Pentagon contracts

The Pentagon signed $2.79T in contracts in six years. All 10 of the biggest companies here also lobby Congress.

From FY2021–26 the Department of Defense committed $2.79T to contractors. 35 companies on this page received $1.47T of it, 53%. Their PACs gave $67M to candidates for Congress, and the companies reported $851M in federal lobbying. All of it is legal and public. Here are the three numbers side by side.

$1.47T

Pentagon contracts, FY2021–26

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

$891.83B

Top five

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

$67M

Their PACs gave, 2019–26

to House and Senate candidates on the ballot

$851M

Lobbying, 2021–26

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.

Every agency

72% of the money went to the 44% of contractors that lobby

The 1,000 biggest recipients of federal contracts, FY2021–26, got $3.32T, 73% of the $4.53T every agency committed. 441 of them reported federal lobbying since 2021, under their own name or their parent company's.

Top 10

$42.29B+ each

10 of 10 lobby (100% of $)

11–50

$11.67B+ each

34 of 40 lobby (86% of $)

51–100

$6.73B+ each

41 of 50 lobby (83% of $)

101–250

$2.56B+ each

87 of 150 lobby (59% of $)

251–500

$1.17B+ each

119 of 250 lobby (48% of $)

501–1000

$514M+ each

150 of 500 lobby (31% of $)

Dark: contract dollars to contractors that lobby. Ranked by contract dollars. A company counts as lobbying when a Senate lobbying report since 2021 names it, or its parent on this page, as a client and reports money spent. Names are matched strictly, so a subsidiary that lobbies only through a parent we could not tie it to counts as not lobbying: these shares are a floor. Smaller contractors below the top 1,000 were not checked.

Biggest contractors with no lobbying under their own name

TRIAD NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC$28.35B
CONSOLIDATED NUCLEAR SECURITY, LLC$19.28B
LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC$19.03B
UT-BATTELLE LLC$15.67B
FISHER SAND & GRAVEL CO$14.66B
SAVANNAH RIVER NUCLEAR SOLUTIONS LLC$13.67B
BATTELLE ENERGY ALLIANCE, LLC$11.43B
QTC MEDICAL SERVICES INC$10.40B

Many are the companies that run national labs and weapons plants for the Energy Department, owned by universities, nonprofits and contractors.

Look up any of the biggest federal contractors, and spouse income House members reported from them

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
$83M
To defense committees
39%
2RTX (Raytheon)
$169.08B
PAC to candidates
$5.6M
Lobbying
$76M
To defense committees
41%
3General Dynamics
$158.05B
PAC to candidates
$4.8M
Lobbying
$71M
To defense committees
41%
4Boeing
$135.83B
PAC to candidates
$5.8M
Lobbying
$72M
To defense committees
35%
5Northrop Grumman
$86.12B
PAC to candidates
$5.2M
Lobbying
$54M
To defense committees
39%
6BAE Systems
$51.94B
PAC to candidates
$2.4M
Lobbying
$23M
To defense committees
59%
7L3Harris
$43.19B
PAC to candidates
$3.0M
Lobbying
$16M
To defense committees
44%
8Huntington Ingalls
$43.05B
PAC to candidates
$1.9M
Lobbying
$29M
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
$67M
To defense committees
12%
10HumanaRuns part of TRICARE, the military health plan.
$42.84B
PAC to candidates
$1.9M
Lobbying
$29M
To defense committees
15%
11Cencora (AmerisourceBergen)Supplies drugs to military hospitals and pharmacies.
$28.50B
PAC to candidates
$1.2M
Lobbying
$15M
To defense committees
13%
12Leidos
$28.00B
PAC to candidates
$2.5M
Lobbying
$20M
To defense committees
47%

