Federal agency
Selective Service System (SSS)
$7.5 Million committed in FY2025
- Mission
- To provide manpower to the Defense Department during a national emergency, to manage alternative service for men classified as conscientious objectors, and to register, with only a few exceptions, all male U.S. citizens and male immigrants residing in the United States who are ages 18 through 25.
- Sub-agencies
- 1 bureaus and offices
- Website
- https://www.sss.gov/ ↗
- Agency code
- 090
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how the money leaves SSS.
Contracts
$7.5M
100%
Where the money goes
Top destinations of SSS'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 SSS buys under contract, by dollars committed.
It and Telecom - Business Application/Application Development Software as a Service
$2.3M
Support- Professional: Other
$947,610
It and Telecom - Business Application/Application Development Support Services (Labor)
$890,248
It and Telecom - Network: Satellite Communications and Telecom Access Services
$813,698
Support- Professional: Personal Services Contracts
$711,760
It and Telecom - Business Application Software (Perpetual License Software)
$364,785
Support- Management: Financial
$262,132
Support- Professional: Engineering/Technical
$177,224
It and Telecom - Network as a Service
$168,372
Photo/Map/Print/Publication- Arts/Graphics
$161,193
Awards
The largest individual awards issued by SSS.
Competition
How competitively SSS'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
$3.6M
48%
Not competed
$3.9M
52%
Contract set-asides
Contract dollars SSS 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
$1.2M
16%
8(a)
$2.0M
26%
Service-disabled veteran
$333,475
4%
Where it lands
Top states by place of performance — where SSS's work is done or its money lands, by dollars committed.
Virginia
$7.3M
Illinois
$135,796
By fiscal year
Committed dollars grew 99% across FY2018–FY2025. SSS'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
