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Unmanned aircraft: $5.5B in defense awards
$5.5B obligated across 1,143 DoD and DHS awards to 249 companies, Oct 1, 2023 to Oct 7, 2026, 3.7% of Aircraft. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc leads with $2.3B; Department of the Army is the largest buyer at $2.1B.
| Obligated FY2024+ | $5.5B |
|---|---|
| Awards | 1,143 |
| Companies | 249 |
| FY2024 | $2.2B |
| FY2025 | $1.9B |
| FY2026 to date | $1.5B |
| Parent category | Aircraft |
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| Award | Company | Obligated FY2024+ | What | Agency | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W15P7T26F0103 delivery order | Leidos, Inc | $4.2M | Procure drone system and accessories | Army | Apr 22, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W58RGZ26F0292 delivery order | Integrate DG LLC | $4.0M | In accordance with the directives established in the department of war memorandum dated 10 july 2025, in support of executive order 14307-unleashing u.s. military drone dominance | Army | Jun 1, 2026 DoD 90d |
| 70B02C20P00000194 purchase order | Ilc Astrospace LLC | $3.9M | Purchase order award for the purchase of 2-420k aerostats. | U.S. Customs and Border Protection | Oct 21, 2025 |
| FA868924F2251 delivery order | General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc | $3.9M | Mq-9 reaper clean up hitter (cuh) 3.5 | Air Force | Apr 22, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001924F0100 delivery order | Insitu, Inc | $3.9M | Procure two (2) rq-21a air vehicles and spares under the thailand maritime security initiative (msi) case pq-p-lab | Defense Contract Management Agency | Feb 20, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W15P7T25F0014 delivery order | Leidos, Inc | $3.9M | Procure power supply, server, processor, virtual interface card network adapter, rack servers, power cable, smart keyboard, power cable in-cabinet, cable direct-attach, and router | Army | Oct 31, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W58RGZ25C0002 definitive contract | AeroVironment, Inc | $3.8M | To deliver ravens to austria along with spares packages and accessories. | Army | Jul 23, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0001921F0188 delivery order | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | $3.7M | In support of the non-destructive test and inspection (ndi) (reference standards) support equipment effort for the mq-4c triton UAS program for usn and raaf. | Navy | May 19, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001925F0111 delivery order | Insitu, Inc | $3.7M | The purpose of this delivery order is to procure hardware and services in support of fms thailand, pv-p-laf. | Navy | Aug 26, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W58RGZ26F0167 delivery order | AeroVironment, Inc | $3.6M | Fms requirement for estonia. | Army | Feb 13, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W900KK24F0067 delivery order | Griffon Aerospace, Inc | $3.6M | Hardware for ada-t aerial targets | Army | May 1, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA862023F4085 delivery order | Aevex Aerospace, LLC | $3.5M | Big safari | Air Force | Feb 25, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W15P7T25F0129 delivery order | Leidos, Inc | $3.5M | Procure avenger kit | Army | Aug 27, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W15P7T26F0107 delivery order | Leidos, Inc | $3.4M | Procure a counter-drone system | Army | Apr 24, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001923F0578 delivery order | Insitu, Inc | $3.3M | The purpose of this delivery order is to procure hardware and services to convert the lebanon air force (laf) fleet from analog to digital and the ability to operate the new digital and vidar technology. | Navy | Jun 5, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W912CH26CA012 definitive contract | Smart Shooter Inc | $3.2M | Smash 2000le fire control system and associated spares and training course. | Army | May 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA862023F4070 delivery order | Aevex Aerospace, LLC | $3.1M | Big safari | Air Force | Apr 18, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0016425FJ051 delivery order | Platform Systems, Incorporated | $3.1M | Vanilla le-UAS | Navy | Dec 29, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W15P7T25F0214 delivery order | Leidos, Inc | $3.1M | Procure antenna, data converter, and bonded storage | Army | Jul 11, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W900KK25FA087 delivery order | Griffon Aerospace, Inc | $3.1M | Delivery order 58 under the air defense artillery targets ii (ada-t ii) indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (idiq) contract w900kk-22-d-0010 for engineering services, sub-esm 03-10 and 03-13. | Army | Jun 3, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W15P7T25F0236 delivery order | Leidos, Inc | $3.0M | Procurement of communication equipment, antennas, batteries, chargers, and wireless equipment | Army | Mar 10, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W15P7T25F0078 delivery order | Leidos, Inc | $3.0M | Purchase of navmacs (tdp 1.10) | Army | Jun 24, 2025 DoD 90d |
| FA862015C3001 definitive contract | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | $2.9M | Global hawk, acat 1, fms rok | Air Force | May 29, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001924F0282 delivery order | Insitu, Inc | $2.8M | The purpose of this delivery order is to procure hardware and services in support of fms rq-21a canada, fms case: cn-p-lkm. | Navy | Mar 5, 2025 DoD 90d |
