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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W912HQ26PA001 purchase order | NMC, Inc | $248K | W74rdv51965656 | Army | Apr 1, 2026 DoD 90d |
| 70RSAT24FR0000084 delivery order | The MITRE Corporation | $248K | Knowledge product reporting and dashboarding recommendations | Office of Procurement Operations | Dec 17, 2024 |
| W911NF24P0036 purchase order | Iotai Inc | $247K | Sbir phase 1: distributed mobility and perception for environment effectors | Army | Aug 28, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ23C0078 definitive contract | Northeastern University | $247K | New start fy23 serdp funding er23-3826 | Army | Apr 8, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ21C0062 definitive contract | Arcadis U.s, Inc | $246K | Estcp project er21-5045 | Army | Aug 18, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W911NF24P0032 purchase order | Overland AI Inc | $246K | Sbir phase 1: deep terrain shaping with uncrewed ground vehicles | Army | Aug 28, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ24P0001 purchase order | Trustees of Dartmouth College | $246K | Serdp/estcp project dartmouth college mr23-9000 new start | Army | Aug 14, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W912CG25PA004 purchase order | Integral & Open Systems, Inc | $245K | This sbir phase i aims to create an advanced system designed to identify suicide risk among veterans in real time, enabling healthcare providers to deliver more precise risk assessments. | Army | Aug 6, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ22C0005 definitive contract | Gsi Environmental Inc | $245K | Er21-5136 gsi environmental inc | Army | Apr 30, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ24P0042 purchase order | University of Delaware | $245K | Award of serdp project # mr24-4560 - potential for sea bed munition transport due to turbulent prop wash | Army | Feb 6, 2026 DoD 90d |
| SP800024P0003 purchase order | Tungco, Incorporated | $245K | To develop the production of sodium tungstate from low-grade tungsten scrap & waste and proof-of-concept feedstock use in domestic production. | Defense Logistics Agency | Dec 18, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ26PA008 purchase order | RTX Corporation | $245K | Wp25-0276 - rtx corporation/rtx technology research center - title: separating inorganic particulates from fluoropolymers (rtrc, p.p24.0166) | Army | May 28, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA520923C0004 definitive contract | Australian National University | $243K | Army research and development-towards a synthetic theory of extended topological quantum field theories (tqfts) | Air Force | Sep 10, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N6893625P5191 purchase order | Acree Technologies Incorporated | $242K | Research and development: de-icing windscreen | Navy | Aug 6, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N6600124P6262 purchase order | Kilo Solutions LTD | $242K | Virtual bridge nautical training | Navy | Jul 25, 2024 DoD 90d |
| HT942523C0101 definitive contract | Eagle Integrated Services, LLC | $242K | Research support services to include laboratory, scientific, engineering, and health physic support to perform research tasks related to the research mission. | Defense Health Agency | Dec 10, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W912HZ23C0027 definitive contract | Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University | $241K | Baa 22-0018a numerical modeling of water retaining structures as a result of fluid-solid interaction. u438180 | Army | Aug 6, 2025 DoD 90d |
| 70US0926F3OTH3091 BPA call | Mriglobal | $240K | Biological countermeasures bpa call order #3 - t&e services | U.S. Secret Service | Aug 31, 2026 |
| N0017323C2003 definitive contract | Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition Inc | $240K | Agile information management and dissemination | Navy | Mar 5, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W912CG25FA010 delivery order | University of Southern California | $240K | Virtual humans in constructive simulation | Army | Jun 12, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ24P0030 purchase order | Institute for Market Transformation Inc | $239K | Estcp project ew23-7680 "demonstration of very high efficiency hvac in DOD facilities" which seeks to show that the vhe hvac whole system approach to commercial hvac can be successfully applied in 3 non-res bldgs commonly found in military ... | Army | Jan 12, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W31P4Q23F0220 delivery order | Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp | $239K | This requirement is in support of the performance work statement (pws) entitled, "research, engineering, science, and technology development. | Army | Apr 28, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912HZ25CA004 definitive contract | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc | $238K | The contractor shall perform all work necessary for successful completion of research and development project baa 25-0031, which is incorporated by reference and submitted in response to baa topic number gsl-4 pavement technology. | Army | Jul 23, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W911QX24C0028 definitive contract | Clearhaven Technologies, LLC | $238K | Secure sensor processing & storage - baa | Army | May 22, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA702225C0008 definitive contract | Emr Solutions & Technology LLC | $236K | Geophysical instrumentation testbed ii (git ii) fy25 | Air Force | Jun 3, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N3943024C2015 definitive contract | Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines | $236K | Pfas in vapor transport | Navy | Mar 5, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ25C0022 definitive contract | The Regents