About $6.59B to Bath Iron Works — destroyers for fiscal years 2023 through 2027 contracted together, over a period running ten and a half years

1Several fiscal years placed in one contract

The description covers construction for fiscal years 2023 through 2027. Rather than ordering year by year, five fiscal years are placed into a single contract.

Ordering together lets the builder plan production and secure material and people on a longer horizon. It also narrows the room to change course midway. The period runs from 2023-08-01 to 2034-02-28, ten and a half years, with the end set some years beyond the last fiscal year covered.

2Several shipbuilders sit side by side

Among the 207 Department of Defense contracts this site holds as of 2026-09-01, several shipbuilders appear. Yards differ by ship type, so destroyers, amphibious ships and submarines show up as records of different companies.

Grouped as shipbuilding they form one industry; in the record they are separate recipients. Aggregating by industry means judging the sector from recipient names. Those 207 records carry 50 distinct names and 74 identifiers.

3Outlays remain at zero

Obligations are about $6,589.84 million while outlays are recorded as zero. It began in August 2023, three years ago.

Of the 207 Department of Defense contracts this site holds as of 2026-09-01, outlays are zero on 115, and 62 of those are already past their end date. With ended-and-zero so common, the outlay value reads as reflecting the reporting arrangement rather than the state of the contract, and progress is hard to gauge from an outlay ratio.

4What bundling the years changes

The description says construction of ships for fiscal years 2023 through 2027. Rather than ordering year by year, five years are committed in one contract.

The period runs from 1 August 2023 to 28 February 2034, ten and a half years, with the end set several years past the last fiscal year covered. Obligations are about $6,589.84 million while outlays stand at zero. Of the same 207, outlays are zero on 115 and 62 of those are past their end date, so the outlay value is more accurately read as reflecting the reporting arrangement.