National Defense R&D Services; Defense-Related Activities; Applied Research
National Defense R&D Services; Defense-Related Activities; Applied Research recorded $4.9 billion of federal contract obligations for this product or service in fiscal year 2026, which ranks 27 of 2,291 products and services with a figure in FY2026.
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Identifiers
- Product and Service Code
- AC32
- Registered name
- NATIONAL DEFENSE R&D SERVICES; DEFENSE-RELATED ACTIVITIES; APPLIED RESEARCH
The record
| Obligated · FY2026The Product and Service Code says what was bought, which is a different question from who sold it. Contracts only: an assistance award has no product code. | $4,929,605,351USD |
|---|---|
| Rank among products and services · FY2026 | 27 of 2,291by obligations |
| Share of all products and services · FY2026Of $662.7 billion, which is what every product or service the publisher reported obligated in FY2026 — not the federal total, which is larger. | 0.7%percent |
By fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Obligated |
|---|---|
| FY2022 | $3,675,987,268 |
| FY2023 | $5,176,553,335 |
| FY2024 | $6,834,827,529 |
| FY2025 | $7,326,464,669 |
| FY2026 | $4,929,605,351 |
The publisher holds five fiscal years of this breakdown. A year missing from this table is a year this product or service was not reported in, not a year of no spending.
The nearest ranks
| Rank | product or service | Obligated |
|---|---|---|
| 24 | MARINE LIFESAVING AND DIVING EQUIPMENT | $5,748,199,149 |
| 25 | MAINT/REPAIR/REBUILD OF EQUIPMENT- AIRCRAFT AND AIRFRAME STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS | $5,671,655,047 |
| 26 | AIRCRAFT, ROTARY WING | $5,587,899,861 |
| 28 | RADAR EQUIPMENT, EXCEPT AIRBORNE | $4,643,528,427 |
| 29 | GUIDED MISSILE SYSTEMS, COMPLETE | $4,337,131,920 |
| 30 | CONSTRUCTION OF MISCELLANEOUS BUILDINGS | $4,181,561,455 |
What this data cannot show
- The fiscal year is not over. These are obligations recorded so far, and a figure here is not comparable with a full year.
- An obligation is a binding commitment to pay, not money paid. Outlays are reported separately and the two are never equal in the same year.
- The Product and Service Code says what was bought, which is a different question from who sold it. Contracts only: an assistance award has no product code.
- This page is built from the database rather than from the committed extract, so it covers every product or service the publisher reported and not only the largest hundred the ranking names. Both come from the same ingest on the date above.
Related
Sources
- USAspending API v2 — dimension aggregations — U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service · U.S. Government work, public domain (17 U.S.C. 105) · retrieved September 19, 2026
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