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Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program

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Money by year

Fiscal yearObligated (USAspending)
FY2023$1.25B
FY2024$957.99M
FY2025$667.12M
FY2026$909.93M

Obligations are money committed in prime awards, as agencies report them to USAspending.gov (FY2023 on; data through 2026-09-30).

Where it goes, FY2025

Largest recipients, FY2025

  • Bioindustrial Manufacturing and Design Ecosystem $73.21M
  • Montana State University $60.80M
  • National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining $55.84M
  • Flextech Alliance, Inc. $41.34M
  • The Research Foundation for the State University of New York $29.44M
  • The Leland Stanford Junior University $17.09M
  • Purdue University $14.90M
  • Griffiss Institute Inc. $13.29M
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology $11.37M
  • New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology $10.15M

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