What changed: September 2026
FY2026 · year to date · preliminary · data as of 2026-09-12†
† DoD contract data posts to USAspending about 90 days after award.
Federal award obligations for FY2026 (year to date) totaled $4.80T across 77 agencies in the data as of 2026-09-12. Computed
There is no stored snapshot of an earlier load to compare with, so this edition lists the figures as loaded and does not say what moved.
The totals, FY2026
- Federal award obligations, all agencies
- $4.80T
- Awards counted by USAspending, all agencies
- 7,941,164
- Agencies with obligations
- 77
What was loaded
- Award records loaded (the largest contracts and grants)
- 15,000
- Recipients loaded (the largest, with their registrations)
- 1,552
- Industry, product and program categories loaded
- 4,077
This site loads the largest recipients and awards of each fiscal year, not every one; the totals above cover every agency.
Largest agencies, FY2026
- 1Department of Health and Human Services: $2.03T
- 2Social Security Administration: $1.43T
- 3Department of Defense: $349.4B
- 4Department of Veterans Affairs: $284.4B
- 5Department of Agriculture: $148.8B
Largest recipients of federal money, FY2026
- 1Health Care Services, California Department of: $117.7B
- 2NYS Department of Health: $75.1B
- 3Lockheed Martin Corporation: $45.9B
- 4Health & Human SVC Commn TX: $45.6B
- 5PA Department of Human Services: $39.8B
- 6North Carolina Department of Health & Human Services: $32.8B
- 7Ohio Department of Medicaid: $29.4B
- 8Florida Agency for Health Care Administration: $28B
- 9Michigan Department of Health and Human Services: $27.3B
- 10The Boeing Company: $26.2B
Source: USAspending.gov award data as loaded by TheFiscalFinder on 2026-09-12. Totals are the sum of every top-tier agency's obligations for FY2026; positions are this site's own rankings for FY2026. Federal spending data are U.S. government works (17 U.S.C. 105).