USAspending.gov · federal agency · CY2024 · code 097
Department of Defense (DOD)
Federal contract spending profile, contract obligations, budget authority and top contractors, from USAspending.gov.
- Corpus rank
- #1 of 65
- Contract obligations (CY2024)
- $456.0B
- Budget authority
- $2098.7B
- Agency
- DOD
Year-over-year change, 2019–2024
Across the calendar years on file, Department of Defense’s annual contract obligations held roughly level from $454.9B in 2023 to $456.0B in 2024. 0.3% vs 2023
Calendar-year prime contract obligations by action date (award types A-D). Annual figures share the calendar-year basis of the CY2024 headline above; budget authority is a separate measure.
How Department of Defense leads the CY2024 obligation board
$456.0B · #1 of 65 by CY2024 contract obligations (top 1% nationally) - a top-third USAspending agency by calendar-2024 contract obligations (same board as the agencies listing). See methodology.
From calendar 2019 to 2024, Department of Defense held #1 of 66 agencies in the annual contract-obligation series. Its share of that year’s tracked agency total moved from 67.41% to 60.57%. Across the available annual series, its obligations ranged from $381.4B in 2019 to $456.0B in 2024, a 1.2x spread.
Lockheed Martin Corporation is the largest listed prime contractor at $21.3B, or 4.7% of this agency’s calendar-2024 obligation total. The table below shows the remaining named prime recipients in the extract. Contract obligations ($456.0B) sit in a mid band versus the $2098.7B budget-authority ceiling. Methodology documents the distinct populations and the Treasury source fields.
Top Contractors
| # | Contractor | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lockheed Martin Corporation | $21.3B |
| 2 | Electric Boat Corporation | $10.6B |
| 3 | Raytheon Company | $9.2B |
| 4 | The Boeing Company | $8.7B |
| 5 | Humana Government Business Inc | $7.5B |
| 6 | Lockheed Martin Corporation | $7.2B |
| 7 | Amerisourcebergen Drug Corp | $6.5B |
| 8 | Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation | $5.6B |
| 9 | The Boeing Company | $5.5B |
| 10 | Atlantic Diving Supply, Inc. | $5.0B |
| 11 | Rtx Corporation | $4.9B |
| 12 | Lockheed Martin Corporation | $4.4B |
| 13 | Huntington Ingalls Incorporated | $3.7B |
| 14 | Huntington Ingalls Inc | $3.6B |
| 15 | Amentum Services, Inc. | $3.2B |
| 16 | Raytheon Company | $3.1B |
| 17 | Health Net Federal Services, LLC | $3.0B |
| 18 | Northrop Grumman Systems Corp | $3.0B |
| 19 | Booz Allen Hamilton Inc | $2.8B |
| 20 | Bechtel Plant Machinery, Inc. | $2.7B |
Source: USAspending.gov · U.S. Department of the Treasury
Nearby mega-scale agencies
Data-derived peers across the USAspending agency extract: nearest contract-obligation scale and nearest budget authority. Not recommendations or same-department siblings.
Closest CY2024 contract obligations
Similar budget authority
- Social Security Administration (SSA) $1271.5B
- Department of Agriculture (USDA) $476.7B
- Office of Personnel Management (OPM) $384.4B
- Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) $332.9B
- Department of Transportation (DOT) $302.5B
- Department of Education (ED) $154.1B
Disclaimer: Data from USAspending.gov public records. For informational purposes only. Contract amounts are aggregated and may not reflect the most current modifications or de-obligations. Always verify with official sources.
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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.