USAspending.gov · federal contract spending · CY2024 · KY
Kentucky federal contract spending
Top-third USAspending place-of-performance jurisdiction by calendar-2024 contract dollars — KY extract with listed primes below.
- Corpus rank
- #18 of 56
- Contract awards (CY2024)
- $11.8B
- State code
- KY
- Top primes
- 19
Kentucky vs all states by place-of-performance award dollars
Where this state's calendar-2024 USAspending place-of-performance total sits among every jurisdiction with awards (coverage density, not contractor quality)
$11,847,404,621 Top 32% more award dollars than 68% of 56 states
States, banded by CY place-of-performance award dollars
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Source USAspending.gov · 2026-08-14
Kentucky place-of-performance awards
According to the USAspending.gov place-of-performance extract, Kentucky ranks #18 of 54 by calendar-2024 dollars ($11.8B) and #41 by 2023-to-2024 change (-7.4%). Virginia is #1 of 54 by calendar-2024 place-of-performance dollars ($111.4B) at 2023-to-2024 #27 (+1.6%) ≠ Wisconsin #1 2023-to-2024 change (+60.8%) at dollars #24 ($8.7B).
PlainFedContract attributes awards to Kentucky by USAspending.gov primary place of performance (where the work ran), not contractor headquarters. Calendar-2024 dollars stay separate from lifetime recipient totals and complete-FY national pools; see /methodology/#populations/. Not a forecast of future awards.
Year-over-year change, 2019–2024
Across the calendar years on file, Kentucky’s annual contract dollars by place of performance fell from $12.8B in 2023 to $11.8B in 2024. 7.4% vs 2023 The strongest year on file is 2023 at $12.8B.
Calendar-year prime contract obligations by action date (award types A-D). Annual figures use the same place-of-performance basis as the CY2024 headline above.
How Kentucky leads the CY2024 place-of-performance board
$11.8B · #18 of 56 by CY2024 place-of-performance awards (above the median) — a top-third jurisdiction by calendar-2024 place-of-performance contract dollars (same board as the states listing). See methodology.
Humana Government Business Inc is the largest listed prime with work attributed here at $7.5B, or 63.2% of this state’s calendar-2024 total. Top recipients in this extract tie to 5 awarding agencies — a moderate awarding-agency span for the listed primes. Totals use primary place of performance (where the work ran), not contractor headquarters. Methodology.
Top Contractors in Kentucky
Listed-prime dollar bands
Exclusive cut of the 19 named primes listed below ($10.2B combined). This is a share of the listed table only, not of Kentucky’s full place-of-performance total, and not a forecast.
Source: USAspending.gov · U.S. Department of the Treasury
Mega-scale state peers nationwide
Cross-state peers on the USAspending place-of-performance extract: nearest mega-scale obligation totals and broadest awarding-agency span among listed primes. Not regional neighbors.
Closest place-of-performance obligations
- New Mexico $12.8B
- Georgia $10.8B
- South Carolina $10.7B
- Illinois $13.3B
- New Jersey $10.0B
- Tennessee $10.0B
Similar awarding-agency span
Kentucky lists top recipients tied to 5 awarding agencies in the available linked extract.
- Arizona 5 agencies
- Nevada 5 agencies
- Pennsylvania 5 agencies
- Puerto Rico 5 agencies
- Arkansas 6 agencies
- Colorado 6 agencies
Disclaimer: USAspending.gov public records for a top-tier place-of-performance jurisdiction. Dollar totals aggregate CY2024 awards where work ran in Kentucky; verify modifications with Treasury before relying on a single figure.
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