Contracts for Dec. 18, 2025

Yes. In this context the “U.S. Department of War” is the same cabinet department that has long been known as the Department of Defense. In September 2025, President Trump signed an executive order (Executive Order 14347) allowing “Department of War” to be used as a secondary title for the Department of Defense and authorizing officials to use titles like “Secretary of War” in public communications. The underlying department, legal authorities, and functions remain those of the Department of Defense; only the branding/name has changed in these communications.

War.gov is the official .gov website for the U.S. Department of War (i.e., the Department of Defense under its new secondary title). It is the public site where the department posts its daily contract announcements. The contracts section explicitly states that “U.S. Department of War contracts valued at $7.5 million or more are announced each business day at 5 p.m.,” and the Dec. 18, 2025 contract notice appears there as an official posting, mirrored from the same content linked on Defense.gov.

The Dec. 18, 2025 posting includes a wide range of contract types across multiple components:

• Large multiple‑award IDIQ contract vehicle for missile defense technologies (MDA SHIELD)
• Construction and engineering (e.g., dam safety modification; design‑build construction in Europe; naval waterfront A&E design; fire‑protection system construction/repair)
• Weapons systems and platforms (e.g., PATRIOT radar firing unit; HIMARS/MLRS support; F‑35 modification and retrofit; ACV-30 remote turrets; Columbia‑class submarine launcher components; Polar Security Cutter facilities)
• Maintenance, overhaul, and sustainment (e.g., ship maintenance availability; Global Hawk depot‑level support; USS John C. Stennis RCOH facilities)
• Research, development, test and evaluation (e.g., engine improvement programs, propulsion R&D, cooperative engagement capabilities development)
• Logistics and support services (e.g., warehousing and storage; safety hazard and risk analysis services) So it covers services, goods (hardware/equipment), construction, R&D, and long‑term IDIQ contract vehicles.

The public Dec. 18, 2025 contracts announcement lists a series of major contract actions (each paragraph describing one contract or contract modification) but does not give an explicit count or a summed total dollar value for that day’s actions. The first item alone is the SHIELD multiple-award IDIQ with a ceiling of $151 billion and an additional 1,086 awards under that vehicle, but the individual award amounts are not broken out. Because of this and the mixture of new awards and modifications, it is not possible from the notice itself to state a precise total number of individual contracts or a combined dollar value beyond saying that each listed action is at least $7.5 million and that the SHIELD vehicle ceiling is $151 billion. A precise aggregate total would require separate data from the underlying contract documents or a structured database such as FPDS/USAspending, which is not provided in the posting.

The full list of individual contract awards and named awardees for Dec. 18, 2025 is in the detailed contract announcement itself:

• Primary: the Dec. 18, 2025 contracts article on War.gov, which lists each contract action by component (Missile Defense Agency, Army, Navy, Air Force, Defense Logistics Agency, SOCOM, USTRANSCOM) with contractor names, locations, dollar values, and basic work descriptions.
• The same text is mirrored on Defense.gov and on some secondary sites that republish DoD contracts, but War.gov/Defense.gov are the official public sources. You can view the complete list here: https://www.war.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/4364107/

The daily public contracts posting covers only unclassified contract actions that the department chooses to disclose and that are valued at $7.5 million or more. Classified contracts are not described in these releases. Foreign Military Sales (FMS)–related awards are included when unclassified: for example, the Dec. 18, 2025 notice explicitly lists PATRIOT system work funded by FMS for Romania and F‑35 and Columbia‑class launcher work that include FMS/foreign partner funding. So the posting includes both domestic and foreign (e.g., FMS) awards, but only for unclassified portions suitable for public release; classified contracts are omitted or only reflected in highly generalized form, if at all.