Pentagon contracts

The Pentagon signed $2.79T in contracts in six years. The biggest winners also run PACs and lobby Congress.

From FY2021–26 the Department of Defense committed $2.79T to contractors. 35 companies on this page received $1474.00B of it, 53%. Their PACs gave $67M to candidates for Congress, and the companies reported $0 in federal lobbying. All of it is legal and public. Here are the three numbers side by side.

Pentagon contracts, FY2021–26

$1474.00B

to these 35 companies, 53% of all DoD contract dollars

Top five

$891.83B

Lockheed Martin, RTX, General Dynamics, Boeing, Northrop Grumman

Their PACs gave, 2019–26

$67M

to House and Senate candidates on the ballot

Lobbying, 2021–26

$0

reported to the Senate under the Lobbying Disclosure Act

The contractors' PACs send their money to the people who write the defense budget. In 2025–26, 38% of their checks to candidates went to members of the Armed Services committees, the defense appropriations subcommittees, or the leaders of Appropriations. The other 860 PACs that gave over $100,000 sent 16% to the same members. Those 76 House and 42 Senate seats decide how much the Pentagon can spend, and on what.

Contracts, PAC money and lobbying, company by company

Sorted by Pentagon contract dollars, FY2021–26. "To defense committees" is the share of the PAC's 2025–26 checks that went to those members.
  • 1Lockheed Martin
    $342.75B
    PAC to candidates
    $5.8M
    Lobbying
    –
    To defense committees
    39%
  • 2RTX (Raytheon)
    $169.08B
    PAC to candidates
    $5.6M
    Lobbying
    –
    To defense committees
    41%
  • 3General Dynamics
    $158.05B
    PAC to candidates
    $4.8M
    Lobbying
    –
    To defense committees
    41%
  • 4Boeing
    $135.83B
    PAC to candidates
    $5.8M
    Lobbying
    –
    To defense committees
    35%
  • 5Northrop Grumman
    $86.12B
    PAC to candidates
    $5.2M
    Lobbying
    –
    To defense committees
    39%
  • 6BAE Systems
    $51.94B
    PAC to candidates
    $2.4M
    Lobbying
    –
    To defense committees
    59%
  • 7L3Harris
    $43.19B
    PAC to candidates
    $3.0M
    Lobbying
    –
    To defense committees
    44%
  • 8Huntington Ingalls
    $43.05B
    PAC to candidates
    $1.9M
    Lobbying
    –
    To defense committees
    60%
  • 9PfizerMost of its Pentagon money was for Covid-19 vaccines bought through the Army.
    $42.97B
    PAC to candidates
    $2.5M
    Lobbying
    –
    To defense committees
    12%
  • 10HumanaRuns part of TRICARE, the military health plan.
    $42.84B
    PAC to candidates
    $1.9M
    Lobbying
    –
    To defense committees
    15%
  • 11Cencora (AmerisourceBergen)Supplies drugs to military hospitals and pharmacies.
    $28.50B
    PAC to candidates
    $1.2M
    Lobbying
    –
    To defense committees
    13%
  • 12Leidos
    $28.00B
    PAC to candidates
    $2.5M
    Lobbying
    –
    To defense committees
    47%
Show the other 23 companies
  • 13Atlantic Diving Supply (ADS)
    $25.64B
    PAC to candidates
    no PAC
    Lobbying
    –
    To defense committees
    –
  • 14V2X (Vectrus)
    $21.93B
    PAC to candidates
    no PAC
    Lobbying
    –
    To defense committees
    –
  • 15Amentum
    $20.77B
    PAC to candidates
    $515K
    Lobbying
    –
    To defense committees
    63%
  • 16KBR
    $19.79B
    PAC to candidates
    no PAC
    Lobbying
    –
    To defense committees
    –
  • 17GE Aerospace
    $19.00B
    PAC to candidates
    $1.9M
    Lobbying
    –
    To defense committees
    51%
  • 18General Atomics
    $16.16B
    PAC to candidates
    $2.0M
    Lobbying
    –
    To defense committees
    58%
  • 19BechtelBuilds reactors for Navy submarines and carriers.
    $15.81B
    PAC to candidates
    $413K
    Lobbying
    –
    To defense committees
    –
  • 20Booz Allen Hamilton
    $15.52B
    PAC to candidates
    $484K
    Lobbying
    –
    To defense committees
    54%
  • 21Textron
    $15.40B
    PAC to candidates
    $1.3M
    Lobbying
    –
    To defense committees
    48%
  • 22Centene (Health Net)Ran part of TRICARE, the military health plan, until 2024.
    $15.31B
    PAC to candidates
    $1.3M
    Lobbying
    –
    To defense committees
    16%
  • 23CACI
    $14.85B
    PAC to candidates
    $265K
    Lobbying
    –
    To defense committees
    77%
  • 24Oshkosh
    $13.14B
    PAC to candidates
    $715K
    Lobbying
    –
    To defense committees
    25%
  • 25SAIC
    $12.59B
    PAC to candidates
    $1.0M
    Lobbying
    –
    To defense committees
    37%
  • 26Fluor
    $12.45B
    PAC to candidates
    $1.1M
    Lobbying
    –
    To defense committees
    36%
  • 27Sierra Nevada
    $10.57B
    PAC to candidates
    $820K
    Lobbying
    –
    To defense committees
    50%
  • 28TriWest Healthcare AllianceRuns part of TRICARE, the military health plan.
    $9.23B
    PAC to candidates
    no PAC
    Lobbying
    –
    To defense committees
    –
  • 29ModernaMost of its Pentagon money was for Covid-19 vaccines bought through the Army.
    $8.77B
    PAC to candidates
    no PAC
    Lobbying
    –
    To defense committees
    –
  • 30Honeywell
    $8.41B
    PAC to candidates
    $7.2M
    Lobbying
    –
    To defense committees
    29%
  • 31SpaceX
    $7.87B
    PAC to candidates
    $3.2M
    Lobbying
    –
    To defense committees
    27%
  • 32Peraton
    $6.71B
    PAC to candidates
    $440K
    Lobbying
    –
    To defense committees
    58%
  • 33McKesson
    $6.48B
    PAC to candidates
    $949K
    Lobbying
    –
    To defense committees
    10%
  • 34Palantir
    $3.32B
    PAC to candidates
    no PAC
    Lobbying
    –
    To defense committees
    –
  • 35Anduril
    $1.99B
    PAC to candidates
    $269K
    Lobbying
    –
    To defense committees
    66%

