Awards matching surveillance terms 3 against 8 median
What's new The week of Oct. 19, 2026, saw 3 awards matching surveillance terms, which is incomplete due to a 14-day lag, according to USASpending.gov awards.
Why it matters This count of awards is notable because it reflects the level of government spending on surveillance-related projects, which can impact public privacy and security.
The current week's count of 3 awards is compared with a median of 8 awards per week over the preceding 16 weeks, as reported by USASpending.gov.
The awards include a $21.4 million contract to Sentrillion Corporation for the Border Security Deployment Program, and a $455,940 contract to Panamerica Computers, Inc. for Veritas Infoscale storage products.
Another award was a $14,370.5 contract to C & C Security Inc for the expansion of a video surveillance system at the Portales and Clovis gates.
These awards are part of a larger dataset of federal contracts, which can be searched on USASpending.gov.
Room for disagreement
The count may not reflect the full scope of government spending on surveillance, as the data is subject to a 14-day lag and may not capture all relevant awards.
About the data
Every figure in this story is read from PostNewz's pn_records table (138 rows read Nov 12, 4:31 PM UTC): Awards matching surveillance terms per week; the week of 2026-10-19 holds 3 against a median of 8 over 16 earlier complete weeks (pn_records; complete through 2026-10-28). Prose by Eva Lindqvist (pnmaha2-pnj-v32.6, model @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast, fallback: @cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017 was at capacity); numbers checked against the rows by the figure guard; neutrality check passed. All dates and times are UTC.