How much did the military spend yesterday? $181 million

in #news • 6 years ago

The big winner yesterday was Raytheon with a $62 million modification (increase) to a contract for the Advanced Medium Range Air to Air Missile program. Another notable award was an award extension to a company from Saudi Arabia called Advanced Electronics. The work involves configuration upgrades.


Below are the contracts awarded by the Defense Department
October 19, 2018
totaling $181,380,557

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


Air Force - $137,989,455


Raytheon Missile Systems (Tucson, AZ) $62,016,768
Ball Aerospace & Technologies (Boulder, CO) $36,043,319
Infinity Systems Engineering (Colorado Springs, CO) $22,653,934
Advanced Electronics (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) $9,437,259
Honeywell International Aerospace (Albuquerque, NM) $7,838,175

Army - $22,824,862


SAIC (Reston, VA) $13,567,362
Fabritex (Hartwell, GA) $9,257,500

Defense Logistics Agency - $20,566,240


Rocky Brands (Nelsonville, OH) $20,566,240

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      Still just heart crushing that we spend that much money on military, and then have to have bake sales to fund education...

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