TOTE Services' $2.21 billion Navy contract, dated July 13, 2026, exceeds the 120-day $9.2 million median
A 120-day median of $9,211,096 is calculated from the 12 largest DoD contract actions in the last 120 days.
The figure is an obligation, a commitment to pay, not money already spent, so a reader cannot tell from it how much has been paid out or what work has been performed.
The record is a USASpending.gov contract transaction reported under the Department of the Navy and assigned to TOTE Services, LLC, contract number N0002426C2421, with a date of July 13, 2026. Its amount is $2,206,000,000. The only description carried in the award's title field reads "SEE THE STATEMENT OF WORK," so the public record does not state in plain words what the action buys.
Against that, the typical action in this set is far smaller. The median amount among the 1,127 DoD contract actions of $1 million or more recorded in the source over the last 120 days is $9,211,096. A median is the middle value when all amounts are lined up by size, so half the actions fall below it and half above; it is not an average, and a single large action does not move it.
The next largest amounts in the same USASpending set are $1,809,613,484.55 to Raytheon Company, $1,603,067,858 and $1,354,247,255.41 to Lockheed Martin Corporation, $984,948,874 and $701,930,089 to Electric Boat Corporation, and $632,600,000 and $583,394,000 to Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. Each figure is the amount of a reported contract action, not a total of what a company received across all its work.
Two terms matter here. A USASpending transaction amount is an obligation, meaning the government has committed to pay it; it is not cash disbursed, and it is separate from a contract's ceiling, the maximum the award could reach. The Department of Defense also reports to USASpending with a lag, so the most recent weeks in the source are thinner than earlier ones and the ranking above reflects what has been posted, not everything signed.
The award identifier N0002426C2421 and the amounts cited come from USASpending.gov contract transactions, which is also the source of the 1,127-record, 120-day median used as the comparison.
Room for disagreement
The comparison rests on a 120-day window and a median, and DoD reporting to USASpending runs late, so a different window or a completed posting of recent weeks could change which action ranks first. The title field also gives no detail on the work, so the size of the obligation is all the record establishes.
About the data
Every figure in this story is read from PostNewz's pn_records table (1127 rows read Oct 23, 3:07 p.m. HST): The 12 largest usaspending_dod records of the last 120 days; the highlighted record is N0002426C2421:0:2026-07-13 against a median amount of $9,211,096 (pn_records). Prose by Landon Pierce (pn93-pnj-v5, model @cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017); numbers checked against the rows by the figure guard; neutrality check passed.
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Corrections
- : Correction: The period the story counted was still incomplete when it was published, because this source's records arrive late. The headline presented an event from 2026-07-13 as current news. The contract action between the Department of the Navy and TOTE Services occurred on July 13, 2026, with a value of $2.21 billion, against a $9.2 million median. An earlier version of the headline read: “TOTE Services' $2.21 billion Navy action tops DoD filings against a $9.2 million median.” An earlier version of the summary read: “A Department of the Navy contract action of $2,206,000,000 to TOTE Services, LLC, contract number N0002426C2421 and dated July 13, 2026, is the largest DoD contract action of $1 million or more in the USASpending set.” Corrected Oct. 24, 2026, 11:37 p.m. HST.