Lifetime recipient totals · USAspending.gov
Which contractors hold the largest federal award totals?
According to USAspending.gov lifetime recipient totals, Lockheed Martin Corp leads this extract at $63.4B in lifetime prime obligations, ahead of The Boeing Company. These rankings use the /recipient/ lifetime population, not a single fiscal year.
- #1 lifetime
- $63.4B
- #50 cutoff
- $3.1B
- Top÷cutoff
- 20.5×
- Ranked
- 50
The rankings verdict
Lockheed Martin Corp leads the top-50 lifetime list at $63.4B, with The Boeing Company second at $26.7B, and the bar to make this list is $3.1B (20.5× the cutoff).
- $63.4B
- #1 Lockheed Martin Corp
- $26.7B
- #2 The Boeing Company
- $3.1B
- #50 cutoff to make the list
Lifetime recipient totals are a separate population from complete-FY agency obligations. USAspending publishes a large prime under several recipient records whose amounts overlap without a stated rule, so these rows rank records rather than companies and must never be added together; see /methodology/#populations/.
The awarding-agency map is not this recipient list
According to the USAspending.gov calendar-2024 agency extract, Department of Defense is #1 of 65 by calendar-2024 contract obligations ($456.0B) at budget-authority #3 ≠ Department of the Treasury #1 of 61 by budget authority ($4.71T) at obligations #10 ($9.5B).
- $456.0B
- #1 obligations DOD
- $4.71T
- #1 budget TREAS
- #3
- DOD budget-authority rank
- #10
- TREAS obligations rank
Lifetime recipient totals (the list below) and calendar-2024 agency obligations vs budget authority are separate populations. See /methodology/#populations/.
Recipient-level mix on this extract
Exclusive cut of these 50 lifetime recipient records by USAspending parent vs subsidiary level. Orthogonal to the dollar Top 5 above: a record count, not an award sum.
Rank-slot inventory
How the 50-row extract is partitioned by rank slot. Slot counts only, not a concentration share of dollars (those amounts overlap across recipient IDs).
Top 50 federal contractors
Ranked by total federal contract award amount on each recipient ID in this lifetime extract. USAspending records a large prime under more than one recipient ID, so the same company can appear several times at different levels; the Level column shows which, and these 50 rows resolve to 50 distinct company names. The amounts on those records overlap without a stated rule, so the rows are a ranking of records and never a sum.
Source: USAspending.gov · Rankings reflect cumulative contract obligations on each recipient record.
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