USAspending.gov · Child recipient

General Atomics

According to USAspending.gov, General Atomics is one of the largest federal contractors tracked in this dataset

Corpus rank
#425 of 5,000
Lifetime awards
$491.3M
UEI
TVRYQ3N3B8H5
Percentile · top 10% nationally
92nd

General Atomics vs all tracked contractors by lifetime obligations

Where this recipient's cumulative award total sits among every tracked prime, USAspending.gov lifetime ledgers

$491,337,913 Top 8% higher than 92% of 5,000 contractors

Contractors, banded by lifetime obligation dollars

Each bar is a $50M-wide band; taller bars hold more contractors. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USAspending.gov · 2026-09-12

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General Atomics federal award total

General Atomics is a tracked USAspending.gov prime recipient; this page reports its lifetime obligations across every award action filed under one recipient ID.

PlainFedContract reports USAspending.gov /recipient/ lifetime ledgers for General Atomics: cumulative prime obligations on this recipient ID, not a single fiscal year. Lifetime totals can exceed one year's national pool; do not read the scale bar as an annual share. Open linked agency or state breakdowns when present; see /methodology/#populations/.

Reading General Atomics's Federal Contract Record

According to USAspending.gov, General Atomics has accumulated federal contract obligations over its tracked history at the child recipient level.

General Atomics is one of the largest federal contractors tracked in this dataset, #425 of 5,000 tracked recipients, same order as the top-contractors rankings. The largest share of its state-attributed obligations runs through California (100%).

The awards, annual trend and peer sections below show what sits behind the header figures. See methodology.

How to read this obligation total (lifetime ledger, not annual spend)

This figure is a rolling aggregate of every prime-award action ever reported for this recipient ID, new awards, modifications, option exercises, and de-obligations all flow into the same total, so the dollar amount shown above is a lifetime ledger rather than an annual budget. Interpreting it as a single-year spend would overstate current activity; interpreting it as a guaranteed revenue stream would overstate commitment, because modifications can cut scope or scope can simply lapse unexercised. The child classification also matters for how this record should be read: prime recipients hold the contract directly with a federal agency and are fully responsible for performance; parent-level rollups aggregate awards across subsidiaries, which can inflate totals for large conglomerates whose operating units compete separately. The UEI in the header is the post-2022 federal identifier that replaced the DUNS number, it persists across name changes, acquisitions, and reorganizations, making it the most reliable anchor for tracking this entity over time. For researchers, journalists, and procurement staff, the practical layer under this total is verification: USAspending.gov exposes every underlying transaction by award ID, so any totals on this page can be reconstructed action-by-action through the agency's advanced search. Contract amounts displayed here reflect obligations, money the government has committed, not outlays, which is cash actually disbursed, and the gap between obligation and outlay can span multiple fiscal years on multi-year contracts, so a large obligation total does not imply equivalent cash flow in any single period.

2019–2024 trend for General Atomics

Across the calendar years on file, General Atomics’s annual contract obligations fell from $480.1M in 2023 to $467.7M in 2024. 2.6% vs 2023 The strongest year on file is 2023 at $480.1M.

$100M$200M$300M$400M$500M 201920202021202220232024 $468M
General Atomics annual contract obligations, calendar 2019-2024

Calendar-year prime contract obligations by action date (award types A-D). This annual series is a separate population from the lifetime total above and does not sum to it.

Source: USAspending.gov spending_by_category

General Atomics's federal contractor value score

One verdict number from this portal's own compiled award data, benchmarked against the tracked contractor corpus: scale, recent momentum, and revenue consistency.

C+ 64/100
  • Contract scale A+ $491,337,913 Total tracked federal contract value
  • Recent momentum D -2.6% Most recent tracked year vs. the prior year
  • Revenue consistency D 30.4% swing Year-over-year variation across every tracked year (lower is steadier)

Higher scale, stronger recent momentum, and steadier year-over-year revenue all score higher. A dimension with too little tracked history for this recipient drops out and its weight redistributes across the rest -- it never silently lowers the score. Full method: federal contractor value score.

Lifetime total vs FY2024 complete national pool (scale only, not an annual share; bar=0) 0.0%

Source: USAspending.gov · U.S. Department of the Treasury

Nationwide similar contractors

Data-derived peers across the USAspending recipient extract: nearest lifetime obligation total and nearest represented-agency count. Not geography, name-group siblings, or recommendations.

General Atomics's biggest awards

The 5 largest individual contract awards on file for this recipient, direct from USAspending.gov: not the lifetime aggregate above, but the actual awards behind it.

Department of Defense $1.9B

REQUIREMENT IS FOR THE PROCUREMENT OF PERFORMANCE BASED LOGISTICS SUPPORT SERVICES FOR THE MQ-1C GRAY EAGLE UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM.

Award W58RGZ19C0027 · 2019-04-24 to 2027-04-23

Department of Defense $1.7B

CVN 79 EMALS LONG LEAD TIME MATERIAL

Award N0001914C0037 · 2014-05-08 to 2030-01-30

Department of Defense $1.1B

AWARD OF UNDEFINITIZED CONTRACT ACTION (UCA) FOR FY 12 MQ-1C GRAY EAGLE PROGRAM OF RECORD AND QUICK REACTION CAPABILITY PERFORMANCE-BASED LOGISTICS PRODUCT SUPPORT.

Award W58RGZ12C0075 · 2012-05-08 to 2019-07-31

Department of Defense $1.1B

FY 13 FULL RATE PRODUCTION OF THE GRAY EAGLE UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM AND FY 12 BACKFILL REQUIREMENTS.

Award W58RGZ13C0109 · 2013-09-13 to 2023-03-31

Department of Defense $936.9M

IGF::CT::IGF FY17 GRAY EAGLE PERFORMANCE BASED LOGISTICS (PBL) EFFORT.

Award W58RGZ17C0018 · 2016-10-24 to 2022-09-30

Disclaimer: This data is for informational purposes only. Contract amounts are aggregated from USAspending.gov and may not reflect the most current data. Do not use this data for business decisions without verifying with official sources.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where does General Atomics rank among tracked federal contractors?

Tracked recipients are ordered by USAspending.gov lifetime obligation totals, the same sort as the top-contractors rankings; General Atomics's position is the Corpus rank in the header at the top of this page.

How much has General Atomics received in federal contracts?

The lifetime total is the Lifetime awards figure in the header at the top of this page. It sums every prime-award action reported under this recipient ID on USAspending.gov, modifications included, so it is a running ledger rather than one year's spending.

What is the UEI for General Atomics?

The Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) is shown in the header stat rail above; it is recorded at the child recipient level.

Where does General Atomics's contract data come from?

All contract data for General Atomics is sourced from USAspending.gov prime-award records. Agency and state breakdowns, where present, are in the record above.

How this record relates to the rest of the data

This name appears once in the tracked recipient set, so the child-level record on this page is the only USAspending recipient record carrying it.

By lifetime obligations this record sits just below Manhattan Torcon a Joint Venture ($491.8M) and just above Ram-System Gmbh ($488.9M), the nearest recipients by size that do not share its name.

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

Every figure on PlainFedContract is rendered directly from USAspending.gov federal contract data, no number is typed in by an editor. Contractor figures are computed directly from USAspending.gov data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a correction.