What changed: November 2026
FY2026 ended Sep 30 · data still posting · data as of 2026-11-01†
† DoD contract data posts to USAspending about 90 days after award.
Federal award obligations for FY2026 (data still posting) totaled $5.51T across 77 agencies in the data as of 2026-11-01, up $348.8B since the October 2026 edition (data as of 2026-10-01). Computed
Compared with the October 2026 edition (data as of 2026-10-01), using the figures stored when that data was loaded.
The totals, FY2026
- Federal award obligations, all agencies
- $5.51Tup $348.8B from $5.16T in the October 2026 edition
- Awards counted by USAspending, all agencies
- 9,110,253up 454,394 from 8,655,859 in the October 2026 edition
- Agencies with obligations
- 77
What was loaded
- Award records loaded (the largest contracts and grants)
- 15,000the same as the October 2026 edition
- Recipients loaded (the largest, with their registrations)
- 1,6281,582 in the October 2026 edition
- Industry, product and program categories loaded
- 4,0894,081 in the October 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
- Walsh Federal LLC rose from #87 to #52 in Top contractors of the Department of Defense, FY2026.
- BP Products North America Inc. rose from #77 to #50 in Top contractors of the Department of Defense, FY2026.
- Cgi Federal Inc. rose from #76 to #54 in Most no-bid contract dollars, FY2026.
- Gas Turbines and Jet Engines, Aircraft, Prime Moving; and Components rose from #37 to #16 in Top product and service codes by federal dollars, FY2026.
- BL Harbert International LLC rose from #94 to #73 in Top federal contractors, FY2026.
Biggest fallers across the rankings
- Textron Systems Corp fell from #77 to #97 in Most no-bid contract dollars, FY2026.
- Amazon Web Services, Inc. fell from #73 to #89 in Most no-bid contract dollars, FY2026.
- Pae Government Services, Inc. fell from #16 to #28 in Top contractors of the Department of State, FY2026.
- TX-14 fell from #63 to #74 in Top congressional districts by federal spending, FY2026.
- The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. fell from #59 to #69 in Top contractors of the Department of Defense, 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
No new name entered the list.
Agencies with the largest change
- Social Security Administration: $1.58T to $1.72T, up $146.7B.
- Department of Health and Human Services: $2.09T to $2.21T, up $115.3B.
- Department of Defense: $378B to $416.4B, up $38.4B.
- Department of Veterans Affairs: $309B to $319.2B, up $10.2B.
- Department of Agriculture: $164.3B to $173.4B, up $9B.
Source: USAspending.gov award data as loaded by TheFiscalFinder on 2026-11-01. 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).