US Department of Defense contract obligations
ObservedContract dollars obligated by the Department of Defense (awarding agency) in each fiscal year.
Ingestedfrom U.S. Governmentstale (over 3 days)JSON export
Current value, United States
395.13BUS dollars
period 2025-10-01- Geography
- United States (USA)
- Observation date
- 2025-10-01
- Unit
- US dollars
- Frequency
- annual
- Ingested
- 2026-10-19 00:18 UTC
1-year change-96.68Bcontextual-19.66%2024-10-01 to 2025-10-01from 491.81B to 395.13B US dollars
10-year trend+2.85% per yearcontextual+32.50%2015-10-01 to 2025-10-01compound annual growth rate; total +96.91B US dollars, from 298.22B to 395.13B US dollars
Historical series
US Department of Defense contract obligations, United States
Observed
Data table (19 rows)
| Period | Value (US dollars) | Source revision | Ingested at |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-01 | 395,129,859,443.68 | 2026-10-19 | 2026-10-19 00:18 UTC |
| 2024-10-01 | 491,811,572,088.6 | 2026-10-19 | 2026-10-19 00:18 UTC |
| 2023-10-01 | 445,758,611,430.31 | 2026-10-19 | 2026-10-19 00:18 UTC |
| 2022-10-01 | 456,948,832,249.78 | 2026-10-19 | 2026-10-19 00:18 UTC |
| 2021-10-01 | 414,364,808,193.82 | 2026-10-12 | 2026-10-12 00:07 UTC |
| 2020-10-01 | 386,934,252,469.59 | 2026-10-12 | 2026-10-12 00:07 UTC |
| 2019-10-01 | 422,451,392,118.16 | 2026-10-12 | 2026-10-12 00:07 UTC |
| 2018-10-01 | 383,551,156,348.34 | 2026-10-19 | 2026-10-19 00:18 UTC |
| 2017-10-01 | 359,315,602,823.99 | 2026-10-12 | 2026-10-12 00:07 UTC |
| 2016-10-01 | 321,415,402,999.43 | 2026-09-28 | 2026-09-28 00:07 UTC |
| 2015-10-01 | 298,217,529,542.91 | 2026-10-12 | 2026-10-12 00:07 UTC |
| 2014-10-01 | 274,198,295,606.97 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2013-10-01 | 284,526,950,121.46 | 2026-10-12 | 2026-10-12 00:07 UTC |
| 2012-10-01 | 309,331,999,443.47 | 2026-09-14 | 2026-09-14 00:09 UTC |
| 2011-10-01 | 363,796,849,043.03 | 2026-10-12 | 2026-10-12 00:07 UTC |
| 2010-10-01 | 374,475,640,755.12 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2009-10-01 | 368,676,582,773.75 | 2026-09-28 | 2026-09-28 00:07 UTC |
| 2008-10-01 | 373,483,856,061.86 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2007-10-01 | 397,692,984,481.79 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
Definition
What this measures
Total obligations on federal contract awards (award types A, B, C and D: definitive contracts, purchase orders, delivery orders and BPA calls) where the awarding top-tier agency is the Department of Defense (including Army, Navy, Air Force and defense agencies), summed over the federal fiscal year from transaction-level data reported to FPDS and published on USAspending.gov. Obligations are amounts the government committed, not outlays; de-obligations reduce the total. Fiscal years run 1 October to 30 September; only closed fiscal years are stored.
- Direction
- contextual, not scored
- Geography level
- country
- Slug
- us-dod-contract-obligations
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Provenance and methodologysource, series, ingestion, revisions
- Classification
- Observedpublished by the cited source, ingested without transformation
- Source organization
- U.S. Government, USAspending API v2
- Series ID
spending_over_time:dod-contractslast fetch: ok- Source links
- Source homepage: https://www.usaspending.gov
- License and attribution
- Approved with attributionUSAspending.gov, U.S. Department of the Treasury.
- Last source update
- 2026-10-19(source revision label as published by the provider)
- Last ingestion
- last successful runstale (over 3 days)
- Last run
- success2026-10-19 00:18 UTC
- Parser version
- usaspending-v2/1.0.0
- Methodology version
- 1.0
- Quality and confidence
- USAspending is refreshed daily as agencies report; Department of Defense contract actions are published with a 90 day delay, so the most recent closed year keeps moving for a quarter after it ends. The running fiscal year is a total to date and is not stored (set include_current_fiscal_year on the series to add it). A changed fiscal-year total is stored as a new row labelled with the fetch date. Searchable data begin fiscal year 2008.Ingestion rejects values outside 1,000,000,000 to 5,000,000,000,000 US dollars.19 periods with values for this geography, 2007-10-01 to 2025-10-01.
- Revisions
- Values reported for the latest period (2025-10-01) by each source revision ingested. Earlier rows are never deleted; the newest ingested row is shown as current.
Source revision Value (US dollars) Ingested at Status 2026-10-19 395,129,859,443.68 2026-10-19 00:18 UTC current 2026-10-12 380,096,916,767.59 2026-10-12 00:07 UTC superseded 2026-10-05 373,650,385,491.01 2026-10-05 00:07 UTC superseded 50 superseded rows kept for this geography across all periods.