | University affiliated research contract - research and development in modeling and simulation - terrain run-time capabilities development and integration for tactical xr systems | Army | Aug 29, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ25C0044 definitive contract | Slipstream Group Inc | $450K | Estcp ew25-8755 heat pump deployment technical guide and training for department of defense | Army | Jan 27, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912CG23C0015 definitive contract | Aether Argus Inc | $450K | Develop and demonstrate a system that will be able to identify and decompose the signals of individual integrated circuits within larger heterogeneous integrated circuit packages by analyzing the emanated electromagnetic operators. | Army | Dec 14, 2023 DoD 90d |
| 70RWMD23C00000003 definitive contract | Physical Sciences Inc | $450K | Cwmd obaa award to psi for ts 12 research and development. | Office of Procurement Operations | Aug 29, 2024 |
| W912HQ23C0091 definitive contract | Florida State University | $450K | Serdp project er23-3798 "in situ bioremediation of 1,4-dioxane at low concentrations: metabolic degradation with mixed culture on commercially available particle media" | Army | Feb 3, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W56KGU23C0020 definitive contract | Critical Frequency Design LLC | $448K | Sbir phase ii a21-107, a213-107-0361. | Army | Jul 22, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W9132T25C0004 definitive contract | University of Illinois | $446K | Baa #24-0002 "optimizing maintenance decisions for large scale dataset of DOD facilities" u435cei | Army | May 9, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0017324C2015 definitive contract | Leidos, Inc | $445K | Highly efficient algorithms for vacuum electronic device modeling | Navy | May 7, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ25C0016 definitive contract | The Research Foundation for the State University of New York | $444K | Estcp project nh24-7978 informing DOD infrastructure investments through storm-typing climatologies and projections | Army | Apr 17, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ24C0048 definitive contract | Sentinel Environmental Group LLC | $443K | Er23-3717 - sentinel - optimizing bioaugmentation with rhodococcus ruber for cost-effective bioremediation of dilute 1,4-dioxane plumes- | Army | Jul 9, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ26CA045 definitive contract | G.d.o, Inc | $443K | Wp25-0098 gradient technology new start | Army | Apr 7, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912CG23C0003 definitive contract | Galois, Inc | $443K | New darpa sbir phase ii contract solicitation af221-dcso1 | Army | Dec 20, 2023 DoD 90d |
| W911QX25FA060 delivery order | Alpha Development Inc | $441K | Wsmr minor construction - task order construction contract | Army | Sep 12, 2025 DoD 90d |
| SP470124F0066 delivery order | Vibronyx Inc | $441K | Contract quality control phase iii project | Defense Logistics Agency | Nov 15, 2024 DoD 90d |
| HC104724F4017 delivery order | Peraton Inc | $438K | Base award- nrl pomonkey facility support | Defense Information Systems Agency | Mar 27, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ23C0094 definitive contract | Regents of the University of Minnesota | $438K | Serdp project er23-3676 "development of a screening-level tool to estimate pfas retention lifetimes for engineered sorbents in passive stormwater filtration systems" | Army | Feb 5, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ23C0029 definitive contract | University of Washington | $437K | Serdp project mr22-3146 data fusion for the multi-sensor towbody | Army | Mar 21, 2025 DoD 90d |
| 70RSAT24CB0000010 definitive contract | Lauretta AI LLC | $436K | Curb-to-gate ai passenger data model lrbaa award | Office of Procurement Operations | Jan 15, 2026 |
| W56KGU25C0021 definitive contract | Tiami Networks, Inc | $436K | Research and development for the following products within the predictive intelligent networking cyber: - predictive cyber responses (pcr) - advanced dynamic cyber agility (adca) | Army | May 13, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911NF23C0033 definitive contract | Aptima Inc | $432K | New start contract entitled - network analysis for characterizing team resilience. | Army | Apr 22, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W912HZ26FA104 delivery order | GXM Technologies LLC | $431K | Fourth task order under base idiq w912hz25d0002 for software development of the application for framework for anti-terrorism-force protection support (fast) | Army | May 12, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ24C0082 definitive contract | Trustees of Dartmouth College | $430K | Estcp new start cr24-8392 data-driven analysis and prediction of weather-to-climate phenomena: a computational toolkit based on operator-theoretic techniques | Army | Aug 22, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ22C0052 definitive contract | The Regents of the University of California | $428K | Serdp project er18-1497 follow on | Army | Mar 31, 2026 DoD 90d |
