How much did the military spend yesterday? $2 billion

in #defensespending6 years ago

The Navy was pretty busy yesterday spending $761 million and awarding a total of 13 defense contracts. Lockheed Martin features prominently, snagging three of those contracts worth half of the Navy's total: $385 million.

The largest single contract yesterday, though, was a modification worth half a billion dollars for GATR Technologies.



Below are the contracts awarded by the Defense Department
August 10, 2018
totaling $2,051,768,097

Recent record daily spending: $4.7 billion on August 1, 2018


Navy - $761,530,024


Lockheed Martin Aeronautics (Ft. Worth, TX) $301,980,301
Huntington Ingalls (Newport News, VA) $187,594,790
Lockheed Martin Sippican (Marion, MA) $59,156,580
Huntington Ingalls (Newport News, VA) $38,948,000
Lockheed Martin Mission Systems & Training (Moorestown, NJ) $23,920,438
Technology Unlimited Group (San Diego, CA) $22,443,225
Solers (Arlington, VA) $22,055,924
General Dynamics IT (Fairfax, VA) $20,909,579
Forward Slope (San Diego, CA) $20,227,678
P&J Robinson (San Diego, CA) $20,211,616
Geocent (Metairie, LA) $18,286,074
Solute (San Diego, CA) $17,009,527
DRS Laurel Technologies (Johnstown, PA) $8,786,292

Army - $658,759,126


GATR Technologies (Huntsville, AL) $522,498,247
Snap-On Industrial (Kenosha, WI) $63,505,010
American International Contractors (Arlington, VA), AECOM Technical Services (Los Angeles, CA), CWI-OCC Weavers JV (McLean, VA), MVL-EL SEIF (Wilmington, DE) $38,000,000
Aptim Federal Services (Alexandria, VA) $27,000,000
Alcan Builders (Fairbanks, AK) $7,755,869

Defense Threat Reduction Agency - $435,000,000


Synaptek/TekSynap (Reston, VA) $435,000,000

Defense Logistics Agency - $147,421,947


Raytheon (McKinney, TX), DRS Network & Imaging Systems (Melbourne, FL) $79,348,472
Huntsville Rehabilitation Foundation/Phoenix (Huntsville, AL) $32,500,000
Choctawhatchee Electric Cooperative (DeFuniak Springs, FL) $19,989,648
Honeywell International (Albuquerque, NM) $8,225,877
UTC Aerospace Systems/Simmonds Precision Products (Vergennes, VT) $7,357,950

Air Force - $49,057,000


UES (Dayton, OH) $49,057,000

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Isn't that sickening? Wait until 'Space Force' adds their spending.

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