Selective Service System federal obligations through FY2026

Registration infrastructure on a $6.8 million award book

Selective Service’s statutory job in peacetime is to keep a registration file and the plans needed if Congress and the President authorize a draft. None of those registrant counts are in this packet. $6,765,946.36 is what the System obligated on federal awards through FY2026—IT, mail, facilities, and other instruments tagged to CGAC 090. A year with more 18-year-olds registering does not automatically raise this total. A systems modernization contract can raise it while registration volume is steady.

Sixty-nine awards against $6.8 million implies about $98,057 per award. That modest mean on a small count fits a thin standby agency buying administrative support. The packet has no median.

What 69 awards omit

The Department of Defense manpower and recruiting budgets sit under other CGACs. Mixing them with $6,765,946.36 would treat Selective Service as if it were the active-duty personnel account. It is not. This page stays on awarding agency 090.

Agency staff salaries generally never appear as USAspending awards. The $6.8 million understates the System’s full operating cost if a reader expected the award file to equal the appropriation. It is complete as an award ledger.

FY2026 cutoff on a standby mission

Fiscal year 2026 is the latest year on the packet. The $6,765,946.36 is cumulative through that horizon, not a single-year appropriation. Multi-year IT awards remain in the running total until closed. This extract does not say whether a draft is in effect; it says what awards CGAC 090 has on the books.

Outlays are unpublished. Treat the figure as commitments. Registration is a legal requirement for most male residents in a specified age band; compliance statistics are Selective Service products, not USAspending columns.

CGAC 090

Selective Service System rows use awarding-agency code 090. SpendingVault’s /agencies/090/ path is keyed to it. Code 090 is an identifier, not a Selective Service number. Defense Department awarding agencies keep their own totals.

State tables versus registration geography

The state table for agency 090 attributes the 69 awards using USAspending location fields. That map is vendor and performance geography, not a map of registrants by state. A large state share can be a data-center or mail vendor, not a claim that that state has more 18-year-olds on file.

Open the Selective Service agency page for the live $6,765,946.36 and 69-award filters. Use the all-agencies directory to find CGAC 090. Dollar rank among independents is not a ranking of draft readiness.

Registration files versus 69 standby-agency awards

Selective Service registration is a legal requirement for most male residents in a specified age band. Registrant counts are not the 69 USAspending awards. A larger cohort of 18-year-olds does not automatically raise $6,765,946.36. A systems or mail contract can raise it while registration volume is steady.

Defense Department manpower accounts sit under other awarding-agency codes. Mixing them with $6.8 million would treat Selective Service as if it were the active-duty personnel budget. This page stays on CGAC 090. The state table for agency 090 is vendor geography, not a map of registrants.

Agency staff salaries generally never appear among the 69 rows, so the table understates full operating cost. FY2026 is the cutoff. This extract does not say whether inductions are authorized; it says what awards CGAC 090 has on the books. Use the Selective Service agency page for live tables. Outlays are unpublished. Keep this CGAC unmerged with Defense awarding agencies.

Compliance rates and registrant-file size are Selective Service statistics. They are not the 69 awards. A more complete registration file does not automatically raise $6,765,946.36. A mail or IT vehicle can raise it while compliance is flat. This extract also does not record whether a draft is authorized. FY2026 is the award-warehouse cutoff. Use the Selective Service agency page for live CGAC 090 tables. Defense manpower accounts remain other awarding agencies. Outlays are unpublished.

Data-center and mail-house awards can pin the 69 rows to states that are not where 18-year-olds live. The $6,765,946.36 is vendor geography through FY2026 for CGAC 090. Do not read a state share as a registrant map. Use the Selective Service agency page for live tables. This extract still does not say whether inductions are authorized. Defense manpower accounts remain other awarding agencies. Outlays are unpublished.

Questions

How much has Selective Service obligated on USAspending?

The Selective Service System shows $6,765,946.36 in obligations through FY2026 across 69 awards. Awarding-agency CGAC 090 is the filter. The total is not a count of registrants and not the Defense Department personnel budget. USAspending.gov records this as awarding-agency obligations through FY2026, not cash outlays. The live table for CGAC 090 is the source for the current 69-award book.

What is the average Selective Service award?

Dividing $6,765,946.36 by 69 awards yields about $98,057. The packet has no median. IT, mail, and facilities instruments share the same mean. That figure uses only the packet totals. The extract has no median and no contract-versus-assistance split. FY2026 is the warehouse cutoff, not a single-year appropriation.

What is agency code 090?

090 is the USAspending awarding-agency CGAC identifier for the Selective Service System. SpendingVault uses it in /agencies/090/. Defense Department agencies use different codes. SpendingVault URLs under the agency path filter to that CGAC identifier. It is an accounting tag, not a quality score. Totals on this page are obligations through FY2026.

Does $6.8 million mean a draft is active?

No. The figure is a USAspending obligation stock for CGAC 090 through FY2026. It does not record whether inductions are authorized. Outlays on the 69 awards are unpublished in the packet. Outlays are unpublished in this packet, so this page does not estimate cash already paid. Refresh the agency page after USAspending updates rather than treating the current stock as frozen.