Selective Service System

Registration infrastructure on a $6.8 million award book

Selective Service’s statutory job in peacetime is to keep a registration file and the plans needed if Congress and the President authorize a draft. None of those registrant counts are in this packet. $6,765,946.36 is what the System obligated on federal awards through FY2026—IT, mail, facilities, and other instruments tagged to CGAC 090. A year with more 18-year-olds registering does not automatically raise this total. A systems modernization contract can raise it while registration volume is steady.

Sixty-nine awards against $6.8 million implies about $98,057 per award. That modest mean on a small count fits a thin standby agency buying administrative support. The packet has no median.

What 69 awards omit

The Department of Defense manpower and recruiting budgets sit under other CGACs. Mixing them with $6,765,946.36 would treat Selective Service as if it were the active-duty personnel account. It is not. This page stays on awarding agency 090.

Agency staff salaries generally never appear as USAspending awards. The $6.8 million understates the System’s full operating cost if a reader expected the award file to equal the appropriation. It is complete as an award ledger.

Questions

How much has Selective Service obligated on USAspending?

The Selective Service System shows $6,765,946.36 in obligations through FY2026 across 69 awards. Awarding-agency CGAC 090 is the filter. The total is not a count of registrants and not the Defense Department personnel budget. USAspending.gov records this as awarding-agency obligations through FY2026, not cash outlays. The live table for CGAC 090 is the source for the current 69-award book.

What is the average Selective Service award?

Dividing $6,765,946.36 by 69 awards yields about $98,057. The packet has no median. IT, mail, and facilities instruments share the same mean. That figure uses only the packet totals. The extract has no median and no contract-versus-assistance split. FY2026 is the warehouse cutoff, not a single-year appropriation.

What is agency code 090?

090 is the USAspending awarding-agency CGAC identifier for the Selective Service System. SpendingVault uses it in /agencies/090/. Defense Department agencies use different codes. SpendingVault URLs under the agency path filter to that CGAC identifier. It is an accounting tag, not a quality score. Totals on this page are obligations through FY2026.

Does $6.8 million mean a draft is active?

No. The figure is a USAspending obligation stock for CGAC 090 through FY2026. It does not record whether inductions are authorized. Outlays on the 69 awards are unpublished in the packet. Outlays are unpublished in this packet, so this page does not estimate cash already paid. Refresh the agency page after USAspending updates rather than treating the current stock as frozen.