About $6.04B to Lockheed Martin — an end date of 2100-12-31 puts the recorded period at 87.8 years, the only such record among 207

1Do not read 87.8 years at face value

With a start of 2013-02-28 and an end of 2100-12-31, the difference comes to 87.8 years. Across the 207 Department of Defense contracts this site holds as of 2026-09-01, the median period is 10.7 years and the mean 11.9. The figure is plainly an outlier.

The date reads more naturally as a placeholder used where no term is fixed than as an intention to run until 2100. Within those same 207, no other record carries an end date beyond 2050; the rest fall in a realistic range. Whether this one record is included changes the mean and the maximum considerably.

2What six characters in the description denote

The description is the short string F-35 LRIP 8 AAC. LRIP refers to low-rate initial production, the stage where a small number are built while design and manufacturing processes are settled before full production. The lot number 8 indicates that the stage proceeds in several rounds.

The records this site holds as of 2026-09-01 also include a separate contract from the same recipient described as LRIP 10 AAC. Only the number differs, with its own amount and period recorded. The shape of contracts being cut stage by stage appears in the sequence of records.

3The outlay ratio is 0.1 percent

Obligations are about $6,035.36 million and outlays about $6.60 million, a ratio of 0.1 percent. Across the 207 Department of Defense contracts this site holds as of 2026-09-01, total outlays come to 1.0 percent of total obligations, so this record sits lower still.

A low outlay figure does not immediately mean nothing was paid. Of the same 207, outlays are zero on 115 and 62 of those are already past their end date. The figures in the record are an image of the contract as seen through a reporting arrangement, not the contract itself. A record whose end date reads 2100 shows that as plainly as any.