Money Trail: A $19.5 million Homeland Security order went to Salient CRGT on October 21

What the record says this money does

Most contract coverage stops at the department total. The record underneath it names the work. The USAspending description for this delivery order states that the effort provides analytical, technical, and programmatic management support, including data analysis support and detention facility evaluation, and that this modification increases the full time equivalent staffing and the ceiling. In plain English, this is a support services order: analysts and program staff supplied under contract, expanded by this action, rather than a purchase of equipment.

The order sits under the Department of Homeland Security, with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as the awarding sub agency named in the record. The action date is October 21, 2026, inside the contract week the Ledger compiled from USAspending transactions with action dates from October 16 to 22, 2026. The figure is the net federal action obligation for this transaction in that period, stated exactly as recorded: $19,483,128.00.

Where this action sits in the department week

The Department of Homeland Security obligated $88,225,114.70 across 385 contract transactions in the same week, per the compiled USAspending records. At $19,483,128.00, this single Salient CRGT action accounts for about 22 percent of that department total, the largest Homeland Security action in the compiled top awards list for the week. The rest of the department total is spread across hundreds of smaller transactions, which is why a single named order can stand out in a week without being the whole story.

Yesterday the Money Trail followed a Government Accountability Office order. Tomorrow the trail follows the next named recipient in the records, and followers get one named recipient with the exact figure, every day. The full award record is linked in the Sources section below, so any reader can check the figure, the date, and the description directly.

Data vintage: USAspending contract transactions with action dates from October 16 to 22, 2026, compiled October 26, 2026. Figures are net federal action obligations per transaction in that period. Department of Defense contract data is largely absent from the USAspending records for recent periods, a reporting gap noted in the compiled file, so department comparisons for this week exclude meaningful Defense data.

Sources

1. USAspending award record for delivery order 70CDCR24FR0000059: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70CDCR24FR0000059_7012_47QRAD20DU127_4732/

2. USAspending award search: https://www.usaspending.gov/search/