| 70RSAT22CB0000011 definitive contract | University of California, San Diego | $426K | Using ground sensing to inform fire science and decision support - lrbaa award | Office of Procurement Operations | Dec 16, 2025 |
| W912HZ24C0016 definitive contract | Iowa State University of Science and Technology | $425K | Baa 23-0031 award to the iowa state university of science and technology for freeze-thaw and strength behavior of xanthan gum treated levee materials for year 1 (base year) u438180 | Army | Jan 7, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ26C0006 definitive contract | Northern Arizona University | $425K | Serdp project number rc25-4650 proposal title: disturbance impacts on permafrost soil carbon pools and fluxes in the black spruce forests of interior alaska | Army | May 28, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911NF25CA025 definitive contract | University of New South Wales | $424K | Extremophilic fungi | Army | May 13, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA865021C5405 definitive contract | Spectral Energies LLC | $420K | Memristors and quantum materials and processes | Air Force | Apr 23, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA520924C0011 definitive contract | Deakin University | $417K | This fundamental research project intends to develop a novel human-machine framework for adaptive experimental optimization. | Air Force | Jul 11, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W911NF22C0084 definitive contract | Trustees of Indiana University | $417K | Iarpa research effort | Army | Aug 28, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ23C0004 definitive contract | University of Illinois | $416K | Serdp project er22-3157 "hydrothermal destruction of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances during designer biochar reactivation" | Army | Jan 27, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA702224F0059 delivery order | Ensco Inc | $416K | Mobile, software and engineering support for persistence surveillance program | Air Force | Jul 30, 2024 DoD 90d |
| HT001124F0054 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $415K | Research, development & engineering services, cyber resilience developmental testing | Defense Health Agency | Dec 30, 2024 DoD 90d |
| 70RSAT24FR0000119 delivery order | University of Illinois | $410K | Boa task order award to the university of illinois for the voice interoperability framework research and analysis. | Office of Procurement Operations | Sep 30, 2024 |
| W911NF26CA002 definitive contract | RTX BBN Technologies, Inc | $409K | 83732-pe-raytheon bbn technologies corp.-title-moretiql-the program proposes to develop both a comprehensive framework for qrc and a robust flexible quantum platform where the potential of qrc as a practical technology can be best realized. | Army | May 19, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911NF25FA006 delivery order | Texas A&m Engineering Experiment Station | $409K | Manufacturing route to scalable, affordable uhtcs (rsau) | Army | May 7, 2025 DoD 90d |
| 70RSAT25FR0000058 delivery order | Battelle Memorial Institute | $409K | Dt&e air cargo screening support | Office of Procurement Operations | Sep 22, 2026 |
| W912HQ24C0057 definitive contract | University of Massachusetts Lowell | $408K | Serdp new start wp24-4264 univ of mass "pfas-free, sustainable, superhydrophobic/omniphobic coatings for textile applications" | Army | May 13, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911NF21C0002 definitive contract | University of Southern California | $406K | Base award-research base period (ta 1)-proposal entitled-venice: verifying implicit cultural models | Army | Aug 7, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ25C0062 definitive contract | Rutgers, the State University | $405K | Estcp project er25-8721 "rapid and cost-effective in-situ field characterization of air- water interfacial area using geophysics" new start | Army | Sep 4, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ26CA008 definitive contract | William Marsh Rice University | $405K | Serdp er24-0824 (follow on er22-3258) rice university entitled chemical-free light-driven destruction of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (pfass) using non-toxic boron nitride (bn) | Army | Jan 15, 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 14, 2026.
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