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Department of Defense

Federal agency · top-tier · the money flowing out to recipients.
$501.5B
obligated · FY2025
615
recipients
4,139,739
awards
26
sub-agencies

Obligations by year

≈ computed
$467.2B
FY23
$456.8B
FY24
$501.5B
FY25
▲ 7%
since FY23

Where this money goes

✓ from source
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
TOP RECIPIENTS
Department of Defense
$501.5B
FY2025 obligated
Lockheed Martin
$73.6B
General Dynamics
$29.8B
RTX
$28.7B
The Boeing
$20.4B
Huntington Ingalls
$9.7B
610 other recipients
$339.3B
band width = obligations · FY2025 · source: USASpending.gov

How it spends

≈ computed · awards by type
4,070,938contracts
52,859contract vehicles
15,614grants
298other
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
Defense Finance and Accounting Service$400.7M
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences$397.3M
Department of Defense Education Activity$318.4M
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$31B
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 AppropriationsHouse Committee on Armed ServicesSenate Committee on AppropriationsSenate Committee on Armed Services

≈ 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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