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Science and technology R&D: $5.5B in defense awards
$5.5B obligated across 3,565 DoD and DHS awards to 1,371 companies, Oct 1, 2023 to Oct 14, 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 | 3,565 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N0001915C0037 definitive contract | RTX BBN Technologies, Inc | -$57K | Igf::ct::igf | Defense Contract Management Agency | Jun 9, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA701421C0038 definitive contract | Aptima Inc | -$58K | Pkf - over/cato - this contract is a sbir phase iii contract for ussf/s1 | Air Force | May 20, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W911NF20F0004 delivery order | Guidehouse Inc | -$58K | Base year: R&D services&travel -- | Army | Mar 4, 2025 DoD 90d |
| 0014 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | -$59K | Cwmd systems strategic analysis service | Washington Headquarters Services | Nov 2, 2023 DoD 90d |
| M6785422F7212 delivery order | Applied Research Associates, Inc | -$60K | First task order under base contract idiq m67854-22-d-7209 to provide research and technology development support services for pneumatic pressure impulse generation. | Navy | Apr 1, 2026 DoD 90d |
| HT001121F0100 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | -$61K | Essential services for program and initiative management, portfolio management, and technology roadmaps in support of the science and technology management program. | Defense Health Agency | Sep 11, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W911NF18F0019 delivery order | Icf Incorporated, L.l.c | -$64K | The u.s. ARMY contracting command (acc) aberdeen proving ground (apg) research triangle park (rtp) division on behalf of the u.s. ARMY research institute (ari) has a requirement to award a firm fixed price (ffp) task order (to) for a ... | Army | Dec 19, 2023 DoD 90d |
| W913E523C0012 definitive contract | University of Alaska Fairbanks | -$64K | Research & development - uaf baa proposal 23-0023 titled, "high-resolution permafrost modeling in greenland and an assessment of permafrost degradation risk" u437h00 | Army | Sep 25, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W911NF19F0059 delivery order | Icf Incorporated, L.l.c | -$64K | Base year: R&D services for "identifying characteristics of elite teams and their leaders to optimize squad performance in the future operating environment." | Army | Nov 7, 2024 DoD 90d |
| FA865017C9118 definitive contract | RTX BBN Technologies, Inc | -$67K | Igf::ot::igf foreign language automated information retrieval (flair) | Defense Contract Management Agency | Aug 20, 2025 DoD 90d |
| 0359 delivery order | Peraton Inc | -$67K | Option year 1 - cpif engineering | Defense Information Systems Agency | Jun 20, 2024 DoD 90d |
| 70RSAT23FR0000028 delivery order | Battelle Memorial Institute | -$68K | New task order for tsl idiq to support the developmental test and evaluation air cargo testing support for evaluating prototype skid screening scanners and automated threat recognition software project | Office of Procurement Operations | Jan 13, 2026 |
| HSFE6015C0036 definitive contract | The University of Mississippi | -$69K | Igf::ct::igf developing a stand-alone dss-wise lite with graphical user interface and additional developments for FEMA and national dam safety program by univ. of mississippi | Federal Emergency Management Agency | Nov 14, 2024 |
| HQ003418F0031 delivery order | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC | -$70K | Igf::ot::igf cwmd systems labor | Washington Headquarters Services | Sep 24, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W9132T21C0013 definitive contract | University of Illinois | -$71K | Baa #21-010 "cerl student support and research opportunities ay 2021-2022" u435cne | Army | Dec 13, 2023 DoD 90d |
| HC104717F0106 delivery order | Peraton Inc | -$72K | Igf::ot::igf advanced wireless services (aws)-3 early entry portal (eep) engineering analysis | Defense Information Systems Agency | Jun 2, 2025 DoD 90d |
| 70RCSJ23FR0000041 delivery order | The MITRE Corporation | -$73K | The purpose of this task order under the u.s. department of homeland security (DHS)indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (idiq) contract no. 70rsat20d00000001 with the mitre corporation is to provide planning support for the ... | Office of Procurement Operations | Sep 25, 2025 |
| HT942523F0251 BPA call | Science Care Inc | -$73K | Male, whole cadaver minus hand services. | Defense Health Agency | Dec 13, 2024 DoD 90d |
| 70RSAT22FR0000149 delivery order | Northeastern University | -$75K | New task order non-contact sampling needs of TSA & the aviation industry. | Office of Procurement Operations | May 26, 2026 |
| W912HQ22C0058 definitive contract | University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science | -$76K | Estcp project rc22-7373 "broad-scale detection of floral-associated arthropods using terrestrial environmental dna techniques" | Army | Dec 14, 2023 DoD 90d |
| W912HQ22C0062 definitive contract | Slipstream Group Inc | -$80K | Estcp project ew22-7217 "demonstration of hybrid rooftop unit with thermal storage to improve resilience in DOD facilities" | Army | Jul 7, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N6893622C0040 definitive contract | Amyris, Inc | -$82K | Biosynthetic caryopholen | Navy | Jul 17, 2024 DoD 90d |
| 70RSAT21FR0000039 delivery order | Battelle Memorial Institute | -$83K | Task order for mmw idx screening at speed activities | Office of Procurement Operations | Dec 11, 2024 |
| N6600123P6166 purchase order | Videoray LLC | -$84K | Mk20 defender rov R&D engineering services | Navy | Mar 15, 2024 DoD 90d |
