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

On War.gov, the full list and details for the Jan. 13, 2026 contract announcements are on the specific daily contracts page at:

• https://www.war.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/4377421// More generally, all such daily listings are organized under the News → Contracts section at:
• https://www.war.gov/News/Contracts/

Yes. U.S. defense contract announcements of this type typically list, for each award:

• Contractor name and location
• Contract value (base award and, if applicable, maximum or option values)
• A short description of the work or services
• Contracting agency, place of performance, and key dates This standard format can be seen in archived reproductions of Defense/War Department “Contracts For [date]” announcements.

The $7.5 million figure refers to the minimum value of each individual contract action that is included in these daily announcements. In other words, only awards or modifications valued at $7.5 million or more (per action) are summarized on the War/Defense Department’s public “Contracts” pages; smaller awards are generally not listed there.

The Department of War follows the same practice long used by the Department of Defense: contract awards meeting the reporting threshold are announced each business day, typically at or after 5 p.m. ET. So, under normal circumstances, there is one consolidated contracts posting for each business day on War.gov.

Public posting of these contract announcements is handled through the War/Defense Department’s central Newsroom, which is managed for web publication by the Defense Media Activity (DMA) on behalf of the department. The underlying contracting actions themselves are issued by the individual contracting activities (e.g., Defense Logistics Agency, Army Contracting Command, Naval Sea Systems Command), but the consolidated daily announcements on War.gov are published centrally via the department’s News → Contracts section.

Yes. The public contract announcements usually indicate key procurement details, including whether the award was competitively procured or not. Phrases such as “This was a competitive acquisition,” “This contract was competitively procured,” or “This contract was not competitively procured” (with a statutory citation) appear in the standard write‑ups for each contract listed.

Historically, the “United States Department of War” (War Department) was the cabinet department responsible for the Army until it was replaced in 1947–1949 by the Department of Defense (DoD). In current U.S. government structure, the formal name of the agency overseeing the military is the Department of Defense; it is the successor to the old War Department and sits above the military departments (Army, Navy, Air Force, etc.) as the central defense/military department. References to a present‑day “Department of War” in this context are effectively referring to what is formally the Department of Defense.