Agencies / Department of Defense

Department of Defense

Federal agency · top-tier · the money flowing out to recipients.

$501.6B

obligated · FY2025

680

recipients

4,150,897

awards

sub-agencies

Obligations by year

≈ computed

$431.9B

FY20

$395.3B

FY21

$424.5B

FY22

$467.2B

FY23

$456.8B

FY24

$501.6B

FY25

▲ 16%

since FY20

Where this money goes

✓ from source

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

TOP RECIPIENTS

Department of Defense

$501.6B

FY2025 obligated

Lockheed Martin

$73.5B

General Dynamics

$31.4B

RTX

$30.2B

The Boeing

$20.3B

Northrop Grumman

$11.5B

675 other recipients

$334.7B

band width = obligations · FY2025 · source: USASpending.gov

How it spends

≈ computed · awards by type

4,081,240contracts

53,322contract vehicles

16,005grants

300other

30direct payments

What it funds

Aircraft Manufacturing$60.7B

Engineering Services$40.1B

Ship Building and Repairing$36.2B

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)$33.1B

Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing$29.7B

Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing$19.6B

Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing$17.9B

Commercial and Institutional Building Construction$17.2B

Sub-agencies

Department of the Navy$177.3B

Department of the Army$111.8B

Department of the Air Force$99.5B

Defense Logistics Agency$55.9B

Defense Health Agency$19.9B

Missile Defense Agency$9.1B

Defense Information Systems Agency$7.2B

Ustranscom$4.8B

U.S. Special Operations Command$4.3B

Washington Headquarters Services$3.8B

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency$2.1B

Defense Microelectronics Activity$1.3B

Defense Threat Reduction Agency$1.1B

Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency$997.4M

Defense Commissary Agency$470.2M

Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation$438.3M

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences$403M

Defense Finance and Accounting Service$400.7M

Department of Defense Education Activity$318.5M

Defense Human Resources Activity$248.6M

Largest awards

Contract HT940216C0001

awarded 2016$51.3B

LRIP Lot 12 Advance Acquisition Contract

awarded 2017$35.1B

SSN 802 and 803 Long Lead Time Material

awarded 2017$34.9B

Contract N0001902C3002

awarded 2001$34.2B

KC-X Modernization Program

awarded 2011$32B

Columbia Class Design Completion

awarded 2017$31.1B

F-35A LRIP 15 USAF Aircraft Long Lead Funding

awarded 2019$30.1B

Long Lead Funding for F-35A, F-35B, and F-35C Aircraft for U.S. Services…

awarded 2022$24.5B

The agency’s biggest individual awards by total value, largest first.

Congressional oversight

House Committee on Armed Services Senate Committee on Armed Services House Committee on Appropriations Senate Committee on Appropriations

≈ inferred the congressional committees whose jurisdiction covers this agency (curated). Oversight is context, not control, and not a claim of influence over any award.

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