| H9223824F0009 delivery order | Area-I, LLC | $2.8M | Hardware | U.S. Special Operations Command | Jul 11, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W900KK26FA066 delivery order | Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems, Inc | $2.8M | To provide accredited, threat representative unmanned aerial target systems for use in sensor presentations or live fire tracking and engagement for weapons systems testing. | Army | May 8, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001923F0100 delivery order | Insitu, Inc | $2.7M | The purpose of this order is to procure air vehicles,support equipment and spares. navair pid# n00019-22-norfp-wpm263-0004 | Navy | Dec 12, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W911S225FA246 BPA call | Performance Drone Works LLC | $2.7M | S2p2: UAS - solicitation# w911s225u1585 | Army | May 6, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W58RGZ26F0029 delivery order | AeroVironment, Inc | $2.6M | Iraq delivery order | Army | Nov 20, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0001925F0292 delivery order | Insitu, Inc | $2.6M | The purpose of this new task order is to procure the required equipment and services for indonesia national military naval force (tni-al) in support of establishing a second maritime site. | Navy | Sep 26, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0001925F0161 delivery order | Insitu, Inc | $2.6M | Hardware, field service representative (fsr) support, travel and deployment support to convert scaneagle 13 air vehicles from analog to digital in support of poland fms case pl-p-gav. | Navy | Sep 12, 2025 DoD 90d |
| N0001921F0362 delivery order | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | $2.5M | Ua b10 preservation and storage | Navy | May 4, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W15P7T25F0029 delivery order | Leidos, Inc | $2.5M | Procure dronebuster, external power cable, soft case for dronebuster, and bonded storage | Army | Nov 15, 2024 DoD 90d |
| W900KK25FA134 delivery order | Griffon Aerospace, Inc | $2.5M | Delivery order (do) #69 under the air defense artillery targets (ada-t) contract w900kk-22-d-0010, used to provide aerial target replacement hardware for items used in support of ARMY and NAVY training and test events. | Army | May 29, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W15P7T25F0070 delivery order | Leidos, Inc | $2.5M | Procure tactical router and packaging labels | Army | Jun 24, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W15P7T25F0056 delivery order | Leidos, Inc | $2.4M | Procure tactical router and packing labels | Army | Mar 25, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W15P7T25F0234 delivery order | Leidos, Inc | $2.3M | Procure sensor | Army | Apr 16, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W15P7T26F0054 delivery order | Leidos, Inc | $2.2M | Procure band antenna, emissive keyboard, headset connector, rugged sensor dongle, wireless dongle, speaker microphone, speaker, stub antenna | Army | Feb 27, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W15P7T26F0022 delivery order | Leidos, Inc | $2.2M | Procure pro-processor laptop, rugged laptop, rugged tablet with detachable keyboard, labels, and packaging | Army | Jan 22, 2026 DoD 90d |
| N0001925F5000 delivery order | Insitu, Inc | $2.1M | Fms rq-21a hardware and services thailand laf | Navy | Mar 18, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W58RGZ22C0014 definitive contract | General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc | $2.1M | Mq-1c gray eagle extended range full rate production vi | Army | Feb 26, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W900KK24F0125 delivery order | Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems, Inc | $2.1M | New order to acquire 37 magellan aerospace winnipeg (maw) rocket assisted take-off (rato) motors required for bqm-167 aerial target launch system, 37 initiators and one balance beam. | Army | Aug 13, 2024 DoD 90d |
| N0001923F0436 delivery order | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | $2.0M | The purpose of this delivery order is to establish clins in support of the bar redesign effort. navair pid# n00019-22-rfpreq-wpm262-0288 pr# 1301028329 | Navy | Jan 30, 2024 DoD 90d |
| FA868924FB008 delivery order | L3 Technologies, Inc | $2.0M | Mq-9 communication reaper integrated upgrade solutions (crius) delivery order 3 | Air Force | Mar 10, 2026 DoD 90d |
| W15P7T25F0174 delivery order | Leidos, Inc | $2.0M | Procure mobile workstation, tower workstation, and rugged portable workstation | Army | Feb 26, 2026 DoD 90d |
| FA862023F4098 delivery order | Aevex Aerospace, LLC | $1.9M | Big safari | Air Force | Apr 1, 2026 DoD 90d |
| 70CMSD26FC0000037 BPA call | Atlantic Diving Supply, Inc | $1.9M | This award procures small unmanned aircraft system which provides homeland security investigation personnel with aerial capabilities when conducting law enforcement investigations nationwide. | U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | Aug 26, 2026 |
| FA862020F2390 delivery order | General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc | $1.9M | Mq-9 block 5 weaponization and foreign military sales (fms) pod integration (france) | Air Force | Dec 3, 2025 DoD 90d |
| W900KK25FA098 delivery order | Aevex Aerospace, LLC | $1.9M | Delivery order for small unmanned aerial counter systems. | Army | Apr 16, 2026 DoD 90d |
| H9223825F0013 delivery order | Area-I, LLC | $1.8M | Mission equipment, parts and spares | U.S. Special Operations Command | Jul 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 9, 2026.
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