DoD $1 million-plus contract actions: 2 in the week of July 27, against 256 median
What's new USASpending.gov shows 2 DoD contract actions of $1 million or more in the week of July 27, 2026, against a median of 256 for earlier complete weeks.
Why it matters USASpending is the public record of what the Pentagon commits to pay contractors, and DoD entries there arrive about 91 days late, so the newest weeks are the least complete.
USASpending.gov contract transactions list 2 DoD contract actions of $1 million or more dated in the week running Monday, July 27, through Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026. The measure counts transactions recorded against a federal award, not new contracts: both entries in the count are modifications to existing awards.
The comparison is a median of 256 such actions per week over earlier complete weeks, with a typical spread of 14 records a week. The week's 2 is 18.1 typical spreads below that median and sits at the 0th percentile of the earlier complete weeks it is compared with, according to USASpending.gov contract transactions.
The two rows behind the count are a funding modification to T-Mobile Secure Federal Operations LLC at $6,318,324.39, dated July 31, and a modification to Arcadis U.S., Inc. at $1,000,000, dated July 27. Their award ids in USASpending are HC101324CA004:P00012:2026-07-31 and W912DQ24F3060:P00002:2026-07-27.
Amounts on USASpending are transaction amounts: obligations, meaning commitments to pay, not money already paid and not a contract's ceiling value. The source is treated as complete only through Aug. 7, with a reported lag of about 91 days and the newest weeks short at first sight; the Pentagon's daily contract announcements under DFARS 205.303 are a separate disclosure series and are not the source of this count.
Room for disagreement
This is a first-sight count in a series the method treats as short for young weeks, with DoD data complete only through Aug. 7 and arriving about 91 days late, so the week of July 27 may fill in as more transactions are posted.
About the data
Every figure in this story is read from PostNewz's pn_records table (1347 rows read Nov 7, 4:32 PM UTC): DoD contract actions of $1 million or more (USASpending) per week; the week of 2026-07-27 holds 2 against a median of 256 over 6 earlier complete weeks (pn_records; complete through 2026-08-07). Prose by Landon Pierce (pn113-pnj-v15, model @cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017); numbers checked against the rows by the figure guard; neutrality check passed. All dates and times are UTC.