A $4.4 billion Missile Defense Agency contract — one of seven, with an outlay ratio of 5.6 percent

1Among the minority with outlays recorded

Of the 207 defense contracts this site holds as of 2026-09-02, 115 (56 percent) show zero outlays. Even among the 92 with outlays recorded, the ratio against obligation has a median of 1 percent. This contract shows about $250.8 million in outlays, a ratio of 5.6 percent. By amount and by ratio it sits among the records where spending has progressed furthest.

2Placing the figures

The record gives no reason for the relatively high ratio. That the contract began in 2019 and seven years have passed, and that program management and systems engineering are services paid out year by year as labor rather than delivered as equipment, are plausible background — but neither can be read directly from the record.

3A description written in abbreviations

GBI/AUR PROGRAM MANAGEMENT/SYSTEMS ENG reads as program management and systems engineering relating to the Ground-Based Interceptor and the All-Up Round. Among the defense contract records this site covers, where description fields are often code strings or empty, this is a case where abbreviations still leave a handle on the content.

4The Missile Defense Agency as an awarding component

The Missile Defense Agency develops and deploys ballistic missile defense across the services. In the records this site holds as of 2026-09-02 it appears as the awarding component on 7 contracts, against 77 for the Navy, 43 for the Defense Contract Management Agency, 40 for the Army and 31 for the Air Force.

The branch field reads defense-wide, showing on the record itself that this is a cross-cutting program not belonging to a single service.