Federal sub-agency · Department of Defense
Defense Finance and Accounting Service
Defense Finance and Accounting Service obligated $398.8M on federal contracts in FY2026 across 420 contract actions (−0.5% vs FY2025). Its largest recipient was ERNST & YOUNG LLP ($161.1M).
- Obligations · FY2026
- $398.8M
- Actions
- 420
- New awards: 60
- Sole-source
- 1.4%
- Small business
- 12%
Spending by fiscal year
Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).
- 319.7MFY2017
- 263.4MFY2018
- 319.8MFY2019
- 344MFY2020
- 335.7MFY2021
- 254.4MFY2022
- 336.2MFY2023
- 366.4MFY2024
- 400.8MFY2025
- 398.8MFY2026
Top recipients
Obligations in FY2026.
- ERNST & YOUNG LLP$161.1M40%
- KPMG LLP$61M15%
- KEARNEY & COMPANY, P.C.$33.1M8.3%
- SIKICH CPA LLC$13.6M3.4%
- FEDITC, LLC$12.1M3.0%
- PERATON ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS LLC$10.3M2.6%
- BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC$9.5M2.4%
- CACI, INC. - FEDERAL$9.3M2.3%
- PERATON INC.$9M2.3%
- CGI FEDERAL INC.$8.6M2.2%
What was bought · Where the work was performed
Obligations in FY2026.
What was bought
- Professional services$281.7M71%
- IT & telecom$111M28%
- Facilities & utilities$3.6M0.9%
- Education & social services$1.9M0.5%
- Equipment maintenance$342.5K0.1%
- Other equipment & supplies$103K0.0%
- Health & medical$84K0.0%
- Fuel$51K0.0%
Where the work was performed
- Virginia$213.5M54%
- District of Columbia$94.3M24%
- Indiana$51.9M13%
- Ohio$17.9M4.5%
- New York$8M2.0%
- Texas$7.5M1.9%
- California$2.2M0.6%
- Maryland$1.8M0.5%
- Utah$549.6K0.1%
- Colorado$449.9K0.1%
Integrity signals
Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.
- Low competition57%US 39% · $228.4M
- Sole-source awards1.4%US 30% · $5.5M
- Single-offer competitions56%US 8.7% · $223M
- Urgency justifications0.0%US 5.1% · $28.4K
- Year-end rush0.0%US 6.0% · $0
- Undefinitized contracts0.0%US 5.0% · $0
- Time-and-materials pricing74%US 4.2% · $296.8M
A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.
Offices with the most sole-source money
- DEFENSE FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING SVC$5.5M1.4%
Contracts terminated for default: 1
Largest awards
- ERNST & YOUNG LLP· District of Columbia, DC· Professional services· Oct 30, 2020 – Jun 11, 2026· HQ042321F0002
- ERNST & YOUNG LLP· Fairfax County, VA· Professional services· Sep 29, 2021 – Jun 2, 2026· HQ042321F0087
- ERNST & YOUNG LLP· District of Columbia, DC· Professional services· Oct 30, 2020 – Apr 29, 2026· HQ042321F0010
- KEARNEY & COMPANY, P.C.· Alexandria city, VA· Professional services· Oct 7, 2021 – Jan 29, 2026· HQ042322F9000
- KEARNEY & COMPANY, P.C.· Alexandria city, VA· Professional services· Oct 7, 2022 – Mar 17, 2026· HQ042323F0016
Subawards under this agency's awards
First-tier subawards that recipients of this agency's contracts and financial assistance reported, by the fiscal year of the subaward.
FY2026
- Sub-contracts: $2.2M (6 subawards)
5 sub-recipients
Largest sub-recipients
- INDIANAPOLIS, IN · 2 subawards
- RM ADVISORY SERVICES, LLC$385.6K17%MC LEAN, VA · 1 subaward
- CYKOR LLC$159.6K7.2%ANNAPOLIS, MD · 1 subaward
- ORACLE AMERICA, INC.$131.5K5.9%RESTON, VA · 1 subaward
- GABRIEL ROEDER SMITH & CO$62.3K2.8%SOUTHFIELD, MI · 1 subaward
Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.
Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.
Who lobbies this agency
Organizations whose quarterly lobbying reports list this agency as contacted, ranked by the reports' spending. A report's amount covers all its issues and every agency it lists; reports do not split it.
- Lobbying in 2026
- $2.1M
- Clients
- 2
- Reports
- 4
The whole amount of every report that lists this agency.
Organizations lobbying it, 2026
- Military Officers Association of America$1.3MNot matched to a contract recipient · Defense, Veterans, Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code
- AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO$800KNot matched to a contract recipient · Defense, Veterans, Agriculture
Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.
Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.
Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.
Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated —.
Committees that oversee and fund it
Congressional committees whose jurisdiction includes this agency, and the appropriations subcommittees that write its spending bill (Analisa's reading of the House and Senate rules; committees share jurisdiction). Leaders as currently published.
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Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.
