How much did the military spend yesterday? $807 million
Yesterday's top winner with a half-billion-dollar contract was Wyle Laboratories to support the Preservation of the Force and Family program. Wyle has always been focused on primarily serving the US government and was acquired two years ago by KBR to expand that company's government services segment.
Below are the contracts awarded by the Defense Department
October 23, 2018
totaling $807,142,779
Recent record daily spending: $37 billion on October 18, 2018
US Special Operations Command - $500,000,000
Wyle Laboratories (Houston, TX) $500,000,000
Army - $192,660,310
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (Poway, CA) $192,660,310
Navy - $89,482,469
Konecranes Nuclear Equipment & Services (New Berlin, WI) $54,928,445
General Dynamics Mission Systems (Pittsfield, MA) $18,537,696
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics (Ft. Worth, TX) $8,700,187
General Dynamics Electric Board (Groton, CT) $7,316,141
Defense Logistics Agency - $25,000,000
Unimed Government Services (Lakeville, MN) $25,000,000
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This is the 'official' spending too, this doesn't account for the 'black budget' rumoured to be many times more than the official numbers state. How many times over could we fix the worlds problems with this much money?!?! Such a crazy world we live in.
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