Here’s what Wikipedia tells us about the “Budget sequestration in 2013” – “In the United States federal budget, the sequester or sequestration refers to budget cuts to particular categories of federal spending that began on March 1, 2013 as an austerity fiscal policy. The cuts were enacted by the Budget Control Act of 2011 and initially set to begin on January 1 but that date was postponed by two months by the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012. The spending reductions are approximately $ 85.4 billion (equivalent to $ 42 billion in actual outlays) during fiscal year 2013 with similar cuts for years 2014 through 2021. However, total federal outlays will continue to increase by an average of $ 238.6 billion per year during the next decade, although at a somewhat lesser rate because of the sequester.”- [But look at the money the Defense Department is throwing at the Navy!]

May 1st – General Dynamics, Bloomington, MN $ 31,469,985
Global A 1st Flagship Co., Irvine, CA $ 32,423,737

May 2nd – SKE Djibouti, Karlstadt, Germany, et al $ 75,000,000
P&S Construction, Inc., North Chelmsford, MA $ 15,187,000
Mong, Inc., Torrance, CA $ 39,742,000
Lockheed martin Corp., Fort Worth, TX $ 20,100,000
HDT Expeditionary Systems, Inc., Buena Vista, CA $ 12,519,864
Concurrent Technologies Corp., Johnstown, PA $ 8,359,958
Northrop Grumman, Bethpage, NY $ 7,000,000

May 3rd – BAE Systems, Norfolk, VA $ 48,628,316
Epsilon Systems Solutions, San Diego, CA $ 21,469,304
Lockheed Martin, Moorestown, NJ $ 17,656,225
3 Phoenix Inc., Chantilly, VA $ 75,000,000
International Marine, Bremerton, WA $ 7,890,589
Thornhill Research Inc., Toronto, Ontario $ 7,756,896

May 7th – Aliron International, Inc., Bethesda, MD $ 387,028,480
Ultra Electronics, Austin, TX $ 44,486,000
The Boeing Co., Seattle, WA $ 14,659,507

May 9th General Electric Co., Lynn, MA $ 22,237,386
The Boeing Co., St. Louis, MO $ 18,274,374
Vericor Power Systems LLC, Alpharetta, GA $ 12,146,760
EFW, Inc. Fort Worth, TX $ 11,837,950
MultiNAC JV, San Diego, CA $ 10,000,000
3e Technologies International, Rockville, MD $ 9,861,065
Teras Ocean Navigation, Bellaire, TX $ 47,281,490
The Boeing Co., St. Louis, MO $ 6,890,324
May 13th – Booz Allen Hamilton, McLean, VA $ 79,344,625
Science Applications International, San Diego, CA $ 73,228,573
Engility Corp., Mt. Laurel, NJ $ 67,773,004
AA1 Corp., Hunt Valley, MD $ 19,576,370
Rockwell Collins Inc., Cedar rapids, IA $ 9,175,668
R.A. Burch Construction Co., Ramona, CA $ 35,216,183
Gnostech Inc., Warminster, PA $ 12,968,360

May 14th – Delphinus Engineering, Eddystone, PA $ 436,579,318
Q.E.D.Systems, Virginia beach, VA $ 462,189,589
George G. Sharp, Inc., Virginia beach, A $ 467,339,572
TECNICO Corp., Chesapeake, VA $ 504,439,878
The Boeing Co., Seattle, WA $ 27,000,000
Q.E.D. Systems, Virginia beach, VA $ 23,836,074

May 15th – Bechtel Plant Machinery, Monroeville, PA $ 296,442,784
BAE Systems, Rockville, MD $ 37,760,767
Turbopower LLC., Miami Lakes, FL $ 39,202,503
Rolls Royce Engine Services, Oakland, CA $ 33,213,697
Standard Aero, San Antonio, TX $ 39,028,623

May 16th – Bell-Boeing Joint Project, Amarillo, TX $ 40,013,000
Huntington Ingalls Industries, Pascagoula, MS $ 8,964,961
General Electric, Lynn, MA $ 7,580,113

