The Quietest Way a Recompete Disappears
Thirty-four contracts dropped off our 6-to-24-month expiration board in five weeks. Thirty-one of them left because somebody rewrote the end date on the award record, and sixteen of those rewrites moved the date toward you.
The award record for Lockheed Martin's comprehensive F-22 vehicle sustainment contract now ends on April 30, 2026.
It said April 30, 2027 until sometime in the last five weeks. Same order, same $3.67 billion obligated, same award page.
One digit.
We keep a board of every DoD prime contract of $50 million or more whose period of performance ends 6 to 24 months out, rebuilt off USAspending.
Since Aug. 3 it has carried 1,229 contracts whose end dates still sit inside today's window, and 34 of them have stopped coming back.
Nobody announced any of it.
What Happened to the Thirty-Four
We pulled all 34 off the USAspending award API this afternoon and set the end date on the record now against the end date the board wrote down the last time it saw the row.
Two of them held their date and simply shrank. DigiFlight's Apache programmatic support order went from $54.9M obligated to $46.8M, and a Northrop LAIRCM order went from $52.1M to $47.2M, dropping both under the board's floor on deobligations alone.
One more, a Vectrus order at FA8051-26-F-0027, now returns a 404 where its award page used to be.
The other 31 moved their end date. Sixteen moved it earlier and fifteen moved it later (chart below).
The two directions are not the same size. The sixteen that pulled in carry $32.8 billion of obligations between them against $4.9 billion on the fifteen that pushed out, and the typical move in each direction runs close to a year: a median of 344 days earlier, 419 days later.
Seven of the sixteen now end in the past.
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