Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's contract dollars, traced to the source.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency · Department of War
DARPA is the Department of War's central R&D agency, funding high-risk, high-payoff research meant to produce breakthrough military technologies before adversaries can. Its ~$1.82B in FY2025 contract awards flow overwhelmingly to defense primes and technical-services firms for advanced research projects and weapons prototyping — the largest obligations went to multi-network engineering support (SecuriGence), broad DARPA research programs at Lockheed Martin, and Phase 2 of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) at Raytheon & Lockheed. In short, hypersonics, applied R&D, and specialized technical support dominate the contract dollars.
Contract obligations (latest complete FY)
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Contract obligations (in progress)
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Signal tier
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USAspending contract feed
What this monitor reads — and what it doesn't
This is the contract-signal tier: the live USAspending award feed for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarding sub-agency. It shows where DARPA's procurement dollars go — obligations over time and the largest awards — not total budget authority, which also includes payroll, grants, and transfers. Figures reflect the contract (procurement) slice from USAspending's award feed, not DARPA's total budget authority or appropriations. The appropriation-level view lives on the Department of War monitor.