Amentum holds a $340 million DHS biometric-data award, against a $245,669 median
A $340,032,951.47 award to Amentum Services for application support centers that collect applicant biometric and biographical data, dated Sept. 25, 2026, is the largest record matching surveillance terms in the federal award data.
The amount is what the government has committed to pay for running those centers, so it shows the size of one purchase rather than what any technology does with the data.
USASpending.gov lists a contract action, award ID 70SBUR23C00000009, to Amentum Services, Inc. with an obligated amount of $340,032,951.47 and a date of Sept. 25, 2026. The award description reads: "APPLICATION SUPPORT CENTERS (ASC) OPS AND FACILITIES SERVICES WILL PROVIDE, ADMINISTER AND MANAGE (ASCS) AND RELATED OPERATIONS COLLECTING APPLICANT BIOMETRIC AND BIOGRAPHICAL DATA." The record's category names the Department of Homeland Security and a keyword match on biometric.
The comparison point is the median amount of the source's records over the last 120 days: $245,669.26 across 136 records. The Amentum action is far above that median, and it is the largest single amount in the set. Among the 114 earlier complete records in the same source, dated May 28 to Sept. 25, 2026, the median is $213,429, and this award ranks at the 100th percentile.
The next largest amounts in the same set are $213,150,787.87 to General Dynamics One Source, $166,538,518.17 to Peraton Enterprise Solutions, $86,254,448.33 to Pluribus Digital, Inc. and $50,002,730.55 to Science Applications International. Each is an obligation recorded by USASpending, meaning a commitment to pay, not money already paid out.
The record does not give a potential ceiling value, so the obligated $340,032,951.47 is the figure at hand and not the maximum the contract could reach. Nor does an award record show that a technology was used on the public: it documents a purchase, not deployment or how biometric and biographical data are handled.
Records that would speak to the handling question — the centers' data practices, or how collected biometric and biographical information is stored and shared — would come from the agency itself, requested under the Freedom of Information Act; the library's guide to filing such a request is at library/surveillance/foia-gov-how-to-make-a-foia-request.md. The award record, table pn_records, id 70SBUR23C00000009, settles only what was obligated and to whom.
Room for disagreement
The comparison rests on a 120-day window and 136 records, and a single large award can move a median-based ranking on its own. Because records enter the set by keyword match, work touching biometric data may also sit in awards whose descriptions did not match the search terms.
About the data
Every figure in this story is read from PostNewz's pn_records table (136 rows read Oct 28, 6:31 a.m. HST): The 12 largest usaspending_surveillance records of the last 120 days; the highlighted record is 70SBUR23C00000009 against a median amount of $245,669 (pn_records). Prose by Eva Lindqvist (pn100-pnj-v9, model @cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017); numbers checked against the rows by the figure guard; neutrality check passed.