What changed: October 2026
FY2026 · complete year · data as of 2026-10-01†
† DoD contract data posts to USAspending about 90 days after award.
Federal award obligations for FY2026 totaled $5.16T across 77 agencies in the data as of 2026-10-01, up $356B since the September 2026 edition (data as of 2026-09-12). Computed
Fiscal year 2026 ended on September 30, 2026, so this edition is the first to show FY2026 as a complete year. Its figures can still change as USAspending receives late or corrected reports, and DoD contract data posts to USAspending about 90 days after award.
Compared with the September 2026 edition (data as of 2026-09-12), using the figures stored when that data was loaded.
The totals, FY2026
- Federal award obligations, all agencies
- $5.16Tup $356B from $4.80T in the September 2026 edition
- Awards counted by USAspending, all agencies
- 8,655,859up 714,695 from 7,941,164 in the September 2026 edition
- Agencies with obligations
- 77
What was loaded
- Award records loaded (the largest contracts and grants)
- 15,000the same as the September 2026 edition
- Recipients loaded (the largest, with their registrations)
- 1,5821,552 in the September 2026 edition
- Industry, product and program categories loaded
- 4,0814,077 in the September 2026 edition
This site loads the largest recipients and awards of each fiscal year, not every one; the totals above cover every agency.
Biggest risers across the rankings
- Texas Office of the Governor rose from #96 to #2 in Top contractors of the Department of Homeland Security, FY2026.
- Construction of Other Administrative Facilities and Service Buildings rose from #85 to #51 in Top product and service codes by federal dollars, FY2026.
- Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail Grant Program rose from #99 to #68 in Top federal assistance programs, FY2026.
- Elevated Technologies Services, LLC rose from #44 to #17 in Top contractors of the Department of Veterans Affairs, FY2026.
- Telephone Apparatus Manufacturing rose from #82 to #57 in Top industries by federal contract dollars, FY2026.
Biggest fallers across the rankings
- Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. fell from #63 to #85 in Top contractors of NASA, FY2026.
- Maximus Federal Services, Inc. fell from #68 to #88 in Most no-bid contract dollars, FY2026.
- Software Information Resource Corp. fell from #56 to #74 in Top contractors of the Department of State, FY2026.
- KBR, Inc. fell from #58 to #76 in Top contractors of the Department of State, FY2026.
- Servicesource Inc fell from #76 to #94 in Top contractors of the Department of State, FY2026.
A position is each list's own order in the two loads; a name new to a list is not counted as a riser.
New in the top 100 recipients of federal money
- Texas Office of the Governor, now #45 with $7.6B in FY2026.
- State of Florida Department of Transportation, now #95 with $3.3B in FY2026.
Agencies with the largest change
- Social Security Administration: $1.43T to $1.58T, up $142.1B.
- Department of Health and Human Services: $2.03T to $2.09T, up $56.3B.
- Department of Transportation: $104.8B to $138.1B, up $33.3B.
- Department of Defense: $349.4B to $378B, up $28.6B.
- Department of Veterans Affairs: $284.4B to $309B, up $24.7B.
Source: USAspending.gov award data as loaded by TheFiscalFinder on 2026-10-01. 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).