How much did the military spend yesterday? $5.2 billion

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Note that in addition to the contracts listed below, the Navy announced yesterday that it's awarding 1,870 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, multiple-award contracts worth $5 billion to businesses in multiple locations across 46 of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia, and Guam for future competition of support service requirements to be solicited by Department of the Navy activities under the SeaPort Next Generation (SeaPort-NxG) multiple-award contract vehicle.


Below are the contracts awarded by the Defense Department
December 3, 2018
totaling $5,211,288,705

Recent record daily spending: $37 billion on October 18, 2018


Navy - $5,108,829,917


Austal (Mobile, AL) $40,369,095
Concourse Group (Annapolis, MD) $29,000,000
Northrop Grumman Systems Military Aircraft Systems (Melbourne, FL) $20,987,258
Boeing (St. Louis, MO) $10,526,671
MTU America (Novi, MI) $7,946,893

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - $51,895,419


Raytheon Missile Systems (Tucson, AZ) $51,895,419

US Transportation Command - $15,747,387


Farrell Lines (Reston, VA) $15,747,387

Defense Logistics Agency - $13,908,602


Centron Industries (Gardena, CA) $13,908,602

Air Force - $11,477,222


Utah State University Research Foundation / Space Dynamic Laboratory (N. Logan, UT) $11,477,222

Army - $9,430,158


General Dynamics Land Systems (Sterling Heights, MI) $9,430,158

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    That is a lot of money from the tax payers.

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      We could feed so many people with a fraction of that money

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