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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70RSAT24FR0000068 delivery order | Battelle Memorial Institute | $4.5M | Tsl rddt&e time & materials task order for checked and carry-on baggage readiness testing (rt) | Office of Procurement Operations | Jul 6, 2026 |
| W31P4Q24F0212 delivery order | National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining | $4.5M | Task order for materials, manufacturing and machine learning: pushing frontiers of hypersonics in extreme environments | Army | Sep 16, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W911NF24C0070 definitive contract | Bluehalo Labs, LLC | $4.5M | Baa contract | Army | May 13, 2026 DoD 90d |
| 70RWMD22C00000020 definitive contract | Teledyne FLIR Defense, LLC | $4.5M | Cwmd obaa award to flir detection, inc. for ts10 research and development. | Office of Procurement Operations | Aug 11, 2026 |
| 70RDA326FR0000010 delivery order | The MITRE Corporation | $4.4M | Task order to mitre to assist ohs with a capability assessment to identify best practices, implementation lessons learned, interoperability challenges, and operational considerations for the development and fielding of the medical ... | Office of Procurement Operations | Sep 18, 2026 |
| W912HZ24C0023 definitive contract | Applied Research Associates, Inc | $4.4M | Baa 24-0040 hardened structure guidance improvements with ara u438000 | Army | Nov 21, 2025 DoD 90d |
| 70RWMD23C00000023 definitive contract | Mriglobal | $4.4M | Mriglobal cost plus fixed fee DHS cwmd obaa topic solicitation 15 award for agnostic threat detection system (atds) proposal for research and development services | Office of Procurement Operations | Sep 18, 2026 |
| W911QX21F0154 delivery order | DCS Corporation | $4.3M | Task order for opportunistic sensing for dismounted operations services against basic indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (idiq) for human-agent teaming research and engineering services with dcs corporation. | Army | Apr 30, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0017325C2461 definitive contract | Ametrine Inc | $4.3M | The services to be performed hereunder shall be subject to the requirements and standards contained in attachment 1 - statement of work, exhibit a - contract data requirements list, and all other attachments cited in section j, ... | Navy | Nov 21, 2025 DoD 90d |
| 70RWMD23C00000024 definitive contract | Zeteo Tech, Inc | $4.2M | Open broad agency announcement 70rdnd19r00000003, topic solicitation no. 15 70rwmd23r00000007 agent-agnostic biodetection system ffp contract award for research and development services to zeteo tech inc. | Office of Procurement Operations | Sep 1, 2026 |
| W912CG26FA005 delivery order | University of Southern California | $4.2M | University affiliated research center for a research and development services contract in modeling and simulation with strategic previsualizations for operational advantage, design and deterrence. | Army | Mar 13, 2026 DoD 90d |
| 70RSAT24FR0000034 delivery order | Battelle Memorial Institute | $4.2M | Tsl rdt&e idiq task order for the developmental test and evaluation for on-person screening (ops) project (to#24) | Office of Procurement Operations | Jul 22, 2026 |
| W31P4Q23F0008 delivery order | National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining | $4.2M | Solid oxide fuel cells | Army | Jan 29, 2026 DoD 90d |
| SP470124C0023 definitive contract | SRI International | $4.2M | Flexible industrial logistics, operations and supplier networks (filos) | Defense Logistics Agency | May 31, 2026 DoD 90d |
| 70RWMD23C00000025 definitive contract | Kromek Limited | $4.2M | Open broad agency announcement topic solicitation no. 15: 70rwmd23r00000007 agent-agnostic biodetection system contract award for research and development services to kromek limited for 4 phase firm fixed price effort. | Office of Procurement Operations | Jan 29, 2026 |
| FA865623FB008 delivery order | Systima Technologies Inc | $4.2M | Speed loader agile pod support | Air Force | Mar 4, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA852822C0003 definitive contract | Cenith Innovations LLC | $4.2M | U-2 3rd party open mission system (oms) pipeline | Defense Contract Management Agency | Apr 21, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W31P4Q25F0199 delivery order | National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining | $4.2M | Contract description: analysis, development, and implementation of manufacturing technology for the defense industrial base task order description: smart automation and intelligence for metals manufacturing | Army | Sep 18, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W911NF22C0004 definitive contract | Science, Engineering, Management Solutions, LLC | $4.2M | Compact rugged electron accelerator technology (create) | Army | Feb 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912CG24C0022 definitive contract | Dynamic Animation Systems, Inc | $4.1M | Emerging technologies enabling composable modeling and simulation as a service. | Army | May 29, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911QX21F0157 delivery order | DCS Corporation | $4.1M | Task order for technologies to assess human variability in real-world environments services against basic indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (idiq) for human agent teaming research and engineering services | Army | Mar 19, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA865022F2013 delivery order | Innovative Scientific Solutions Inc | $4.1M | Innovative combustion and propulsion research | Air Force | May 28, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA865022F5287 delivery order | Bluehalo LLC | $4.1M | Ceramic advanced materials and processes task order 0003 surface morphing and adaptive structures for hypersonics (smash) | Air Force | Apr 23, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA865021F2019 delivery order | Arctos Technology Solutions, LLC | $4.0M | High speed research and development | Air Force | Mar 25, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911QX25FA018 delivery order | Loukus Technologies, Inc | $4.0M | Task order for the use of advanced material systems and manufacturing for property enhancements of mortar and ground vehicle components. | Army | Jun 26, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W5J9CQ24F0006 delivery order | Research Innovations Incorporated | $4.0M | Sbsa task order engineering support for canadian forces warfare center. | Army | Apr 16, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W912HZ24F0409 delivery order | Edwards Design and Fabrication, Inc | $4.0M | Task order2 prototype system development and support u438150 | Army | Sep 20, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W913E525C0008 definitive contract | Dynamic Aviation Group, Inc | $4.0M | Cso imaging cold environments using multispectral airborne networks u437a00 | Army | Aug 26, 2025 DoD 90d |
