Top Contractors
| Rank | Contractor | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| #1 | Lockheed Martin Corporation | $45.6B |
| #2 | The Boeing Company | $23.8B |
| #3 | Raytheon Company | $17.5B |
| #4 | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | $17.0B |
| #5 | Electric Boat Corporation | $8.6B |
| #6 | Triwest Healthcare Alliance Corp. | $8.4B |
| #7 | Humana Government Business Inc. | $8.0B |
| #8 | Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. | $7.9B |
| #9 | Huntington Ingalls Incorporated | $7.5B |
| #10 | Leidos, Inc. | $7.2B |
The Department of Defense record above pulls directly from USASpending.gov federal awards data. What follows is the per-entity context — how Department of Defense sits in the broader U.S. federal government spending distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
Every number on this page links back to USASpending.gov federal awards data; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for Department of Defense’s peers within U.S. federal contracts, grants, and awards. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.