Defense
Data through Jun 2026 · updatedWhat the Department of Defense commits to contractors and grantees, month by month, and what the money buys: ships, aircraft, missiles, services. From USAspending.gov; DoD contracts are published 90 days after they are signed.
GrowingPentagon contract awards reached $502.0B in FY2025, up 9.9% on the year before and the most since at least FY2008.
Watch: The rest of FY2026: the past three months ran 30.2% above a year earlier. Awards are reported with a 3-month delay, so the newest months fill in later.
What changed month by month, vs a year earlier
- June 2026▲+$5.2B +12.8%
- May 2026▲+$14.0B +38.1%
- April 2026▲+$15.7B +41.0%
- +3 more for members
Every headline number4 readings with their changes
About the dataUSAspending.gov award obligations · U.S. federal data · daily
Award obligations are what the Department of Defense commits in contracts, grants and other awards, from USAspending.gov. They are not the whole budget (pay, for example, is not an award). DoD contracts are published 90 days after award, so the page stops 3 months back and compares complete fiscal years (October to September). Product and service categories are the federal Product and Service Codes.
Source: Award obligations (spending over time, by category), USAspending.gov, U.S. Department of the Treasury.
How the takeaway is decided
- Growing or Shrinking: awards moved more than 5% on the year before. The trend is the average of the last 10 complete fiscal years.
The words and colours come from these rules, applied to the newest data on every update; they describe the data and are not advice.