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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
| Fiscal year | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Category | Amount |
|---|---|
| Contracts | $446.0B |
| Grants | $10.4B |
| Other | $492.1M |
| Direct payments | $5.1M |
| Sub-agency | Code | Obligations | Transactions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Department of the Navy | USN | $136.0B | 228,618 |
| Department of the Army | USA | $108.3B | 158,046 |
| Department of the Air Force | USAF | $101.6B | 115,701 |
| Defense Logistics Agency | DLA | $53.1B | 3,815,487 |
| Defense Health Agency | DHA | $20.2B | 15,501 |
| Missile Defense Agency | MDA | $8.5B | 3,827 |
| Defense Information Systems Agency | DISA | $7.1B | 47,245 |
| USTRANSCOM | — | $5.2B | 5,931 |
| U.S. Special Operations Command | USSOCOM | $4.9B | 6,299 |
| Washington Headquarters Services | WHS | $3.4B | 4,371 |
| Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | DARPA | $2.2B | 2,337 |
| Defense Threat Reduction Agency | DTRA | $1.4B | 1,694 |
| Fiscal year | Net 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 |