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USTRANSCOM-AQ

USTRANSCOM-AQ obligated $2.9B on federal contracts in FY2026 across 3,083 contract actions (−40% vs FY2025). Its largest recipient was ATLAS AIR, INC. ($547.3M).

Obligations · FY2026
$2.9B
Actions
3,083
New awards: 2,009
Sole-source
1.7%
Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 3.3BFY2017
  2. 4BFY2018
  3. 4.8BFY2019
  4. 4.4BFY2020
  5. 3.9BFY2021
  6. 4.2BFY2022
  7. 4.7BFY2023
  8. 5.2BFY2024
  9. 4.8BFY2025
  10. 2.9BFY2026

Top recipients

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. ATLAS AIR, INC.$547.3M19%
  2. KALITTA AIR LLC$197.3M6.8%

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Transportation & logistics$2.5B87%
  2. IT & telecom$308.5M11%
  3. Professional services$64.4M2.2%
  4. Other equipment & supplies$2.1M0.1%
  5. Equipment maintenance$1.5M0.1%
  6. Construction & real property$1.4M0.0%

Where the work was performed

  1. Abroad$1.7B58%
  2. Illinois$338.7M12%
  3. Florida$174.8M6.0%
  4. Georgia$151.6M5.2%
  5. Tennessee$103.8M3.6%
  6. California$86.5M3.0%
  7. New York$63.1M2.2%
  8. Louisiana$43.7M1.5%
  9. Kentucky$39.3M1.4%
  10. Alaska$29.1M1.0%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition8.6%
    US 39% · $250.8M
  • Sole-source awards1.7%
    US 30% · $48M
  • Single-offer competitions7.0%
    US 8.8% · $202.8M
  • Urgency justifications0.7%
    US 5.1% · $18.9M
  • Year-end rush0.0%
    US 5.6% · $0
  • Undefinitized contracts0.0%
    US 5.0% · $5,000
  • Time-and-materials pricing4.7%
    US 4.2% · $137.4M

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Awards to excluded parties

New awards, options exercised and added work this agency signed while the recipient was listed in SAM.gov as debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment or excluded (exact identifier matches).

In FY2026
$0
0 awards · 0 recipients
All loaded years
$2.2M
4 awards · 1 recipient

None in FY2026.

SAM.gov lists what agencies report, and only exclusions in effect: those that ended are known from twice-yearly snapshots, so an end date is approximate. Agencies may award to an excluded party with a documented compelling reason. An exclusion is an administrative measure, not a conviction.

Source: Exclusions (debarred, suspended and otherwise excluded parties) (U.S. General Services Administration, SAM.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 4, 2026 · Exclusions as listed on Oct 3, 2026, history from Apr 28, 2022.

Largest awards

  1. AIR TRANSPORT INTERNATIONAL INC· Transportation & logistics· Oct 1, 2025 – May 11, 2026· HTC71126F1005
  2. AIR TRANSPORT INTERNATIONAL INC· Transportation & logistics· Oct 1, 2024 – Oct 20, 2025· HTC71125F1005
  3. VANE LINE BUNKERING, LLC· Baltimore city, MD· Transportation & logistics· May 20, 2020 – Jan 30, 2026· HTC71120CW003
  4. ATLAS AIR, INC.· Transportation & logistics· Oct 1, 2025 – Jun 10, 2026· HTC71126F1001
  5. OMNI AIR INTERNATIONAL, LLC· Transportation & logistics· Oct 1, 2024 – Oct 15, 2025· HTC71125F1007
  6. NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION· St. Clair County, IL· Professional services· Jul 30, 2020 – May 20, 2026· HTC71120FD069
  7. ATLAS AIR, INC.· Transportation & logistics· Oct 1, 2024 – Oct 9, 2025· HTC71125F1047
  8. ATLAS AIR, INC.· Transportation & logistics· Oct 1, 2025 – Jun 12, 2026· HTC71126F1000

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.