Cabinet department
Department of State (DOS)
$169.3 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Mission
- The Department's mission is to shape and sustain a peaceful, prosperous, just, and democratic world and foster conditions for stability and progress for the benefit of the American people and people everywhere. This mission is shared with the USAID, ensuring we have a common path forward in partnership as we invest in the shared security and prosperity that will ultimately better prepare us for the challenges of tomorrow.
- Sub-agencies
- 2 bureaus and offices
- Website
- https://www.state.gov/ ↗
- Agency code
- 019
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how the money leaves DOS.
Grants
$23.4B
14%
Contracts
$88.5B
52%
Insurance
By sub-agency
The bureaus and offices inside DOS, by dollars committed.
Where the money goes
Top destinations of DOS's committed dollars. Direct payments to individuals (Medicare, Social Security, …) are aggregated by the government, so they show as the federal program rather than a named recipient.
What they buy
Top products and services DOS buys under contract, by dollars committed.
Support- Professional: Program Management/Support
$10.7B
Construction of Office Buildings
$9.5B
Support- Professional: Physical Security and Badging
$5.0B
Housekeeping- Guard
$3.6B
Support- Professional: Other
$3.1B
Support- Management: Logistics Support
$2.8B
Transportation/Travel/Relocation- Transportation: Air Charter
$2.7B
It and Telecom- Other It and Telecommunications
$2.3B
Support- Professional: Engineering/Technical
$2.2B
Architect and Engineering- Construction: Office Buildings
$1.8B
Awards
The largest individual awards issued by DOS.
Competition
How competitively DOS's contract dollars were awarded. 'Not available' is legitimate sole-source (a single source — utilities, proprietary parts); 'not competed' is the flag worth a second look.
Competed
$69.5B
79%
Not competed
$10.2B
12%
Not available for competition
$8.7B
Contract set-asides
Contract dollars DOS reserved before bidding for a specific kind of firm — small business, 8(a), service-disabled-veteran, women-owned, HUBZone — versus full and open competition.
Small business
$3.4B
4%
8(a)
$3.3B
4%
Service-disabled veteran
$431.9M
<1%
Where it lands
Top states by place of performance — where DOS's work is done or its money lands, by dollars committed.
Virginia
$21.1B
District of Columbia
$14.5B
By fiscal year
Committed dollars fell 22% across FY2018–FY2025. DOS's committed dollars per fiscal year, FY2018–FY2026.
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
How to read these numbers
- Committed, not paid
Every figure is money this agency committed — legally promised by signing a contract or awarding a grant — counted in the year each action happened, not cash out the door.
- From FY2018 on
Agency pages start at fiscal year 2018, the first year of complete federal-assistance reporting. Earlier years aren't shown rather than shown wrong.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- Benefits show as programs
Medicare, Social Security, and other direct payments to individuals are aggregated by the government, so under Where the money goes they appear as the program, not a named recipient.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments
