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Exhibit 340

USAspending query: DoD contract obligations by recipient, FY2019 to FY2025

Exhibit 340 ยท Dataset query

USAspending query: DoD contract obligations by recipient, FY2019 to FY2025

Source: USAspending.gov API (U.S. Department of the Treasury), endpoint spending_by_category/recipient, run 9 November 2026. Query: POST with awarding toptier agency Department of Defense, award type codes A to D (contracts), fiscal-year periods FY2019 to FY2025, top 400 recipients per year. The DoD total per year comes from the awarding_agency endpoint with identical filters; the FY2024 total of $492.33 billion matches the agency obligations endpoint. The project rolled recipients up to five parent companies by name pattern (Lockheed Martin including Sikorsky; RTX including Raytheon, Pratt & Whitney and Collins; Boeing; General Dynamics including Electric Boat, Bath Iron Works, NASSCO and GDLS; Northrop Grumman). Joint ventures (such as Javelin, Bell Boeing and Boeing Sikorsky) were excluded from all parents to avoid double counting, so the roll-up is approximate. Figures are net obligations by action date, including deobligations. The top-five share of DoD contract obligations was 27.4 to 36.6 percent across the seven years. The shares are the project's computation from returned rows, not figures the dataset returns directly.

Source
U.S. Department of the Treasury (USAspending.gov API)
Date
2026-11-09
Grade
Reported
Document
https://api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/search/spending_by_category/recipient/
Accessed
2026-11-09
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Note
The CRS figure for FY2024 uses SAM.gov data and a different base; the two agree within about one point.

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Finding DEF-1.3
Primary record The Congressional Research Service reported that five companies received 30 percent of Department of Defense contract obligations in fiscal year 2024, out of $445 billion: Lockheed Martin, RTX, Boeing, Northrop Grumman and General Dynamics.