How much did the military spend yesterday? $1.3 billion
Yesterday, the Defense Logistics Agency spent $81 million on “coats and trousers” for the female Army Combat Uniform.
But of the $1.3 billion spent yesterday, half of it went to SAIC for data package systems “to provide the warfighter with the capability to communicate, maintain situational awareness, and achieve information dominance.”
Below are the contracts awarded by the Defense Department
August 9, 2018
totaling $1,379,378,689$
Recent record daily spending: $4.7 billion on August 1, 2018
Navy - $822,815,362
SAIC (Reston, VA) $596,600,000
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics (Ft. Worth, TX) $104,991,053
Bell Boeing JV (California, MD) $74,217,505
Lockheed Martin Rotary & Mission Systems (Syracuse, NY) $47,006,804
Army - $235,317,014
Lockheed Martin (Grand Prairie, TX) $218,058,001
Bukkehave (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) $10,228,778
Relyant Global (Maryville, TN) $7,030,235
Air Force - $149,152,666
Raytheon (Tucson, AZ) $110,000,000
Rockwell Collins (Cedar Rapids, IA) $27,922,870
Boeing (St. Louis, MO) $11,229,796
Defense Logistics Agency - $172,093,647
Center Industries (Wichita, KS) $66,315,938
M&M Manufacturing (Lajas, PR) $43,646,220
M&M Manufacturing (Lajas, PR) $37,733,400
Crown Clothing (Vineland, NJ) $12,268,595
General Dynamics Land Systems (Sterling Heights, MI) $12,129,494
I've got to tell you first I really appreciate these daily posts. It makes really real and visceral the quantifiable financial cost to Americans of endless war. Secondly, even though I'm a pacifist and left government work years ago, I can't help the little voice in the back of my head telling me I'm in the wrong line of work....
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