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This period: evidence and research questions
Each observation keeps its own reporting period. These are research prompts, not company-level conclusions.
Research lens
Observed change
What to verify next
Commercial and Institutional Building Construction NAICS 236220
$53.23bn 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Trace the award and recipient legal entity; verify funded scope, performance period and revenue recognition in company filings.
Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers NAICS 524114
$48.56bn 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Trace the award and recipient legal entity; verify funded scope, performance period and revenue recognition in company filings.
Aircraft Manufacturing NAICS 336411
$47.65bn 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Trace the award and recipient legal entity; verify funded scope, performance period and revenue recognition in company filings.
The largest categories identify where to investigate, not accelerating demand. No comparable prior window or verified listed-parent mapping is inferred.
How to use this in industry research
Use contract categories to identify demand to investigate. Verify the recipient legal entity, contract terms and revenue recognition in company filings before linking obligations to an insider purchase.
Historical case, not a new award alert. The company announced an approximately $642m modification on 26 September 2025 for Virginia-class design and support, under N00024-20-C-2120. It described cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing. Company announcement ↗
The figures below cover the whole award across modifications, not the announced modification or the monitor’s 12-month window.
The announcement does not identify a modification number. Same-award, same-date records below are candidates, not a confirmed match. Their obligations are not cash payments. The difference from $642m is not classified as unfunded money.
Action date / modification
Incremental obligation (USD)
2025-09-26 · P00181
141,522,282.00
Nearby funding actions and reconciliation
Full award transaction count: 341 · Transaction sum minus award obligations (USD): 0.0
2025-10-01 · A00107 DIESEL GENERATOR QUALIFICATION UNIT CONSTRUCTION
2,483,770.00
2025-09-30 · A00106 NO COST PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE EXTENSION FOR SERVO VALVE REDESIGN - MPU QUALIFICATION TESTING OF WORK (PHASE 4.A SUPPLEMENT)
0.00
2025-09-26 · P00181 SSW (RDT&E)
141,522,282.00
2025-09-18 · P00180 SSW (RDT&E)
745,626.00
2025-09-17 · A00105 DIESEL GENERATOR QUALIFICATION UNIT CONSTRUCTION
52,946.00
2025-09-04 · P00179 SSW (RDT&E)
-679,779.00
2025-09-03 · P00178 SSW (RDT&E)
13,537,193.00
From contract to earnings: what remains to verify
General Dynamics reports that defense revenue is substantially recognized over time. Contract value, revenue recognition and cash collection follow different schedules. This is a group accounting policy, not a revenue forecast for this award. 2025 10-K ↗
Reconcile the announced modification to an individual award transaction before claiming its funded amount.
Check design milestones, remaining costs and segment margins; the performance end date is not a delivery guarantee.
Review insider purchases separately; no contract-driven buying or valuation conclusion has been established.
From contract recipients to company research
Reviewed identity or business relationships provide research navigation. Amounts remain at recipient level and are not consolidated parent exposure or revenue. Review dates are not historical ownership effective dates.
Recipient
Company connection
Evidence
OPTUM PUBLIC SECTOR SOLUTIONS, INC. UEI XMUZGJN98231
7 of 10 displayed recipients have current reviewed links. Other entities remain unresolved. Links require review after 90 days or an identity change.
Federal contract obligations
Prime contracts A–D, transaction action dates, latest 12 complete calendar months. Net obligations include modifications and deobligations; they are not cash payments, new-award counts, or contractor revenue.
$755.62bn
2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Recent months can be incomplete because of reporting delays, including delayed defense reporting. A complete calendar month is not necessarily complete reporting. Values can be revised; apparent drops are not automatically weaker demand.
Captured: 2026-10-18T22:55:46.615948+00:00 · USAspending ↗ · No single publication date is supplied by this aggregation.
Top 10 contract industry categories (NAICS)
Ranked by net obligations in the same 12-month window; this is a top-ten subset, not the full distribution.
NAICS describes contract industries, not a direct mapping to stock sectors.
Category / entity
USD bn
Commercial and Institutional Building Construction 236220
53.23
Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers 524114
48.56
Aircraft Manufacturing 336411
47.65
Engineering Services 541330
44.50
Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology) 541715
43.36
Facilities Support Services 561210
37.58
Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing 336414
37.11
Ship Building and Repairing 336611
34.48
Computer Systems Design Services 541512
31.10
Other Computer Related Services 541519
24.22
Top 10 recipient entities
Ranked by net obligations in the same 12-month window; this is a top-ten subset, not the full distribution.
Entities are identified by recipient ID / UEI. Similar names are not merged into parent companies and are not automatically matched to stock tickers.