Obligations recorded from September 23, 2025 through September 22, 2026. Obligations are promises by the federal government to spend money, not necessarily cash already paid.

As of

September 22, 2026

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About This Organization

A global technology company providing consulting, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and IT services to government agencies.

Editorial context

Why It Is Included

Included because this organization appears in federal spending records and is part of The Paper Trail Project's public-interest research directory.

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Why you may have heard of it

Known for decades of federal technology and consulting contracts.

Direct public money received

Public Money Profile

Federal obligations are shown by award type and kept separate from tax incentives or workforce public-benefit research. These categories should not be added into a generic “subsidy” figure.

Federal contracts

$1.1B

Federal grants

$1.9M

Direct payments

Federal loans

Other assistance

$320K

Workforce public-benefit research

No published source-backed estimate linked unless shown elsewhere on this profile.

Tax incentives and subsidies

Not included without attributable official records.

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Federal data

Spending Over Time

Federal fiscal years

Prime-award transaction obligations attributed to this USAspending recipient. Negative totals can reflect deobligations or corrections.

$1.2B

FY2017

$1.3B

FY2018

$1.1B

FY2019

$1.1B

FY2020

$1.2B

FY2021

$1.1B

FY2022

$1.1B

FY2023

$1.3B

FY2024

$1.4B

FY2025

$930.5M

FY2026To date

The current fiscal year is partial and will change as USAspending publishes additional transactions.

Federal data

Who funds IBM?

The federal agencies and offices responsible for the organization’s recorded obligations.

1Department of Defense$294,113,70727.6% of total 2Department of Veterans Affairs$230,745,16421.6% of total 3General Services Administration$151,692,35514.2% of total 4Social Security Administration$117,649,15611.0% of total 5Department of Homeland Security$110,825,50310.4% of total 6Department of the Treasury$75,332,8747.1% of total 7Department of Justice$19,027,5471.8% of total 8Department of Housing and Urban Development$12,759,4071.2% of total 9Department of Commerce$11,585,4161.1% of total 10Federal Communications Commission$9,911,7140.9% of total 11Department of Agriculture$7,295,8170.7% of total 12Department of State$5,589,4510.5% of total 13National Archives and Records Administration$5,022,4870.5% of total 14Railroad Retirement Board$4,118,1390.4% of total 15Department of Energy$3,762,2000.4% of total 16Department of the Interior$3,154,3600.3% of total 17National Aeronautics and Space Administration$2,205,7400.2% of total 18Department of Transportation$1,567,9960.1% of total 19National Science Foundation$985,4990.1% of total

20Smithsonian Institution$559,4380.1% of total

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Prime-award transaction obligations from 2025-09-23 through 2026-09-22, grouped by top-tier awarding agency.

Federal data

What Federal Agencies Bought or Funded From IBM

USAspending classifies federal obligations using product and service codes for contracts and assistance-listing categories for grants and other assistance. These records describe federal awards to the organization—not the organization’s own operating expenses.

Products and services

IT AND TELECOM - BUSINESS APPLICATION/APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT SERVICES (LABOR)

PSC DA01

$322,211,64630.2% of total

IT AND TELECOM - PLATFORM SUPPORT SERVICES: DATABASE, MAINFRAME, MIDDLEWARE (LABOR)

PSC DH01

$143,348,38413.4% of total

IT AND TELECOM - BUSINESS APPLICATION/APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE

PSC DA10

$121,660,27811.4% of total

IT AND TELECOM - DATA CENTER PRODUCTS (HARDWARE AND PERPETUAL LICENSE SOFTWARE)

PSC 7C20

$78,661,9577.4% of total

SUPPORT- PROFESSIONAL: OTHER

PSC R499

$68,975,1616.5% of total

SUPPORT- PROFESSIONAL: ENGINEERING/TECHNICAL

PSC R425

$47,557,7264.5% of total

IT AND TELECOM - PLATFORM AS A SERVICE: DATABASE, MAINFRAME, MIDDLEWARE

PSC DH10

$44,840,4644.2% of total

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SOFTWARE

PSC 7030

$36,016,8693.4% of total

IT AND TELECOM - DATA CENTER SUPPORT SERVICES (LABOR)

PSC DC01

$27,144,8682.5% of total

IT and Telecom - End User as a Service: Help Desk;Tier 1-2,Workspace,Print,Output,Productivity Tools

PSC DE10

$24,467,8652.3% of total

IT and Telecom - End User: Help Desk; Tier 1-2, Workspace, Print, Output, Productivity Tools (Labor)

PSC DE01

$24,174,5702.3% of total

IT AND TELECOM - IT MANAGEMENT TOOLS/PRODUCTS (HARDWARE AND PERPETUAL LICENSE SOFTWARE)

PSC 7F20

$20,947,4512.0% of total

IT AND TELECOM - COMPUTE: MAINFRAME (HARDWARE AND PERPETUAL LICENSE SOFTWARE)

PSC 7B21

$15,062,7311.4% of total

IT AND TELECOM - STORAGE SUPPORT SERVICES (LABOR)

PSC DK01

$12,516,6101.2% of total

SUPPORT- PROFESSIONAL: HUMAN RESOURCES

PSC R431

$11,877,2461.1% of total

Federal assistance programs

Science

Assistance listing 43.001

$2,000,0000.2% of total

Office of Science Financial Assistance Program

Assistance listing 81.049

$319,9620.0% of total

Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy

Assistance listing 81.135

$00.0% of total

Military Medical Research and Development

Assistance listing 12.420

$00.0% of total

Biomedical Research and Research Training

Assistance listing 93.859

-$61,897-0.0% of total

Prime-award transaction obligations from 2025-09-23 through 2026-09-22. Categories can be broad and reflect federal coding, not Paper Trail editorial conclusions. View USAspending source ↗

Corporate structure

What does IBM control?

Business segments, subsidiaries, joint ventures, and acquired companies connected to the parent organization.

Legal-subsidiary lists are drawn from reviewed SEC Exhibit 21 filings. Companies may omit subsidiaries that are not considered significant under SEC reporting rules, so these lists are not necessarily exhaustive.

Legal subsidiaries166

Affinity Capital Works Limited

United Kingdom

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At a Glance

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Industry

About This Organization

Why It Is Included

Why you may have heard of it

Public Money Profile

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Spending Over Time

Who funds IBM?

What Federal Agencies Bought or Funded From IBM

Products and services

Federal assistance programs

What does IBM control?

Federal Lobbying

Important Documents

IBM Exhibit 21 — Subsidiaries ↗

Sources

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IBM Exhibit 21 — Subsidiaries