May 17th – Lockheed Martin Corp., Moorestown, NJ $ 24,071,521
PrimeTech International, North Kansas City, MO $ 15,274,194

May 20th – Northrop Grumman Systems, Bethpage, NY $ 113,723,443
Lockheed Martin, Manassas, VA $ 111,512,730
The Boeing Co., St. Louis, MO $ 52,893,115
Honeywell Technology, Columbia, MD $ 25,896,361
Flir Systems Inc., Billerica, MA $ 10,090,426
L-3 Global Communications, Victor, NY $ 10,530,855

May 21st – Alutiq Pacific LLC, Anchorage, AK $ 99,000,000
Lockheed Martin Corp., Palm Beach, FL $ 52,947,551
Integration Technologies, Falls Church, VA $ 40,559,548
BAE Systems, Wayne, NJ $ 7,383,414
Bechtel Plant Machinery, Monroeville, PA $ 7,100,321

May 22nd – ABM Government Services, et al, Hopkinsville, KY $ 854,625,075
Northrop Grumman, Bethpage, NY $ 15,295,717
M7 Aerospace LLC., San Antonio, TX $ 15,171,347
Insitu, Inc., Bingen, WA $ 11,780,189

May 23rd – Exelis Inc., Clifton, NJ $ 125,724,964
L-3 Communications Corp., Madison, MS $ 53,002,714
BAE Systems, Minneapolis, MN $ 15,350,000
International Marine, Bremerton, WA $ 12,512,448
Insitu, Inc., Bingen, WA $ 7,921,386

May 24th – HP Enterprise Services, Herndon, VA $ 49,900,000
Lockheed Martin Systems, Herndon, VA $ 49,481,279
Raytheon, Portsmouth, RI $ 7,221,389

May 28th – Bell Helicopter, Fort Worth, TX $ 50,631,117
BAE Systems, San Diego, CA $ 49,796,139
Breeze eastern Corp., Whippany, NJ $ 7,002,145
Universal Propulsion Co., Fairfield, CA $ 6,674,272

May 29th – ManTech TSG-1, Fairfax, VA $ 35,994,900
TASC, Andover, MD $ 40,296,352
Gryphon Technologies, Washington, D.C. $ 41,353,490
CGI Federal, Inc., Fairfax, VA $ 41,725,463
Alion Science and Technology, Burr Ridge IL $ 45,217,337
Wyle Laboratories, Inc., Huntsville, AL $ 47,118,447
Booz Allen Hamilton, McLean, VA $ 51,039,160
Lockheed Martin Corp., Liverpool, NY $ 39,050,000
Raytheon Co., Fullerton, CA $ 14,633,925
Honeywell International, Albuquerque, NM $ 9,029,507

May 30th – Sikorsky Aircraft, Stratford, CT $ 435,315,279
Oshkosh Corp., Oshkosh, WI $ 192,852,826
The Boeing Co., Seattle, WA $ 53,598,727
L-3 Communications Corp., East Camden, NJ $ 24,888,500

May 31st – Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, AZ $ 316,538,398
Raytheon Co., Tucson, AZ $ 19,594,107
Lockheed Martin Corp., Marietta, GA $ 16,449,950
General Dynamics, Fairfax, VA $ 15,040,000
King Aerospace, Addison, TX $ 12,876,083
Northrop Grumman systems, Bethpage, NY $ 12,808,636
BAE Systems, San Diego, CA $ 8,970,338
Rolls Royce Corp., Indianapolis, IN $ 8,419,280

Add it up. It comes to $ 7,111,665,237. There was more, of course, but this what we were able to turn up. Sequestration was supposed to begin on March 1st, remember, but when we weren’t paying attention – or because we weren’t paying attention – $ 8,057,203,117 was handed over to the Navy in the month of March. Before sequestration, the combined amount for the months of October, November and January came to $ 7,685,731,854. But now we’re cutting back?