How much did the military spend yesterday? $4.9 billion

Boeing finally hit the $1 billion mark for September awards yesterday, but even bigger than that was Northrop Grumman's $1.3 billion modification (increase) to a previously awarded contract having to do with Advanced Hawkeye aircraft. The original contract, awarded in February of 2018 was worth only $99 million but was increased another $3.1 billion in April of this year.

Yesterday's breakdown:

BAE: $13,219,939 (1 contract)
Boeing: $325,995,885 (2 contracts, 1 modification)
Booz Allen Hamilton: --
General Dynamics: $203,404,212 (2 modifications)
Lockheed Martin: $63,648,423 (3 contracts, 1 modification)
Northrop Grumman: $1,374,621,453 (2 modifications)
Raytheon: $77,434,834 (1 contract, 2 modifications)

September to-date totals:

BAE: $3,923,900,987
Boeing: $1,002,075,580
Booz Allen Hamilton: $302,765,526
General Dynamics: $603,634,024
Lockheed Martin: $1,293,108,422
Northrop Grumman: $3,129,925,853
Raytheon: $1,840,259,753

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Below are the contracts awarded by the Defense Department
September 26, 2019
totaling $4,935,545,843

Recent record daily spending: $17 billion on August 5, 2019

Navy - $2,887,036,655

Northrop Grumman Military Aircraft Systems (Melbourne, FL) $1,362,276,582
CACI Federal (Chantilly, VA) $249,960,831
General Dynamics Electric Boat (Groton, CT) $192,751,489
L3 Communications Vertex Aerospace (Madison, MS) $180,418,553
Bristol Design Build Services (Wilmington, NC), CCI Utility & Construction Services (Garden Ridge, TX), JSR Inc. (Schertz, TX), SGS (Yukon, OK), Walga Ross Group (Topeka, KS), Web d/b/a WEBCO (Springfield, VA) $99,000,000
Eagle Fire (Richmond, VA), Milton J. Wood Fire Protection (Jacksonville, FL), Premier Fire & Security (Paducah, KY), Wolverine Fire Protection (Mount Morris, MI) $99,000,000
Jacobs Technology (Fort Walton Beach, FL) $92,995,855
Nova Nacap JV (Napa, CA) $62,585,000
Assurance Technology (Carlisle, MA) $56,583,799
WF Magann Corp. (Portsmouth, VA) $50,000,000
Serco (Herndon, VA) $49,634,117
Hardwire LLC (Pocomoke City, MD) $42,665,228
Boeing (Ridley Park, PA) $32,506,815
Coastal Mechanics (Houston, TX), New Directions Technologies (Ridgecrest, CA), Omni Aerospace (Wichita, KS) $32,000,000
Huntington Ingalls Industries Shipguilding (Newport News, VA) $30,803,639
The Haskell Co. (Jacksonville, FL) $27,321,470
Solpac Construction d/b/a Soltek Pacific Construction (San Diego, CA) $23,811,000
Raytheon Missile Systems (Tucson, AZ) $22,121,560
Martin-Baker Aircraft (Uxbridge, UK) $16,726,286
General Electric Power Conversion Naval Systems (Cranberry Township, PA) $14,999,617
Boeing (Seattle, WA) $13,489,070
The Haskell Co. (Jacksonville, FL) $13,414,000
Advanced Acoustic Concepts (Hauppauge, NY) $13,108,702
Parts Life (Moorestown, NJ) $12,943,668
Northrop Grumman Systems (Baltimore, MD) $12,344,871
General Dynamics Mission Systems (Minneapolis, MN) $10,652,723
Provengo (Merrick, NY) $10,626,785
Raytheon Missile Systems (Tucson, AZ) $10,546,057
Starrag USA (Hebron, KY) $10,278,220
EaglePicher Technologies (Joplin, MO) $9,812,000
UT Applied Research Laboratories (Austin, TX) $9,590,922
Belleville Shoe Manufacturing (Belleville, IL) $7,506,953
United Technologies Pratt & Whitney Military Engines (E. Hartford, CT) $7,485,199
HCG / JCG JV (Escondido, CA) $7,075,644

Defense Logistics Agency - $953,230,975

American Water Operations & Maintenance $448,252,668
Noble Supply & Logistics (Rockland, MA), SupplyCore (Rockford, IL), Vizocom (El Cajon, CA) $300,000,000
US Foods (Raleigh, NC) $44,000,000
Delta Western (Anchorage, AK) $31,339,125
Wavestream (San Dimas, CA) $30,000,000
FLIR Systems (N. Billercia, MA) $29,237,628
Lockheed Martin (Orlando, FL) $27,634,488
Melling d/b/a Melling Medical (Alexandria, VA) $25,500,000
General Electric (Lynn, MA) $8,839,936
Lockheed Martin (Owego, NY) $8,427,130

Army - $587,789,188

Spaw Glass Contractors (Schertz, TX) $96,449,882
Bowhead Integrated Support Services (Springfield, VA) $91,046,471
The Korte Co. (St. Louis, MO) $49,660,100
Raytheon (McKinney, TX) $44,767,217
American Ordnance (Middletown, IA) $41,644,305
Marinex Construction (Charleston, SC) $26,132,069
Emergent Product Development (Gaithersburg, MD) $24,539,980
P & R JV (Elizabethtown, KY) $22,896,809
Luhr Bros. (Columbia, IL) $22,875,046
Meggitt Training Systems (Suwanne, GA) $19,000,000
Lockheed Martin (Orlando, FL) $18,433,152
Avon Protection Systems (Cadillac, MI) $15,656,178
MVL USA (Houston, TX) $13,890,460
HITT Contracting (Charleston, SC) $13,248,877
BAE Systems Land & Armaments (Sterling Heights, MI) $13,219,939
Critical Solutions International (Charleston, SC) $12,983,575
Hexagon US Federal (Huntsville, AL) $11,443,795
Calibre Systems (Alexandria, VA) $9,115,206
American Ordnance (Middletown, IA) $8,959,000
NW Construction (Bozeman, MT) $8,855,800
Goerge Koch Sons (Evansville, IN) $8,172,250
Metal Trades (Yonges Island, SC) $7,585,707
Engineering Solutions & Products (Chantilly, VA) $7,213,370

Air Force - $384,240,955

Boeing Defense, Space, & Security (St. Louis, MO) $280,000,000
Vertex Aerospace (Madison, MS) $53,089,000
United Technologies (Hartford, CT) $19,755,926
Volant Associates (Chantilly, VA) $14,062,861
Lockheed Martin Rotary & Mission Systems (Littleton, CO) $9,153,653
Cubic Defense Applications (San Diego, CA) $8,179,515

Defense Intelligence Agency - $67,191,012

ManTech Advanced Systems International (Herndon, VA) $67,191,012

Defense Counterintelligence & Security Agency - $47,821,001

The National Student Clearinghouse (Herndon, VA) $47,821,001

Defense Health Agency - $8,236,057

EC America (McLean, TX) $8,236,057

This information is provided to highlight just how much taxpayer money is spent, per day, to enrich companies participating in the military industrial complex. The idea that our economy requires a governmental redistribution of wealth from individual taxpayers to large corporations that are friendly and well-connected to government came from the Keynesian argument for demand “stimulus” -- that our economy's health depends on higher and higher levels of spending. For this reason, personal saving is discouraged and often penalized by the government. But because individuals still tend to follow personal incentives to save, the Keynesian argument remains in effect: that government should spend money the public is reluctant to spend through tax-and-spend policies.