Rankings
Top federal contractors: FY2020
FY2020 · complete year · data as of 2026-07-12
≈ computed · contract dollars
Lockheed Martin Corporation was the largest holder of U.S. federal contracts in FY2020, with $75.4B in contract-coded obligations. Ranked by contract-coded (NAICS) obligations, so entitlement grants routed through state agencies do not crowd out the primes. Combined corporate families count once. Computed
Ranked from USASpending records. FY2020 to FY2026 are loaded.
Quick findings
Computed- The top 10 account for 55% of the $357.7B combined total of all 100 contractors listed.
- The Department of Defense is the largest funding agency for 61 of the 100 contractors listed.
A description of the money, computed by us from USASpending records, never a judgment about any contractor. Each row opens that contractor's page: its funding agencies, where the work lands, and any PAC on record.
Questions
- Who is the largest federal contractor in FY2020?
- Lockheed Martin Corporation, with $75.4B in contract-coded obligations in FY2020, ahead of RTX Corporation at $25.5B.
- Why are big grant recipients missing from this list?
- This ranks CONTRACT dollars only. Universities, states and health systems receive enormous federal ASSISTANCE, which is ranked separately at /rankings/top-grant-recipients so neither list crowds out the other.
- 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 recipient's contract-coded obligations for FY2020. TheFiscalFinder does the ranking; the underlying figures are the government's own.
- How many contractors are shown?
- The top 100 for FY2020. Each row opens that contractor'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.