| 70RTAC25FR0000022 delivery order | The MITRE Corporation | $4.0M | The purpose of this requirement is to create a new mitre task order. | Office of Procurement Operations | Feb 28, 2025 |
| N0017323C2004 definitive contract | Amentum Technology, Inc | $4.0M | Research and development effort - optoelectronics and radiation effects | Navy | May 18, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0017325C0004 definitive contract | Volta Space Technologies US Inc | $4.0M | Laser-enabled power transmission orbital network (lepton) program | Navy | Feb 25, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911QY24C9004 definitive contract | Freedom Flight Works, Inc | $3.9M | Long range precision aerial delivery system (lrpads) | Army | May 19, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911NF24F0063 delivery order | Texas A&m Engineering Experiment Station | $3.9M | Coordinated air-ground maneuvering | Army | May 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911QX24C0006 definitive contract | Logos Technologies, LLC | $3.9M | Small business innovation research (sbir) iii titled "wide area persistent surveillance hostile fire and unmanned aerial system detection (waps-hfuasd). | Army | May 19, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911NF22C0082 definitive contract | The University of Chicago | $3.9M | Iarpa research | Army | Apr 22, 2026 DoD 90d |
| 70SBUR24F00000286 delivery order | The MITRE Corporation | $3.9M | This is a direct ffrdc for the mitre corporation for the external affairs organizational assessment | U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services | Jul 25, 2025 |
| FA441724C0012 definitive contract | Blinkly, Inc | $3.9M | Sequential phase ii sbir - af221-dcso1 | Air Force | Sep 18, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W911QY21C0002 definitive contract | General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc | $3.9M | Research and development | Army | Jun 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W31P4Q25F0002 delivery order | National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining | $3.9M | Service: R&D contract description: analysis, development, and implementation of manufacturing technology for the defense industrial base task order description: advanced manufacturing improvements for casting of missile fins and components | Army | Mar 10, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W911NF25C0007 definitive contract | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | $3.9M | Capacitive adiabatic flux parametron memory (capmem) | Army | May 19, 2026 DoD 90d |
| 70RCSJ24FR0000055 delivery order | The MITRE Corporation | $3.8M | Th seeks to improve the ability to identify, analyze, and respond to threats in ci networks and provide more consolidated services to its government and ci partners | Office of Procurement Operations | Oct 17, 2024 |
| W911NF22C0051 definitive contract | Signature Science LLC | $3.8M | Research and development- 'forensic analysis of low level ionizing radiation exposure over time (fallout)" | Army | Nov 20, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA700025F0112 delivery order | Southwest Research Institute | $3.8M | Center for aircraft structural life extension (castle) af product lifecycle management (plm) support. | Air Force | Sep 19, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W912CG24C0002 definitive contract | Accelint AI, LLC | $3.8M | Artificial intelligence for modeling and simulation | Army | May 28, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA865021F2604 delivery order | DCS Corporation | $3.8M | Advanced high speed operations analysis & research (ahsoar) | Air Force | May 21, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911QX25FA029 delivery order | Turbineone Inc | $3.8M | Small business innovative research (sbir), phase iii indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (idiq), task order titled, intelligence application deployment demonstrations | Army | May 27, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA865022F2012 delivery order | Innovative Scientific Solutions Inc | $3.7M | Turbomachinery technology development | Air Force | May 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911QX25FA022 delivery order | Corvid Technologies, LLC | $3.7M | Digital engineering for complex defense challenges (task order 2) | Army | Jul 25, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HQ003425FE453 delivery order | University of Maryland, College Park | $3.7M | Conduct research relevant to the use of osint and pai with artificial intelligence (ai) tools and large language models (llms) to support the creation of decision support that can model population complexity based upon osint. | Washington Headquarters Services | Dec 11, 2025 DoD 90d |
| 70RSAT26FR0000009 delivery order | The MITRE Corporation | $3.7M | The purpose of this requisition is to commit $750,000.00 for a new task order under 70rsat20d00000001 for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and counter-unmanned aircraft systems (C-UAS), provides DHS with data-driven insights, operational ... | Office of Procurement Operations | Aug 6, 2026 |
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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