Federal sub-agency · Department of Defense

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency obligated $1.1B on federal contracts in FY2026 across 1,017 contract actions (−41% vs FY2025). Its largest recipient was LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION ($246.2M). It also awarded $401.9M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$1.1B
Actions
1,017
New awards: 100
Sole-source
41%
Small business
22%
Open in the contracts explorerRelationship graphFederal contracts

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 536.1MFY2017
  2. 622.2MFY2018
  3. 609.3MFY2019
  4. 996.8MFY2020
  5. 1.4BFY2021
  6. 1.6BFY2022
  7. 1.6BFY2023
  8. 1.8BFY2024
  9. 1.8BFY2025
  10. 1.1BFY2026

Top recipients

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$246.2M23%
  2. THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC$129M12%
  3. SECURIGENCE LLC$76.1M7.1%
  4. SCHAFER GOVERNMENT SERVICES, LLC$42.2M3.9%
  5. ECS FEDERAL, LLC$39M3.6%
  6. GUIDEHOUSE INC.$37.1M3.5%
  7. STRATEGIC ANALYSIS, INC.$36.4M3.4%
  8. SYSTEM HIGH CORPORATION$32.4M3.0%
  9. SYSTEMS & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH LLC$25M2.3%
  10. HRL LABORATORIES, LLC$22.3M2.1%

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$716.2M67%
  2. Professional services$249.8M23%
  3. IT & telecom$104.1M9.7%
  4. Transportation & logistics$282.6K0.0%
  5. Construction & real property$119.1K0.0%
  6. Education & social services$35.6K0.0%
  7. Other equipment & supplies$1,2420.0%

Where the work was performed

  1. Virginia$369.3M34%
  2. California$360.6M34%
  3. Maryland$160.5M15%
  4. Massachusetts$59.2M5.5%
  5. Alabama$19.2M1.8%
  6. Connecticut$18M1.7%
  7. New Jersey$11.6M1.1%
  8. Texas$10.8M1.0%
  9. Ohio$10.3M1.0%
  10. Missouri$8.5M0.8%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition55%
    US 39% · $586.1M
  • Sole-source awards41%
    US 30% · $442.2M
  • Single-offer competitions13%
    US 8.7% · $144M
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0
  • Year-end rush0.0%
    US 6.0% · $0
  • Undefinitized contracts0.0%
    US 5.0% · -$19.4K
  • Time-and-materials pricing0.8%
    US 4.2% · $8.1M

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Offices with the most sole-source money

  1. DEF ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGCY$442.2M41%

Largest awards

  1. MULTI-NETWORK SUPPORT SERVICES$705M
    SECURIGENCE LLC· Arlington County, VA· IT & telecom· Oct 14, 2020 – May 18, 2026· HR001121F0006
  2. DARPA RESEARCH PROJECT$676.7M
    LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION· Los Angeles County, CA· Research & development· Oct 17, 2023 – May 20, 2026· HR001124C0304
  3. DARPA RESEARCH PROJECT$386.6M
    LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION· Los Angeles County, CA· Research & development· Sep 25, 2020 – Dec 17, 2025· HR001120C0074
  4. HYPERSONIC AIR-BREATHING WEAPON CONCEPT (HAWC) PHASE 2$376.9M
    RAYTHEON COMPANY· Pima County, AZ· Research & development· Oct 31, 2016 – Dec 1, 2025· HR001117C0025
  5. HYPERSONIC AIR-BREATHING WEAPON CONCEPT (HAWC) PHASE 2$240.7M
    LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION· Los Angeles County, CA· Research & development· Dec 1, 2016 – Jan 28, 2026· HR001116C0110
  6. DARPA RESEARCH PROGRAM SUPPORT SERVICES$231.4M
    THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC· Howard County, MD· Research & development· Jan 14, 2025 – Mar 24, 2026· HR001125F0008
  7. PROGRAM SECURITY SERVICES$146.4M
    SYSTEM HIGH CORPORATION· Arlington County, VA· Professional services· Dec 21, 2021 – Apr 6, 2026· HR001122C0073
  8. DARPA ENTERPRISE SUPPORT SERVICES$141.1M
    GUIDEHOUSE INC.· Arlington County, VA· Professional services· May 11, 2021 – May 8, 2026· HR001121F0012

Federal grants & assistance awarded

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency obligated $401.9M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 663 actions (126 new awards), +45% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 12.910 · Research and Technology Development ($380.3M).