Who these PACs funded most, 2025–26

Candidates on the ballot who got the most from the contractor PACs above, added together. Highlighted: seats on the committees that set defense spending.
  1. Rob WittmanVA-01House Armed Servicesfrom 21 of these PACs, including Lockheed Martin, RTX (Raytheon), General Dynamics$190,500
  2. Ken CalvertCA-40House Appropriations, Defense (chair)from 21 of these PACs, including Lockheed Martin, RTX (Raytheon), General Dynamics$173,500
  3. Tom ColeOK-04House Appropriations (chair)from 23 of these PACs, including Lockheed Martin, RTX (Raytheon), General Dynamics$170,250
  4. Mario Díaz-BalartFL-26House Appropriations, Defensefrom 22 of these PACs, including Lockheed Martin, RTX (Raytheon), General Dynamics$169,000
  5. Pete AguilarCA-33House Appropriations, Defensefrom 24 of these PACs, including Lockheed Martin, RTX (Raytheon), General Dynamics$162,500
  6. Adam SmithWA-09House Armed Services (ranking member)from 19 of these PACs, including Lockheed Martin, RTX (Raytheon), General Dynamics$161,500
  7. Mike RogersAL-03House Armed Services (chair)from 20 of these PACs, including Lockheed Martin, RTX (Raytheon), General Dynamics$157,500
  8. Susan CollinsME-SENSenate Appropriations, DefenseSenate Appropriations (chair)from 23 of these PACs, including Lockheed Martin, RTX (Raytheon), General Dynamics$144,000
  9. Dale StrongAL-05from 21 of these PACs, including Lockheed Martin, RTX (Raytheon), General Dynamics$139,500
  10. Steve WomackAR-03House Appropriations, Defensefrom 19 of these PACs, including Lockheed Martin, RTX (Raytheon), General Dynamics$136,500
  11. Jon HustedOH-SEN-SPECIALfrom 19 of these PACs, including Lockheed Martin, RTX (Raytheon), General Dynamics$136,000
  12. Mike JohnsonLA-04from 16 of these PACs, including Lockheed Martin, RTX (Raytheon), General Dynamics$135,000

Pentagon contract dollars by year

All Department of Defense contract obligations. FY2026 ended September 30, 2026; late entries can still raise it.
  • FY2021
    $412.74B
  • FY2022
    $436.70B
  • FY2023
    $490.27B
  • FY2024
    $480.99B
  • FY2025
    $526.97B
  • FY2026
    $438.16B

Sources: USAspending.gov: contract obligations by parent company (award types A–D); FEC: PAC contributions to candidates (pas2 bulk files); Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (lda.gov REST API); Committee rosters: the congress-legislators project. Contracts are obligations (money the government committed) in fiscal years ending September 30, summed over each company's own recipient records in USAspending by name, including subsidiaries listed on its page; joint ventures are left out so no contract is counted twice. PAC totals are checks from the company's own PAC to candidates on the ballot, as on this site's PAC pages; a company whose PAC gave under $100,000 in a cycle shows none for that cycle. Lobbying uses the same reconciliation as the Lobbying pages. Committee seats from the congress-legislators project's current roster (119th Congress). Contracts, PAC checks and lobbying are all legal and publicly reported. This page shows them side by side; it does not claim that any gift or lobbying won a contract. Built 2026-11-05.