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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FA239125CB041 definitive contract | Code Metal, Inc | $12.2M | Sbir iii research and development effort entitled warmatrix which develops wargaming software for military application | Air Force | May 22, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA238423CB002 definitive contract | IT Mentor Group, Inc | $12.0M | Chemical, biological, radiologica, nuclear (cbrn) tactical edge targeting | Air Force | Jun 1, 2026 DoD 90d |
| 70RCSJ26FR0000029 delivery order | The MITRE Corporation | $11.8M | Coordinated vulnerabilities and exposures (cve) and common weaknesses enumeration (cwe) programs | Office of Procurement Operations | Sep 29, 2026 |
| N0017322F2008 delivery order | Technology Service Corp | $11.8M | Spacecraft engineering support | Navy | Sep 19, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0017325F2440 delivery order | Excet, LLC | $11.7M | Research and development support services | Navy | Jun 3, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W519TC23C0031 definitive contract | Carnegie-Mellon University | $11.5M | Atr mcas phase v. | Army | Feb 21, 2025 DoD 90d |
| 70RSAT23FR0000102 delivery order | Battelle Memorial Institute | $11.5M | Tsl certification test support services | Office of Procurement Operations | Aug 12, 2026 |
| 70RSAT24CB0000006 definitive contract | Battelle Memorial Institute | $11.3M | Detection canine solutions and performance enhancement lrbaa award | Office of Procurement Operations | Aug 6, 2026 |
| W911QX24C0030 definitive contract | Vector Atomic Inc | $11.0M | Small business innovation research (sbir) iii titled "scaling manufacturing and affordability of resilient timing systems (smarts)" | Army | Jan 13, 2026 DoD 90d |
| M6785424F7200 delivery order | Applied Research Associates, Inc | $10.9M | Task order 6: active denial technology | Navy | Aug 13, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W912CG21C0025 definitive contract | Leidos, Inc | $10.7M | Research and development effort for innovative ways to enhance the generation and utilization of cost-effective and interoperable synthetic environments for simulation, training, and battle command systems. | Army | Jun 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HQ003424F0423 delivery order | University of Maryland, College Park | $10.7M | Research for intelligence and security challenges interns | Washington Headquarters Services | May 13, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911QX26FA002 delivery order | Solvus Global LLC | $10.7M | To procure a research and development services task order for synergized solutions for advanced manufacturing challenges. | Army | Apr 21, 2026 DoD 90d |
| 70RSAT26FR0000026 delivery order | Battelle National Biodefense Institute, LLC | $10.7M | Nbacc ii procurement, construction, and improvement (pc&i) task order | Office of Procurement Operations | Sep 22, 2026 |
| N0017324C2018 definitive contract | KBR Wyle Services, LLC | $10.6M | Enable and support the u.s. naval research lab (nrl) with research and development that will ensure operational access to critical space capabilities and space force enhancement capabilities by utilization of the space environment. | Navy | Jun 2, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0017324F2013 delivery order | Excet, LLC | $10.4M | Corrosion science rdt&e - labor | Navy | Apr 23, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0017322F3003 delivery order | Envisioneering Inc | $10.4M | Radar engineering support for the radar division advanced concept group of the naval research laboratory | Navy | May 14, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911NF25FA003 delivery order | Booz Allen Hamilton Inc | $10.3M | This effort supports the defense forensics and biometrics agency (dfba) department of defense (DOD)-directed executive agent (ea) responsibility to oversee and deliver advanced forensic and biometric capability to the DOD mission areas. | Army | Mar 25, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA301625C0009 definitive contract | Improve Group, Inc | $10.3M | Restoration and modernization project to install an 1,800 sf modular vivarium with supporting electric generator and other ancillary equipment to be located at the loading dock area of building 3260, fort sam houston, texas. | Air Force | Apr 2, 2026 DoD 90d |
| SP470123C0070 definitive contract | Rgbsi Aerospace & Defense LLC | $10.3M | Dlir scm baa0002-21 - tdmt | Defense Logistics Agency | May 21, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0017324C2001 definitive contract | Amentum Technology, Inc | $10.2M | R&d labor - lasat requirement | Navy | Jun 1, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA233024CB003 definitive contract | The Tomorrow Companies Inc | $10.2M | Commercial weather data pilot (cwdp) / technology readiness level (trl) 9 | Air Force | May 13, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W911QX21F0014 delivery order | Icf Incorporated, L.l.c | $10.2M | C5isr integrated operations for high performance computing, task order scientific, engineering, and analysis support services | Army | Jun 2, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA865022F2010 delivery order | Innovative Scientific Solutions Inc | $10.1M | Innovative combustion and propulsion research | Air Force | Apr 10, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HQ003421F0410 delivery order | Modern Technology Solutions, Inc | $10.0M | Technical and engineering services | Washington Headquarters Services | Dec 17, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0017323F2012 delivery order | Amentum Technology, Inc | $9.9M | R&d support for optical techniques. | Navy | Nov 20, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0017322F3001 