Department of Defense
Washington, DC
Agency facts
- Acronym
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- DOD
- Agency code
- 9700
- Organization
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- DHA
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- DMA
- DMEA
- DSCA
- DTRA
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- DODEA
- DODIG
- JIEDDO
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DOD
- Contract obligations
- $553,420,210,774 In FY2025
- Website
- defense.gov
Agency codes and contract spending come from SAM.gov/FPDS.
Contract obligations by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Obligated |
|---|---|
| FY2027 To date | $196,646,568 |
| FY2026 | $486,706,471,079 |
| FY2025 | $553,420,210,774 |
| FY2024 | $505,978,282,055 |
| FY2023 | $511,714,500,556 |
Top contractors by obligations
| Rank | Contractor | Obligated, FY2026–FY2027 | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Electric Boat Corporation | $22,738,651,142 | |
| 2 | Lockheed Martin Corporation | $18,468,785,790 | |
| 3 | Lockheed Martin Corporation | $15,456,051,456 | |
| 4 | Raytheon Company | $11,951,316,715 | |
| 5 | RTX Corporation | $10,099,143,042 | |
| 6 | The Boeing Company | $7,669,439,324 | |
| 7 | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. | $6,723,079,391 | |
| 8 | Amerisourcebergen Drug Corp | $6,684,778,277 | |
| 9 | Raytheon Company | $6,593,067,647 | |
| 10 | The Boeing Company | $6,525,896,127 |
See the full FY2025 ranking of defense contractors, by parent company.
Top contract vehicles by obligations
| Rank | Vehicle | Obligated, FY2026–FY2027 | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) | $9,546,116,347 | |
| 2 | Special Operations Equipment - Tailored Logistics Support (SOE TLS) | $7,010,136,023 | |
| 3 | Seaport Next Generation (Seaport-NXG) | $6,589,215,563 | |
| 4 | Alliant II | $5,200,046,633 | |
| 5 | One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS) | $3,863,209,785 | |
| 6 | One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services - Small Business (OASIS SB) | $3,452,967,370 | |
| 7 | Solutions for Enterprise Wide Procurement V (SEWP V) | $2,857,378,207 | |
| 8 | Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) | $2,819,244,712 | |
| 9 | ASTRO | $2,798,362,193 | |
| 10 | National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 1 (NSSL P3 L1) | $2,563,812,662 |
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Contract opportunities
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Contracting staff
| Rank | Person | SAM.gov records, last 2 years |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Natalya Radyk | 14,059 |
| 2 | Stephen Weaver | 5,950 |
| 3 | Kimberly Licence | 2,920 |
| 4 | Matthew Wood | 2,314 |
| 5 | Kadijatu Yanni | 2,063 |
| 6 | Allison Rodgers | 1,469 |
| 7 | Jennifer Payne | 1,197 |
| 8 | Deborah Ferrin | 1,167 |
| 9 | Patrick Sikorski | 1,026 |
| 10 | Kimberly S. Smith | 987 |
| 11 | Alisha Grove | 935 |
| 12 | Desmond Forshey | 917 |
| 13 | Kimberly Trujillo | 838 |
| 14 | Jacob Hamilton | 838 |
| 15 | Joy Davis | 800 |
| 16 | Hunter Steele | 784 |
| 17 | Thomas Reckart | 767 |
| 18 | Shannon Irwin | 763 |
| 19 | Jennifer Chavez | 759 |
| 20 | Brandon Armstrong | 683 |
About this agency
The Department of Defense, the cabinet department responsible for military readiness and national defense, executes the largest federal contracting and grant portfolios in the U.S. government. The Department awards contracts and grants across military departments (Army, Navy, Air Force), defense agencies, research offices, and field operating activities to procure weapons systems, supplies, services, and to fund basic and applied research.
The Department has issued 61,982,305 federal contract awards since 1949, with a combined potential value of $53.395 billion. Recent annual award volume stands at 3,878,132 awards in 2023, 3,807,287 in 2024, 3,701,514 in 2025, 2,068,624 in 2026, and 75 year-to-date in 2027. The most recent recorded award date is October 4, 2027. Combined dollars obligated against these awards total $11.452 billion (21 percent of combined potential value); the Department sustains a portfolio of 496,322 distinct prime contractors. Recent awards carry heavy unreported-value characteristics — many transact through Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Automated Indefinite Delivery Contracts tied to National Stock Numbers (NSNs), Schedule task orders, and BPA calls where individual award dollar values are not reported in source data.
Among recent prime contractors by award count over the last five years, competitive concentration is moderately concentrated: Amerisourcebergen Drug Corp leads with 2,255,470 awards and $26.09 billion combined potential value; Asrc Federal Facilities Logistics, LLC follows with 1,535,032 awards and $3.31 billion combined potential value; and Cardinal Health 200, LLC holds 1,358,465 awards and $2.03 billion combined potential value. These top three account for 34 percent of recent awards by count. By potential value over the last five years, concentration is highly fragmented at zero percent coverage from the top five recipients, a reflection of DLA's heavy reliance on small-value task-order issuance against pre-established suppliers rather than large-value definitive contracts. Atlantic Diving Supply, Inc. ranks second by potential value at $22.84 billion despite 322,331 awards, indicating significant per-award value concentration among specialty suppliers.
