How much did the military spend yesterday? $1.2 billion
For two of yesterday's modifications (awarded to Austal USA and Lockheed Martin) the Defense Department does not list a dollar amount. Is this an oversight or a lack of transparency? In reporting these figures, I haven't encountered this situation before.
The big winner yesterday was Data Link Solutions with a $386 million modification of a previously awarded contract. According to the DoD: “This contract combines purchases for the Navy, Air Force and MIDS Program Office, as well as to the governments of Austria, Chile, Finland, Israel, Jordan, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. This contract also includes purchases to NATO and all NATO nations under the Foreign Military Sales program.” The phrase “purchases for...” or even “purchases from...” are easily understood, but “purchases to...”? That's a new one, and seems likely an attempt at linguistic obfuscation.
Below are the contracts awarded by the Defense Department
September 18, 2018
totaling $1,223,544,206
September record daily spending: $30.1 billion on September 7, 2018
Navy - $719,823,520
Data Link Solutions (Cedar Rapids, IA) $386,917,271
DynCorp International (Ft. Worth, TX) $173,174,040
ViaSat (Carlsbad, CA) $96,182,729
General Dynamics Electric Boat (Groton, CT) $22,483,141
Lockheed Martin Rotary & Mission Systems (Liverpool, NY) $15,587,081
Northrop Grumman Systems (Bethpage, NY) $13,483,882
CPI Radant Technologies Division (Stow, MA) $11,995,376
Army - $220,166,061
Boeing (Mesa, AZ) $92,500,000
Northrop Grumman Systems (Herndon, VA) $75,038,991
University of Alabama (Huntsville, AL) $27,358,213
Tetra Tech (Seattle, WA) $10,000,000
Iron Bow Technologies (Chantilly, VA) $8,083,310
Sodexco Management (Gaithersburg, MD) $7,185,547
Air Force - $131,761,108
Range Generation Next (Sterling, VA) $113,047,562
Range Generation Next (Sterling, VA) $18,713,546
Defense Logistics Agency - $129,815,347
Peckham Vocational Industries (Lansing, MI) $42,000,000
Pentaq Manufacturing (Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico) $32,908,000
Genentech USA (San Francisco, CA) $16,826,250
Fidelity Technologies (Reading, PA) $14,210,683
Coachys & Associates (Canton, GA) $12,499,907
L3 Technologies (Salt Lake City, UT) $11,370,507
Defense Microelectronics Activity - $14,890,000
Photronics Idaho (Boise, ID) $14,890,000
Defense Health Agency - $7,088,170
Leidos Mission Support Segment Services (Reston, VA) $7,088,170
My mom just said the democrats passing the military budget was a good thing, cause the troops need to be paid. Sending this to her tomorrow.
I suspect the DoD's purchases "to" phrasing has to do with sloppy copy-pasting from another document, perhaps some Data Link Solutions PR bragging about where their product was going to.
However I checked Data Link Solutions public website and I couldn't find it there. In fact they haven't updated their "news" section since 2017 (http://www.datalinksolutions.net/news/index.php). Also they can't even provide https connections. Perhaps they need to hire a web consultant for several dozen million. :)
sounds like plagiarism by the DoD. :-)
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