Astronomical US Dept. of Defense Spending for July 2016 & the Missing Trillions in the Pentagon
It’s fascinating to see where it all goes; Foreign Military Sales, Uninhabited Vehicles and Craft, Recruitment, Retention and Messaging, DARPA, Cyber, Sigent and Cryptography, Nuclear Processing… it’s a VERY long list—and only for the month of July. Clicking the “received” links provides all the details.
It’s clear from the Newsbud article that the government doesn’t send all their contracts out for tender. They have preferred business partners and sometimes just ask for a quote and hand over the contract. Is that a best business practice—or cronyism?
And then there was the news at the link below. Is insolvency even a question? They can’t tell us about all the black projects, of course. No… space craft and off-planet stuff just wouldn’t make sense and would open a whole can of worms. Did they “lose” $6.5 trillion? Not literally. Will they have to account for it?
Much better to arm the country against imagined threats than feed the People, but we know government employees aren’t starving. ~ BP
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/tag/department-of-defense/#3CuTdFPcr6VIR3TZ.99
Newsbud-BFP Exclusive Report- A Distillation of DOD Funding Priorities for July 2016
August 3, 2016DOD spent $15,427,508,000+ on 244 individual contracts during July 2016
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.The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) spent at least $15,427,508,000 on 244 individual contracts during July 2016. This amount does not include Foreign Military Sales transactions worth at least $1,138,610,000.
FOREIGN MILITARY SALES (FMS) – Through FMS, the U.S. government procures and transfers materiel to allied nations and international organizations.
Bell-Boeing JPO received $544,668,978 for long lead production materials and manufacture/delivery of four MV-22 supporting Japan. Bell-Boeing will also incorporate an engineering change proposal for the standby flight display. Work abroad in: Ontario, Canada (0.9%); Luton (0.6%) Cobham (0.6%), Wolverhampton (0.4%) UK. Bell Boeing JPO received $9,561,182 to provide Japan one MV-22 Tiltrotor Containerized Flight Training Device.
Boeing received $100,423,110 long-lead parts and efforts associated with the manufacture of four full-rate production lot 8 P-8A for Australia under a cooperative engagement agreement.
Booz Allen & Hamilton received $12,397,263 to provide Saudi Arabia’s Navy with training, education, engineering, and technical & management support.
General Dynamics received $169,694,436 for FMS (Colombia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Qatar, UAE, India, Belgium) for Hydra rockets (M151: 80,448; M255a1: 40,000; M274: 101,952; M278: 3,715; M156: 7,200; motors Mk66 Mod4: 20,721; warheads M257: 5,837; M278: 13,741; M156: 4,914).
Kay & Associates Inc. received $25,741,015 for 6 months of F/A-18 C/D maintenance and support services for Kuwait.
Lockheed Martin (Sikorsky) received $11,422,199 to provide Taiwan and Jordan with modified UH-60M standard spares kits. One bid solicited, one received.
Northrop Grumman received $163,957,953 to provide Japan with one E-2D.
Pyrotechnic Specialties Inc. and CAPCO LLC received a shared $37,000,000 to replenish BBU-35 A/B Impulse Cartridges [PDF]. FMS: Pakistan, Belgium, Oman, Singapore, Romania, NATO-Hungary, Tunisia, and the UAE.
Raytheon received $21,598,887 to provide the UAE with technical assistance on PATRIOT system equipment and logistics. One bid solicited, one received.
Sierra Nevada Corp. received $10,224,545 to modify a M-28 aircraft for Jordan. This is a sole-source acquisition.
UNINHABITED VEHICLES & CRAFT
General Atomics received $31,819,252 for Block 25 and Block 30 ground control station production.
Kratos [Composite Engineering Inc. (CEI)] received $40,848,839 (U.S. gov share $7,322,399; CEI share $33,526,440) to design, develop, assemble, and test a technical baseline for a high-speed, long-range, low-cost, limited life-strike UAS.
Northrop Grumman received $7,889,000 for Battle Field Airborne Communication Node (BACN) payload operations and support within the U.S. and overseas.
RECRUITMENT, RETENTION & MESSAGING
MicroTech received $8,084,905 for mission systems support services for the Public Affairs Information Resource Management Office at the Pentagon.
USCENTCOM
AM General received $356,213,318 for 1,259 M1151A1B1 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV) and 414 M1152A1B2 Troop Enclosure HMMWVs in support of Afghanistan.
Sierra Nevada Corp. received $23,232,000 for contractor logistic support (30-45 day excursions) at forward operating locations in Afghanistan. Involves FMS.
Vectrus Systems Corp. received $46,625,722 to help the 401st Army Field Support Battalion in Kuwait receive, repair, maintain, store, and issue Army Prepositioned Stock 5 equipment.