The Department's set-aside mix reflects a heavily open (non-set-aside) procurement base: 94 percent of awards carry no set-aside designation. Small-business set-asides account for 5 percent of all awards; 8(a) Sole Source, Competitive 8(a), Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, HUBZone, and Woman-Owned Small Business collectively represent less than 1 percent of the portfolio.
The Department has distributed 116,366 federal grant awards since 1993, obligating $165.61 billion in federal dollars (combined federal and non-federal total of $180.86 billion). Recent annual grant award volume stands at 3,882 awards in 2025, 1,888 in 2026, and one award each in 2027, 2028, and 2029; the most recent recorded grant award date is September 30, 2029. The Department sustains 6,644 distinct grant recipients. Among top grant recipients by award count over the last five years, concentration is highly fragmented: The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. leads with 487 awards and $1.75 billion federal dollars obligated; Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Incorporated holds 409 awards and $56.4 million federal dollars obligated; and Regents of the University of Michigan accounts for 266 awards and $253.4 million federal dollars obligated. These top three cover only 8 percent of recent awards by count. By federal dollars over the last five years, concentration remains highly fragmented at 2 percent coverage from the top five recipients, reflecting wide distribution of mid-sized research grants across universities and independent research institutions. Grant assistance is predominantly Project Grants (70 percent of awards) with a substantial Cooperative Agreement component (28 percent of awards), and minimal Block Grant and Formula Grant activity (1 percent combined).
Recent contract opportunities span DLA supply-chain RFQs for standard military parts — CIRCUIT BREAKER (SPE7M527U0031, due November 5, 2026), GOVERNOR ASSEMBLY, AIR (SPE7L427U0087, Total Small Business set-aside, due November 5, 2026), and CUSHION, SEAT BACK, VEHI (SPE7L427U0086, Total Small Business set-aside, due November 5, 2026) — alongside service and equipment procurements including Walk-Behind Trailer Pushers for NSWC PHD intermediate-level maintenance shops (N6339427Q4003, Total Small Business set-aside, due November 6, 2026) and Multi-Function Device Printer Services Lease (W912JV27QSS01, Pre-Solicitation, Total Small Business set-aside, due November 2, 2026). Most DLA solicitations offer Indefinite Delivery Contracts with one-year terms or $350,000 aggregate order ceilings, guaranteed minimum quantities, and delivery to CONUS and OCONUS DLA Depots.
Recent grant opportunities reflect Department of Defense research mission priorities. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award 2027 (DARPARA2701, Cooperative Agreement, due January 13, 2027) targets junior researchers early in their careers in academia and non-profit research institutions without prior DARPA funding to develop innovative research addressing Department of War national security needs. The Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship-for-Service Program (W911NF-27-R-A001, Cooperative Agreement, due December 3, 2026) seeks one cooperative agreement awardee with a maximum of $1.3 billion over ten years to administer STEM scholarships and workforce development aligned with Department of War technical talent priorities. The Deployed Warfighter Protection Program (AFPMB-BAA-27-01, Grant, due March 17, 2027) funds original research on insecticides, personal protection modalities, and pesticide application equipment to protect deployed military from arthropod disease vectors. The Department's Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) (W911NF26S1000, N0001426SF002, NOFOAFRLAFOSR20260002, Cooperative Agreements and Grants, due April 9, 2027) supports high-risk basic research at U.S. universities addressing complex, Department-relevant problem sets at the intersection of multiple scientific disciplines; eligibility is restricted to U.S. institutions of higher education and University Affiliated Research Centers not designated as Federally Funded Research and Development Centers. The Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program (N0001426SF004, Grant, due October 30, 2026) supports early-career investigators at U.S. higher-education institutions and non-profit research organizations holding tenure-track faculty positions and holding a Ph.D. or equivalent degree earned on or after January 1, 2019.
Description
The Department of Defense provides the military forces needed to deter war, and to protect the security of the United States.
Quick answers
What is Department of Defense?
Department of Defense (DOD) is a federal agency.
What offices are part of Department of Defense?
Department of Defense has 39 sub-agencies and offices with their own GovTribe pages, including Air Force, Army and Air Force Exchange Service and Business Transformation Agency.
How much does Department of Defense spend on contracts?
Contracts funded by Department of Defense and its offices obligated $553,420,210,774 in fiscal year 2025 and $2,058,016,111,032 in fiscal years 2023 through 2027.
Who are Department of Defense's largest contractors?
The contractors Department of Defense and its offices obligated the most to in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 are Electric Boat Corporation ($22,738,651,142), Lockheed Martin Corporation ($18,468,785,790) and Lockheed Martin Corporation ($15,456,051,456).
Which contract vehicles does Department of Defense use most?
The contract vehicles Department of Defense and its offices obligated the most through in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 are Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) ($9,546,116,347), Special Operations Equipment - Tailored Logistics Support (SOE TLS) ($7,010,136,023) and Seaport Next Generation (Seaport-NXG) ($6,589,215,563). Orders through any contract vehicle obligated $88,339,769,777 in those years, 18% of its contract obligations.
What is Department of Defense's latest contract opportunity?
The latest contract opportunity from Department of Defense is Shielding gasket, elect, solicitation, posted by Land and Maritime (DLA) on November 8, 2026.
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