US federal contract obligations
ObservedDollars the US federal government obligated on contracts in each fiscal year, all agencies.
Ingestedfrom U.S. Governmentstale (over 3 days)JSON export
Current value, United States
755.62BUS 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-22.95Bcontextual-2.95%2024-10-01 to 2025-10-01from 778.57B to 755.62B US dollars
10-year trend+5.01% per yearcontextual+63.02%2015-10-01 to 2025-10-01compound annual growth rate; total +292.1B US dollars, from 463.52B to 755.62B US dollars
Historical series
US federal contract obligations, United States
Observed
Data table (19 rows)
| Period | Value (US dollars) | Source revision | Ingested at |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-01 | 755,620,737,857.81 | 2026-10-19 | 2026-10-19 00:18 UTC |
| 2024-10-01 | 778,568,416,499.88 | 2026-10-19 | 2026-10-19 00:18 UTC |
| 2023-10-01 | 740,571,073,454.19 | 2026-10-19 | 2026-10-19 00:18 UTC |
| 2022-10-01 | 746,502,161,355.11 | 2026-10-19 | 2026-10-19 00:18 UTC |
| 2021-10-01 | 680,563,610,469.13 | 2026-10-19 | 2026-10-19 00:18 UTC |
| 2020-10-01 | 633,176,477,052.99 | 2026-10-12 | 2026-10-12 00:08 UTC |
| 2019-10-01 | 657,675,454,353 | 2026-10-12 | 2026-10-12 00:08 UTC |
| 2018-10-01 | 578,660,257,925.57 | 2026-10-19 | 2026-10-19 00:18 UTC |
| 2017-10-01 | 545,747,746,647.52 | 2026-10-19 | 2026-10-19 00:18 UTC |
| 2016-10-01 | 501,104,672,865.31 | 2026-10-12 | 2026-10-12 00:08 UTC |
| 2015-10-01 | 463,524,296,022.39 | 2026-10-12 | 2026-10-12 00:08 UTC |
| 2014-10-01 | 430,798,214,557.6 | 2026-10-19 | 2026-10-19 00:18 UTC |
| 2013-10-01 | 440,094,580,215.44 | 2026-10-12 | 2026-10-12 00:08 UTC |
| 2012-10-01 | 458,113,547,842.12 | 2026-10-05 | 2026-10-05 00:07 UTC |
| 2011-10-01 | 514,565,659,175.59 | 2026-10-12 | 2026-10-12 00:08 UTC |
| 2010-10-01 | 533,250,822,804.28 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2009-10-01 | 534,606,272,837.2 | 2026-09-28 | 2026-09-28 00:07 UTC |
| 2008-10-01 | 535,202,773,173.2 | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC |
| 2007-10-01 | 536,883,301,819.27 | 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) by every federal awarding agency, 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-federal-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: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 2026-10-19 755,620,737,857.81 2026-10-19 00:18 UTC current 2026-10-12 740,392,581,338.07 2026-10-12 00:08 UTC superseded 2026-10-05 729,563,743,903.55 2026-10-05 00:07 UTC superseded 64 superseded rows kept for this geography across all periods.