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Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)

Federal contract spending profile, contract obligations, budget authority and top contractors, from USAspending.gov.

Corpus rank
#2 of 65
Contract obligations (CY2024)
$70.3B
Budget authority
$524.2B
Agency
VA

Year-over-year change, 2019–2024

Across the calendar years on file, Department of Veterans Affairs’s annual contract obligations rose from $63.7B in 2023 to $70.3B in 2024. 10.3% vs 2023

$20B$30B$40B$50B$60B$70B$80B 201920202021202220232024 $70.3B
Department of Veterans Affairs annual contract obligations, calendar 2019-2024

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.

Source: USAspending.gov spending_by_category

How Department of Veterans Affairs leads the CY2024 obligation board

$70.3B · #2 of 65 by CY2024 contract obligations (top 5% 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 Veterans Affairs held #2 of 66 agencies in the annual contract-obligation series. Its share of that year’s tracked agency total moved from 5.14% to 9.33%. Across the available annual series, its obligations ranged from $29.1B in 2019 to $70.3B in 2024, a 2.4x spread.

Optum Public Sector Solutions, Inc. is the largest listed prime contractor at $20.5B, or 29.2% of this agency’s calendar-2024 obligation total. The table below shows the remaining named prime recipients in the extract. Contract obligations ($70.3B) are a thin slice of the $524.2B budget-authority ceiling - most of the legal authority is outside this contract window. Methodology documents the distinct populations and the Treasury source fields.

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.

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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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Compiled from USAspending.gov by the PlainFedContract editorial process.