Assistance · FY2026
$401.9M
New awards
126
Actions
663
Since FY2021
$1.8B

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 254.5MFY2021
  2. 247.9MFY2022
  3. 219.3MFY2023
  4. 399MFY2024
  5. 277MFY2025
  6. 401.9MFY2026

By type

  1. Other assistance$282.6M70%
  2. Grants$119.2M30%

Top programs

  1. 12.910 · Research and Technology Development$380.3M95%
  2. 11.620 · Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach$20.2M5.0%
  3. 64.054 · Research and Development$612.7K0.2%
  4. 11.455 · Marine Education and Training$508.4K0.1%
  5. 12.002 · Procurement Technical Assistance for Business Firms$222.8K0.1%

Top recipients (organizations)

  1. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$129.4M32%
    AUSTIN, TX
  2. SRCCO INC.$24.7M6.1%
    DURHAM, NC
  3. WILDSTAR LLC$17.8M4.4%
    ARLINGTON, TX
  4. RIVERSIDE RESEARCH INSTITUTE$11.1M2.8%
    FAIRFAX, VA
  5. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$10.6M2.6%
    CAMBRIDGE, MA
  6. APPLIED RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC$9.6M2.4%
    BLOOMINGTON, IN
  7. CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY$7.5M1.9%
    PITTSBURGH, PA
  8. THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK$7.2M1.8%
    NEW YORK, NY

Where it went

  1. Texas$156.1M39%
  2. Massachusetts$42.4M11%
  3. California$40.9M10%
  4. North Carolina$25.7M6.4%
  5. Virginia$24.4M6.1%
  6. Pennsylvania$16.5M4.1%
  7. New York$14.6M3.6%
  8. Maryland$10.6M2.6%
  9. Indiana$10.6M2.6%
  10. Illinois$8.4M2.1%

By state of the place of performance.

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.

Federal grants & assistance

Subawards under this agency's awards

First-tier subawards that recipients of this agency's contracts and financial assistance reported, by the fiscal year of the subaward.

FY2026

  • Sub-contracts: $308.5M (189 subawards)
  • Sub-grants: $50.2M (123 subawards)

189 sub-recipients

Largest sub-recipients

  1. HETIN TEC CORP.$210.1M59%
    ROCKVILLE, MD · 4 subawards
  2. AMRA CONSULTING LLC$9.5M2.6%
    WASHINGTON, DC · 3 subawards
  3. RAYTHEON APPLIED SIGNAL TECHNOLOGY, INC.$6.6M1.8%
    SAN JOSE, CA · 1 subaward
  4. DESIGN INTERACTIVE, LLC$6.5M1.8%
    ORLANDO, FL · 5 subawards
  5. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY$6.4M1.8%
    NISKAYUNA, NY · 1 subaward
  6. ANDURIL INDUSTRIES, INC.$6M1.7%
    WASHINGTON, DC · 3 subawards
  7. ZACHARY PIPER LLC$5.7M1.6%
    MC LEAN, VA · 4 subawards
  8. SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS ANALYTICS, INC$5.4M1.5%
    FAIRFAX, VA · 1 subaward
  9. BETA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.$5.3M1.5%
    SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT · 2 subawards
  10. OVERLAND AI INC$4.9M1.4%
    SEATTLE, WA · 4 subawards

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Who lobbies this agency

Organizations whose quarterly lobbying reports list this agency as contacted, ranked by the reports' spending. A report's amount covers all its issues and every agency it lists; reports do not split it.

Lobbying in 2026
$11.1M
Clients
14
Reports
21

The whole amount of every report that lists this agency.

Organizations lobbying it, 2026

  1. GENERAL ATOMICSAI match · 95%$4.6M
    0.0% of its family's FY2026 contracts from this agency · Defense, Aerospace, Homeland security
  2. HONEYWELL INTERNATIONALAI match · 100%$3.5M
    0.0% of its family's FY2026 contracts from this agency · Defense, Trade (domestic and foreign), Aerospace
  3. SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION$910K
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Defense, Trade (domestic and foreign), Science and technology
  4. SYENSQO USA LLC$580K
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Defense, Trade (domestic and foreign), Aerospace
  5. Nokia of America CorporationAI match · 100%$370K
    No FY2026 contracts in its family · Defense, Trade (domestic and foreign), Homeland security
  6. UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND, INC.$366.5K
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Education
  7. SYNOPSYS, INC.AI match · 100%$310K
    0.0% of its family's FY2026 contracts from this agency · Defense, Trade (domestic and foreign), Aerospace
  8. COHERUS BIOSCIENCES$175K
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Government issues, Health issues
  9. HONEYWELL AEROSPACE US LLCAI match · 99%$90K
    0.0% of its family's FY2026 contracts from this agency · Defense, Aerospace
  10. Umbra Lab, Inc.AI match · 100%$60K
    0.0% of its family's FY2026 contracts from this agency · Defense
  11. ZOOM COMMUNICATIONS INCAI match · 99%$50K
    No FY2026 contracts in its family · Defense, Trade (domestic and foreign), Science and technology
  12. Groisman, LLC)$10K
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Defense, Energy and nuclear
  13. CASTELIONAI match · 99%$0
    0.0% of its family's FY2026 contracts from this agency · Defense
  14. SHEYENE TECHNOLOGY INC$0
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Defense

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Oct 5, 2026.

Committees that oversee and fund it

Congressional committees whose jurisdiction includes this agency, and the appropriations subcommittees that write its spending bill (Analisa's reading of the House and Senate rules; committees share jurisdiction). Leaders as currently published.

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Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.