The FY2027 President's Budget requests $12.2M for Office of Legal Counsel, within Justice's Salaries and Expenses account. That is up 5.8% on the FY2026 figure of $11.5M, which is the enacted appropriation.
FY2025–FY2027
| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | enacted | $11.5M |
| FY2026 | enacted | $11.5M |
| FY2027 | request | $12.2M |
Bases are separate columns and are never summed into one figure.
Justice discretionary budget authority
From the OMB Public Budget Database — clean, summable, and the figure to cite for an agency total. It is the whole of Justice's discretionary request, not a total of the parsed lines above, and this page never adds the two together.
What this funds
Funding will provide upgrades to OLC's existing DAMS system that will improve its usability and are critical to ensuring the longevity of this tool. OLC attorneys rely on the DAMS system every day to perform their work of analyzing legal questions brought to OLC by agencies across the Executive Branch, including the White House Counsel's Office and Department leadership. By querying DAMS, OLC attorneys can quickly search for past work product of the office, which is OLC's starting (and sometimes ending) point for its substantive legal work. The classified version of DAMS, known as C-DAMS, will function similarly and with the same impact in terms of resource capabilities. Requested funding is provides base funding for the development and long-term maintenance of OLC's C-DAMS system, which will be a secure classified advice and opinions electronic repository that can be easily navigated. Currently, classified documents are not centrally located in electronic form, nor can they be easily searched. OLC has one of the smallest budgets in the Department of Justice, and because of this, it does not have the base funding that it can dedicate to the DAMS and C-DAMS systems.
Extracted from Office of Legal Counsel, p. 3. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.
Contracts funded by this line
37 linked contracts. These are obligations — lifetime awarded money — and they are not comparable to the request above and are never added to it. No total is shown: an award linked to several lines is counted in full on each, so the sum would not be a fact.
| Contract | Vendor | Confidence | Obligated |
|---|---|---|---|
| 75P00122F80015 last action FY2026 | WEST PUBLISHING CORPORATION | Medium confidence | $18.2M |
| N6426718F3009 last action FY2026 | VSOLVIT LLC | Medium confidence | $4.7M |
| 2032H518C00065 last action FY2023 | YUDRIO INC | Medium confidence | $4.7M |
| W912HQ25F0080 last action FY2026 | WEST PUBLISHING CORPORATION | Medium confidence | $4.6M |
| 89303325FEM400460 last action FY2026 | JOHN J. YIM & ASSOCIATES, LLC | Medium confidence | $4.5M |
| 15JPSS22C00000050 last action FY2025 | TECHNOLOGY & BUSINESS MANAGEMENT INC. | Medium confidence | $4.5M |
| TIRNO11D000180002 last action FY2020 | PERATON ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS LLC | Medium confidence | $3.4M |
| 70RSAT20C00000054 last action FY2023 | JOHN J. YIM & ASSOCIATES, LLC | Medium confidence | $3.3M |
Showing 8 of 37 — most confidently matched first, largest within a confidence tier. These are not necessarily the largest 8.
Confidence mix · 37 medium
Linked contracts are a floor, not a census. Coverage is bounded by how distinctively a program is named and, for performer links, to RDT&E and Procurement — O&M and military construction publish no performers. Budget figures are FY2027 request dollars; contract figures are obligations. The two measure different things and must never be summed together.
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