Contracts for Dec. 23, 2025

The Department of War label here is effectively referring to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), the cabinet-level department that oversees the U.S. military and issues these contract announcements. The historical Department of War was reorganized into todays Department of Defense in 1947; in current U.S. law and on official sites like Defense.gov, the organization is the Department of Defense, not a separate Department of War.

The full list of contracts, including the awardees and dollar amounts, is on the Department of Defense contracts page. To view them:

1. Go to the contracts index: https://www.war.gov/News/Contracts/ (mirrors Defense.govs contracts section).
2. Click the specific date entry, e.g., Contracts For Dec. 23, 2025.
3. That page (e.g., Article/4367503) lists each contract, contractor name, location, contract value, work description, and funding details.

These same daily contract listings are also available on Defense.gov under its Contracts news section.

The $7.5 million figure is a per-contract-action threshold, not a total per contractor. The Department of Defense states that only contracts valued at $7.5 million or more are announced, which in practice means individual contract awards or modifications whose face value meets or exceeds that amount.

Separately, DoD public-announcement rules in the DFARS require reporting contract awards above another monetary threshold per contractual action (e.g., awards over $9 million per action for formal public announcement), reinforcing that thresholds are applied to each award or modification, not to a contractors cumulative total.

These contract lists are published once each business day, around 5 p.m. local (Pentagon) time, covering awards and major modifications from that day that meet the dollar threshold. The contracts page explicitly states: Contracts valued at $7.5 million or more are announced each business day at 5 p.m.

No. The public daily listings only include unclassified contract information suitable for release. Classified contracts and classified portions of contracts are not described in these announcements. U.S. acquisition and security rules require that classified contract details be handled through secure channels and not be publicly synopsized, so what appears on the daily list is a sanitized, unclassified summary of selected awards above the dollar threshold.

The Department of Defense sets the policy, but day-to-day selection and preparation of items for posting is done by DoD contracting and public-affairs offices:

• DoD-wide rules (e.g., in the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement, DFARS 205.303) set when contract awards must be publicly announced, including dollar thresholds per award.
• Individual DoD contracting offices submit required award data to the Office of the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, which manages the consolidated daily contract announcements that appear on the Defense.gov/War.gov contracts page.

So, the criteria (like the $7.5M web-posting threshold and the higher DFARS public-announcement threshold) come from DoD policy and regulation, and the implementation is handled by contracting officers and DoD public affairs.