About $9.40B to Electric Boat — nine records, yet about nine percent of the money; counts and amounts show entirely different shapes

1Counts and amounts show different shapes

This recipient accounts for nine of the 207 Department of Defense contracts this site holds as of 2026-09-01, around 4 percent by count. Obligations across those nine come to about $130.8 billion, roughly 9 percent of the whole.

Ranked by count it stands seventh; ranked by amount, third. Each award is large. Trying to grasp who receives what, the ranking shifts with whether counts or amounts are used to order it.

2Concentration shows strongly at the top

Across the 207 Department of Defense contracts this site holds as of 2026-09-01, the top five awards by obligation account for 12.9 percent of the whole, the top ten for 21.8 percent, the top twenty for 32.7 percent and the top fifty for 52.8 percent. More than half the money sits in the top quarter of records.

Meanwhile there are 50 distinct recipient names and 74 identifiers. Many companies appear, yet the money leans toward a few contracts. Working with public data means reading the distribution of counts and the distribution of amounts separately.

3The period runs beyond twenty-one years

The period runs from 2003-08-14 to 2025-05-06, beyond twenty-one years. Across the 207 Department of Defense contracts this site holds as of 2026-09-01 the median period is 10.7 years, so this runs close to twice that.

The description holds nothing. Fifteen of those 207 are empty in that field and this is one. What can be read is that the Navy administers it, that the recipient is a company known for building submarines, that it runs beyond twenty-one years, and that about $9,397.33 million stands obligated.