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Minnesota federal contract spending

Thin-tail place-of-performance jurisdiction on the states board — MN CY2024 awards with listed primes below.

Corpus rank
#39 of 56
Contract awards (CY2024)
$3.0B
State code
MN
Top primes
13

Minnesota 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)

$2,969,957,037 30th percentile more award dollars than 30% of 56 states

States, banded by CY place-of-performance award dollars

Each bar is a $1-wide band; taller bars hold more states. 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 · 2026-08-14

Minnesota place-of-performance awards

According to the USAspending.gov place-of-performance extract, Minnesota ranks #39 of 54 by calendar-2024 dollars ($3.0B) and #16 by 2023-to-2024 change (+11.3%). 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 Minnesota 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, Minnesota’s annual contract dollars by place of performance rose from $2.7B in 2023 to $3.0B in 2024. 11.3% vs 2023

$2.2B$2.4B$2.6B$2.8B$3B 201920202021202220232024 $2.97B
Minnesota annual contract dollars by place of performance, calendar 2019-2024

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.

Source: USAspending.gov spending_by_category

How Minnesota shows up on the thin-tail award band

$3.0B · #39 of 56 by CY2024 place-of-performance awards (below the median) — thin-tail on the place-of-performance board (same order as the states listing). See methodology.

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation is the largest listed prime with work attributed here at $505.5M, or 17.0% of this state’s calendar-2024 total. Top recipients in this extract tie to 1 awarding agency — a narrow awarding-agency span for the listed primes. Totals use primary place of performance (where the work ran), not contractor headquarters. Methodology.

Top Contractors in Minnesota

Listed-prime dollar bands

Exclusive cut of the 13 named primes listed below ($1.6B combined). This is a share of the listed table only, not of Minnesota’s full place-of-performance total, and not a forecast.

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

Thin-tail state peers nationwide

Cross-state peers on the place-of-performance extract: nearest thin-tail obligation totals and comparable awarding-agency span. Not regional neighbors.

Closest place-of-performance obligations

Similar awarding-agency span

Minnesota lists top recipients tied to 1 awarding agency in the available linked extract.

Disclaimer: USAspending.gov public records for a thin-tail jurisdiction. Small award totals can move sharply with a single prime; always verify with official Treasury extracts.

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