About $11.09B to Boeing — the largest defense contract this site has yet to cover, and nothing at all recorded in its description

1Size of amount and detail of record do not correspond

Obligations run to about $11,086.77 million, the largest among the Department of Defense contracts this site holds as of 2026-09-01 that have yet to be covered. And yet the description carries nothing.

Of those same 207, fifteen have an empty description. Separately, fifteen carry a fixed-width record from an older procurement data system left in place. Together thirty, or 14 percent of the whole, give no reading of what was procured. Larger amounts do not come with fuller records.

2Only the skeleton can be read

What this record supports is that the Defense Contract Management Agency administers it, that the recipient is Boeing, that it is a definitive contract, that it runs 14.1 years from 2003-10-02 to 2017-10-31, and that about $11,086.77 million stands obligated.

What was procured is not written. The FA8614 opening the contract number follows the numbering an Air Force procurement office uses, but that yields the line of the award rather than its subject. The accurate posture is to treat understanding as requiring other sources.

3The administering office can differ from the user

The administering office is the Defense Contract Management Agency, an organisation placed across the Department of Defense rather than within a service. Splitting the 207 Department of Defense contracts this site holds as of 2026-09-01 by administering office gives the Navy 77, the Defense Contract Management Agency 43, the Army 40, the Air Force 31, the Defense Health Agency 9 and the Missile Defense Agency 7.

The 43 administered by the Defense Contract Management Agency may be used by one service or another while the administration sits with a cross-cutting organisation. Aggregating records by service means allowing for the administering office and the actual user not matching.