About $9.03B to Lockheed Martin — the recipient field carries the abbreviated form while the legacy record in the description carries the full one
A definitive contract administered by the Defense Contract Management Agency. Obligations total about $9,032.61 million over a period from 2001-11-16 to 2021-01-31. The recipient field carries an abbreviated form of the name while the legacy record inside the description carries the full form with an address, putting two spellings of one company in a single record.
Contract key facts
- RecipientLockheed Martin
- Contract value$9,032,605,786 (≈$9.03B)
- BranchDefense-wide
- Awarding agencyDepartment of Defense
- Awarding sub-agencyDefense Contract Management Agency
- Award typeDEFINITIVE CONTRACT
- Period of performance2001-11-16 〜 2021-01-31
- Contract ID (PIID)F0470102C0002
Contract scope (original)
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Key points
- The recipient field carries an abbreviated name while the legacy record in the description carries the full form and an address, both in one record.
- Across the 207 Department of Defense contracts this site holds as of 2026-09-01, this company appears 40 times under the full form and 15 under the abbreviation.
- Seven identifiers appear under the full form and four under the abbreviation, eleven in all pointing at one company.
- Not one case in those 207 carries multiple spellings under a single identifier: where the spelling differs, so does the identifier.
- Those 207 records carry 50 distinct recipient names and 74 identifiers; names are fewer because one name spans several identifiers.
- One company splits into 40 records under the full name (7 identifiers) and 15 under the abbreviation (4), eleven identifiers in all.
1Two spellings inside one record
The recipient field carries an abbreviated form of the name. Inside the legacy record in the description sits the full form together with an address in Sunnyvale, California. Two ways of writing one company occupy a single record.
Grouping the 207 Department of Defense contracts this site holds as of 2026-09-01 by recipient name gives 40 under the full form and 15 under the abbreviation, 55 together. Counted by the name string alone, the two appear as separate recipients.
2Neither name nor identifier collapses to one
Federal procurement assigns a unique entity identifier to a contractor, a device meant to avoid variation in names. For this company the identifier is not single either: seven distinct identifiers appear across the 40 records under the full form and four across the 15 under the abbreviation, eleven in all pointing at one company.
Identifiers attach per site or registration, so a large company can hold several. Conversely, not one case in these 207 has multiple name spellings under a single identifier: where the spelling differs, so does the identifier. Grouping by name or by identifier alike fails to collapse to one company.
3Fifty names, seventy-four identifiers
Across the 207 Department of Defense contracts this site holds as of 2026-09-01 there are 50 distinct recipient names and 74 identifiers. Names are fewer because one name appears under several identifiers.
By way of comparison, the 120 NSF awards this site holds as of 2026-09-01 span 93 institutions. Fewer records, more distinct recipients. Defense procurement gathers 207 records into 50 companies, with the top five awards alone accounting for 12.9 percent of the money and the top fifty for 52.8 percent. How widely recipients spread differs sharply by field.
Why it matters
Reading public data by company, neither the name string nor the identifier corresponds to a company as it stands. Aggregation on either one alone drifts furthest for the largest firms. Without a settled resolution rule, even the ranking of top contractors turns on how records happen to be written.
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Sources (primary)
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- USAspending (award details)
- Contract ID (PIID)：F0470102C0002