About $4.73B to Huntington Ingalls — not the ship itself but the long lead material ordered ahead of it, at an amount sitting on the median of these 207 records

1Material procurement becomes its own contract

Building a ship means arranging some material long before assembly of the hull begins, because delivery can take years. Such items are called long lead material, and this contract covers arranging them.

Being contracted separately from construction, they appear in the record as two distinct outlays. Reading only one understates what the ship costs. The hull classification and number in the description leave a handle for matching against other contracts on the same ship.

2The amount sits on the median

Obligations are about $4,725.47 million. Across the 207 Department of Defense contracts this site holds as of 2026-09-01, the median obligation comes to almost the same figure.

A median near $4.7 billion also reflects this site collecting the larger contracts first. These are not every Department of Defense contract but a slice of the upper layer. Any statement about the distribution of amounts has to carry that premise.

3One company appearing under two spellings

The recipient here is recorded under the full form of the name. Among the 207 Department of Defense contracts this site holds as of 2026-09-01 there are also 11 records under an abbreviated form of the same company, carrying a different identifier.

That a different spelling comes with a different identifier holds consistently across the 207; not one case carries multiple spellings under a single identifier. Counting by company requires deciding the correspondence between names and identifiers first. Those 207 records carry 50 distinct names and 74 identifiers.

4This amount sits at the middle of the distribution

Obligations run to about $4,725.47 million. Across the 207 Department of Defense contracts this site holds as of 2026-09-01, the median obligation comes to nearly the same figure.

That even the smallest sits near $2.5 billion reflects this site gathering mainly the larger contracts. It is not the whole of Department of Defense contracting but a slice off the top, and describing the distribution means holding that premise. In building a ship, some material has to be secured before hull assembly can start, and this contract covers that securing.