Contracting office · Defense Logistics Agency
DLA AVIATION
DLA AVIATION obligated $235M on federal contracts in FY2026 across 4,291 contract actions (−3.5% vs FY2025). Its largest recipient was LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION ($133M).
- Obligations · FY2026
- $235M
- Actions
- 4,291
- New awards: 3,824
- Sole-source
- 32%
- Small business
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Spending by fiscal year
Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).
- 108.5MFY2017
- 177.4MFY2018
- 319.7MFY2019
- 246.2MFY2020
- 214.2MFY2021
- 257.4MFY2022
- 279.8MFY2023
- 326.2MFY2024
- 243.5MFY2025
- 235MFY2026
Top recipients
Obligations in FY2026.
- LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$133M57%
- GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY$31M13%
- LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$14.4M6.1%
- RGAS LLC$11.2M4.8%
- MARTIN-BAKER AMERICA INC$9.7M4.1%
- THE BOEING COMPANY$9.6M4.1%
- AAR SUPPLY CHAIN, INC$9.1M3.9%
- GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY$6.5M2.8%
- BELL BOEING JOINT PROJECT OFFICE$5.1M2.2%
- BELL TEXTRON INC$1.6M0.7%
What was bought · Where the work was performed
Obligations in FY2026.
What was bought
- Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$197.9M84%
- Other equipment & supplies$37.1M16%
Where the work was performed
- Florida$140.1M60%
- Ohio$30.7M13%
- Texas$20.7M8.8%
- Missouri$11.5M4.9%
- Pennsylvania$9.9M4.2%
- Illinois$8.5M3.6%
- Massachusetts$6.4M2.7%
- Washington$3.1M1.3%
- New York$2.3M1.0%
- Oklahoma$636.1K0.3%
Integrity signals
Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.
- Low competition32%US 39% · $74.9M
- Sole-source awards32%US 30% · $74.7M
- Single-offer competitions0.1%US 8.8% · $125.6K
- Urgency justifications0.0%US 5.1% · $0
- Year-end rush0.0%US 5.6% · $0
- Undefinitized contracts0.0%US 5.0% · $0
- Time-and-materials pricing0.0%US 4.2% · $0
A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.
Largest awards
- LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION· Orange County, FL· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Feb 24, 2026 – Apr 28, 2026· SPE4A226F1454
- PBL MATERIAL$41MGENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY· Essex County, MA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Jan 1, 2025 – Mar 2, 2026· SPE4A225F1609
- GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY· Butler County, OH· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Mar 27, 2026 – Mar 27, 2026· SPE4A226F1878
- GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY· Essex County, MA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Dec 22, 2025 – Jun 4, 2026· SPE4A226F0776
- AAR SUPPLY CHAIN, INC· Fulton County, GA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Jul 29, 2025 – Oct 28, 2025· SPE4A225F4950
- THE BOEING COMPANY· St. Louis County, MO· Other equipment & supplies· Nov 3, 2025 – Feb 17, 2026· SPE4A226F0009
- MARTIN-BAKER AMERICA INC· Cambria County, PA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Mar 4, 2026 – Mar 6, 2026· SPE4A226F1524
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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.