Each year, the widely respected Stockholm International Peace Research Institute publishes estimates of international defense spending. The last complete year, 2013, showed: The U.S. $ 640.2 billion; China $ 188.5 billion; and Russia $ 87.8 billion. The U.S. spends almost two-and-a-half times what our “enemies” spend, but even that doesn’t satisfy the hawks in Washington. President Obama is asking for more than $ 1 trillion for our 2015 “national security related” programs.

The following is just a fraction of the admitted awards given out to May’s favored contractors:

May 1st Northrop Grumman et al, Herndon, VA $ 876,934,815
Amtec Countermeasures, Coachella, CA $ 29,900,000
Shell Marine Products US, Houston, TX $ 14,953,192
Northrop Grumman Aerospace, San Diego, CA $ 10,833,670
InSynergy Engineering Inc., Honolulu, HI $ 7,500,000

May 2nd United Technologies Corp., East Hartford, CT $ 105,170,571
CACI, Inc. Et al, Chantilly, VA $ 32,578,210
Lockheed Martin Corp., Marietta, GA $ 12,169,823
BAE Systems, Norfolk, VA $ 11,344,264
Rockwell Collins Inc., Cedar Rapids, IA $ 6,587,938

May 5th Lockheed Martin Corp., Baltimore, MD $ 182,068,736
Bechtel Plant Machinery Inc., Monroeville, PA $ 17,792,893
Rolls-Royce Corp., Indianapolis, IN $ 8,021,387

May 6th Global Technocal Systems, Virginia Beach, VA $ 84,900,000
Lockheed Martin, Moorestown, NJ $ 54,706,543
Northrop Grumman, Rolling Meadows, IL $ 17,969,104
Tyonek Services Corp., Anchorage, AK $ 17,302,958
Lockheed Martin Corp., Owego, NY $ 22,346,377

May 7th Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Stratford, CT $1,244,677,064
dck-ecc pacific guam, LLC, Pittsburgh, PA $ 53,728,000
L-3 Communications Corp., Arlington, TX $ 19,018,574

May 8th General Atomics, San Diego, CA $ 26,607,250
Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Stratford, CT $ 7,920,664
IDSC Holdings, LLC, Kenosha , WI $ 6,857,381

May 9th BAE Systems et al, Santa Clara, CA $ 205,966,570
Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, AZ $ 30,891,282
BAE Systems, Norfolk, VA $ 30,801,080

May 12th General Electric Co., Lynn, MA $ 220,684,090
Raytheon Co., et al, McKinney, TX $ 50,121,721
Guam MACC Builders, Honolulu, HI $ 42,393,740
C&N Universe Inc., National City, CA $ 7,200,590

May 13th Lockheed Martin Corp., Fort Worth, TX $ 101,900,000
Long Wave Inc. et al Oklahoma City, OK $ 45,000,000
M.A. Mortenson Co., Minneapolis, MN $ 66,111,686
Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, AZ $ 38,401,383
HART Technologies, Manassas, VA $ 32,182,700
Huntington Ingalls Industries, Pascagoula, MS $ 12,168,588

May 14th Martin Baker Aircraft Co., Middlesex, England $ 26,408,026
General Dynamics, Groton, CT $ 9,048,214

May 15th CasePro, Inc., San Antonio, TX $ 70,000,000
Lockheed Martin Mission Systems, Owego, NY $ 38,530,708
Astro Machine Works Inc., Ephrata, PA $ 25,162,500
PAE Applied Technologies LLC, Fort Worth, TX $ 20,712,232

May 16th Bell Helicopter, Hurst, TX $ 377,772,560
Lockheed Martin, Moorestown, NJ $ 92,610,784
ManTech Systems Engineering, Fairfax, VA $ 39,603,500
Lockheed Martin, Manassas, VA $ 20,490,657
Raytheon Co., Tewksbury, MA $ 10,271,042

May 19th Campbell-Ewald Co., Detroit, MI $ 85,000,000
Lockheed Martin, Liverpool, NY $ 31,777,262
Complete Parachute Solutions, DeLand, FL $ 21,717,415
BAE Systems, Norfolk, VA $ 12,361,701
Lockheed Martin Corp., Fort Worth, TX $ 9,830,814
Entwhistle Co., Hudson, MA $ 7,807,698

May 21st EJB Facilities Services, Arlington, VA $ 571,028,153
M7 Aerospace LLC, San Antonio, TX $ 16,139,462

May 22nd Raytheon Co., Tucson, AZ $ 115,545,116
American Systems et al, Chantilly, VA $ 99,400,000
The Boeing Co., Seattle, WA $ 21,985,964
AAR Airlift Group, Palm Bay, FL $ 34,370,323
United States Technologies, Fair Lawn, NJ $ 19,122,236
Ultra Electronics, Braintree, MA $ 19,045,850
The Boeing Co., St. Louis, MO $ 9,836,818
Oceaneering International, Hanover, MD $ 8,941,224

May 23rd Lockheed Martin, Bethesda, MD $ 23,649,192

May 27th MN-FST Joint Venture, Norfolk, VA $ 30,000,000
Teradyne, Inc., North Reading, MA $ 6,975,538

May 28th Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, OH $ 30,000,000
Northrop Grumman, Woodland Hills, CA $ 24,964,058
Force 3, Inc., Crofton, MD $ 13,760,881

May 29th L-3 Communications LLC, Madison, MS $ 55,410,943
Softchoice Corp., McLean, VA $ 42,557,745
Raytheon Systems, Largo, FL $ 11,014,015
Sechan Electronics, Lititz, PA $ 8,734,680

May 30th CH2M Hill Constructors, Inc., Englewood, CO $ 59,284,771
BAE Systems, Minneapolis, MN $ 44,417,249
Walbridge Aldinger Co., Detroit, MI $ 23,392,433
NASSCO-Mayport, Jacksonville, FL $ 23,238,392
Northrop Grumman, Bethpage, NY $ 20,917,239
Softchoice Corp., McLean, VA $ 17,487,675
Leebcor Services, LLC, Williamsburg, VA $ 16,011,693
Softchoice Corp., McLean, VA $ 15,703,370
Timken Gears& Services, King of Prussia, PA $ 13,963,212
Colonna’s Shipyard, Inc. Norfolk, VA $ 13,262,660
Sremnion Inc., Pittsburgh, PA $ 9,894,778

The Navy numbers – at least what we were able to find – totaled $6,074,873,627

Here are some of the others:

Army $4,796,699,784
Air Force $4,558,160,900
Defense Logistics Agency $2,276,337,695
U.S. Transportation Command $ 116,733,081
Defense Information Systems Agency $ 112,247,909
Special Operations Command $ 48,000,000
Defense Intelligence Agency $ 25,000,000
Taxpayer money donated by the DoD this past May came to a paltry $11,933,179,369

That doesn’t sound like very much compared to previous months, and one of the reasons is that the May awards for a number of agencies have been conveniently unannounced. Awards to the Missile Defense Agency, the Coast Guard, Washington Headquarters Services, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency – to name just a few – remained unpublished. The main reason though, as we discussed in Vol. XXXIX, Art. 23, is that the DoD awards are given out with no fanfare at all.