How much did the military spend yesterday? $4.7 billion

in #news • 6 years ago

Yesterday's big winner was Northrop Grumman with a $3.6 billion defense contract for Large Aircraft Infrared Counter Measures (LAIRCM) equipment and support. The company also received a $7.9 million modification (increase) to an earlier contract for repair publications in support of the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft.


Below are the contracts awarded by the Defense Department
December 17, 2018
totaling $4,761,048,034

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


Air Force - $3,608,600,988


Northrop Grumman Systems (Rolling Meadows, IL) $3,600,000,000
L3 Technologies (Greenville, TX) $8,600,988

Army - $904,877,113


BAE Land Systems & Armaments (Sterling Heights, MI) $375,932,453
General Dynamics Land Systems (Sterling Heights, MI) $335,043,086
Lockheed Martin (Orlando, FL) $91,250,000
Foster-Miller d/b/a QinetiQ North America (Waltham, MA) $90,000,000
Gilbane Building (Providence, RI) $12,651,574

Navy - $236,070,005


Lockheed Martin (Owego, NY) $92,500,000
Huntington Ingalls (Pascagoula, MS) $39,395,512
Huntington Ingalls (Pascagoula, MS) $28,573,043
Lockheed Martin Space (Sunnyvale, CA) $21,987,176
B.E. Meyers & Co. (Redmond, WA) $10,348,345
Harris Corp. (Clifton, NJ) $9,835,000
Raytheon Missile Systems (Tucson, AZ) $8,988,458
Rockwell Collins (Cedar Rapids, IA) $8,704,807
Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems (Melbourne, FL) $7,993,664
TKH-ASI (Kahului, HI) $7,744,000

Defense Logistics Agency - $11,499,928


Honeywell International (Phoenix, AZ) $11,499,928

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