Virginia 111 Billion in Federal Contracts: Top 10 US States

Findings

Virginia tops the list at $111.38 billion in federal contract obligations

Virginia records the highest state-level federal contract obligations at $111.38 billion according to the USAspending.gov state-level dataset. This total stems from defense headquarters aerospace and Intelligence Community facilities documented across the indexed jurisdictions. The PlainFedContract portal indexes 56 US states and territories with total contract obligation amounts per jurisdiction drawn from the same source. Engineers reference the Virginia federal contracts profile for detailed breakdowns of NAICS codes and prime award recipients. Virginia federal contracts profile supplies per-agency allocations that align with the $111.38 billion aggregate. Computer Systems Design Services (NAICS 541512) and Facilities Support Services (NAICS 561210) further concentrate obligations inside Virginia boundaries. The dataset logs these figures verbatim from US Treasury Department submissions without normalization adjustments.

Texas California Maryland complete the defense-heavy top 4

Texas ranks second at $66.46 billion in federal contract obligations while California registers third at $59.46 billion. Maryland follows fourth at $48.24 billion anchored by federal research labs and defense health agencies. Virginia Texas California and Maryland together account for $285.5 billion in combined federal contract obligations. The USAspending.gov state-level dataset records these amounts for fiscal year 2024 across all 56 indexed jurisdictions. Texas federal contracts profile details aerospace and energy sector awards that contribute to the $66.46 billion total. California federal contracts profile shows comparable concentrations in systems engineering and shipbuilding contracts. Maryland federal contracts profile highlights laboratory and health agency line items that reach the $48.24 billion mark. Facilities Support Services (NAICS 561210) at $36.80 billion and Computer Systems Design Services (NAICS 541512) at $33.27 billion appear prominently in these four jurisdictions.

District of Columbia at $36.81 billion reflects federal headquarters concentration

District of Columbia ranks fifth at $36.81 billion reflecting the federal agency headquarters concentration captured in the USAspending.gov state-level dataset. Florida registers sixth at $30.62 billion and Pennsylvania seventh at $27.06 billion. Connecticut places eighth at $22.69 billion driven by submarine manufacturing and aerospace activity. Arizona records ninth at $19.30 billion while Massachusetts logs tenth at $18.89 billion. The top 10 states collectively receive approximately $480 billion in federal contract obligations. This sum represents roughly 65 percent of the $740.76 billion fiscal year 2024 national total concentrated inside 10 of the 56 indexed jurisdictions. The dataset aggregates obligation amounts per jurisdiction from primary award records submitted through the US Treasury Department Federal Spending Transparency portal.

Methodological context

The USAspending.gov state-level dataset follows a quarterly release cadence managed by the US Treasury Department under the Federal Spending Transparency program. Each vintage incorporates flagged revisions from prior submissions so that subsequent releases correct or update obligation figures originally logged in earlier snapshots. The fiscal year 2024 vintage preserves the $740.76 billion national total and the per-jurisdiction allocations for all 56 US states and territories without retroactive alteration once the period closes. Snapshot vintages differ from live API endpoints because the API streams incremental updates while the archived vintage freezes values at the close of the reporting window. Coverage edges exclude non-appropriated fund instruments tribal compact awards below statutory thresholds and certain classified line items that remain outside the public extract. The PlainFedContract indexing process ingests only the published state-level contract obligation amounts per jurisdiction and joins them to NAICS definitions supplied by the NAICS Association. Cross-references appear on the methodology page where users locate column mappings for obligation totals jurisdiction identifiers and agency codes. Data methodology documents the exact ingest pipeline revision flagging logic and vintage retention schedule. Coverage gaps arise primarily from entities that submit zero reportable contracts during the fiscal year or operate under authorities that bypass standard USAspending.gov reporting streams. The 56 indexed jurisdictions therefore represent the complete set of states and territories that logged measurable contract obligations in the released vintage. Pipeline terminology such as release cadence vintage revision flag snapshot and ingest aligns directly with documentation maintained by the upstream agency. Internal pages for individual states supply supplementary columns including recipient counts award instrument types and congressional district breakdowns that extend the core state-level aggregates.

Virginia Texas California Maryland District of Columbia Florida Pennsylvania Connecticut Arizona and Massachusetts together illustrate how defense-industrial clusters and civilian headquarters functions map onto the top-ranked jurisdictions within the USAspending.gov state-level dataset. The $111.38 billion Virginia total the $66.46 billion Texas figure the $59.46 billion California amount the $48.24 billion Maryland sum and the $36.81 billion District of Columbia value anchor the concentration pattern while lower-ranked states such as Florida Pennsylvania Connecticut Arizona and Massachusetts extend the distribution across aerospace submarine research and systems services categories. Computer Systems Design Services and Facilities Support Services obligations reinforce the observed clustering inside the leading jurisdictions. The methodological framework ensures that every numeric value traces to the fiscal year 2024 vintage without extrapolation or adjustment beyond the published aggregates. Internal profiles and the methodology page enable further navigation across the 56 jurisdictions and the full set of NAICS categories that contribute to the documented totals.