How much did the military spend yesterday? $1.07 billion - a quarter of which went to an Alaskan tribe subsidiary in a continuing trend of tribal "government to government" relations

Yesterday's big winner was KIRA Training Services with a $221 million contract for civil engineering at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. The contract was competitively procured with 12 bids received. KIRA is a subsidiary of Tlingit Haida Tribal Business Corporation, a corporation owned by the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska. The organization claims a “government to government relationship with the United States” on its website.

It's an interesting trend that many Native American tribes are beginning to work with both government contractors and the federal government, itself, the most notable example being the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe that attempted to collude with the pharmaceutical company Allergan to preserve the expiring patent of the drug Restasis.

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Below are the contracts awarded by the Defense Department
September 17, 2018
totaling $1,077,641,692

September record daily spending: $30.1 billion on September 7, 2018

Navy - $438,182,741

Huntington Ingalls (Newport News, VA) $104,260,102
Mancon (Virginia Beach, VA) $92,000,000
VT Halter Marine (Pascagoula, MS) $77,898,158
RQ Construction (Carlsbad, CA) $64,705,500
Huntington Ingalls (Newport News, VA) $34,037,115
URS Group (Morrisville, NC) $31,786,932
McLaughlin Research (New London, CT) $16,273,571
Northrup Grumman Systems (Linthicum Heights, MD) $9,000,000
Aerokool Aviation (Hialeah, FL) $8,221,363

Air Force - $252,574,928

KIRA Training Services (Boulder, CO) $221,379,030
Support Systems Associates (Melbourne, FL) $31,195,898

Defense Logistics Agency - $170,183,984

Nova Global Supply (Herndon, VA) $92,000,000
Kforce Government Solutions (Fairfax, VA) $48,500,000
General Electric d/b/a GE Aviation (Lynn, MA) $17,818,296
Rockwell Collins ESA Vision Systems (Ft. Worth, TX) $11,865,688

US Special Operations Command - $93,500,000

Harris Corp (Clifton, NJ) $93,500,000

Army - $57,299,800

Leidos Innovations (Gaithersburg, MD) $17,800,000
STS Solutions & Training (San Diego, CA) $12,705,123
Abhe & Svoboda (Jordan, MN) $10,529,858
Tidewater (Elkridge, MD) $9,000,000
Shearwater Mission Support (Anchorage, AK) $7,264,819

Missile Defense Agency - $38,968,314

LSINC (Huntsville, AL) $38,968,314

US Transportation Command - $18,899,300

Gannett Fleming (Camp Hill, PA) $18,899,300

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - $8,032,625

University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute (Los Angeles, CA) $8,032,625