USAspending.gov · federal contract spending · CY2024 · UT
Utah federal contract spending
Mid-pack place-of-performance jurisdiction on the states board — UT CY2024 awards with listed primes below.
- Corpus rank
- #27 of 56
- Contract awards (CY2024)
- $6.9B
- State code
- UT
- Top primes
- 15
Utah 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)
$6,860,293,445 Top 48% more award dollars than 52% 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
Utah place-of-performance awards
According to the USAspending.gov place-of-performance extract, Utah ranks #27 of 54 by calendar-2024 dollars ($6.9B) and #20 by 2023-to-2024 change (+8.3%). 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 Utah 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, Utah’s annual contract dollars by place of performance rose from $6.3B in 2023 to $6.9B in 2024. 8.3% vs 2023
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 Utah sits in the mid-pack award band
$6.9B · #27 of 56 by CY2024 place-of-performance awards (above the median) — mid-pack on the place-of-performance board (same order as the states listing). See methodology.
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp is the largest listed prime with work attributed here at $3.0B, or 43.6% of this state’s calendar-2024 total. Top recipients in this extract tie to 8 awarding agencies — a broad awarding-agency span for the listed primes. Totals use primary place of performance (where the work ran), not contractor headquarters. Methodology.
Top Contractors in Utah
Listed-prime dollar bands
Exclusive cut of the 15 named primes listed below ($5.1B combined). This is a share of the listed table only, not of Utah’s full place-of-performance total, and not a forecast.
Source: USAspending.gov · U.S. Department of the Treasury
Mid-scale state peers nationwide
Cross-state peers on the place-of-performance extract: nearest mid-scale obligation totals and comparable awarding-agency span. Not regional neighbors.
Closest place-of-performance obligations
- Michigan $7.2B
- Mississippi $6.4B
- Hawaii $6.4B
- North Carolina $7.6B
- Oklahoma $5.8B
- Indiana $5.4B
Similar awarding-agency span
Utah lists top recipients tied to 8 awarding agencies in the available linked extract.
- Missouri 8 agencies
- Nebraska 9 agencies
- Arkansas 6 agencies
- Colorado 6 agencies
- New Hampshire 10 agencies
- South Dakota 6 agencies
Disclaimer: USAspending.gov public records for a mid-pack jurisdiction. State-level totals aggregate place-of-performance awards and may lag the latest de-obligations; confirm with official sources.
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