Historically, the “Department of War” was the U.S. cabinet department that managed the Army from 1789 until 1947; the National Security Act of 1947 reorganized U.S. military departments into the National Military Establishment (renamed the Department of Defense in 1949), making the War Department a predecessor of today’s DoD. In modern practice the Department of Defense (and its military departments and agencies) is the federal organization responsible for U.S. defense contracting.
The full listings are posted on the notice URL given in the article (the War.gov “Contracts for Feb. 11, 2026” page). Related official contract data can also be searched on federal databases such as SAM.gov (Contract Awards) and USAspending.gov.
Typical fields in these public contract announcements include: award amount, contractor name and location, brief description/purpose of the contract, contracting office, contract type or number, funding source/account, and period of performance (start/end dates). More detailed data (subawards, line items, full clauses) appear in SAM.gov or agency procurement records.
The $7.5 million figure is an editorial/reporting cutoff used in these daily public announcements (to limit which awards are listed); it is not itself a universal legal acquisition threshold in the FAR. Official reporting and reporting thresholds (and other statutory thresholds) are defined in procurement law, the FAR, and agency guidance; agencies may choose internal cutoffs for public releases.
War.gov is a .gov domain used by the entity publishing the notice; a .gov domain indicates a U.S. government site. Whether the site represents the Department of Defense or a different organization should be confirmed by the site’s own About/Contacts pages; DoD also publishes contracts on Defense.gov and posts award data to SAM.gov and USAspending.gov.
Contract announcements are prepared and released by the contracting offices within the department (e.g., service or agency contracting directorates) and by the department’s public affairs or press office following agency procedures for public releases.
These contract notices are posted on business days and the department routinely issues daily or near-daily “Contracts” announcements (agency practice varies; DoD commonly posts a daily contracts roundup on workdays).