Kiel Military Procurement Tracker

The Kiel Military Procurement Tracker systematically and comparatively tracks the military procurement of European countries. The dataset tracks military orders and related expenditures. The main sources of information used to construct it are official procurement announcements, press releases, and other government-specific sources. The Kiel Military Procurement Tracker includes information on the item ordered, the company from which it was ordered, the number of units ordered, the earliest expected delivery date, the latest expected delivery date, the monetary amount of the order, the budgetary vehicle providing the funding, and whether the order is part of a framework agreement. It also records the country in which the headquarters of the company responsible for fulfilling the order is located and the country in which the order is physically produced or manufactured, where this information is available.

This version of the dataset covers Germany, the United Kingdom, Poland, and France from January 2020 to January 2026. We intend to further develop and improve the Kiel Military Procurement Tracker so that it continues to serve as a useful tool for anyone seeking to understand military procurement in this crucial moment for European rearmament.

Previous versions of the Kiel Military Procurement Tracker are also available for download. The first version, by G. Wolff, A. Burilkov, K. Bushnell, and I. Kharitonov, was published in September 2024 and covered German military procurement from January 2020 to July 2024. The second version, published in June 2025, expanded the dataset to include Germany, the United Kingdom, Poland, and France and covered the period from January 2020 to January 2025.

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