How much did the military spend yesterday? $222 million

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Yesterday's big winner was Tecolote Research, Incorporated with a $36 million contract for acquisition and financial “support services” for the Space and Missile Systems Center. “This contract provides the Remote Sensing Systems Directorate with a broad range of acquisition, strategic communication, and administrative capabilities to executive effective and responsive integrated program management of space-related research, development, production, sustainment, and lifecycle acquisition activities.”



Below are the contracts awarded by the Defense Department
February 12, 2019
totaling $222,903,625

Recent record daily spending: $18 billion on February 1, 2019


Air Force - $75,777,488


Tecolote Research (El Segundo, CA) $36,668,258
Lockheed Martin (Ft. Worth, TX) $19,900,000
AAR Manufacturing (Cadillac, MI) $10,864,605
22nd Century Technologies (Somerset, NJ) $8,344,625

Navy - $66,965,980


Northrop Grumman Systems (Rolling Meadows, IL) $27,291,319
Northrop Grumman Systems (St. Augustine, FL) $16,883,718
Moran Towing (New Canaan, CT) $14,350,538
Cardno-Amec Foster Wheeler (Charlottesville, VA) $8,440,405

Army - $52,599,985


Tiber Creek Consulting (Fairfax, VA) $33,549,985
Osborn Consulting / MGE Engineering / Natural System (Bellevue, WA) $10,000,000
Fortis Nova (Phoenix, AZ) $9,050,000

US Special Operations Command - $15,000,000


Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems (McKinney, TX) $15,000,000

Defense Information Systems Agency - $12,560,172


Artel (Herndon, VA) $12,560,172

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If half of those resources were taken to the free health area it would be great

I disagree. Those resources should be left in the hands of the people who earned them, not distributed to programs the neocons love (like the military) or programs the liberals love (like free healthcare).

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