USSOCOM
Battelle Memorial Institute received $170,000,000 to provide USSOCOM with modified COTS trucks & SUV (keep original manufacturer profile; integrate armor, heavy-duty suspension, brakes, run flat tires/wheels, communication equipment).
Camgian Microsystems Corp. received $7,737,765 for Special Operations & Low Intensity Conflict radar demonstration, integration, and advancement. One bid solicited, one received.
Lockheed Martin received $166,000,000 to provide USSOCOM with dry combat submersible system (for harsh maritime environments) leveraging commercial submersible technologies & international classing safety certification.
USSTRATCOM
Trade Products Corp. received $24,500,000 to procure and install furnishings for U.S. Strategic Command’s transition to a new facility at Offutt AFB.
DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY (DARPA)
Northrop Grumman received $7,257,887 for Phase 2 of DARPA’s Supply Chain Hardware Integrity for Electronics Defense program.
SRI International received $7,346,989 for software. The Threat Intelligence for Grid Recovery is a project under DARPA’s Rapid Attack Detection, Isolation and Characterization Systems (RADICS) program. RADICS’ goal is to enable skilled cyber and power engineers to restore electrical service within seven days of an attack that overwhelms the recovery capabilities of the impacted organizations. RADICS will develop innovative automated systems to detect indications and warning of an impending attack, provide situational awareness, and accelerate recovery actions by enabling first responders to isolate affected systems from the Internet, establish a secure communications network and characterize the nature of the threat.
U.S. ACADEMIA
Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp. (GTARC) received $35,000,000 for offsite technical support to National Ground Intelligence Center’s (NGIC) foreign materiel directorate, foreign materiel division. GTARC will analyze & exploit foreign military hardware in order to obtain information and operational data to support R&D, test & eval, scientific & technical intelligence, and war fighter contingency missions & training.
University of Illinois received $18,699,100 for Cyber-Physical Experimentation Environment (CEER) for Rapid Attack Detection, Isolation Characterization Systems (RADICS) software system and report. UL will provide R&D and demonstration of a CEER hardware and software system to enable RADICS R&D, testing, and evaluation.
CYBER, SIGINT & CRYPTOGRAPHY
BAE Systems received $8,688,675 for R&D, demonstration, and delivery of PHOENIX software system that allows first responders to entirely disconnect a non-cooperative organization from its network infrastructure and then selectively reform on a separate secure emergency network.
Booz Allen Hamilton received $16,286,777 for roughly 137,035 hours of services (engineering, design, R&D, installation, test & eval, maintenance, training, logistics) on communications-electronics advanced technology systems for NAWCAD Special Communications Mission Solutions Division.
Booz Allen & Hamilton received $13,197,137 for enterprise management and technical support (re: enterprise architecture & operational transition planning; shore network & comms modernization; IT service management process standardization; cyber security) to Navy Information Force’s (NAVIFOR) Shore Modernization & Integration Directorate.
Dynamic Animation Systems Inc.; Cole Engineering Services Inc.; Dignitas Technologies; Intelligent Decision Systems Inc.; VCOM3D; STS International Inc.; Engineering & Computer Simulation; Engineering & Computer Simulation received $135,000,000 for “research and development technology.”
Hypres Inc. received $40,387,367; Out of the Fog Research LLC received $53,435,866 for systems acquisition support & engineering; project management; R&D; evaluation; and implementation of: cryogenic radio frequency systems; advanced cryogenic core digital & quantum memory technologies; exploiting superconducting quantum interference device, tactical SIGINT systems, and “other military platforms.”
Innovative Signal Analysis Inc. (ISA) received $16,179,482 for software, hardware, and reports. Provide enablement of real-time detection, tracking, and geo-location of emerging radar systems.
L-3 Communications received $216,370,058 for 12 more months of continued contractor aircraft logistics support on mostly U.S. Army C-12 aircraft.
Praxis Inc. received $17,379,222 for R&D in signal generation techniques across the radio frequency spectrum employing high levels of power. “Signal generation techniques will be employed for atmospheric research and spacecraft and/or aircraft calibration.”
Six3 Intelligence Solutions Inc. received $9,578,964 for intelligence analysis services in Germany, Italy, and Syria.
Vencore Labs Inc. received $9,021,383 to provide R&D demonstration and delivery of a Scalable and Holistic Energy CybeR-weapon Localization and Characterization (SHERLOC) system “that is capable of rapidly localizing and characterizing cyber-weapons that have gained access to power grid infrastructure and able to map industrial control systems, gather configuration data, determine which devices are behaving incorrectly, and discover and characterize malware.”
Vencore Labs, Inc. received $8,169,720 for software and reports. Vencore will work on R&D, demonstration, and delivery of a machine-intelligence for advance notification of threats and energy-grid survivable situational awareness software system.
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