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$540,874,877

Department of Defense·Washington Headquarters Services

to NATIONAL CENTER FOR MANUFACTURING SCIENCES INC

defenseactive
WORK BEGAN2025-12-29·LATEST ACTION2026-06-18·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_HQ0034262E004_097
Award description

THIS AWARD FUNDS RESEARCH FOR MAINTENANCE AND SUSTAINMENT OF MILITARY AND CIVILIAN EQUIPMENT.

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Research funding for maintenance and sustainment of military and civilian equipment across DoD operations.

Sub-sectors
military-maintenancem&o-contractequipment-sustainment
Why this matters

Sustaining military readiness and equipment availability is critical to force effectiveness and operational continuity.

Supply-chain signal

Drives demand for maintenance services, spare parts, and sustainment technologies across defense industrial base suppliers.

U.S.–China competition angle

Equipment sustainment directly affects U.S. military operational tempo and readiness against peer competitors.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-19. Cost: $0.002685.

Period of performance
Start
2025-12-29
End
2029-03-07
Status
activein 981 days
Sources

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