USAspending.gov · federal agency · CY2024 · code 070
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Federal contract spending profile, contract obligations, budget authority and top contractors, from USAspending.gov.
- Corpus rank
- #6 of 65
- Contract obligations (CY2024)
- $25.0B
- Budget authority
- $575.9B
- Agency
- DHS
Year-over-year change, 2019–2024
Across the calendar years on file, Department of Homeland Security’s annual contract obligations rose from $23.9B in 2023 to $25.0B in 2024. 4.7% 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 Homeland Security leads the CY2024 obligation board
$25.0B · #6 of 65 by CY2024 contract obligations (top 10% 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 Homeland Security slipped from #5 to #6 of 66 agencies in the annual contract-obligation series. Its share of that year’s tracked agency total moved from 2.93% to 3.32%. Across the available annual series, its obligations ranged from $16.6B in 2019 to $25.0B in 2024, a 1.5x spread.
Paragon Systems Inc is the largest listed prime contractor at $616.8M, or 2.5% of this agency’s calendar-2024 obligation total. The table below shows the remaining named prime recipients in the extract. Contract obligations ($25.0B) are a thin slice of the $575.9B budget-authority ceiling - most of the legal authority is outside this contract window. Methodology documents the distinct populations and the Treasury source fields.
Top Contractors
| # | Contractor | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paragon Systems Inc | $616.8M |
| 2 | The Geo Group, Inc. | $469.6M |
| 3 | Deloitte Consulting LLP | $409.7M |
| 4 | Csi Aviation, Inc | $375.2M |
| 5 | General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. | $364.3M |
| 6 | Austal USA, LLC | $309.6M |
| 7 | Bccg a Joint Venture | $287.0M |
| 8 | Caci, Inc. - Federal | $278.5M |
| 9 | Triple Canopy Inc | $274.4M |
| 10 | Techflow, Inc. | $270.2M |
| 11 | B.I. Incorporated | $245.6M |
| 12 | Amentum Services, Inc. | $242.6M |
| 13 | Leidos, Inc. | $235.3M |
| 14 | Loyal Source Government Services LLC | $232.2M |
| 15 | The Mitre Corporation | $228.2M |
| 16 | Science Applications International Corporation | $216.7M |
| 17 | Dell Federal Systems L.P | $205.4M |
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
- Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) $524.2B
- 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
- Department of Energy (DOE) $138.0B
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.