One Big Pill
The big spenders gave us a break in July. Excluding contracts under $6 million – which are not revealed – the DoD “awarded” contracts amounting to $33,601,473,493.48 of taxpayer money.
Here’s what the billions of dollars paid out in July looked like:
| July 1st | Communications, Madison, MS | $ | 151,356,660 |
| Lockheed Martin, Sunnyvale, CA | $ | 19,990,000 | |
| Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., McLean, VA | $ | 37,264,370 | |
| Pacific Ship Repair, San Diego, CA | $ | 9,093,866 | |
| July 2nd | Safe Boats International, LLC, Bremerton, WA | $ | 34,518,536 |
| Lockheed Martin, Fort Worth, TX | $ | 29,574,329 | |
| Ensign-Bickford Aerospace, Simsbury, CT | $ | 20,777,054 | |
| General Dynamics, Pittsfield, MA | $ | 20,210,437 | |
| Accenture Federal Services, LLC, Arlington, VA | $ | 17,387,160 | |
| July 3rd | The Boeing Co., St. Louis, MO | $ | 20,753,552 |
| July 7th | Northrop Grumman Systems, Bethpage, NY | $ | 52,444,840 |
| Spin Systems Inc., Sterling, VA | $ | 8,447,038 | |
| Lockheed Martin, Fort Worth, TX | $ | 6,785,176 | |
| July 8th | Benaka, Inc., et al, New Brunswick, NJ | $ | 95,000,000 |
| Bell-Boeing, Amarillo, TX | $ | 14,641,931 | |
| July 9th | Spry Methods, Inc., et al, Arlington, VA | $ | 99,980,901 |
| Atlas Executive Consulting, et al, Charleston, SC | $ | 99,980,901 | |
| BAE Systems, San Diego, CA | $ | 15,866,612 | |
| Atlantic Diving Supply, Virginia Beach, VA | $ | 9,695,389 | |
| July 10th | General Technical Systems, Virginia Beach, VA | $ | 11,825,274 |
| Triumph Gear System, Inc., Park City, UT | $ | 9,640,283 | |
| CACI Inc. Federal, Chantilly, VA | $ | 9,423,610 | |
| July 11th | Pacific Energy Solutions, Boca Raton, FL | $ | 334,135,534 |
| Northrop Grumman, Bethpage, NY | $ | 198,901,412 | |
| The Boeing Co., Seattle, WA | $ | 44,983,385 | |
| July 14th | Lockheed Martin, Fort Worth, TX | $ | 278,649,002 |
| Northrop Grumman, Charlottesville, VA | $ | 61,177,585 | |
| BAE Systems, Greenlawn, NY | $ | 12,420,183 | |
| The Boeing Co., St. Louis, MO | $ | 6,947,488 | |
| July 15th | BAE Systems, Minneapolis, MN | $ | 43,245,218 |
| BAE Systems, Norfolk, VA | $ | 29,773,261 | |
| Walsh Construction Co., Chicago, IL | $ | 26,947,000 | |
| General Atomics, San Diego, CA | $ | 10,267,000 | |
| July 16th | ERAPSCO, Columbia City, IN | $ | 165,997,792 |
| Vigor Industrial, Portland, OR | $ | 23,234,057 | |
| Nomad Global Communication, Columbus falls, MT | $ | 14,112,833 | |
| July 17th | Insight Pacific, et al, Anaheim, CA | $ | 240,000,000 |
| Geographic Information, Birmingham, AL | $ | 29,884,815 | |
| EDO Professional Services, Alexandria, VA | $ | 24,864,130 | |
| Huntington Ingalls, Inc., Pascagoula, MS | $ | 23,499,948 | |
| BAE Systems, San Diego, CA | $ | 15,178,728 | |
| July 18th | Donald L. Mooney Enterprises, et al, San Antonio, TX | $ | 130,430,320 |
| Advanced Crane Technologies, LLC, Reading, PA | $ | 31,184,365 | |
| Communications & Power Industries, LLC, Palo Alto, CA | $ | 18,841,200 | |
| Detyens Shipyards, North Charleston, SC | $ | 15,240,367 | |
| Watts Constructors, LLC, Honolulu, HI | $ | 9,395,000 | |
| July 21st | AMEC Environment et al, Blue Bell, PA | $ | 460,000,000 |
| The Korte Co., St. Louis, MO | $ | 35,154,000 | |
| Alutiic Pacific LLC, Anchorage, AK | $ | 39,263,194 | |
| Systems Technology Forum Ltd., Fredericksburg, VA | $ | 38,718,475 | |
