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Department of Defense
The Department of Defense reported $501.6 billion in obligations for fiscal year 2025, according to USAspending.
That ranks 3 of 73 top-tier agencies.
The record
- $501.6 billion
- Obligations, FY2025
- $501,646,895,053
- All award types. Obligations recorded, not money spent.
- 3 of 73
- Rank among agencies
- By obligations this fiscal year.
- 9.5%
- Share of all federal obligations
- Of $5.3 trillion across all agencies.
- Treasury top-tier code
- 097
- USAspending profile
- usaspending.gov/agency/department-of-defense
How this compares
- Obligations, FY2025: $501,646,895,053
- Larger than 95% of the 73 top-tier agencies with obligations in FY2025. All agencies →
By award type
| Award type | Obligations | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Contracts | $491.8 billion$491,769,081,410 | 98.0% |
| Grants | $9.4 billion$9,448,657,353 | 1.9% |
| Other | $397.7 million$397,737,689 | 0.1% |
| Direct payments | $31.4 million$31,418,600 | < 0.1% |
Across fiscal years
Department of Defense obligated $402.5 billion in FY2008 and $501.6 billion in FY2025
Fiscal years 2008 to 2025, as USAspending aggregated them. A year the agency reported no obligations has no point rather than a zero, because the publisher publishes no aggregate for it. FY2026 is still open and is not drawn.
FY2026 is still running and is not drawn. A part year plotted beside complete ones reads as a fall.
Source: USAspending
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The figures
| Fiscal year | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2008 | $402,484,599,895 |
| 2009 | $378,520,752,718 |
| 2010 | $374,262,391,748 |
| 2011 | $381,262,626,367 |
| 2012 | $370,140,661,657 |
| 2013 | $314,658,604,858 |
| 2014 | $290,838,679,813 |
| 2015 | $280,236,549,681 |
| 2016 | $304,733,193,508 |
| 2017 | $327,990,937,754 |
| 2018 | $365,943,209,960 |
| 2019 | $391,235,093,220 |
| 2020 | $431,884,938,598 |
| 2021 | $395,334,590,858 |
| 2022 | $424,506,827,827 |
| 2023 | $467,268,885,423 |
| 2024 | $456,659,262,656 |
| 2025 | $501,646,895,053 |
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Where the work was performed
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| Rank | State | Obligations |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Texas | $61.3 billion$61,255,381,967 |
| 2 | Virginia | $53.4 billion$53,370,086,282 |
| 3 | California | $39.9 billion$39,885,574,313 |
| 4 | Connecticut | $34.8 billion$34,791,727,695 |
| 5 | Florida | $25.8 billion$25,765,355,907 |
| 6 | Pennsylvania | $23.1 billion$23,062,687,294 |
| 7 | Maryland | $19.6 billion$19,627,911,075 |
| 8 | Arizona | $19.6 billion$19,605,945,665 |
| 9 | Massachusetts | $16.4 billion$16,414,284,790 |
| 10 | Alabama | $14.2 billion$14,184,680,693 |
| 11 | Missouri | $10.8 billion$10,784,536,279 |
| 12 | Colorado | $9.8 billion$9,818,169,661 |
| 13 | Kentucky | $9.7 billion$9,698,917,756 |
| 14 | Washington | $9.1 billion$9,081,269,012 |
| 15 | New York | $8.6 billion$8,553,710,813 |
The 15 largest of 56 states and territories. These rows total $474,181,835,209 for FY2025, against $501,646,895,053 for the agency in that year. The difference was performed abroad or carries no reported location. The two figures come from separate USAspending aggregations and reconcile to within a fraction of a percent, not to the cent. Place of performance is what the recipient reported, not necessarily where work happened.
Compared with
Department of Defense set against each of the other largest agencies, measure by measure. Two agencies doing different work are not made comparable by a shared table, and each page says so.
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Sources
- USAspending API v2 — U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service · Public domain — U.S. Government work · retrieved September 23, 2026
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