About $8.95B to KBR — the contract number is the four-digit 0159, and the description is one sentence saying the follow-on to 139 became 159 (Army, ended 2012)

1Why the contract number has four digits

Federal contract numbers usually run to around thirteen alphanumeric characters, from which an awarding office code and a year can be read. This record carries only the four digits 0159, because it is the number given to an individual order issued in sequence under a parent contract.

A delivery order places individual work or goods under a framework agreed in advance, as need arises. The number is a running count within that framework, so it is short. Of the 207 Department of Defense contracts this site holds as of 2026-08-31, 14 take this form and the remaining 193 are definitive contracts.

2The description only points at an earlier number

What the description carries is the sentence that the follow-on task order to 139 is now task order 159. Not what was ordered, but only the connection to the order before it.

Where ordering continues under a framework, individual orders are sometimes treated as continuations. The record shows the continuity while leaving what was done on that occasion unreadable. Nothing short of matching it against the other orders from the same framework gives the whole picture.

3More than a decade after it ended, outlays are still zero

The period ran from 2008-09-24 to 2012-09-30 and has ended. Outlays are nonetheless recorded as zero.

Of the 207 Department of Defense contracts this site holds as of 2026-08-31, outlays are zero on 115, and 62 of those are past their end date as this one is. Ended and at zero cannot be explained by payment still to come. The outlay value is more accurately read as reflecting the reporting arrangement rather than the state of the contract. Obligations, for their part, are recorded here at about $8,949.37 million.