Top contractors of the Department of Defense: FY2021
≈ computed · agency obligationsLockheed Martin Corporation received more money from the Department of Defense than any other recipient in FY2021: $39.1B in obligations. Ranked by what the Department of Defense obligated to each recipient in FY2021, 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, data current as of 2026-07-12. FY2020 to FY2025 are loaded.
- 1Lockheed Martin Corporation0 awards$39.1B
- 2The Boeing Company0 awards$21.2B
- 3RTX Corporation0 awards$18B
- 4General Dynamics Corporation0 awards$16.2B
- 5Pfizer Inc0 awards$13.3B
- 6$9.7B
- 7Humana Government Business Inc0 awards$7.1B
- 8Modernatx, Inc.0 awards$6.9B
- 9$6.4B
- 10Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc0 awards$5.6B
- 11L3Harris Technologies, Inc.0 awards$4.4B
- 12BAE Systems, Inc.0 awards$4.1B
- 13Leidos, Inc.0 awards$3.4B
- 14Health Net Federal Services, LLC0 awards$3.2B
- 15Mckesson Corporation0 awards$3B
- 16Atlantic Diving Supply, Inc.0 awards$2.8B
- 17General Electric Company0 awards$2.7B
- 18Bell Boeing Joint Project Office0 awards$2.5B
- 19KBR, Inc.0 awards$2.4B
- 20Bechtel Corporation0 awards$2.3B
- 21V2X, Inc.0 awards$2.3B
- 22Booz Allen Hamilton Inc0 awards$2.2B
- 23Oshkosh Defense LLC0 awards$2.2B
- 24General Atomics0 awards$2.1B
- 25Amerisourcebergen Drug Corp0 awards$2B
- 26Eli Lilly and Company0 awards$1.9B
- 27$1.8B
- 28$1.7B
- 29$1.7B
- 30Fluor Marine Propulsion, LLC0 awards$1.4B
- 31CACI International Inc0 awards$1.4B
- 32V2X Systems LLC0 awards$1.4B
- 33$1.2B
- 34Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC0 awards$1.2B
- 35Dyncorp International LLC0 awards$1.2B
- 36$1.2B
- 37Amentum Services, Inc.0 awards$1.2B
- 38Ministry of Defense0 awards$1.1B
- 39Energy, Department of0 awards$1.1B
- 40The Aerospace Corporation0 awards$1B
- 41Peraton Corp.0 awards$1B
- 42The Mitre Corporation0 awards$994.3M
- 43Rolls-Royce Corporation0 awards$981M
- 44Amentum Technology, Inc.0 awards$948M
- 45V2X Aerospace LLC0 awards$901.7M
- 46Dell Technologies Inc.0 awards$858M
- 47FedEx Corporation0 awards$845.3M
- 48Walsh - Turner JV II0 awards$840.1M
- 49M1 Support Services, L.p.0 awards$831.3M
- 50Express Scripts Inc0 awards$742.5M
- 51Core Tech-Hdcc-Kajima LLC0 awards$730.4M
- 52$668.8M
- 53United Launch Services, LLC0 awards$633.3M
- 54Canadian Commercial Corporation0 awards$625.8M
- 55Deloitte LLP0 awards$597.2M
- 56Patriot Team0 awards$582.4M
- 57$580.9M
- 58$563.8M
- 59Marinette Marine Corporation0 awards$562.4M
- 60Carahsoft Technology Corp0 awards$551M
- 61Cardinal Health 200, LLC0 awards$530.6M
- 62Valero Marketing and Supply CO0 awards$513.3M
- 63BP Products North America Inc.0 awards$510M
- 64$505M
- 65Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals LP0 awards$502.1M
- 66Hensel Phelps Construction CO0 awards$500.2M
- 67$470.4M
- 68Torch Technologies Inc0 awards$466.5M
- 69$464.5M
- 70$448M
- 71Metro Machine Corp.0 awards$439.9M
- 72United Concordia Companies, Inc.0 awards$436.5M
- 73$436.4M
- 74Honeywell International Inc.0 awards$435.7M
- 75W S Darley & CO0 awards$428.3M
- 76World Wide Technology LLC0 awards$425.1M
- 77Petromax Refining Company LLC0 awards$425M
- 78Serco Inc0 awards$423.7M
- 79Viasat Inc0 awards$404.9M
- 80Orbital Sciences LLC0 awards$397.7M
- 81$395.2M
- 82$393.9M
- 83Martins Point Health Care Inc0 awards$392.3M
- 84$373.2M
- 85$369.9M
- 86Foreign Awardees (Undisclosed)0 awards$361M
- 87RQ Construction, LLC0 awards$356.7M
- 88Archer Western Federal JV0 awards$348.8M
- 89DDB Chicago Inc.0 awards$348.1M
- 90Tcom, L.p.0 awards$348.1M
- 91$344.9M
- 92S-Oil Corporation0 awards$340.3M
- 93Microsoft Corporation0 awards$339.5M
- 94Am General LLC0 awards$336.8M
- 95Olin Winchester LLC0 awards$333.1M
- 96BL Harbert International LLC0 awards$331.5M
- 97Phillips 66 Company0 awards$329.3M
- 98Bell Textron Inc0 awards$328.7M
- 99Okinawa Idemitsu K.k.0 awards$327.4M
- 100AECOM Technical Services, Inc.0 awards$326.4M
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 FY2021?
- Lockheed Martin Corporation, with $39.1B obligated in FY2021. Second is The Boeing Company at $21.2B.
- 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 FY2021. TheFiscalFinder does the ranking; the underlying figures are the government's own.
- How many recipients are shown?
- The top 100 for FY2021. 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 FY2021, computed from public records. It is not an allegation about anyone on it.
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