Contracting office · Department of the Air Force

FA9451 AFRL RDK

FA9451 AFRL RDK obligated $116.9M on federal contracts in FY2026 across 351 contract actions (−45% vs FY2025). Its largest recipient was KBR WYLE SERVICES, LLC ($26.7M).

Obligations · FY2026
$116.9M
Actions
351
New awards: 14
Sole-source
18%
Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 118.9MFY2017
  2. 151.2MFY2018
  3. 177.5MFY2019
  4. 174.3MFY2020
  5. 159.5MFY2021
  6. 184.8MFY2022
  7. 190.7MFY2023
  8. 250.7MFY2024
  9. 210.7MFY2025
  10. 116.9MFY2026

Top recipients

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. KBR WYLE SERVICES, LLC$26.7M23%
  2. THE BOEING COMPANY$22.1M19%
  3. LEIDOS, INC.$13.7M12%
  4. FURY SOLUTIONS LLC$8.1M7.0%
  5. STELLANT SYSTEMS INC$5.5M4.7%
  6. SMS DATA PRODUCTS GROUP INC$5M4.3%
  7. MZA ASSOCIATES CORPORATION$4.3M3.6%
  8. VERUS RESEARCH, LLC$4.2M3.6%
  9. SCIENCE, ENGINEERING, MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS, LLC$3.1M2.7%
  10. UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII$3M2.5%

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$98.2M84%
  2. Professional services$18.3M16%
  3. IT & telecom$230.4K0.2%
  4. Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$155K0.1%

Where the work was performed

  1. New Mexico$60.7M52%
  2. Hawaii$30M26%
  3. Virginia$14.6M12%
  4. Maryland$3.2M2.7%
  5. California$2.8M2.4%
  6. Alabama$2.3M2.0%
  7. Colorado$1.8M1.6%
  8. Massachusetts$600K0.5%
  9. Ohio$500K0.4%
  10. Michigan$339.8K0.3%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition40%
    US 39% · $46.8M
  • Sole-source awards18%
    US 30% · $21.5M
  • Single-offer competitions22%
    US 8.8% · $25.3M
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0
  • Year-end rush0.0%
    US 5.6% · $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. RASTER TASK ORDER 0008 - MAUI SPACE SURVEILLANCE COMPLEX (MSSC) MISSION EXECUTION$74.2M
    THE BOEING COMPANY· Bernalillo County, NM· Research & development· Mar 20, 2020 – Apr 22, 2026· FA945120F0008
  2. STARFIRE ELECTRO-OPTICS, LASER LAB ADVANCEMENT (STELLA)$71.4M
    THE BOEING COMPANY· Bernalillo County, NM· Research & development· Oct 21, 2024 – Jun 2, 2026· FA945125CX002
  3. RASTER TO 09: SOR HOST AND SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS (SHASSAM)$69.2M
    THE BOEING COMPANY· Bernalillo County, NM· Research & development· Dec 13, 2019 – Jun 2, 2026· FA945120F0009
  4. THE VANGUARD CENTERS UNIFIED UARC FOR MHPCC SUPPORT TO 0001 EFFORTS SHALL FOCUS ON THREE HPCMP FUNDED RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES CENTERS, PORTAL, AND CREATE.$42.2M
    UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII· Honolulu County, HI· Research & development· May 1, 2020 – Apr 20, 2026· FA945120F0004
  5. RASTER STARFIRE THREE APERTURE RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTS (STARE)$39.4M
    THE BOEING COMPANY· Bernalillo County, NM· Research & development· Nov 4, 2016 – Apr 30, 2026· 0001
  6. THE OVERARCHING OBJECTIVE OF MJOLNIR IS TO DEVELOP, TEST AND DEMONSTRATE A MATURE PROTOTYPE BASED ON THE FIRST GENERATION TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATOR, HIGH-POWER MICROWAVE (HPM) COUNTER UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM (CUAS) PLATFORM.$38M
    LEIDOS, INC.· Fairfax County, VA· Research & development· Feb 24, 2022 – May 6, 2026· FA945122C0002
  7. IGF::OT:: IGF SOLID STATE LASER EFFECTS AND MODELING (SSLEM)$35.4M
    BAE SYSTEMS SPACE & MISSION SYSTEMS INC.· Boulder County, CO· Research & development· Oct 19, 2018 – Dec 9, 2025· FA945119C0001
  8. PULSED AND CONTINUOUS WAVE INNOVATION FOR INTEGRATION AND EFFECTS RESEARCH.$28.8M
    BAE SYSTEMS SPACE & MISSION SYSTEMS INC.· Jefferson County, CO· Research & development· Jul 24, 2020 – May 19, 2026· FA945120C0010

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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.