of the University of California | $235K | Serdp project er23-0225 (er20-1541 follow on) "screening, design, and optimization of novel biocatalysts for c-f cleavage of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances" to screen, design, and optimize biocatalysts capable of defluorinating pfas. | Army | Sep 9, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ25P0035 purchase order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | $235K | Serdp project numberer25-4654 title: gemini resins: advanced polymer for removing short- and long-chain pfas | Army | Jun 4, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HT942523C0100 definitive contract | Eagle Integrated Services, LLC | $235K | Research support services to include laboratory, scientific, engineering, and health physic support to perform research tasks related to the research mission. | Defense Health Agency | Nov 15, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ26CA019 definitive contract | Capa Strategies, LLC | $234K | W74rdv51975673 capa strategies new start | Army | Feb 19, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911QX26CA007 definitive contract | Applied Research Associates, Inc | $234K | Engineering and analysis support for the development of the advanced joint effectiveness model (ajem) | Army | May 22, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912HZ25CA017 definitive contract | Michigan Technological University | $233K | Baa 25-0004 scalable multi-function unit for smurf u438170 | Army | Sep 9, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W31P4Q20F0373 delivery order | Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp | $233K | Smoke and obscuration concept development | Army | Mar 11, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0017324P0001 purchase order | Aosense, Inc | $233K | Aosense cold atomic beam source | Navy | Dec 21, 2023 DoD 90d |
| FA520924C0006 definitive contract | University of New South Wales | $232K | Cyber resilience has been broadly investigated for developing assessment approaches, achieving three measures: absorbing, recovering from, and adapting to, cyber-attacks. | Air Force | Aug 1, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W31P4Q25F0212 delivery order | The University of Alabama in Huntsville | $231K | Research and development support in the areas of systems & digital engineering to support combat capabilities development command aviation and missile center (devcom avmc) tech data management division and use of digital engineering tools. | Army | Jul 29, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ25C0053 definitive contract | Geosyntec Consultants, Inc | $230K | Estcp project number: er25-8659 title: synthesizing pfas ecotoxicology research for application to cercla | Army | May 19, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912HZ25P0061 purchase order | Michigan State University | $230K | Baa gsl-25-0005, impact of different temperature conditions on the anisotropic stiffness characteristics of unbound materials | Army | Oct 22, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0017323C2007 definitive contract | University of Maryland, College Park | $229K | Research and development | Navy | Dec 20, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ25C0046 definitive contract | Institute of Gas Technology | $228K | Estcp ew25-8486 above ground electromagnetic induction (emi) for excavation-less water pipeline detection | Army | Aug 11, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W911QX22C0003 definitive contract | Sensors Unlimited Inc | $228K | Research and development effort proposed in response to broad agency announcement (baa) w911nf-17-s-0003 for energy efficient electronics & photonics | Army | Jan 21, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W911NF23C0006 definitive contract | Zeteo Tech, Inc | $227K | Sbir phase 2 contract "field portable bioaerosol identification with miniaturized maldi tof ms" | Army | Mar 26, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W56KGU19F0012 delivery order | Yulista Support Services LLC | $227K | Task order #0002 for fammss | Army | May 20, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ22C0090 definitive contract | White River Technologies, Inc | $227K | Mr22-7454: demonstration of highly integrated autonomous rov-based 3dem for underwater advanced geophysical classification | Army | Jun 17, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ26C0005 definitive contract | Tetra Tech Ec, Inc | $227K | Estcp project number mr25-8926 title: demonstration of the ultratema-4 at the san diego underwater real-world munitions response site | Army | Feb 19, 2026 DoD 90d |
| 70RSAT22FR0000133 delivery order | The MITRE Corporation | $225K | Establish a new incrementally funded task order for invention secrecy act (isa) support | Office of Procurement Operations | Apr 26, 2024 |
| W912HQ22C0084 definitive contract | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | $224K | Serdp project m22-3303 | Army | May 28, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ25P0002 purchase order | Hydrogeologic, Inc | $224K | New start fy24 serdp rc25-4822 "coupling numerical weather prediction modeling with hydrological modeling to improve climate prediction and impact evaluation" | Army | May 22, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N6600126P6004 purchase order | New Jersey Institute of Technology | $224K | Services & fringe benefits | Navy | Dec 4, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ25C0077 definitive contract | Trustees of Dartmouth College | $223K | Estcp new start project ew25-8806 demonstrating the application of advanced, lightweight emi sensors for detecting, locating, and identifying lead and copper pipes in real field conditions | Army | Sep 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 14, 2026.
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