The Pentagon’s push for faster acquisitions resulted in a surge of contract dollars to a shrinking core of suppliers that received almost all their money in fiscal 2025 without competition.
Fiscal 2025 Defense Department spending increased for more than 7,000 companies that each took in 90% or more of their unclassified Army, Navy, or Air Force obligations without competition, according to Bloomberg Government analysis.
Spending with 7,294 companies jumped 57% to $97 billion in fiscal 2025, nearly one-quarter of the three services’ total contract obligations last year. The group included 119 vendors embedded across all three services and 807 companies ...