Department of War posts contracts worth $7.5 million or more for Jan. 13, 2026

The current U.S. Department of War is not a separate cabinet department; it is the existing Department of Defense (DoD) using an alternate historical title. Executive Order 14347 ("Restoring the United States Department of War") authorizes the Department of Defense and the Office of the Secretary of Defense to be referred to as the "Department of War" and "Office of the Secretary of War" in specified contexts, but it does not change their legal status under the National Security Act and Title 10. In practice, the same military departments and defense agencies (Army, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, Defense Logistics Agency, etc.) operate under both the DoD and Department of War branding, and war.gov is the DoD’s contracts/news site using the revived name.

Full daily contract listings are posted on the War Department’s “News → Contracts” section at:

• https://www.war.gov/News/Contracts/ (index of daily “Contracts for [date]” notices)
• Individual-day pages (for example): https://www.war.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/4373866/

Each daily posting aggregates all Department of War/DoD contract actions at or above the $7.5 million reporting threshold. As shown in reproduced daily listings (for example, the Sept. 29, 2025 contracts article), each contract entry typically includes:

• Prime contractor name and location
• Contract type (e.g., firm‑fixed‑price, cost‑plus‑fixed‑fee), whether it is a new award or a modification to an existing contract, and the relevant contract number
• Description of the supplies/services (e.g., weapon system, R&D, construction)
• Dollar value of the action and, for modifications, the new total cumulative contract value
• Work locations and estimated completion date (performance period end)
• Appropriation/funding source and amount obligated at award (e.g., “Fiscal 2025 operations and maintenance (Army) funds in the amount of $14,189,000 were obligated…”)
• The contracting activity/office that made the award (e.g., “Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity”).

The $7.5 million reporting threshold covers the total “face value” of each contract action, not just brand‑new base awards. Under the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) announcement rules, DoD must report “all contractual actions, including modifications, that have a face value, excluding unexercised options, of more than $7.5 million.” In practice this means:

• New awards over $7.5M are listed;
• Modifications that push a contract action’s value over $7.5M or that are themselves over $7.5M are listed;
• Unexercised options do not count toward the threshold until exercised.

Daily Department of War contract postings on war.gov reflect this rule by routinely including large modifications as well as initial awards.

There is no single central “Department of War contracting office.” Instead, each contract in the daily announcements is awarded by the contracting activity of the relevant military department or defense agency, for example:

• Army Contracting Command (e.g., Redstone Arsenal, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Rock Island Arsenal)
• Naval Air Systems Command, Naval Sea Systems Command, Naval Information Warfare Systems Command, or Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command
• Air Force Life Cycle Management Center or Air Force Sustainment Center
• Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Aviation, Energy, etc.

The war.gov daily contracts posting simply aggregates awards from all these contracting activities and notes the responsible office at the end of each contract paragraph (e.g., “Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity.”).

Department of War/DoD contract announcements are published on war.gov each business day, not weekly or purely ad hoc. The War Department’s contracts page and multiple mirrored notices state that “contracts valued at $7.5 million or more are announced each business day at 5 p.m.” The “Contracts for [date]” items on war.gov (e.g., for Jan. 2, 5, 6, 8, and 13, 2026) show a regular business‑day cadence, with gaps generally corresponding to weekends and federal holidays.

Yes, several key data points are routinely included in the public postings:

• Prime contractor name and location: always listed.
• Award amount: each entry states the dollar value of the action, and for modifications often the new total cumulative contract value.
• Performance period: each entry normally includes an estimated completion date (end of performance).
• Contract number and funding: contract/ordering numbers and appropriations (e.g., fiscal year and account type) and amount obligated at award are usually provided.

Subcontractor details are generally not listed unless a subcontractor is itself a co‑awardee or joint‑venture partner. More granular information (full contract documents, detailed SOWs, subcontract plans, pricing) is typically available only in procurement systems such as SAM.gov/FPDS or via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Department of Defense/War or the specific military department, subject to redactions for classification and contractor proprietary data.