Federal sub-agency · Department of Defense

Immediate Office of the Secretary of Defense

Immediate Office of the Secretary of Defense obligated $199.1M on federal contracts in FY2026 across 100 contract actions (+192% vs FY2025). Its largest recipient was RAYTHEON COMPANY ($60.8M).

Obligations · FY2026
$199.1M
Actions
100
New awards: 19
Sole-source
77%
Small business
3.3%
Open in the contracts explorerRelationship graphFederal contracts

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 3.4MFY2020
  2. 33.5MFY2021
  3. 13.2MFY2022
  4. 2.5MFY2023
  5. 4.3MFY2024
  6. 68.1MFY2025
  7. 199.1MFY2026

Top recipients

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. RAYTHEON COMPANY$60.8M31%
  2. THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC$53.3M27%
  3. AVANTUS FEDERAL LLC$35.3M18%
  4. SYSTEMS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS, INC.$23.8M12%
  5. MODERN TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, INC.$14M7.1%
  6. INNOVATIVE DEFENSE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC$3.5M1.7%
  7. GOODRICH CORPORATION$2.7M1.4%
  8. GXO, INC.$1.9M1.0%
  9. ROYCE GEOSPATIAL CONSULTANTS, LLC$1.4M0.7%
  10. NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION$1.1M0.6%

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$199.1M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Virginia$80M40%
  2. Arizona$62M31%
  3. District of Columbia$31.9M16%
  4. Maryland$19.5M9.8%
  5. Massachusetts$2.7M1.4%
  6. California$1.9M1.0%
  7. Alabama$1.1M0.6%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition82%
    US 39% · $162.3M
  • Sole-source awards77%
    US 30% · $154.3M
  • Single-offer competitions4.1%
    US 8.7% · $8.1M
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0
  • Year-end rush0.0%
    US 6.1% · $0
  • Undefinitized contracts31%
    US 5.0% · $60.8M
  • Time-and-materials pricing7.1%
    US 4.2% · $14M

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. DIRECTOR SCO$154.3M77%

Largest awards

  1. COMPLETE DESIGN, BUILD AND DELIVERY OF A SPECIFIED NUMBER OF PROTOTYPES THAT INTEGRATE INTO EXISTING SYSTEMS AND COMPONENTS AS WELL AS NEW INNOVATIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF WORK.$60.8M
    RAYTHEON COMPANY· Pima County, AZ· Research & development· Nov 20, 2025 – Mar 23, 2026· HY023326C0002
  2. OSD STRATEGIC CAPABILITIES OFFICE SUPPORT CONTRACT$57.7M
    AVANTUS FEDERAL LLC· Fairfax County, VA· Research & development· May 30, 2025 – Jun 5, 2026· HY023325CE004
  3. COMPREHENSIVE SUPPORT ACROSS FOUR TECHNICAL AREAS: PROGRAM MANAGEMENT, TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT, JOINT PLANNING AND TARGETING ANALYSIS, AND SPECIALIZED STUDIES AND ANALYSIS.$28.5M
    SYSTEMS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS, INC.· Fairfax County, VA· Research & development· Mar 26, 2026 – Jun 3, 2026· HY023326C0007
  4. PROVIDE FULL-SPECTRUM TECHNICAL SERVICES, INCLUDING PROGRAM MANAGEMENT, ENGINEERING, INTEGRATION AND TESTING, MODELING AND SIMULATION, TECHNOLOGY TRANSITION, AND TRAINING TO SUPPORT MISSION EXECUTION.$17.7M
    MODERN TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, INC.· Fairfax County, VA· Research & development· Mar 27, 2026 – Jun 12, 2026· HY023326C0006
  5. PROVIDE ENGINEERING AND SCIENTIFIC EXPERTISE TO IDENTIFY AND MATURE APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES AND DEVELOP OPERATIONAL PROTOTYPES FOR THE RAPID TRANSITION OF MATURING TECHNOLOGIES TO MEET WARFIGHTERS NEEDS. INCLUDES TESTING/VALIDATION OF TECHNOLOGY.$11.4M
    THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC· Howard County, MD· Research & development· Dec 19, 2025 – May 8, 2026· HY023326FE003
  6. PROVIDE ENGINEERING AND SCIENTIFIC EXPERTISE TO IDENTIFY AND MATURE APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES AND DEVELOP OPERATIONAL PROTOTYPES FOR THE RAPID TRANSITION OF MATURING TECHNOLOGIES TO MEET WARFIGHTERS NEEDS. INCLUDES TESTING/VALIDATION OF TECHNOLOGY.$10.9M
    THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC· District of Columbia, DC· Research & development· Mar 25, 2026 – Apr 23, 2026· HY023326FE009
  7. PROVIDE ENGINEERING AND SCIENTIFIC EXPERTISE TO IDENTIFY AND MATURE APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES AND DEVELOP OPERATIONAL PROTOTYPES FOR THE RAPID TRANSITION OF MATURING TECHNOLOGIES TO MEET WARFIGHTERS NEEDS. INCLUDES TESTING/VALIDATION OF TECHNOLOGY.$6.7M
    THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC· District of Columbia, DC· Research & development· Jul 11, 2025 – Apr 17, 2026· HY023325FE003
  8. PROVIDE ENGINEERING AND SCIENTIFIC EXPERTISE TO IDENTIFY AND MATURE APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES AND DEVELOP OPERATIONAL PROTOTYPES FOR THE RAPID TRANSITION OF MATURING TECHNOLOGIES TO MEET WARFIGHTERS NEEDS. INCLUDES TESTING/VALIDATION OF TECHNOLOGY.$6.2M
    THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC· District of Columbia, DC· Research & development· Jul 26, 2025 – May 7, 2026· HY023325FE004

