How much did the military spend yesterday? $17.5 billion

Yesterday's big winner was a group of 16 companies that will compete for task orders on a $17 billion Intelligence contract to “provide worldwide coverage, support and assistance to the Defense Intelligence Agency by delivering timely, objective and cogent military intelligence to warfighters, defense planners and defense and national security policy makers, all vital to the security of the U.S.”

This information is provided to highlight just how much taxpayer money is spent, per day, to enrich companies participating in the military industrial complex. The idea that our economy requires a governmental redistribution of wealth from individual taxpayers to large corporations that are friendly and well-connected to government came from the Keynesian argument for demand “stimulus” -- that our economy's health depends on higher and higher levels of spending. For this reason, personal saving is discouraged and often penalized by the government. But because individuals still tend to follow personal incentives to save, the Keynesian argument remains in effect: that government should spend money the public is reluctant to spend through tax-and-spend policies.

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Below are the contracts awarded by the Defense Department
August 5, 2019
totaling $17,574,274,592

Recent record daily spending: $10 billion on May 8, 2019

Defense Intelligence Agency - $17,100,000,000

BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services (Rockville, MD), Bluehawk (W. Palm Beach, FL), Booz Allen Hamilton (McLean, VA), CACI (Arlington, VA), Calhoun International (Tampa, FL), Celestar (Tampa, FL), CSRA (Falls Church, VA), Edge Analytic Solutions (McLean, VA), Fulcrum IT Services (Centerville, VA), Invictus International Consulting (Alexandria, VA), Leidos (Reston, VA), Mission Essential Personnel (New Albany, OH), Preting (Alexandria, VA), SOS International (Reston, VA), The Buffalo Group (Reston, VA), Vencore/Perspecta (Chantilly, VA) $17,100,000,000

Army - $325,877,308

ZGF / Leo A. Daly JV (Omaha, NE) $130,000,000
AECOM Technical Services (Los Angeles, CA), Burns & McDonnel (Kansas City, MO), Jacobs Engineering Group (St. Louis, MO), HDR Engineering (Omaha, NE) $49,000,000
Tetra Tech (Marlborough, MA) $45,000,000
Messer Construction (Cincinnati, OH) $28,968,000
HDR Engineering (Omaha, NE) $20,000,000
Missouri Department of Social Services (Jefferson City, MO) $16,675,000
Science Applications International (Reston, VA) $16,498,835
SourceAmerica (Vienna, VA) $9,998,043
Integrated Environmental Solutions (Crestwood, IL) $9,737,430

Navy - $120,314,831

ShadowObjects (Leonardtown, MD) $34,060,886
Boeing (Seattle, WA) $32,078,298
Harris Corp. RF Communications (Rochester, NY) $18,739,106
Raytheon (Indianapolis, IN) $17,486,136
University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA) $9,338,631
Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems (Portsmouth, RI) $8,611,774

US Transportation Command - $19,819,032

Harley Marine Services (Seattle, WA) $19,819,032

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - $8,263,421

Raytheon (Goleta, CA) $8,263,421