Where federal tax dollars land around COCOA
Federal contracts, grants and other awards with work performed in the county containing COCOA, FL — 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.
$13.4B in federal awards was spent in Brevard County.
Federal awards, FY 2025: $13.4B — $21,654 per county resident
Federal awards in Brevard County, by fiscal year
- 2016: 7151903173
- 2017: 7952517877
- 2018: 9317857523
- 2019: 12605109628
- 2020: 9852264436
- 2021: 11633084827
- 2022: 11397350958
- 2023: 12053710664
- 2024: 13372985796
- 2025: 13436842378
Biggest awarding agencies
- Department of Defense: 5293479521
- Social Security Administration: 4405714016
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration: 1267163497
- Department of Veterans Affairs: 1154923145
- Department of Health and Human Services: 485791269
- Department of Transportation: 362956588
Largest recipients
- MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS: 5964205264
- LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION: 1974403983
- NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION: 1315541281
- SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP.: 673723898
- DRS NETWORK & IMAGING SYSTEMS LLC: 649494454
- JPATS LOGISTICS SERVICES, LLC: 422654521
What it means
Department of Defense accounts for the largest share — $5.3B of the $13.4B total.
That works out to about $21,654 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
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