On 5 August 2026 the Department of War announced that Allison Transmission Inc. had been awarded a US$67.480497 million firm-fixed-price contract for “production of new and upgraded transmissions, transmission kits, and system technical support services for the Abrams Main Battle Tank”. The same announcement carried two further figures against the same instrument: a cumulative face value of US$345.169402 million, and US$90.667633 million obligated at award. The three measures do not describe the same economic event. Set against the Army’s own Abrams line, which the fiscal year 2027 procurement exhibit records at US$654.969 million for 22 vehicles, the cumulative figure is worth roughly half a single year of the programme it supports; set against the contractor’s defence business, which reported US$186 million of net sales in the first half of 2026, it is a multi-year accumulation rather than a period revenue. The structural constraint is that no public document breaks that accumulation into quantities, configurations or funded contract lines. One offer was received. Four foreign customers and two domestic funding channels appear across the announcements that build the total. The unresolved question is not whether the money was committed, but what economic unit it bought — and whether any denominator exists that could turn a multi-year contractual total into the price of a transmission.