Agency deep dive · index
All 15 Cabinet departments
Every executive department, its FY2026 discretionary request, what it actually buys, and whether XL Eagle has delivered there. Click any department to open it.
The eight marked delivered have full deep dives. The other seven do not, deliberately — a page about a department we have never worked with would have nothing in it that you could not get from the agency's own website.
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Defense at $961.6B is 2.4× every other department combined, so by default it sets the scale and the rest look tiny. That is the real shape of federal spending — use Rescale without Defense to read the civilian departments against each other.
- What it is
- The largest buyer on earth — three military departments, the defense agencies and eleven combatant commands.
- What it buys
- Installation sustainment, airfield and facility work, shipyard and vessel services, parts and consumables through DLA.
- FY2025 enacted → FY2026 request
- $848.3B → $961.6B (+13.4%)
- What it is
- The largest civilian department, and effectively a national hospital system.
- What it buys
- Facility and utility maintenance, environmental compliance and testing, medical equipment servicing, grounds and cemetery work.
- FY2025 enacted → FY2026 request
- $129.2B → $134.6B (+4.2%)
- What it is
- A federation of components that were separate agencies until 2003 and still buy like it.
- What it buys
- Coast Guard vessel and shore sustainment, screening and detection equipment, emergency logistics, facility services.
- FY2025 enacted → FY2026 request
- $65.1B → $107.4B (+65.0%)
- What it is
- Medicare, Medicaid, the public health agencies and the biomedical research enterprise.
- What it buys
- Laboratory and medical equipment, research support services, communications and outreach, facility and IT services.
- FY2025 enacted → FY2026 request
- $127.0B → $93.8B (-26.1%)
- What it is
- Administers federal student aid and K-12 formula and competitive grant programs.
- What it buys
- IT systems and loan servicing, research and evaluation, printing, program support services.
- FY2025 enacted → FY2026 request
- $78.7B → $66.7B (-15.2%)
No XL Eagle award here yet — no deep dive published.
- What it is
- The national laboratories, the nuclear security enterprise and the power marketing administrations.
- What it buys
- Laboratory operations and construction, environmental remediation, security services, scientific equipment.
- FY2025 enacted → FY2026 request
- $49.8B → $45.1B (-9.4%)
No XL Eagle award here yet — no deep dive published.
- What it is
- Housing assistance, public housing capital and community development block grants.
- What it buys
- Inspection services, property management, construction and rehabilitation, IT.
- FY2025 enacted → FY2026 request
- $77.0B → $43.5B (-43.5%)
No XL Eagle award here yet — no deep dive published.
- What it is
- Litigating divisions, the federal law-enforcement agencies and the federal prison system.
- What it buys
- Correctional food, medical and facility services, forensic and laboratory equipment, litigation support.
- FY2025 enacted → FY2026 request
- $36.0B → $33.2B (-7.8%)
- What it is
- Diplomatic posts worldwide plus international assistance programs.
- What it buys
- Embassy construction and maintenance, security services, logistics and freight, language services.
- FY2025 enacted → FY2026 request
- $59.6B → $31.2B (-47.7%)
No XL Eagle award here yet — no deep dive published.
- What it is
- Highway, transit, rail and aviation programs, most of it passed through to states.
- What it buys
- Air traffic systems and facilities, inspection services, engineering and design, research.
- FY2025 enacted → FY2026 request
- $25.2B → $26.7B (+6.0%)
No XL Eagle award here yet — no deep dive published.
- What it is
- Research laboratories, the national forests, and field offices in nearly every county.
- What it buys
- Facility services and pest control, laboratory certification, road and trail work, conservation construction.
- FY2025 enacted → FY2026 request
- $27.3B → $22.3B (-18.3%)
- What it is
- The government's landlord — a fifth of the nation's land, run through twelve bureaus.
- What it buys
- Range and water infrastructure, park facility and HVAC work, surveying, reclamation construction.
- FY2025 enacted → FY2026 request
- $16.8B → $11.7B (-30.4%)
- What it is
- Revenue collection, the public debt, financial regulation and the currency.
- What it buys
- IT and data services, printing and secure production, facility services, records management.
- FY2025 enacted → FY2026 request
- $14.2B → $11.5B (-19.0%)
No XL Eagle award here yet — no deep dive published.
- What it is
- The census, the patent system, the standards laboratory and the national weather service.
- What it buys
- NOAA spares and field maintenance, laboratory and calibration equipment, vessel services, data services.
- FY2025 enacted → FY2026 request
- $10.2B → $8.5B (-16.7%)
- What it is
- Workforce programs, worker protection and the federal labor statistics system.
- What it buys
- Training and workforce services, IT systems, data collection, facility services.
- FY2025 enacted → FY2026 request
- $13.3B → $8.6B (-35.3%)
No XL Eagle award here yet — no deep dive published.
- Every figure is base discretionary budget authority from a single OMB table, so the fifteen departments are directly comparable. Departmental budget documents often quote broader totals — Interior's own Budget in Brief states $14.4B against OMB's $11.7B — and mixing those bases is the most common way this comparison gets made wrong.
- Defense and Homeland Security include reconciliation resources, as OMB presents them.
- State is shown excluding rescissions and cancellations ($31.2B); including them the request nets to $9.6B.
- HUD is the program level, before $10.3B of receipts.
- Veterans Affairs is shown excluding the Toxic Exposures Fund; including it the FY2026 request is $187.2B.
- These are request figures, not enacted. Congress has since appropriated at different levels for several of these departments.
- Source: OMB Table 2, 2026 Discretionary Request by Major Agency · President's FY2026 Discretionary Budget Request, 2 May 2025.
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