Show the other 23 companies

13Atlantic Diving Supply (ADS)
$25.64B
PAC to candidates
no PAC
Lobbying
$1.3M
To defense committees
–
14V2X (Vectrus)
$21.93B
PAC to candidates
no PAC
Lobbying
$2.2M
To defense committees
–
15Amentum
$20.77B
PAC to candidates
$515K
Lobbying
$2.0M
To defense committees
63%
16KBR
$19.79B
PAC to candidates
no PAC
Lobbying
$4.2M
To defense committees
–
17GE Aerospace
$19.00B
PAC to candidates
$1.9M
Lobbying
$22M
To defense committees
51%
18General Atomics
$16.16B
PAC to candidates
$2.0M
Lobbying
$38M
To defense committees
58%
19BechtelBuilds reactors for Navy submarines and carriers.
$15.81B
PAC to candidates
$413K
Lobbying
$3.4M
To defense committees
–
20Booz Allen Hamilton
$15.52B
PAC to candidates
$484K
Lobbying
$8.0M
To defense committees
54%
21Textron
$15.40B
PAC to candidates
$1.3M
Lobbying
$29M
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
$27M
To defense committees
16%
23CACI
$14.85B
PAC to candidates
$265K
Lobbying
$3.4M
To defense committees
77%
24Oshkosh
$13.14B
PAC to candidates
$715K
Lobbying
$5.1M
To defense committees
25%
25SAIC
$12.59B
PAC to candidates
$1.0M
Lobbying
$9.0M
To defense committees
37%
26Fluor
$12.45B
PAC to candidates
$1.1M
Lobbying
$19M
To defense committees
36%
27Sierra Nevada
$10.57B
PAC to candidates
$820K
Lobbying
$5.3M
To defense committees
50%
28TriWest Healthcare AllianceRuns part of TRICARE, the military health plan.
$9.23B
PAC to candidates
no PAC
Lobbying
$1.0M
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
$3.3M
To defense committees
–
30Honeywell
$8.41B
PAC to candidates
$7.2M
Lobbying
$46M
To defense committees
29%
31SpaceX
$7.87B
PAC to candidates
$3.2M
Lobbying
$16M
To defense committees
27%
32Peraton
$6.71B
PAC to candidates
$440K
Lobbying
$3.6M
To defense committees
58%
33McKesson
$6.48B
PAC to candidates
$949K
Lobbying
$16M
To defense committees
10%
34Palantir
$3.32B
PAC to candidates
no PAC
Lobbying
$24M
To defense committees
–
35Anduril
$1.99B
PAC to candidates
$269K
Lobbying
$8.9M
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.

Rob WittmanVA-01House Armed Servicesfrom 21 of these PACs, including Lockheed Martin, RTX (Raytheon), General Dynamics$190,500
Ken CalvertCA-40House Appropriations, Defense (chair)from 21 of these PACs, including Lockheed Martin, RTX (Raytheon), General Dynamics$173,500
Tom ColeOK-04House Appropriations (chair)from 23 of these PACs, including Lockheed Martin, RTX (Raytheon), General Dynamics$170,250
Mario Díaz-BalartFL-26House Appropriations, Defensefrom 22 of these PACs, including Lockheed Martin, RTX (Raytheon), General Dynamics$169,000
Pete AguilarCA-33House Appropriations, Defensefrom 24 of these PACs, including Lockheed Martin, RTX (Raytheon), General Dynamics$162,500
Adam SmithWA-09House Armed Services (ranking member)from 19 of these PACs, including Lockheed Martin, RTX (Raytheon), General Dynamics$161,500
Mike RogersAL-03House Armed Services (chair)from 20 of these PACs, including Lockheed Martin, RTX (Raytheon), General Dynamics$157,500
Susan CollinsME-SENSenate Appropriations, DefenseSenate Appropriations (chair)from 23 of these PACs, including Lockheed Martin, RTX (Raytheon), General Dynamics$144,000
Dale StrongAL-05from 21 of these PACs, including Lockheed Martin, RTX (Raytheon), General Dynamics$139,500
Steve WomackAR-03House Appropriations, Defensefrom 19 of these PACs, including Lockheed Martin, RTX (Raytheon), General Dynamics$136,500
Jon HustedOH-SEN-SPECIALfrom 19 of these PACs, including Lockheed Martin, RTX (Raytheon), General Dynamics$136,000
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.