Weapons & Munitions Government Tenders in United States

Buying rounds and weapons together, and the interface between them

Weapons and the ammunition they fire are procured as a matched pair even when they are bought under separate contracts, because the interface is where safety and performance live. Chamber pressures, projectile dimensions and tolerances, propellant characteristics and fuzing all have to match the weapon's design, and a round that meets its own specification can still be unsafe in a particular weapon. Buyers therefore specify interface standards and require qualification firings in the actual weapon rather than accepting a datasheet.

Stockholding shapes the commercial arrangement more than unit price. States hold war reserve stock that must remain serviceable for years, so shelf life, storage conditions, surveillance testing over time and rotation against training consumption are contractual, and production capacity that can be surged is frequently valued explicitly. Long-term supply agreements with committed minimum volumes are common because they keep a production line warm, which is the thing that cannot be bought at short notice.

Access to the competition is restricted before capability is assessed. Security of supply commitments, domestic production or licensed assembly requirements, export control and end-use undertakings, and restrictions on foreign ownership determine who may bid. Compliance with international instruments prohibiting or restricting particular categories of weapon is a condition of the specification itself, and obligations at the other end -- safe disposal, demilitarisation and accounting for every item -- persist long after delivery and are increasingly priced into the original award.

This section describes how this category is bought generally, across the public buyers that publish it. The figures elsewhere on this page are measured for this market alone.

Who buys weapons & munitions in United States?

GlobalGov holds 377 weapons & munitions records from 88 distinct buying organisations in United States. The most frequent publishers are DLA Aviation (44 records); DLA Land and Maritime (43 records); W6QK ACC-Ri (23 records); Bureau Of International Security-nonproliferation (16 records); Department of Defense (12 records); Dept of Defense (8 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 39% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

What are weapons & munitions contracts worth in United States?

63 of the 377 records publish a contract value. The median is $350,000 and the largest single published value is $5.7B. By size, 16 under $100k, 21 between $100k and $1M, 6 between $1M and $10M, 20 above $10M. The remaining 314 publish no value at all, so every figure here describes the priced subset only, and values are as stated by the buyer rather than as finally awarded.

How long do bidders get to respond to weapons & munitions tenders in United States?

Across the 347 United States weapons & munitions notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 15 days. A quarter of them allowed 10 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 31. 131 of them (38%) closed within a fortnight of being published, so on this market a bidder who reviews notices once a week can lose most of the response window before reading one.

How often are weapons & munitions tenders published in United States?

United States publishes about 26 notices a month in this category, 313 in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 320, spread across 56 separate months of activity since 29 October 2009. June is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 30 September 2026.

Where do the United States weapons & munitions records on this page come from?

These 377 records are collected from 4 official sources: SAM.gov (296), Grants.gov (64), USAspending (12), Simpler.Grants.gov (5). GlobalGov is an independent aggregator and is not affiliated with any of them; each record links back to the notice on its issuing portal. The set is rebuilt nightly, and the counts on this page were taken on 2026-10-01.

Open Weapons & Munitions tenders in United States

Showing 5 of the 22 notices open in this category today. Openness uses the same definition as the United States market page: active, not marked awarded, cancelled, closed or expired, and either closing in the future or published within the last 90 days with no stated closing date.

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