The Daily LedgerMoney Trail | Federal Spending
Money Trail: An $11.5 million Veterans Affairs systems engineering order went to The Mitre Corporation on October 7
USAspending records for October 2 to 8, 2026 show an $11,495,285.84 delivery order to THE MITRE CORPORATION from the Department of Veterans Affairs for systems engineering and integration support services.
Key takeaways
- The Department of Veterans Affairs obligated $11,495,285.84 to THE MITRE CORPORATION on October 7, 2026, under delivery order 36C10B26N0038.
- The award description covers systems engineering and integration support services performed by a federally funded research and development center for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
- The action was the fourth largest Department of Veterans Affairs contract transaction in the October 2 to 8 window, at about 1.0 percent of the department total for the week.
What the record shows
The transaction is listed in USAspending as a delivery order with an action date of October 7, 2026. The awarding agency and the awarding sub agency are both the Department of Veterans Affairs. The federal action obligation recorded for the transaction is $11,495,285.84.
The award description reads: systems engineering and integration support services performed by a federally funded research and development center for the Department of Veterans Affairs. In plain terms, this is technical support work: helping a large department design, connect, and test the computer systems its hospitals, clinics, and benefits offices rely on, so separate systems work together rather than in isolation. The figure is an obligation, meaning funds committed under the contract action, not a single payment made on October 7.
How it compares
In the October 2 to 8 window, the Department of Veterans Affairs recorded $1,116,368,315.98 in contract obligations across 1,523 transactions, the largest reported department total for the week. The Mitre Corporation action is about 1.0 percent of that total. The largest VA actions in the window were a $900,485,186.84 delivery order on October 7, a $28,283,738.07 contract action on October 5, and a $13,645,731.33 delivery order on October 5, each covered or noted in earlier Ledger reporting.
Department of Defense contract data is largely absent from the USAspending feed for this period, a reporting gap flagged in the source data, so department rankings for the week cover reported data only and exclude meaningful Defense figures.
Data vintage: USAspending contract transactions with action dates from October 2 to 8, 2026, compiled in the Ledger contractors file dated October 13, 2026.
Sources
1. USAspending.gov award record, $11,495,285.84 delivery order to THE MITRE CORPORATION: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_36C10B26N0038_3600_36C10B25D0015_3600/
2. U.S. Department of the Treasury, Fiscal Data, Debt to the Penny dataset: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/debt-to-the-penny/debt-to-the-penny
Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Daily Treasury Statement, September 28, 2026; Debt to the Penny.
Sources and methodology
Methodology. Daily cash figures are from the U.S. Treasury’s Daily Treasury Statement (DTS) for September 28, 2026, the government’s official daily cash-flow report. The DTS records money actually moving in and out of Treasury accounts; it is not the same as the budget deficit, which is measured monthly on an accrual-adjusted basis.
- U.S. Department of the Treasury, Daily Treasury Statement – operating cash balance, September 28, 2026 (fiscaldata.treasury.gov)
- U.S. Department of the Treasury, Debt to the Penny – September 28, 2026 (fiscaldata.treasury.gov)
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