Top Contractors
| Rank | Contractor | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| #1 | The Mitre Corporation | $2.2B |
| #2 | L3harris Technologies, Inc. | $2.1B |
| #3 | Peraton Inc. | $2.0B |
| #4 | Hensel Phelps Construction Co. | $1.4B |
| #5 | Maximus Federal Services, Inc. | $1.1B |
| #6 | Whiting-turner Contracting Company, the | $503.1M |
| #7 | Manson Construction Co | $415.0M |
| #8 | Weeks Marine, Inc. | $357.6M |
| #9 | Textron Aviation Inc. | $344.2M |
| #10 | Advanced Computer Concepts, Inc. | $272.5M |
The Department of Commerce record above pulls directly from USASpending.gov federal awards data. What follows is the per-entity context — how Department of Commerce sits in the broader U.S. federal government spending distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the USASpending.gov federal awards data portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for Department of Commerce is typically a peer within U.S. federal contracts, grants, and awards with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.