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The Books · Agencies · DOD

Department of Defense

Award obligations from USAspending, with detail archived for FFY 2024 · 36 sub-agencies.

DoD is the core national-defense agency. Award obligations capture contracts and assistance it awards; military pay and broader program outlays also appear in Treasury presentations. 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

$456.9B

Awarding agency DOD

Transactions

4,447,904

Award transactions in FFY 2024

Share of awards

9.24%

Of archived awarding-agency obligations in FFY 2024

MTS outlays · FFY 2025

$868.4B

Matched Monthly Treasury Statement line

Obligations by year

Award obligations by fiscal year for Department of Defense
Fiscal yearObligations
FFY 2024$456.9B
FFY 2023$467.2B
FFY 2022$424.5B
FFY 2021$395.3B
FFY 2018$365.9B
FFY 2017$328.0B
FFY 2016$304.7B

Award categoriesFFY 2024

Obligations by award category for Department of Defense
CategoryAmount
Contracts$446.0B
Grants$10.4B
Other$492.1M
Direct payments$5.1M

Top sub-agenciesFFY 2024

Top sub-agencies by obligations for Department of Defense
Sub-agencyCodeObligationsTransactions
Department of the NavyUSN$136.0B228,618
Department of the ArmyUSA$108.3B158,046
Department of the Air ForceUSAF$101.6B115,701
Defense Logistics AgencyDLA$53.1B3,815,487
Defense Health AgencyDHA$20.2B15,501
Missile Defense AgencyMDA$8.5B3,827
Defense Information Systems AgencyDISA$7.1B47,245
USTRANSCOM—$5.2B5,931
U.S. Special Operations CommandUSSOCOM$4.9B6,299
Washington Headquarters ServicesWHS$3.4B4,371
Defense Advanced Research Projects AgencyDARPA$2.2B2,337
Defense Threat Reduction AgencyDTRA$1.4B1,694

Matched Treasury outlays

Monthly Treasury Statement net outlays for Department of Defense
Fiscal yearNet outlays
FFY 2025$868.4B
FFY 2024$826.3B
FFY 2023$775.9B
FFY 2022$726.6B
FFY 2021$717.6B
FFY 2018$600.7B
FFY 2017$568.9B
FFY 2016$565.4B

Sources

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