This year’s abridged report documents the results of a state-by-state analysis of Department of Defense personnel, contractual, and grant spending during Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. State and local officials may use this information to assess a region’s dependence on defense spending and to target assistance to support more resilient communities and companies.
This report contains defense spending and personnel data at the state and national level only. At the time of publication, FY 2024 personnel data was incomplete at the county level. Contract spending by county is as part of the Excel-formatted workbook featuring the FY 2024 metrics.
A supplemental report is an analysis of analyzing Department of Defense personnel, contractual, and grant spending in American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands of the United States is forthcoming.
Note:
In USAspending.gov, DoD prime contracts are associated with one place of performance per contract or subaward as designated by the contractor receiving the funds and do not reflect how the total contracted workload or revenue is distributed. No "manual adjustments" have been made to further allocate this contract spending across locations beyond what is reported in USAspending.gov. Recognizing contracted work may occur at multiple locations across a company, readers are encouraged to contact state and local organizations for more details on Defense supply chain information that is not captured in this report.
Regarding personnel data, the report uses DoD’s Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) for gross payroll and personnel counts. DMDC Defense payroll figures represent the total gross pay received by personnel in a state through FY 2024, while personnel counts reflect the number on September 30, 2024. Personnel counts do not include contractors, as contracted personnel are not reported to DMDC.
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