Thursday, 7. November 2013 by Christian Sorensen
Despite the Government Shutdown The Pentagon Spent $14,414, 916,043.00 in October 2013
The Pentagon issues a jumbled list of contracts every business day around 5:00PM local time. Our project distills an entire month of these contracts into an accessible form. Italics indicate notes from the editor.
Despite the government shutdown, the Department of Defense (DOD) spent at least $14,414,916,043.00 on 183 individual contracts during October 2013. This amount is considerably less than previous months.
FOREIGN MILITARY SALES – Through Foreign Military Sales (FMS), the U.S. government procures and transfers materiel to allied nations and international organizations.
Valero Marketing and Supply received a maximum $330,851,251 to provide aviation turbine fuel to Israel.
AAI Corp. received $126,262,568 to provide logistics and operational support to the Army and USMC for shadow tactical unmanned aircraft systems. A portion of this contract includes FMS to Australia. Work will performed in Afghanistan.
DynCorp received $72,264,323 to train the Afghan National Army in multiple locations in Afghanistan.
Harris Corporation received $846,600,000 for providing Saudi Arabia, Poland, Czech Republic, El Salvador, Latvia and Romania with Harris radios.
L-3 received $7,289,689 to manufacture, test, deliver and support 13 Common Data Link Hawklink AN/ARQ-59 radio terminal sets for the Australian Navy MH-60R aircraft. Work will be performed in fourteen states and Canada.
Lockheed Martin received $180,991,416 to provide Saudi Arabia with two KC-130J aircraft and engineering support.
Lockheed Martin received $21,624,671 to provide Color Multipurpose Display Unit and Multi-Function Color Display to C-130J aircraft in order to replace obsolete central processor and graphics processor chip sets. This contract includes 15 percent FMS to Norway, Israel and Kuwait.
Lockheed Martin received $30,000,000 to produce and deliver two additional LRIP Lot VIII F-35 Joint Strike Fighter CTOL aircraft for Japan.
PKL Services received $9,958,180 to provide personnel and services necessary to maintain Singapore Air Force F-15SG and USAF F-15E aircraft based with the 366th Maintenance Group, located at Mountain Home AFB.
Raytheon received $10,934,694 for 31 Launcher Switching Multiplex Unit/Launcher Interface Control Assembly technical refresh kits and 17 Maintenance Assist Module Delta Kits for the Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) MK 49 Mod 3 Guided Missile Launch Systems (GMLS). The RAM MK 31 Guided Missile Weapon System (GMWS) is an Anti-Ship Missile Defense System development and production program between the United States and Germany. The MK 31 GMWS is comprised of the MK 44 Guided Missile Round Pack and the MK 49 GMLS (Awarded Sept. 30, 2013, but DOD included it in October’s contracts).
Raytheon received $17,328,258 to repair and service PATRIOT missile parts for Israel, Kuwait, Taiwan, Japan, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Netherlands and the UAE.
Sikorsky received $86,832,600 to procure two additional Lot II S-70B anti-submarine warfare/anti-surface warfare aircraft for Brazil. President Rousseff may have cancelled a trip to the United States, but her country continues to support the U.S. military-industrial
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