| Benaka, Inc., New Brunswick, NJ | $ | 6,673,999 | |
| July 22nd | Bell-Boeing, Amarillo, TX | $ | 69,659,650 |
| July 23rd | Lockheed Martin, Moorestown, NJ | $ | 40,662,000 |
| Bechtel Plant Machinery, Monroeville, PA | $ | 39,437,949 | |
| L-3 Communications Corp., Arlington, TX | $ | 14,089,284 | |
| The Boeing Co., Jacksonville, FL | $ | 7,695,945 | |
| July 24th | CH2M Hill et al, Englewood, CA | $ | 240,000,000 |
| Huntington Ingalls, Inc., Newport News, VA | $ | 13,759,894 | |
| July 25th | AMSEC LLC, et al, Virginia Beach, VA | $ | 96,800,000 |
| Camber Corp., et al, Huntsville, AL | $ | 56,384,558 | |
| L-3 Chesapeake Sciences Corp., | $ | 17,772,601 | |
| Sonalysts, Inc., et al, Waterford, MA | $ | 8,997,500 | |
| July 28th | EJB Facilities Services, Arlington, VA | $ | 583,089,713 |
| Science Application International, McLean, VA | $ | 10,437,025 | |
| July 29th | K2 Energy Solutions, Henderson, NV | $ | 81,400,000 |
| Rolls Royce Corp., Indianapolis, IN | $ | 29,148,390 | |
| Science Application International, McLean, VA | $ | 27,752,969 | |
| CCI Solutions, Augusta, ME | $ | 10,172,160 | |
| Remotec, Clinton, TN | $ | 12,355,953 | |
| Sikorsky Aerospace, Stratford, CT | $ | 7,927,579 | |
| July 30th | Data Link Solutions, eta al, Cedar rapids, IA | $ | 116,750,000 |
| DynCorp International, LLC, Fort Worth, TX | $ | 101,947,764 | |
| BAE Systems, Jacksonville, FL | $ | 82,324,695 | |
| Defense Support Services, LLC, Marlton, NJ | $ | 47,514,293 | |
| The Boeing Co., St. Louis, MO | $ | 38,199,550 | |
| Will-Burt Advanced Composites, Orrville, OH | $ | 19,465,444 | |
| Raytheon Co., McKinney, TX | $ | 18,207,740 | |
| Robertson Fuel Systems, LLC, Tempe AZ | $ | 14,779,950 | |
| Lockheed Martin Systems, Manassas, VA | $ | 10,944,817 | |
| July 31st | Goodwill Industries, Milwaukee, WI | $ | 239,565,843 |
| Hawaiian Rock Products, Mangilao, Guam | $ | 90,000,000 | |
| Joyce & Associates, et al, Newport, NC | $ | 90,000,000 | |
| General Electric Co., Lynn, MA | $ | 68,550,240 | |
| Computer Sciences, Corp., San Diego, CA | $ | 49,735,547 | |
| The Korte Co., St. Louis, MO | $ | 48,276,440 | |
| DRS Laurel Technologies, Johnstown, PA | $ | 31,823,189 | |
| L-3 Communications, Madison, MS | $ | 29,803,395 | |
| USA Environmental, Inc., Oldsmar, FL | $ | 26,153,599 | |
| H.V. Collins Co., Providence, RI | $ | 11,761,926 | |
| I.E.- Pacific Inc. San Diego, CA | $ | 10,435,000 | |
| Rolls Royce Marine, Walpole, MA | $ | 9,000,000 | |
| Raytheon Co., Tucson, AZ | $ | 8,737,000 | |
| Black Construction, et al, Harmon, Guam | $ | 6,678,072 | |
| The total for publicized Navy “awards” come to | $ | 5,702,000,884 | |
| the Army needed a little bit more | $ | 11,112,413,887 | |
| and the Air Force needed | $ | 9,012,471,488 | |
| the U.S. Transportation Command needed | $ | 3,231,294,912 | |
| the Missile Defense Agency needed | $ | 1,808,932,405 | |
| the Coast Guard needed | $ | 1,380,000,000 | |
| the Defense Logistics Agency needed | $ | 586,490,576 | |
| the Defense Threat Reduction Agency needed | $ | 508,932,350 | |
| the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency needed | $ | 214,700,357 | |
| the Defense Media Activity Agency needed | $ | 15,000,000 | |
| the Joint IED Defeat Organization needed | $ | 12,646,545 | |
| and the Washington Headquarters Service needed | $ | 6,490,089 | |
| and U.S. taxpayers needed … | a strong sedative |