We’re always looking for new ways to find opportunities in government data. Today’s report looks at buying trends. We analyzed all procurement history looking for significant increases in quantity purchases over time. DOD has allocated significant funds to re-stocking munitions, building new ships / planes, and maintenance operations. We want to know where the priorities lie and where money is moving.
We’ve filtered out some data to reduce the noise and deal with erroneous data (like quantity 99999) and generated a list of items with the greatest NSN Velocity. Procurement history broken into two groups (2021-2022, and 2024-2025). Anything with a quantity increase of over 150% between the two periods was looked at. We excluded anything with less that $300,000 in spending from 2024-2025.
| item_name | Quantity 2021-2022 | Quantity 2024-2025 | Total spend 2024-2025 |
| INSTALLATION KIT, VEHICLE | 54 | 376 | $38,129,649 |
| FOAM LIQUID,FIRE EX | 66 | 252 | $34,509,037 |
| HELMET,ADVANCED COM | 538 | 3580 | $34,295,576 |
| TARPAULIN | 1387 | 11483 | $34,091,280 |
| HELMET,ADVANCED COM | 568 | 2998 | $29,998,622 |
| CLOTH,GABARDINE | 7917 | 39583 | $29,374,000 |
| BAG,PROTECTIVE,SLEE | 2542 | 14388 | $26,463,933 |
| TROUSERS,CHEMICAL P | 146 | 4393 | $26,185,073 |
| FIELD PACK | 782 | 8355 | $20,634,577 |
| DECONTAMINATION KIT | 1410 | 3670 | $18,815,134 |
| EXTINGUISHER,FIRE | 320 | 904 | $18,335,214 |
| BEARING,PLAIN,ROD E | 99 | 446 | $16,018,772 |
| HEATER MODULE,HEATE | 12003 | 32008 | $14,803,498 |
| GASOLINE,AUTOMOTIVE | 4015 | 10351 | $14,705,595 |
| LINER,MULTI PURPOSE | 2719 | 10642 | $13,932,070 |
| COAT,CHEMICAL PROTE | 500 | 2063 | $13,287,844 |
| NUT,SELF-LOCKING,EX | 3055 | 13537 | $13,177,273 |
| COAT,HOT WEATHER | 3915 | 11059 | $12,295,601 |
| FITTING,STRUCTURAL | 271 | 1039 | $11,279,978 |
| ACCELEROMETER,ELECT | 102 | 335 | $10,849,950 |
| FILTER ELEMENT,INTA | 170 | 460 | $10,550,426 |
| SHIRT,COMBAT | 1460 | 5591 | $10,522,415 |
| CABLE ASSEMBLY,SPEC | 124 | 414 | $10,497,407 |
| HELMET,ADVANCED COM | 93 | 1066 | $10,449,201 |
| BEARING,PLAIN,SELF- | 266 | 1155 | $10,270,536 |
| CAPSULE ASSEMBLY,FL | 60 | 210 | $10,139,449 |
| ION EXCHANGE COMPOU | 3257 | 10205 | $10,039,752 |
| TROUSERS,CHEMICAL P | 146 | 1445 | $9,705,642 |
| SCREW,CAP,HEXAGON H | 1616 | 12694 | $9,647,112 |
This is the top of the list. You can download the entire list with NIINs in this csv:
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