How much did the military spend yesterday? $1.6 billion
Below are the contracts awarded by the Defense Department
July 31, 2018
totaling $1,671,422,410.
The biggest winners were Lockheed Martin, with four contracts worth a total of $253 million and GE with one whopping $630 million contract for “repair, replacement, and program support of 773 F414 engine components used on the F/A-18 E/F and EA 18G aircrafts.”
But of course, these defense contractors are all winners, aren't they?
Navy – $1,144,237,551
General Electric (Lynn, MA) $630,500,000
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics (Ft. Worth, TX) $171,705,115
Lockheed Martin Rotary & Mission Systems (Orlando, FL) $57,883,028
North American Forgemasters (New Castle, PA) and Lehigh Heavy Forge (Bethlehem, PA) $48,500,000
PAE Aviation & Technical Services (Arlington, VA) $47,928,426
General Dynamics Mission Systems (Fairfax, VA) $37,257,564
Motorola Solutions (Linthicum Heights, MD) $29,771,612
KORTE Construction (St. Louis, MO) $26,812,769
Rockwell Collins, ESA Vision Systems (Ft. Worth, TX) $20,989,780
Northrop Grumman Systems (Herndon, VA) $18,200,000
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics (Ft. Worth, TX) $16,164,426
Austal, USA (Mobile, AL) $14,843,400
Coastal Enterprises (Jacksonville, NC) $8,001,018
URS Group (Morrisville, NC) $7,871,672
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics (Ft. Worth, TX) $7,808,741
Defense Logistics Agency – $90,000,000
Atlantic Diving Supply (Virginia Beach, VA), W.S. Darley (Itasca, IL), Unifire (Spokane, WA), Mallory Safety & Supply (Longview, WA), Federal Resources Supply (Stevensville, MD), L.N. Curtis & Sons (Oakland, CA) $90,000,000
Army – $388,484,859
KDHK (San Antonio, TX) $83,612,808
Security Signals (Cordova, TN) $62,207,375
Leidos (Reston, VA) $60,005,230
SourceAmerica (Vienna, VA) $54,500,000
Whiting-Turner Contracting (Baltimore, MD) $54,345,019
KZF Design (Cincinnati, OH), Kenneth Hahn Architect (Omaha, NE), Blair Remy (Oklahoma City, OK) $28,500,000
Maersk Line (Norfolk, VA) $14,154,781
DRS Sustainment Systems (St. Louis, MO) $13,259,257
Legacy (E. Moline, IL) $10,396,880
Northrop Grumman Systems (Sierra Vista, AZ) $7,503,509
Air Force – $48,700,000
Applied Research Associates (Albuquerque, NM) $48,700,000
Thanks for keeping us up to date. Next time anyone says we don't have enough money for something or that we need to raise taxes, these are good numbers to retort with.
When I started looking at these contract awards every day I was stunned... and it's hard to stun me when it comes to government spending!
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