USAspending · FY2024 complete
Federal contract spending across 65 agencies
According to USAspending.gov (U.S. Department of the Treasury), search 5,000 contractors and 499 NAICS industries. Complete FY2024 obligations sit at $740.8B; calendar-2024 categories and lifetime recipient totals stay in separate populations; see Methodology.
National contract picture
Federal agencies obligated $740.8B in complete FY2024 across 65 agencies and 5,000 contractors - and the largest lifetime recipient holds 28.1% of the top-10 lifetime pool.
- $740.8B
- FY2024 complete
- 5,000
- Contractors
- 65
- Federal agencies
- 28.1%
- Top-1 of top-10 lifetime
Partial FY2025 trend slice: $156.7B (not a complete year). Lifetime contractor totals are a separate population from FY obligations, see /methodology/#populations/.
National federal contract picture
Complete FY2024 federal obligations sit at $740.8B across 65 agencies and 5,000 contractors, and the largest lifetime recipient holds 28.1% of the top-10 lifetime pool.
PlainFedContract publishes USAspending.gov prime-award extracts in three separate populations: complete fiscal-year obligations, calendar-year category windows for agency/state/NAICS pages, and lifetime /recipient/ totals for contractor ranks. Open a contractor, agency, or state page for the population that matches your question; do not ratio lifetime recipient totals against a single FY pool.
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Federal contract spending by major NAICS category
Treemap of calendar-2024 (CY2024 action-date) obligations across the nine NAICS categories that capture the bulk of prime federal contract dollars, the same calendar-2024 population as agency/state/industry pages. Rectangle area scales with dollars; deeper blue indicates faster year-over-year growth.
Source: USAspending.gov · FPDS-NG · GSA / SAM.gov set-aside categories
Change over time
Federal contract spending by fiscal year
Total prime-contract obligations across all agencies, by fiscal year. The most recent year is a partial-year slice, not a full 12 months, see methodology.
FY2019-2025 federal obligations
USAspending.gov, fiscal-year buckets
Scale vs momentum
Second-tier agencies: size vs year-over-year change
Where the 15 agencies ranked #3-17 by FY2024 obligations sit on scale (x-axis) against CY2023→CY2024 change (y-axis). The Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs are excluded, their totals are large enough to crush every other agency to the axis edge on this scale. Crosshair lines mark this cohort's own median value and median change, not zero.
Lifetime recipient totals
Top 10 federal contractors
Ranked by USAspending.gov lifetime recipient totals (all-time prime obligations on each recipient ID), not by a single fiscal year. Large contractors may appear more than once when split across recipient records, see methodology for the three populations.
| # | Contractor | Lifetime awards |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lockheed Martin Corp | $63.4B |
| 2 | The Boeing Company | $26.7B |
| 3 | Lockheed Martin Corporation | $26.4B |
| 4 | Unitedhealth Group Incorporated | $20.9B |
| 5 | Optum Public Sector Solutions, Inc. | $17.8B |
| 6 | Triwest Healthcare Alliance Corp | $15.5B |
| 7 | Rtx Corp | $14.4B |
| 8 | Rockwell Collins Australia Pty Limited | $14.0B |
| 9 | Fisher Sand & Gravel Co | $13.9B |
| 10 | Mckesson Corporation | $12.3B |
According to USAspending.gov, the official federal spending transparency system operated by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, PlainFedContract compiles more than 5,000 contractor records across 65 federal agencies with obligations in the current extract (ETL rebuild stamp on the Dataset dateModified); see our methodology for the three time-window populations.
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Top federal contractors by lifetime obligations
The largest contractors in this extract, ranked by lifetime prime-award obligations on each USAspending recipient ID. Parent companies split across recipient IDs appear as separate bars.
Top 10 federal contractors, lifetime obligations
USAspending.gov /recipient/ totals, billions (not CY2024 category extract)
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Which time windows do the numbers cover?
Three populations stay separate: (1) agency, state, and NAICS pages use a calendar-2024 action-date category extract; (2) contractor profiles use lifetime recipient totals from the USAspending /recipient/ endpoint (not a single fiscal year); (3) trend charts use fiscal-year buckets from 2019 through a partial 2025 slice. Never treat a lifetime contractor total as a share of one year's national pool.
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