Defense and Aerospace Contracts Tracker
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May 2026
Defense & Aerospace
Pentagon procurement awards, defense contracts, and aerospace industry deals, structured each month from DoD daily announcements, defense industry publications, and government procurement portals. Each record includes the contracting company, contract value, awarding agency, programme name, and announcement date. Coverage spans prime contracts, major subcontracts, and framework agreements across air, land, sea, space, and cyber domains – including US DoD awards, significant NATO-member government contracts, and foreign military sales.
Defense industry analysts and equity researchers use it to track contract wins and competitive positioning across primes and Tier 1 contractors. Investors in defense stocks monitor it for revenue pipeline signals. Government affairs and business development teams benchmark competitor contract activity against it. Journalists covering defense spending use it as a structured data source for procurement reporting.
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<table class="catchall-table"><thead><tr><th style="min-width:40px">#</th><th style="min-width:180px">Event</th><th style="min-width:120px;white-space:nowrap">License Approval Date</th><th style="min-width:300px">Equipment Description</th><th style="min-width:120px;white-space:nowrap">Deal Value Amount</th><th style="min-width:200px">Recipient Country</th><th style="min-width:200px">Exporting Country</th><th style="min-width:120px;white-space:nowrap">Source</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td style="min-width:40px">1</td><td style="min-width:180px">US-Taiwan defense industry conference discusses arms sales</td><td style="white-space:nowrap">2026-05-04</td><td style="min-width:300px">mines and drones</td><td style="white-space:nowrap">1,000,000</td><td style="min-width:200px">Taiwan</td><td style="min-width:200px">United States</td><td style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://www.storm.mg/keyword/%E9%9F%93%E5%84%92%E4%BC%AF" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.storm.mg/keyword/%E9%9F%93%E5%84%92%E4%BC%AF</a></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:40px">2</td><td style="min-width:180px">Turkey's Expanding Military Drone Exports and Defense Influence</td><td style="white-space:nowrap">2026-05-09</td><td style="min-width:300px">military drones</td><td style="white-space:nowrap">1,000,000</td><td style="min-width:200px">Brazil</td><td style="min-width:200px">Turkey</td><td style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://tw.news.yahoo.com/5%E6%9C%8810%E6%97%A5-%E7%9C%8B%E8%BB%8D%E8%81%9E%E5%AD%B8%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E-163000935.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://tw.news.yahoo.com/5%E6%9C%8810%E6%97%A5-%E7%9C%8B%E8%BB%8D%E8%81%9E%E5%AD%B8%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E-163000935.html</a></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:40px">3</td><td style="min-width:180px">U.S. Approves $95M Arms Sale to Tunisia</td><td style="white-space:nowrap">2026-04-27</td><td style="min-width:300px">Military equipment for Border Security Project Phase III, including field vehicles, communication systems, thermal cameras, radars, sensors, and explosive detection equipment.</td><td style="white-space:nowrap">95,000,000</td><td style="min-width:200px">Tunisia</td><td style="min-width:200px">United States</td><td style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://menafn.com/1111041179/US-Approves-USD95M-Arms-Deal-to-Fortify-Tunisias-Borders" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://menafn.com/1111041179/US-Approves-USD95M-Arms-Deal-to-Fortify-Tunisias-Borders</a></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:40px">4</td><td style="min-width:180px">Germany approves Leopard 2 tank export to Saudi Arabia</td><td style="white-space:nowrap">2026-05-02</td><td style="min-width:300px">Leopard 2 main battle tanks and associated spare parts</td><td style="white-space:nowrap">1,000,000</td><td style="min-width:200px">Saudi Arabia</td><td style="min-width:200px">Germany</td><td style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://www.mononews.gr/politics/kysea-oloklirothike-i-synedriasi-ypo-ton-prothypourgo-sto-trapezi-anatoliki-mesogeios-iran-kai-mesi-anatoli" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.mononews.gr/politics/kysea-oloklirothike-i-synedriasi-ypo-ton-prothypourgo-sto-trapezi-anatoliki-mesogeios-iran-kai-mesi-anatoli</a></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:40px">5</td><td style="min-width:180px">Japan Approves Arms Export to Philippines</td><td style="white-space:nowrap">2026-05-08</td><td style="min-width:300px">Patrol boats</td><td style="white-space:nowrap">1,000,000</td><td style="min-width:200px">Philippines</td><td style="min-width:200px">Japan</td><td style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://4129.muragon.com/entry/6301.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://4129.muragon.com/entry/6301.html</a></td></tr><tr class="catchall-blurred"><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td></tr><tr class="catchall-blurred"><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td></tr><tr class="catchall-blurred"><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td><td>████████████</td></tr></tbody></table>
<h3>Is there a minimum contract value?</h3><p>No. All publicly announced contracts are included, from small research awards to multi-billion-dollar programme contracts.</p><h3>How does this compare to USASpending.gov?</h3><p>USASpending.gov publishes contract data on a delay in raw format. CatchAll extracts and structures the same announcements in near real-time, with enriched fields for company, programme, and domain category.</p><h3>What is the refresh rate of this dataset?</h3><p>We rerun this dataset once a month. You can create your own dataset that updates as frequently as every one hour on <a href="https://platform.newscatcherapi.com/catchall">platform.newscatcherapi.com/catchall</a></p>