Who buys Product and Service Code AC22 (National Defense R&D Services; Atomic Energy Defense Activities; Applied Research), who wins it, what's open now and which contracts expire next — from FY2026 USAspending awards and live SAM.gov solicitations.
Contract data as of Oct 18, 2026 (USAspending) · recent coverage verified weekly
| Quarter | Awards | Obligated | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 FY2026 | 3 | $53.6M | — |
| Q2 FY2026 | 7 | $7.3M | -86% |
| Q3 FY2026 | 2 | $5.1M | -30% |
| Q4 FY2026 · partial | 1 | $349K | -93% |
Federal fiscal quarters (Q1 = Oct–Dec). Awards are counted in the quarter they start; obligations are the award's obligated amount. The Department of Defense publishes contract awards to USAspending with a 90-day delay, so Q4 FY2026 is still missing most DoD awards (DoD is 99% of this code's dollars) — treat that quarter as incomplete, not as a spending decline.
| # | Contractor | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC | $62.9M | 94.9% |
| 2 | JANUS RESEARCH GROUP, LLC | $2.4M | 3.7% |
| 3 | THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | $349K | 0.5% |
| 4 | AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $200K | 0.3% |
| 5 | ATAC | $140K | 0.2% |
| 6 | GSI ENVIRONMENTAL INC. | $140K | 0.2% |
| 7 | TEXAS A&M UNIV CYCLOTRON INS | $45K | 0.1% |
| 8 | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | $42K | 0.1% |
Registrations are rolled up to their corporate parent (USAspending parent UEI), so a company with several SAM registrations ranks once.
| Agency | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Defense | $65.8M | 99.2% |
| Department of Transportation | $349K | 0.5% |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $200K | 0.3% |
| Start | Contract · recipient | Obligated |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 2026 | ROCKET PROPULSION AND SONIC BOOM ACOUSTIC PROPAGATION MODEL. MODIFY EXISTING, OR DESIGN, BUILD, AND TEST A NEW ROCKET PROPULSION AND SONIC BOOM ACOUSTIC PROPAGATION MODEL. THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI · Department of Transportation | $349K |
The largest obligations on awards that started in the window’s latest quarter.
| Ends | Contract · recipient | Obligated |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 31, 2026 | MULTIBEAM MULTIBEAM CORPORATION · Department of Defense | $32.3M |
| Oct 4, 2027 | TO DEVELOP ASSURED POSITION, NAVIGATION, AND TIMING (PNT) SYSTEM/ARCHITECTURES - INCREMENTAL FUNDING CANYON CONSULTING, LLC · Department of Defense | $31.2M |
| Sep 30, 2027 | ADVANCED ROCKET PROPULSION TECHNOLOGY SPARC RESEARCH LLC · Department of Defense | $31.0M |
| Apr 21, 2027 | STORABLE ROCKET ENGINE FOR HYPERSONIC APPLICATIONS URSA MAJOR TECHNOLOGIES, INC. · Department of Defense | $20.0M |
| Dec 4, 2026 | SURVEILLANCE, INTELLIGENE, AND RECONNAISSANCE ENHANCED NETWORKS (SIREN) BLUEHALO LLC · Department of Defense | $16.2M |
28 contracts under this code reach their final end date (options included) in the next 12 months.
| Set-aside type | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Small business set-aside | $280K | 8.3% |
| 8(a) | $0 | 0.0% |
| SDVOSB | $0 | 0.0% |
| WOSB / EDWOSB | $0 | 0.0% |
| HUBZone | $0 | 0.0% |
| No set-aside (full & open) | $3.1M | 91.7% |
Share of obligations on awards whose set-aside type is recorded — 5% of this market's dollars. Most USAspending bulk-archive records leave the field blank, so blank awards are excluded rather than counted as full & open.
Showing the 10 most recently posted of 39. Links open the notice on SAM.gov.
Source: USAspending.gov contract awards (prime awards with a start date from Oct 1, 2025 through Sep 30, 2026), SAM.gov contract opportunities, and SBA size standards. Recompetes are contracts whose final end date — options included — falls in the next 12 months. Figures are recomputed when a new USAspending load lands. See our data sources.