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: $499.4K (2 subawards)

2 sub-recipients

Largest sub-recipients

  1. SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS & RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, INC.$443.9K89%
    CYPRESS, CA · 1 subaward
  2. GENERAL DYNAMICS MISSION SYSTEMS, INC.$55.5K11%
    DEDHAM, MA · 1 subaward

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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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
$12.3M
Clients
30
Reports
53

The whole amount of every report that lists this agency.

Organizations lobbying it, 2026

  1. GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATIONAI match · 100%$6.8M
    0.0% of its family's FY2026 contracts from this agency · Defense, Aerospace, Budget and appropriations
  2. Aerospace Industries Association of America, Inc.$1.4M
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Defense, Aerospace, Budget and appropriations
  3. Military Officers Association of America$1.3M
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Defense, Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code, Veterans
  4. ROBOTIC RESEARCH OPCO LLCAI match · 100%$580K
    0.0% of its family's FY2026 contracts from this agency · Defense, Budget and appropriations, Homeland security
  5. The Sherwin-Williams CompanyAI match · 100%$340K
    0.0% of its family's FY2026 contracts from this agency · Defense, Transportation, Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code
  6. HERMEUS CORPORATIONAI match · 99%$330K
    No FY2026 contracts in its family · Defense, Government issues, Aerospace
  7. VANTOR PARENT INC.$330K
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Defense, Aerospace, Budget and appropriations
  8. D-WAVE GOVERNMENT INC.$150K
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Defense, Budget and appropriations, Intelligence and surveillance
  9. SMITH & WESSON BRANDS, INC.AI match · 100%$120K
    No FY2026 contracts in its family · Firearms, guns and ammunition
  10. Fort Polk Progress (prev Louisiana Armed Forces Alliance)$100K
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Defense
  11. HoneywellAI match · 98%$100K
    0.0% of its family's FY2026 contracts from this agency · Defense, Government issues, Intelligence and surveillance
  12. D-Fend Solutions, Inc.AI match · 97%$60K
    0.0% of its family's FY2026 contracts from this agency · Defense, Aerospace, Homeland security
  13. Science Application International CorporationAI match · 100%$60K
    0.0% of its family's FY2026 contracts from this agency · Defense, Government issues, Intelligence and surveillance
  14. RTX Corporation and Affiliates (fka:Raytheon Technologies Corporation)$50K
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Defense, Government issues, Intelligence and surveillance
  15. MANTECH INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONAI match · 100%$40K
    0.0% of its family's FY2026 contracts from this agency · Defense, Government issues, Intelligence and surveillance

2 more clients ($310K) are counted but not named: their names may be a person's.

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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.