Federal contract obligations to companies tied to Elon Musk, fiscal years 2024–2026

We use the same method, time window and wording for every company and person we cover, whatever their politics.

SlushFund's founder asked for these stories, covering federal money to companies tied to Elon Musk and to Larry Ellison. To hold every subject to the same standard, each story runs beside a matched story about another founder-led company with federal contracts, built the same way: Bloomberg L.P., founded by Michael Bloomberg, beside the Musk story; and Amazon and Blue Origin, founded by Jeff Bezos, beside the Oracle story.

This page covers companies tied to Elon Musk: SpaceX (including X Corp., formerly Twitter, Inc., and X.AI LLC, which SpaceX's SEC Exhibit 21.1 lists as subsidiaries), Tesla, Inc., and name searches for xAI, The Boring Company and Neuralink, which found no prime-award recipient with activity in the window.

Elon Musk is chief executive of SpaceX and Tesla, Inc., according to their SEC filings.^[1]

It runs in the same release as its matched counterpart, on companies tied to Michael Bloomberg, which uses identical measures, window, wording and caveats.

Agencies also obligated $1.83 billion directly on SpaceX's indefinite-delivery contracts, such as NASA's space station resupply contract, over the same period.^[2]

Added together, that is $11.2 billion in contract and IDV obligations over three fiscal years.^[2]

Of the $11.2 billion in contract and IDV obligations, the Defense Department ($5.69 billion, mostly the Air Force) and NASA ($5.49 billion) accounted for nearly all.^[2]

Of the contract obligations, $72.9 million (0.8 percent) was coded by the awarding agencies as not competed; most of that ($44.7 million) is coded 'not available for competition' under an international-agreement authority.^[2]

The largest awards in the period were NASA's Commercial Crew transportation contract ($1.96 billion obligated in the window), the Human Landing System contract ($1.06 billion) and the station resupply contract ($1.09 billion).^[3]

Federal agencies obligated $41,678.59 in fiscal 2024-2026 to Tesla Motors Singapore Private Limited, a subsidiary listed in Tesla, Inc.'s annual report (one State Department purchase of an electric vehicle). USAspending's record for Tesla, Inc. itself (UEI TBTHGLM2G9D3) shows no obligations in the period.^[4]

For xAI, The Boring Company and Neuralink, a name search of USAspending found no prime-award recipient with activity in fiscal 2024-2026, as of 20 Oct 2026.^[5]

For Twitter, Inc. (now X Corp.), none found in USAspending prime-award transactions for Twitter, Inc.'s UEI in the same period.^[5]

-- Totals by award type and fiscal year (the view this page reads)
select award_category, fiscal_year,
       sum(net_obligations)         as net_obligations,
       sum(noncompeted_obligations) as coded_not_competed
from subject_money_summary
where subject_group = 'musk'
group by award_category, fiscal_year
order by award_category, fiscal_year;

-- Every transaction behind the tables (one row per USAspending transaction)
select * from subject_award_transactions
where subject_group = 'musk'
order by action_date, award_id;

• Obligations are amounts agencies committed in the period, net of reductions; they are not contract values or payments.
• Classified awards are not in USAspending, so these totals leave out any classified work.
• Sales through resellers are recorded under the reseller's name, so Starlink services bought through a reseller are not counted here.
• Defense Department actions are published with a delay of about 90 days, so fiscal 2026 totals may still grow.
• 'Not competed' is the awarding agency's own coding on each contract action.
• Prime awards only; subcontracts are not counted.
• Contract ceilings are potential maximums, often shared by several companies, and are not money awarded.

Context: these are federal prime-award obligation records matched to each company by its unique entity ID. They do not show contract values, payments, profits, subcontracts, classified work or sales through resellers, and they say nothing about why any award was made. The same 'coded not competed' measure is used for every company on this page.

Dates are not used to suggest cause: these are records, not a claim about why any money went anywhere.

• We asked SpaceX for comment on Oct 21, 2026 and will add any response here.

• We asked Tesla, Inc. for comment on Oct 21, 2026 and will add any response here.