Bureau of Political Military Affairs

The Department of State Bureau of Political-Military Affairs is a civilian sub-agency that funds and contracts for arms control verification, demining, nonproliferation, and foreign military assistance programming, including humanitarian mine-action and weapons-destruction initiatives managed through both contracting and grant mechanisms.

The Bureau has awarded 1,001 federal contracts totaling $2.59 billion in combined potential value since 1997, with $1.66 billion obligated. Contract award pace declined notably over the last five years, from 58 awards in 2022 to 71 in 2024, then 21 in 2025 and 19 year-to-date in 2026. The contracting base is moderately concentrated among prime contractors. Tetra Tech, Inc. leads by potential value with 4 awards worth $552.6 million, while Sincerus Global Solutions Inc. dominates by award count with 20 awards over the last five years and ranks second by value at $22.1 million combined potential value. New TECH Solutions, Inc. follows by count with 19 awards. The top five primes account for 31 percent of recent award count and 23 percent of combined potential value. The contracting set-aside mix is dominated by open competition—79 percent of awards carry no set-aside designation. Small business awards account for 12 percent of the portfolio, with service-disabled veteran-owned small business at 3 percent, HUBZone at 2 percent, and 8(a) designations (sole source and competitive) totaling 3 percent. The Bureau has awarded 281 distinct prime contractors across the portfolio history.

The Bureau has obligated $2.53 billion in federal grant funding across 993 grant awards since 2009. Grant award pace similarly declined, from 40 awards in 2023 to 42 in 2024, then 18 in 2025 and 10 year-to-date in 2026. Grant recipients are concentrated among a small number of established implementers. Mag America Inc. leads both by award count with 32 awards and by federal dollars at $197.3 million, followed by The Halo Trust Usa, Inc. with 19 awards and $138.5 million, and Norsk Folkehjelp with 14 awards and $68.8 million. The top five recipients account for 58 percent of recent award count but only 18 percent of federal dollars, indicating that award distribution by count masks a longer tail of recipients managing larger individual grants. The assistance-type mix is predominantly Project Grants at 81 percent of awards, with Cooperative Agreements comprising 19 percent. The Bureau has funded 85 distinct grant recipients across the portfolio history.

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