Federal sub-agency · Department of Defense

Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Defense Threat Reduction Agency obligated $672M on federal contracts in FY2026 across 781 contract actions (−41% vs FY2025). Its largest recipient was APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, INC. ($149.8M). It also awarded $25.4M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$672M
Actions
781
New awards: 63
Sole-source
16%
Small business
26%
Open in the contracts explorerRelationship graphFederal contracts

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 769.7MFY2017
  2. 773.6MFY2018
  3. 879.8MFY2019
  4. 892.3MFY2020
  5. 880.8MFY2021
  6. 901.3MFY2022
  7. 1.2BFY2023
  8. 1.3BFY2024
  9. 1.1BFY2025
  10. 672MFY2026

Top recipients

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, INC.$149.8M22%
  2. CACI NSS, LLC$32.5M4.8%
  3. PARSONS GOVERNMENT SERVICES INC.$32.5M4.8%
  4. LEIDOS, INC.$31.5M4.7%
  5. BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC$29.7M4.4%
  6. TEKSYNAP CORPORATION$25.8M3.8%
  7. ARSERVICES, LIMITED$25M3.7%
  8. LEIDOS, INC.$23.7M3.5%
  9. SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE$22.5M3.3%
  10. TECHTRANS INTERNATIONAL INC$18.3M2.7%

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$283.3M42%
  2. Professional services$234.6M35%
  3. IT & telecom$91.9M14%
  4. Education & social services$30.5M4.5%
  5. Transportation & logistics$18.7M2.8%
  6. Facilities & utilities$5.6M0.8%
  7. Construction & real property$2.9M0.4%
  8. Equipment maintenance$1.6M0.2%
  9. Health & medical$1.4M0.2%
  10. Other equipment & supplies$1.2M0.2%
  11. Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$171.1K0.0%

Where the work was performed

  1. Virginia$459.8M68%
  2. New Mexico$75.8M11%
  3. North Carolina$29.1M4.3%
  4. Abroad$28.3M4.2%
  5. Texas$26.7M4.0%
  6. Ohio$15.7M2.3%
  7. Colorado$13.3M2.0%
  8. California$12.7M1.9%
  9. Alaska$2.4M0.4%
  10. Maryland$2.2M0.3%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition45%
    US 39% · $303.6M
  • Sole-source awards16%
    US 30% · $108.4M
  • Single-offer competitions29%
    US 8.7% · $195.2M
  • Urgency justifications0.3%
    US 5.1% · $1.8M
  • Year-end rush0.0%
    US 6.0% · $0
  • Undefinitized contracts0.0%
    US 5.0% · $0
  • Time-and-materials pricing4.2%
    US 4.2% · $28.5M

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. DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY$98.6M15%
  2. DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY$9.8M30%

Largest awards

  1. PROFESSIONAL AND ANALYTICAL SERVICES IN SUPPORT OF COUNTERING AND DETERRENCE OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION$329.4M
    CACI NSS, LLC· Fairfax County, VA· Professional services· Jun 15, 2023 – May 11, 2026· HDTRA123F0020
  2. MISSION INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES$243.6M
    BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC· Fairfax County, VA· Professional services· Jul 20, 2023 – Jun 10, 2026· HDTRA123F0021
  3. ADVISORY AND ASSISTANCE SERVICES$234M
    NOBLIS, INC.· Fairfax County, VA· Professional services· May 12, 2021 – Mar 18, 2026· HDTRA121F0033
  4. COMBATING WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION ANALYSIS AND PLANNING TOOL DEVELOPMENT$171.2M
    APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, INC.· Wake County, NC· Research & development· Mar 29, 2019 – May 5, 2026· HDTRA119F0005
  5. RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT TEST AND EVALUATION SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL ADVISORY AND ASSISTANCE SERVICES$166.7M
    SYSTEMS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS, INC.· Fairfax County, VA· Professional services· Jul 7, 2021 – Jun 4, 2026· HDTRA121C0054
  6. DTRA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMATIC ADVISORY AND ASSISTANCE SERVICES$151.9M
    ARSERVICES, LIMITED· Fairfax County, VA· Professional services· May 11, 2021 – Jun 2, 2026· HDTRA121C0042
  7. TRANSIT, LOGISTICS, AND INTERPRETATION SUPPORT SERVICES$124.7M
    CULMEN INTERNATIONAL, LLC· Fairfax County, VA· Transportation & logistics· Jan 16, 2019 – Apr 29, 2026· HDTRA119F0019
  8. VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT SUPPORT$100.2M
    PARSONS GOVERNMENT SERVICES INC.· Fairfax County, VA· Professional services· May 22, 2023 – Jun 2, 2026· HDTRA123F0050

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 Threat Reduction Agency obligated $25.4M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 129 actions (9 new awards), +108% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 12.351 · Scientific Research - Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction ($25.3M).

Assistance · FY2026
$25.4M
New awards
9
Actions
129
Since FY2021
$390.1M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 81MFY2021
  2. 88.3MFY2022
  3. 99.4MFY2023
  4. 83.9MFY2024
  5. 12.2MFY2025
  6. 25.4MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$25.4M100%

Top programs

  1. 12.351 · Scientific Research - Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction$25.3M99.8%
  2. 12.501 · Training and Support – Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction$48.8K0.2%

Top recipients (organizations)

  1. THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$10M39%
    BALTIMORE, MD
  2. THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$7.9M31%
    UNIVERSITY PARK, PA
  3. REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, THE$1.7M6.6%
    SAN FRANCISCO, CA
  4. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$1M3.9%
    CAMBRIDGE, MA
  5. BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE$1M3.9%
    COLUMBUS, OH
  6. VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY$900K3.5%
    BLACKSBURG, VA
  7. ORGANISATION INTERNAT POLICE CRIMINELLE$890.1K3.5%
  8. NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$825K3.3%
    EVANSTON, IL

Where it went

  1. Maryland$10.5M41%
  2. Pennsylvania$8.9M35%
  3. California$2.9M11%
  4. Massachusetts$2.3M9.0%
  5. Virginia$1.1M4.5%
  6. Ohio$1M3.9%
  7. Illinois$825K3.3%
  8. Washington$678K2.7%
  9. Georgia$629.7K2.5%
  10. Missouri$395.7K1.6%

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: $8.8M (54 subawards)
  • Sub-grants: $78.8M (59 subawards)

77 sub-recipients

Largest sub-recipients

  1. REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$9.2M11%
    ANN ARBOR, MI · 2 subawards
  2. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$8.2M9.3%
    CAMBRIDGE, MA · 4 subawards
  3. UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA$7.5M8.6%
    GAINESVILLE, FL · 2 subawards
  4. VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$6.2M7.1%
    NASHVILLE, TN · 2 subawards
  5. THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$5.3M6.1%
    RIVERSIDE, CA · 2 subawards
  6. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$5.3M6.1%
    URBANA, IL · 1 subaward
  7. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO$4.6M5.2%
    LA JOLLA, CA · 1 subaward
  8. FISK UNIVERSITY$3.2M3.7%
    NASHVILLE, TN · 3 subawards
  9. NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$3.1M3.5%
    EVANSTON, IL · 3 subawards
  10. TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY$2.9M3.4%
    BLOOMINGTON, IN · 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
$40K
Clients
2
Reports
3

The whole amount of every report that lists this agency.

Organizations lobbying it, 2026

  1. Recce Pharmaceuticals Ltd$40K
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Defense, Health issues, Veterans
  2. Cyberlux Corporation$0
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Defense, Financial institutions, investments and securities

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 —.

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.