Records of Prime Contracts Awarded by the Military Services and Agencies

The DD 1057, the Monthly Summary of Contracting Actions, provides information on the total number of contracting actions and total number of dollars by month for each of the military services and agencies. There is a record for each of the contract categories listed in the DD 1057. The use of the DD 1057 began in FY 1984 and is included in every subsequent FY.

From FY 1976 to 1983, the records encompass armed forces procurement contracts with a value of $10,000 or larger. Beginning in FY 1983, the records encompass military contracts with a value of $25,000 or more. The specific information collected on DD Form 350, and thus represented in these records, varied somewhat over time.

Each contract record potentially provides information about the following topics involved in defense spending: system administration; reporting dates; the government purchasing or contracting office, the business name of the government contractor, description of the military supplies, systems, or services for which contracted, and its dollar value; and type of procurement, including whether competitively bid, and whether the contract awardee was a foreign firm, minority business, small business, or women-owned business.

Beginning in FY 1984, the records contain more detailed data in most of the above categories. There are two files for 1976. This data comprises government records extracted from the Archival Research Catalog (ARC).

See the ARC catalog entry for this series for more information on this data and how to order it.