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Unmanned Aircraft

Unmanned Aircraft recorded $1.9 billion of federal contract obligations for this product or service in fiscal year 2026, which ranks 66 of 2,291 products and services with a figure in FY2026.

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Identifiers

Product and Service Code
1550
Registered name
UNMANNED AIRCRAFT

The record

Reported figures for Unmanned Aircraft, each linked to its source
Obligated · FY2026The Product and Service Code says what was bought, which is a different question from who sold it. Contracts only: an assistance award has no product code.$1,857,940,191USD
Rank among products and services · FY202666 of 2,291by obligations
Share of all products and services · FY2026Of $662.7 billion, which is what every product or service the publisher reported obligated in FY2026 — not the federal total, which is larger.0.3%percent

By fiscal year

Unmanned Aircraft: federal contract obligations for this product or service, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearObligated
FY2022$1,660,978,213
FY2023$1,843,217,838
FY2024$2,205,620,930
FY2025$1,944,398,741
FY2026$1,857,940,191

The publisher holds five fiscal years of this breakdown. A year missing from this table is a year this product or service was not reported in, not a year of no spending.

The nearest ranks

products and services ranked nearest Unmanned Aircraft, FY2026
Rankproduct or serviceObligated
63MEDICAL- OTHER$1,990,275,752
64NATIONAL DEFENSE R&D SERVICES; DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE - MILITARY; BASIC RESEARCH$1,873,732,919
65REPAIR OR ALTERATION OF DAMS$1,869,878,045
67NON-NUCLEAR SHIP REPAIR (WEST)$1,850,596,621
68NON-NUCLEAR SHIP REPAIR (EAST)$1,838,869,427
69SPACE R&D SERVICES; SPACE FLIGHT, RESEARCH AND SUPPORTING ACTIVITIES; BASIC RESEARCH$1,809,238,010

What this data cannot show

  • The fiscal year is not over. These are obligations recorded so far, and a figure here is not comparable with a full year.
  • An obligation is a binding commitment to pay, not money paid. Outlays are reported separately and the two are never equal in the same year.
  • The Product and Service Code says what was bought, which is a different question from who sold it. Contracts only: an assistance award has no product code.
  • This page is built from the database rather than from the committed extract, so it covers every product or service the publisher reported and not only the largest hundred the ranking names. Both come from the same ingest on the date above.

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