How much did the military spend yesterday? $2.3 billion

Yesterday's big winners were 11 companies listed under a multiple award worth $950 million for commercial items including uniforms, cold weather clothing systems, visual augmentation equipment, personal protective equipment, helmets, body armor, tactical carriers, etc.

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 8, 2019
totaling $2,390,596,266

Recent record daily spending: $17 billion on August 5, 2019

Air Force - $1,319,000,000

Atlantic Diving Supply (Virginia Beach, VA), Nightline (Mountain City, TN), Tactical & Survival Specialties (Harrisonburg, VA), Federal Resources (Stevensville, MD), Sera Star (Carrollton, TX), Hurricane Aerospace Solutions (Pompano Beach, FL), Baker & Associates (Centerville, OH), Mountain Horse Solutions (Colorado Springs, CO), Rapid Response Defense Systems (Irvine, CA), Capewell Aerial Systems (Meadows of Dan, VA), Life Support International (Langhorne, PA) $950,000,000
BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services (Rockville, MD) $369,000,000

US Transportation Command - $404,061,571

Columbia Helicopters (Aurora, OR) $224,394,412
CHI Aviation (Howell, MI) $149,819,159
Berry Aviation (San Marcos, TX) $29,848,000

Army - $399,388,160

JE Dunn (Kansas City, MO) $295,974,160
HydroGeoLogic (Reston, VA) $95,000,000
Massman Construction (Leawood, KS) $8,414,000

Navy - $164,095,802

JF Taylor (Lexington Park, MD) $108,987,777
ZITEC (Niceville, FL) $25,110,110
APTIM Federal Services (Alexandria, VA) $15,248,090
AECOM Technical Services (Los Angeles, CA) $14,749,825

Defense Logistics Agency - $104,050,733

North American Rescue (Greer, SC) $41,742,284
Dominion Privatization South Carolina (Richmond, VA) $24,946,260
Direct Energy Business Marketing (Iselin, NJ) $15,881,084
Constellation New Energy (Louisville, KY) $10,742,319
CenterPoint Energy Services (Houston, TX) $10,738,786