Department of Defense federal obligations

Eight million awards under CGAC 097

The 8,002,955 award count is the distinctive DoD fact on this page. Many civilian departments post fewer than a few hundred thousand rows while carrying comparable or larger dollar totals. DoD’s $3,032,412,691,236.71 obligation sum divided by 8,002,955 awards yields a mean near $379,000 per award. That average is pulled by a long tail of small supply and service actions plus a thinner set of very large procurement vehicles.

CGAC 097 is the awarding-agency code USAspending uses for the Department of Defense in this rollup. Military departments and defense agencies may appear on individual records; this hub does not publish a breakout of the $3,032,412,691,236.71 by service. Fiscal year 2026 is the latest year on the packet.

That mix is the research takeaway from the two packet facts together. 8,002,955 records include orders and modifications that inflate row count relative to a few giant procurement vehicles. A later extract can change both the dollar total and the award count as delivery orders against IDIQ vehicles continue to add rows inside FY 2026.

Obligation dollars versus the public DoD budget debate

Public debate often cites a single-year defense topline. This page does not. The $3,032,412,691,236.71 figure is a multi-year obligation total from award files through FY 2026. It is not an appropriation, not an outlay, and not a count of troops. Modifications, delivery orders, and IDIQ task orders can each add rows, which helps explain why 8,002,955 awards exist against a dollar total in the low trillions rather than tens of trillions.

USAspending.gov is the source. SpendingVault indexes those rows; it does not add classified annexes. If a program does not appear, it may be absent from the public award file rather than zero.

Reading place-of-performance for defense awards

The state table for CGAC 097 follows place-of-performance fields. Headquarters in one state and work in another can split how the $3,032,412,691,236.71 is mapped. Overseas performance may not land in a U.S. state cell. Use the geography view as a coding table, not as a map of every installation’s economic impact.

Researchers sometimes treat an agency obligation total as cash already paid. For Department of Defense, that reading is wrong. A single-year defense topline, troop strength, or classified annex totals belong in other publications. The USAspending figure on this hub remains an obligation sum through FY 2026. Delivery orders against IDIQ vehicles continue to add rows inside FY 2026.

Comparing DoD with other awarding agencies

On the all-agencies list, compare $3,032,412,691,236.71 and 8,002,955 awards only with peers from the same extract and FY 2026 cap. An agency with fewer awards and more dollars is not “more efficient”; it has a different award-size mix. DoD’s rank on dollars and its rank on award count will not match, and that mismatch is the point of showing both facts.

Place-of-performance is a coding field, not a complete economic-impact model. On this agency, place-of-performance can follow a prime’s state while work occurs at depots or overseas sites that never fill a U.S. cell. Read the state table after the agency hub, not instead of it. Read dollars and the 8,002,955 count together on the CGAC 097 hub before ranking DoD on either axis alone.

Limits of the DoD hub

The hub does not score weapons systems, classify contractors, or estimate jobs. It reports $3,032,412,691,236.71 in obligations, 8,002,955 awards, CGAC 097, and a latest year of FY 2026 from USAspending.gov.

The all-agencies list is useful only inside this extract’s obligation definition and FY 2026 cap. 8,002,955 records include orders and modifications that inflate row count relative to a few giant procurement vehicles. Ranking on dollars alone hides that mix. Read dollars and the 8,002,955 count together on the CGAC 097 hub before ranking DoD on either axis alone.

Using the DoD hub without mixing budget vocabularies

The extract reports $3,032,412,691,236.71 in obligations and 8,002,955 awards under CGAC 097 through FY 2026. Appropriation, apportionment, and outlay are different words. Matching this page to a defense-authorization topline will disagree even when both sources are accurate.

The implied mean near $379,000 follows from dividing those two facts. It is not a typical major-weapon unit cost. Use the all-agencies list only against peers from the same obligation extract and the same FY 2026 cap.

Questions

How much has the Department of Defense obligated on USAspending?

Through FY 2026, DoD awarding-agency records (CGAC 097) sum to $3,032,412,691,236.71. That obligation total covers 8,002,955 awards in this extract. The figure is not a single-year defense appropriation and not a Treasury outlay total.

Why does DoD have more than 8 million awards?

The 8,002,955 count is the number of award records tagged to CGAC 097, including contracts, orders, and modifications present in the USAspending file. High transaction volume is typical of defense procurement. Dollar volume on those rows is $3,032,412,691,236.71 through FY 2026.

What is CGAC 097?

CGAC 097 is the Common Government-wide Accounting Classification code used here as the USAspending awarding-agency identifier for the Department of Defense. SpendingVault’s DoD hub is keyed to that code. The $3,032,412,691,236.71 total is the obligation rollup of rows carrying it.

Where is DoD spending shown by state?

The state table on the CGAC 097 agency page uses place-of-performance geography from the same obligation extract. Those rows still sit under $3,032,412,691,236.71 and 8,002,955 awards through FY 2026. Location coding can differ from contractor headquarters.