Rankings
Top contractors of the Department of Defense: FY2020
FY2020 · complete year · data as of 2026-07-12
≈ computed · agency obligations
Lockheed Martin Corporation received more money from the Department of Defense than any other recipient in FY2020: $73.9B in obligations. Ranked by what the Department of Defense obligated to each recipient in FY2020, so the list is about this agency's money rather than a contractor's overall size. Combined corporate families count once. Computed
Ranked from USASpending records. FY2020 to FY2026 are loaded.
Quick findings
Computed- The top 10 account for 67% of the $266.3B combined total of all 100 recipients listed.
Obligations are the dollars the agency committed, which is not the same as dollars paid out. A recipient can appear on several agencies' lists; each ranks only its own money.
Questions
- Who is the Department of Defense's biggest contractor in FY2020?
- Lockheed Martin Corporation, with $73.9B obligated in FY2020. Second is RTX Corporation at $25.1B.
- Where does this ranking come from?
- It is computed from USASpending.gov award records, which are U.S. government works and in the public domain. Each figure is the total the Department of Defense obligated to that recipient in FY2020. TheFiscalFinder does the ranking; the underlying figures are the government's own.
- How many recipients are shown?
- The top 100 for FY2020. Each row opens that recipient's own page, where the same money is broken out by year, by counterparty and by place.
- Does a high position mean anything is wrong?
- No. This is a description of where public money went in FY2020, computed from public records. It is not an allegation about anyone on it.
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Why the labels? The graph is only worth anything if the links are trusted. Facts taken straight from a federal filing are Source; figures we calculate are Computed; links we infer (corporate parents, districts, similar contractors, connections between records) are Inferred, worded carefully, never asserted as fact and never a claim that one thing caused another. Spot an error? Tell us.