Who buys NAICS 541511 (Custom Computer Programming Services) work, who wins it, and what's open right now — from FY2026 USAspending awards and live SAM.gov solicitations.
Contract data as of Oct 18, 2026 (USAspending) · recent coverage verified weekly
| Quarter | Awards | Obligated | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 FY2026 | 236 | $1.7B | — |
| Q2 FY2026 | 388 | $862.4M | -48% |
| Q3 FY2026 | 355 | $713.3M | -17% |
| Q4 FY2026 · partial | 684 | $1.2B | +68% |
Federal fiscal quarters (Q1 = Oct–Dec). Awards are counted in the quarter they start; obligations are the award's obligated amount. The Department of Defense publishes contract awards to USAspending with a 90-day delay, so Q4 FY2026 is still missing most DoD awards (DoD is 46% of this market's dollars) — treat that quarter as incomplete, not as a spending decline.
| # | Contractor | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC. | $1.5B | 33.4% |
| 2 | GENERAL DYNAMICS CORP | $214.5M | 4.8% |
| 3 | BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON HOLDING CORPORATION | $137.8M | 3.1% |
| 4 | VERITAS CAPITAL FUND MANAGEMENT, L.L.C. | $125.5M | 2.8% |
| 5 | IGNITEACTION LLC | $98.4M | 2.2% |
| 6 | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION | $86.1M | 1.9% |
| 7 | DARKHIVE INC. | $53.6M | 1.2% |
| 8 | DELOITTE CONSULTING LLP | $47.5M | 1.1% |
| 9 | CACI INTERNATIONAL INC | $40.1M | 0.9% |
| 10 | ROGUE SIGNAL PROCESSING CORP | $38.7M | 0.9% |
Registrations are rolled up to their corporate parent (USAspending parent UEI), so a company with several SAM registrations ranks once.
| Agency | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Defense | $2.1B | 46.4% |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $409.2M | 9.2% |
| Department of Homeland Security | $369.4M | 8.3% |
| General Services Administration | $240.9M | 5.4% |
| Department of Commerce | $207.1M | 4.7% |
| Department of the Treasury | $203.1M | 4.6% |
| Department of the Interior | $145.7M | 3.3% |
| Department of Justice | $142.8M | 3.2% |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $120.7M | 2.7% |
| Department of Agriculture | $113.6M | 2.6% |
| Set-aside type | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Small business set-aside | $282.0M | 33.5% |
| 8(a) | $117.3M | 13.9% |
| SDVOSB | $64.3M | 7.7% |
| WOSB / EDWOSB | $44.7M | 5.3% |
| HUBZone | $1.9M | 0.2% |
| Other (Indian economic enterprise, veteran, …) | $3.9M | 0.5% |
| No set-aside (full & open) | $326.9M | 38.9% |
Share of obligations on awards whose set-aside type is recorded — 19% of this market's dollars. Most USAspending bulk-archive records leave the field blank, so blank awards are excluded rather than counted as full & open.
Links open the notice on SAM.gov.
Source: USAspending.gov contract awards (prime awards with a start date from Oct 1, 2025 through Sep 30, 2026), SAM.gov contract opportunities, and SBA size standards. Recompetes are contracts whose final end date — options included — falls in the next 12 months. Figures are recomputed when a new USAspending load lands. See our data sources.