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Department of Commerce

Award obligations from USAspending, with detail archived for FFY 2024 · 11 sub-agencies.

Commerce houses statistical, scientific, and economic agencies such as the Census Bureau and NOAA. Award figures on The Ledger come from archived USAspending awarding-agency rollups (obligations). That is not the same as every dollar the agency outlays.

Obligations · FFY 2024

$34.7B

Awarding agency DOC

Transactions

24,322

Award transactions in FFY 2024

Share of awards

0.70%

Of archived awarding-agency obligations in FFY 2024

MTS outlays

—

No matching MTS agency line

Obligations by year

Award obligations by fiscal year for Department of Commerce
Fiscal yearObligations
FFY 2024$34.7B
FFY 2023$10.7B
FFY 2022$10.9B
FFY 2021$7.6B
FFY 2018$5.4B
FFY 2017$4.8B
FFY 2016$4.6B

Award categoriesFFY 2024

Obligations by award category for Department of Commerce
CategoryAmount
Grants$29.5B
Contracts$5.2B
Other$3.5M
IDVs$334.0K
Loans−$6.8M

Top sub-agenciesFFY 2024

Top sub-agencies by obligations for Department of Commerce
Sub-agencyCodeObligationsTransactions
National Institute of Standards and TechnologyNIST$25.5B3,369
National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationNOAA$5.9B11,713
Economic Development AdministrationEDA$1.0B1,039
U.S. Patent and Trademark OfficeUSPTO$937.3M1,277
Office of the SecretaryOS$833.4M4,692
U.S. Census Bureau—$419.9M1,114
Minority Business Development AgencyMBDA$23.1M289
National Telecommunications and Information AdministrationNTIA$4.8M779
International Trade AdministrationITA$0.050

Sources

  • Obligations are legal commitments, not the same as Treasury outlays. See award obligations and outlays.
  • Official websiteUSAspending agency pageBudget justificationMethodologyAll awarding agencies