delivery order | Amentum Technology, Inc | $9.9M | Navy instrumentation and integration support. | Navy | May 20, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W31P4Q21F0332 delivery order | Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp | $9.8M | Naval air warfare center weapons division (nawcwd) airborne electronic attack integrated product team (aea ipt) machine learning support | Army | Apr 17, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA865021F2007 delivery order | Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc | $9.7M | Reusable high mach turbine engine technologies | Air Force | Jul 1, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W31P4Q24F0126 delivery order | Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp | $9.5M | Joint pacific alaska range complex systems sustainment and support | Army | May 6, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W31P4Q24F0182 delivery order | National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining | $9.2M | The task order is in support of the performance work statement, entitled "advanced composite assembly innovation - phase 2". | Army | Dec 11, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0017325F2400 delivery order | Envisioneering Inc | $9.2M | Idiq contract for sets research and development support services | Navy | Feb 13, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0017322C2006 definitive contract | Nova Research, Inc | $9.1M | Research and development effort | Navy | Apr 29, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911QX26FA008 delivery order | Parsons Government Services Inc | $9.1M | Computationally augmented and resilient: situation awareness, intelligence, planning, mobility, and defense (carsipmod) research and development (rd) and technical services. | Army | Jun 2, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W913E524C0014 definitive contract | University of Maine System | $9.0M | Research & development university of maine baa 22-0022 titled, impacts of spatial-temporal precipitation, snowpack properties, and snowmelt variabilty on alpine landscapes and runoff u437g00 | Army | Aug 27, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W31P4Q24F0002 delivery order | National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining | $9.0M | Low-cost missile technology development | Army | Dec 18, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W911QY21C0062 definitive contract | Earthly Dynamics, LLC | $8.9M | Research and development - 30309 | Army | May 19, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA830721F0028 delivery order | Praxis Engineering Technologies LLC | $8.8M | Cyber capability services | Air Force | Aug 16, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W911NF24F0004 delivery order | Aura Technologies, LLC | $8.7M | Aura technologies smartthread digital thread | Army | May 23, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HR001126FE003 delivery order | University of Maryland, College Park | $8.7M | Quantum benchmarking initiative (qbi) effort under the university of maryland (umd) applied research laboratory for intelligence and security (arlis) university affiliate research center (uarc) support services | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Apr 14, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA700024F0098 delivery order | Southwest Research Institute | $8.7M | T-38 flight loads data recording (fldr), aircraft structural integrity program (asip) improvements, and miscellaneous studies | Air Force | Sep 20, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W913E524C0012 definitive contract | University of Vermont & State Agricultural College | $8.6M | Research & development - university of vermont baa 23-001 titled, biological instruments for observation of sensitive environments naturally, silently, and encryptionally - biosense u437n00 | Army | Sep 17, 2025 DoD 90d |
| 70RCSJ26FR0000037 delivery order | The MITRE Corporation | $8.4M | Countering emerging cyber threats to the homeland | Office of Procurement Operations | Sep 29, 2026 |
| 70RCSJ24FR0000016 delivery order | The MITRE Corporation | $8.3M | Capacity building mitre lab | Office of Procurement Operations | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 70RCSJ25FR0000049 delivery order | The MITRE Corporation | $8.3M | Capacity building research & development and requirements development support | Office of Procurement Operations | Sep 29, 2026 |
| N0017325F2442 delivery order | Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory | $8.3M | The work to be performed hereunder shall be subject to the requirements and standards contained in attachment 1-sow, exhibit a-cdrls, and all other attachments cited in section j, which are incorporated by reference into section c. | Navy | Mar 24, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0017325F2411 delivery order | Amentum Technology, Inc | $8.3M | Optics task order 2, 23-d-2003 | Navy | Jun 5, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA251822F0033 delivery order | Linquest Corporation | $8.2M | Resourcing decision support by performing test engineering, analysis, and modeling and simulation in support of starcom/s23v and space delta 12 tasked test programs and review of analytic tools. | Air Force | Apr 4, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA865022F2611 delivery order | DCS Corporation | $8.1M | Teaming of humans and unmanned networked drone research | Air Force | May 5, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HQ003426FE209 delivery order | American Systems Corporation | $8.1M | Engineering, technical and program management support services. | Washington Headquarters Services | Jun 3, 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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