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R&D- Other Research and Development (Basic Research)

R&D- Other Research and Development (Basic Research) recorded $3.7 billion of federal contract obligations for this product or service in fiscal year 2026, which ranks 35 of 2,291 products and services with a figure in FY2026.

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Identifiers

Product and Service Code
AZ11
Registered name
R&D- OTHER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (BASIC RESEARCH)

The record

Reported figures for R&D- Other Research and Development (Basic Research), each linked to its source
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.$3,662,273,593USD
Rank among products and services · FY202635 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.0.6%percent

By fiscal year

R&D- Other Research and Development (Basic Research): federal contract obligations for this product or service, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearObligated
FY2022$2,970,076,556
FY2023$3,105,607,328
FY2024$3,260,807,478
FY2025$3,665,313,629
FY2026$3,662,273,593

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

products and services ranked nearest R&D- Other Research and Development (Basic Research), FY2026
Rankproduct or serviceObligated
32NATIONAL DEFENSE R&D SERVICES; ATOMIC ENERGY DEFENSE ACTIVITIES; R&D ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$3,897,248,638
33IT AND TELECOM - IT MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SERVICES (LABOR)$3,690,231,958
34GAS TURBINES AND JET ENGINES, AIRCRAFT, PRIME MOVING; AND COMPONENTS$3,662,345,739
36MEDICAL AND SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS, EQUIPMENT, AND SUPPLIES$3,579,158,798
37OPER OF GOVT OTHER INDUSTRIAL BLDG$3,396,516,491
38GUIDED MISSILE COMPONENTS$3,304,217,592

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.

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