About $3.75B to the land and armaments arm of BAE Systems — outlays of $1.22B, the highest ratio among the defense contracts this site has yet to cover (Navy)
A definitive contract awarded by the Navy to the land and armaments arm of BAE Systems. Obligations total about $3,745.97 million and outlays about $1,219.87 million, a ratio of 32.6 percent. The description field holds a single line marking a work category, and nothing about what is being procured.
Contract key facts
- RecipientBAE SYSTEMS LAND AND ARMAMENTS L.P.
- Contract value$3,745,965,985 (≈$3.75B)
- BranchNavy
- Awarding agencyDepartment of Defense
- Awarding sub-agencyDepartment of the Navy
- Award typeDEFINITIVE CONTRACT
- Period of performance2015-11-24 〜 2028-06-30
- Contract ID (PIID)M6785416C0006
Contract scope (original)
IGF::OT::IGF
Key points
- A definitive contract awarded by the Navy to the land and armaments arm of BAE Systems, with obligations of about $3,745.97 million.
- Outlays of about $1,219.87 million give a ratio of 32.6 percent, the highest among the defense contracts this site has yet to cover.
- Across the 207 Department of Defense contracts this site holds as of 2026-08-31, total outlays come to 1.0 percent of total obligations.
- The description is the single line IGF::OT::IGF, a marker of how the work relates to inherently governmental functions rather than of content.
- Of the 207 Department of Defense contracts this site holds as of 2026-08-31, 41 have a description of twenty characters or fewer.
- An outlay ratio of 32.6 percent stands out sharply against 1.0 percent across all 207 records held as of 2026-08-31.
1Outlays above thirty percent are unusual
A federal contract record carries two figures: what has been obligated and what has actually been paid. Here the first is about $3,745.97 million and the second about $1,219.87 million, a ratio of 32.6 percent.
Across the 207 Department of Defense contracts this site holds as of 2026-08-31, obligations total roughly $1,456.57 billion while recorded outlays total roughly $13.93 billion, an overall ratio of 1.0 percent. Against that, a contract above thirty percent sits far along in the record.
2What the description holds is a work-category marker
The line IGF::OT::IGF describes not the procurement but how the work relates to inherently governmental functions. Three such markers appear across the federal spending records this site holds: as of 2026-08-31, OT on 86 records, CL on 25 and CT on 18.
OT denotes work other than inherently governmental functions, CL work closely associated with them, and CT functions critical to an agency. It is a classification symbol for the nature of the work, not an account of what is being bought. On this contract that single line is all the description field contains.
3The description field does not necessarily say what was bought
Of the 207 Department of Defense contracts this site holds as of 2026-08-31, 41 have a description of twenty characters or fewer, and three hold nothing but a category marker. Even where the sum runs to billions of dollars, the record may not reveal what was procured.
The honest reading is that amount, period, recipient and awarding office are firmly available while understanding the content requires other sources. For this contract the record supports only this much: the Navy awarded it, the land and armaments arm of BAE Systems holds it, it runs from 2015 to 2028, about $3,745.97 million has been obligated, and 32.6 percent of that is recorded as paid.
Why it matters
The outlay ratio is one of the few external handles on how far a contract has been carried out. It is a recorded value, though, and many contracts sit at zero because of how reporting works. Read the ratio alongside the start year and the scheduled end date.
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Sources (primary)
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- USAspending (award details)
- Contract ID (PIID):M6785416C0006