Analyzing Example Prime Contractors

Data updated on 2024-10-07

Executive Summary

The figures below break down obligated amounts to a few key recipients since 2008:

The Big 5, which include Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, and Raytheon. All were founded before 1980.
Palantir, founded in 2003.
Anduril, founded in 2017.

The figures show the cumulative amount a recipient has recieved since 2008, as well as the following (overall & year-by-year):

What are the 10 most common Contract Types for a recipient?
What are the 10 most common Product/Services bought from a recipient?
What are the 10 most common Sub-Agencies a recipient is working with?

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Figures

Award Data

Cumulative Awards Since 2008

Cumulative Awards (Top 10 Contract Types; $m)

Yearly Awards (Top 10 Contract Types)

Cumulative Awards (Top 10 Product/Services; $m)

Yearly Awards (Top 10 Product/Services)

Cumulative Awards (Top 10 Awarding Sub-Agencies; $m)

Yearly Awards (Top 10 Awarding Sub-Agencies)

Data Definitions

Contracts have multiple concepts of amount, how much government has spent on an award with a contractor. These concepts include outlayed amount (the amount an agency has paid the vendor as recorded in the agency's financial system) and obligated amount (the amount an agency has promised to pay the vendor as recorded in the agency's financial system). The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) required agencies to provide outlay data at the award summary level for all awards starting in FY 2022. Since award-level outlay data are incomplete prior to FY 2022, and almost entirely absent prior to FY 2020, the figures below show obligated amounts.
Unlinked awards (awards not yet linked to any federal account) do not appear in this data because the associated financial system data elements are unavailable in downloads.
Contract Type is the payment model for a contract. Each type has a different way of accounting for costs, fees, and profits. Types include:
- Fixed Price Redetermination
- Fixed Price Level of Effort
- Firm Fixed Price
- Fixed Price with Economic Price Adjustment
- Fixed Price Incentive
- Fixed Price Award Fee
- Cost Plus Award Fee
- Cost No Fee
- Cost Sharing
- Cost Plus
- Fixed Fee
- Cost Plus Incentive Fee
- Time and Materials
- Labor Hours
Sub Agency: The awarding Sub Agency is the sub agency that issues and administers the award. For example, the Department of the Air Force is a sub agency of the Department of Defense.
The product and service code manual can be found at https://www.acquisition.gov/psc-manual.