Where federal tax dollars land around Colorado Springs

Federal contracts, grants and other awards with work performed in the county containing Colorado Springs, CO — the yearly total, the biggest agencies and the largest recipients.

USAspending.gov API, federal awards by place of performance.

This story was assembled using AI and public data sources.

$9.3B in federal awards was spent in El Paso County.

Federal awards, FY 2025: $9.3B — $12,578 per county resident

Federal awards in El Paso County, by fiscal year

2016: 3803599903
2017: 5107243046
2018: 5620127019
2019: 6058781989
2020: 7671041773
2021: 7805250012
2022: 7195254861
2023: 7827622514
2024: 8601370678
2025: 9257772620

Biggest awarding agencies

Department of Defense: 3143789705
Social Security Administration: 2927487144
Department of Veterans Affairs: 2208184984
General Services Administration: 321194643
Department of Education: 276979618
Department of Transportation: 96581957

Largest recipients

MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS: 4742305282
V3GATE, LLC: 530919408
AMENTUM TECHNOLOGY, INC.: 383002592
L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.: 208483395
COLORADO TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, INC: 165811528
J. E. DUNN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY: 143353265

What it means

Department of Defense accounts for the largest share — $3.1B of the $9.3B total.

That works out to about $12,578 for every resident of the county, counting contracts, grants, loans and direct payments.

Place of performance means the work happened here — the money may be awarded to a company or agency headquartered elsewhere, and multi-year awards can land in a single year's total.

Sources

U.S. Census Bureau — American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates — Population, income, housing, education, commuting and poverty figures
Census Bureau API — ACS Detailed Tables — The endpoint these pages are generated from
data.census.gov — Look up the same tables for any place yourself
ACS accuracy statement — Estimates carry margins of error; small places vary the most

Loading the live page…