On October 2″ we posted Article 1 in this Volume. We complained about the amount of taxpayer funds being granted by the “Defense” Department for the Navy’s newest super-duper carrier — the USSJohn F. Kennedy (CVN-79), and although we provided only the amounts in the eight contracts we were able to track, we didn’t add up the figures. Well, today we did, and even though other contracts certainly failed to make headlines, those eight added up to $ 849,849,676. Can you just imagine how many shipyards that kind of money could revitalize, and how many patented, game changing, job-creating container ships we could build in those yards? But those millions of dollars are chicken feed compared to the taxpayer funds the DOD gave away so far this month for the Navy’s warship programs. Here’s what we were able to dig up from October 3″ to October 22™.

1. October 03 — $ 45,500,539 to Communications and Power L.L.C., Palo Alto, CA.
2. October 03 — $ 21,073,093 to J. W. Clark Enterprises, Inc., Hampton, VA.
3. October 03 — $ 15,802,292 to Raytheon Co., Goleta, CA.
4. October 03 — $ 15,000,000to Facilities Development Corp., Reston, VA.
5. October 03 — $ 3, 713,902 to Task Order #0001 (No identity provided).
6. October 03 — $ 13,345,600 to Nutmeg Co., Inc., Norwich, CT.
7. October 03 — $ 12,550,091 to Weston Solutions, Inc., West Chester, PA.
8. October 03 — $ 11,480,586 to ManTech Systems Engineering Corp., Fairfax, VA.
9. October 03 — $ 8,952,300 to East Carolina Mechanical L.L.C., Jacksonville, NC.
10. October 03 — $ 8,222,300 to DRS C3 and Aviation, Gaithersburg, MD.
11. October 03 — $ 7,483,325 to Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co., L.L.C., Oak Brook, IL.
12. October 04 — $ 204,924,030 to Bell/Boeing Joint Program Office, Amarillo, TX.
13. October 04 — $ 95,000,000 for construction at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
14. October 04 — $ 76,681,119 to CH2M Hill Constructors, Inc., San Diego, CA.
15. October 04 — $ 50,000,000 for construction at Mid-Atlantic Naval Facilities Command.
16. October 05 — $ 24,476,978 to Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., San Diego, CA.
17. October 05 — $ 6,551,365 to CACIInc., Federal, Chantilly, VA.
18. October 10 — $ 750,000,000 for work in Central Europe and the U.S.
19. October 10 — $ 17,172,085 to Rockwell-Collins Inc., Cedar Rapids, IA.
20. October 05 — $ 11,881,049 to Patriot Contract Services, LLC, Concord, CA.
21. October 11 — $ 8,000,000 to General Dynamics, Bath, ME.
22. October 16 — $ 391,426,326 to Bell Helicopter, Fort Worth, TX.
23. October 16 — $ 22,055,922 to Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Stratford, CT.
24. October 16 — $ 459,005,270 to General Dynamics, Groton, CT.
25. October 19 — $ 81,870,798 to United Technologies Corp., Eat Hartford, CT.
26. October 22 — $ 49,862,526 to Airborne tactical Advantage Co., L. L.C., Newport News, VA.
27. October 22 — $ 31,894,417 to L-3 Communications Flight International, Newport News, VA. 2S Pe sl Bt Pe St Be

This time we added it up. It comes to a cool $ 2,444,276,312. That’s right, almost two-and-a-half billion dollars just for Navy programs — so far this month. That amount of money could have provided jobs for millions of our unemployed, and the Great Recession would be history.