| 0323 delivery order | Peraton Inc | -$84K | Option year 1 - cpif engineering | Defense Information Systems Agency | Jun 4, 2024 DoD 90d |
| 70RSAT21FR0000115 delivery order | Battelle Memorial Institute | -$84K | Provide specialized expertise for continued development of an explosives tests database to categorize and assimilate commercial aircraft vulnerability and mitigation (cavm) program test results into a centralized, searchable database. | Office of Procurement Operations | Jul 29, 2025 |
| W31P4Q19F0068 delivery order | Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp | -$85K | Task order w31p4q19f0068 is issued in accordance with section h-14, ordering procedures of the basic contract, for the performance work statement (pws) entitled "alcazar". | Army | Mar 24, 2026 DoD 90d |
| 70RCSJ23FR0000009 delivery order | The MITRE Corporation | -$88K | Provide cyber threat intelligence analysis to the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency (cisa) cybersecurity division (csd)/threat hunting (th). | Office of Procurement Operations | Sep 24, 2025 |
| W5J9CQ21F0012 delivery order | General Dynamics One Source LLC | -$89K | Grids iii big data micro services (bdms)ii for united states for korea (usfk) | Army | Sep 18, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HC104721F2120 delivery order | Validatek Inc | -$89K | Task 2- e3 and ss awareness and training | Defense Information Systems Agency | Mar 29, 2024 DoD 90d |
| 70RSAT20C00000063 definitive contract | Dawnbreaker Inc | -$90K | Commercialization assistance marketplace | Office of Procurement Operations | May 1, 2025 |
| W913E518C0001 definitive contract | Creare LLC | -$92K | Sbir "crowd-sourced environmental sensing and terrain analysis using mobile devices" u437g00 | Army | Mar 21, 2024 DoD 90d |
| 0001 delivery order | Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp | -$92K | Task order 0001 to w31p4q-18-d-0002 is for research and development (R&D)-service for integrated air and missile defense (iamd) battle command system (ibcs) a/b interface test tool (abitt) and ibcs test suite (its) development for the ... | Army | Apr 29, 2025 DoD 90d |
| 0357 delivery order | Peraton Inc | -$93K | Option year 1 - cpif engineering | Defense Information Systems Agency | Jun 20, 2024 DoD 90d |
| N0017319F2007 delivery order | L3Harris Technologies, Inc | -$93K | Pr: 57-1004-19 this action provides for engineering support for this advanced decoy architecture project and one payload test set. | Defense Contract Management Agency | Aug 26, 2024 DoD 90d |
| H9821019C0006 definitive contract | Cherokee Nation Technology Solutions LLC | -$97K | Research and program evaluation and data and surveillance support services | Defense Human Resources Activity | May 14, 2024 DoD 90d |
| 70RSAT22FR0000159 delivery order | Regents of the University of Minnesota | -$100K | The purpose of this requisition is to establish funding for food protection and defense institute (fpdi). | Office of Procurement Operations | Apr 24, 2024 |
| W31P4Q21F0011 delivery order | Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp | -$102K | The performance work statement for this action is entitled, "peo digital/peo mlb georgia tech research institute (grti) support." | Army | Jan 8, 2024 DoD 90d |
| 0457 delivery order | Peraton Inc | -$103K | Option year 2 - cpif engineering | Defense Information Systems Agency | Jun 20, 2024 DoD 90d |
| 70RSAT18CB0000044 definitive contract | Duke University | -$104K | This is a new contract with duke university for design and analysis of a hybrid transmission and x-ray diffraction scanner for high throughput explosive detection. | Office of Procurement Operations | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 0229 delivery order | Peraton Inc | -$108K | Base period - cpif engineering | Defense Information Systems Agency | Jun 4, 2024 DoD 90d |
| N0017321F2008 delivery order | Leidos, Inc | -$110K | Task order - research field 5 | Navy | Jun 20, 2024 DoD 90d |
| 0256 delivery order | Peraton Inc | -$122K | Base period - cpif engineering | Defense Information Systems Agency | Apr 1, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W912HZ19F0170 delivery order | Resource Management Associates, Inc | -$122K | Columbia river basin hec-wat flood risk assessment computations u433d90 | Army | Aug 2, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W911NF21C0025 definitive contract | Fit Genetics, Inc | -$137K | Sttr phase ii:exploiting single nucleotide polymorphisms for extreme performance | Army | Nov 3, 2023 DoD 90d |
| N6134022C0030 definitive contract | Cole Engineering Services, Inc | -$137K | Support for on-site labs | Navy | Mar 31, 2025 DoD 90d |
| HC104717F0113 delivery order | Peraton Inc | -$144K | Igf::ot::igf t4152 aws-3 sstd lte rcvr wg technical support | Defense Information Systems Agency | May 29, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W31P4Q19F0581 delivery order | Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp | -$147K | The air force research laboratory, sensors directorate (afrl/ry) provides warfighters advanced electronic warfare (ew) capabilities and highly representative, validated, timely, and affordable threat electronic combat test and training ... | Army | Sep 17, 2025 DoD 90d |
| 70RSAT22FR0000147 delivery order | Mississippi State University | -$148K | Justice next gen first task order | Office of Procurement Operations | Aug 6, 2025 |
| W911QX20C0006 definitive contract | Hartzell Engine Technologies LLC | -$162K | Sbir ii topic a18-019 - year 1 - development of a turbocharger for small aviation diesel engines | Army | Sep 14, 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 16, 2026.
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