Contracting office · Department of the Air Force

FA2385 USAF AFMC AFRL PZL AFRL RSKD

FA2385 USAF AFMC AFRL PZL AFRL RSKD obligated $276.6M on federal contracts in FY2026 across 192 contract actions (−16% vs FY2025). Its largest recipient was RAYTHEON COMPANY ($49.5M).

Obligations · FY2026
$276.6M
Actions
192
New awards: 23
Sole-source
14%
Small business
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Open in the contracts explorerFederal contracts

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 969KFY2019
  2. 34.6MFY2020
  3. 31.1MFY2021
  4. 63.4MFY2022
  5. 173.4MFY2023
  6. 260.3MFY2024
  7. 327.5MFY2025
  8. 276.6MFY2026

Top recipients

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. RAYTHEON COMPANY$49.5M18%
  2. L3 TECHNOLOGIES, INC.$48.9M18%
  3. NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION$35.2M13%
  4. LINQUEST CORPORATION$17.8M6.4%
  5. NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION$17M6.1%
  6. INVERSION SPACE COMPANY$15.8M5.7%
  7. THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC$12.6M4.5%
  8. VIASAT INC$12.3M4.4%
  9. LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$8.7M3.1%
  10. DZYNE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC$7.7M2.8%

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$276.6M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. California$67M24%
  2. New Jersey$57.8M21%
  3. Texas$54.6M20%
  4. Maryland$31.3M11%
  5. Virginia$31.2M11%
  6. Arizona$12.3M4.4%
  7. Colorado$7.1M2.6%
  8. Alabama$4.9M1.8%
  9. Ohio$4.4M1.6%
  10. Florida$1.7M0.6%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition55%
    US 39% · $151.2M
  • Sole-source awards14%
    US 30% · $37.4M
  • Single-offer competitions41%
    US 8.7% · $113.8M
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0
  • Year-end rush0.0%
    US 6.1% · $0
  • Undefinitized contracts0.0%
    US 5.0% · $0
  • Time-and-materials pricing0.0%
    US 4.2% · $0

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

Largest awards

  1. DEFENSE EXPERIMENTATION USING COMMERCIAL SPACE INTERNET CALL 003 - MULTI-BAND, MULTI-ORBIT SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS EXPERIMENTS$186.1M
    L3 TECHNOLOGIES, INC.· Camden County, NJ· Research & development· May 17, 2023 – May 28, 2026· FA865023C9311
  2. DEFENSE EXPERIMENTATION USING COMMERCIAL SPACE INTERNET CALL 003 MULTI-BAND, MULTI-ORBIT SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS EXPERIMENTS$180.3M
    NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION· San Diego County, CA· Research & development· Jun 2, 2023 – Apr 22, 2026· FA865023C9313
  3. SPECIFICALLY CONSTRAINED LOW-VOLUME AIRCRAFT MULTI-BAND, DIRECTIONAL SATCOM ANTENNAS$82.1M
    RAYTHEON COMPANY· Collin County, TX· Research & development· Aug 29, 2024 – May 28, 2026· FA238524CB037
  4. SPECIFICALLY CONSTRAINED LOW-VOLUME AIRCRAFT MULTI-BAND, DIRECTIONAL SATCOM ANTENNAS$56.4M
    NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION· Anne Arundel County, MD· Research & development· Sep 16, 2024 – May 14, 2026· FA238524CB040
  5. JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY SUPPORT TO THE INTEGRATED CAPABILITIES DIRECTORATE$52.5M
    THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC· Howard County, MD· Research & development· Jun 22, 2023 – Jun 12, 2026· FA865023C9302
  6. AIM-9X SIDEWINDER SUPPORT IN ADVANCED BATTLE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (ABMS) COUNTER CRUISE MISSILE (C-CM) EXPERIMENTATION PROG$51.8M
    RAYTHEON COMPANY· Pima County, AZ· Research & development· May 7, 2020 – Apr 20, 2026· FA865020C9310
  7. DEFENSE EXPERIMENTATION USING COMMERCIAL SPACE INTERNET (DEUCSI), ROLLING THUNDER MULTI-BAND MULTI-ORBIT BLOS COMMUNICAT$40.5M
    RAYTHEON COMPANY· Collin County, TX· Research & development· Jun 9, 2023 – Mar 18, 2026· FA865023C9312
  8. DEFENSE EXPERIMENTATION USING COMMERCIAL SPACE INTERNET$31.1M
    NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION· Anne Arundel County, MD· Research & development· Dec 6, 2019 – Apr 20, 2026· FA865020C9315

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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.