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How much did the military spend yesterday? $549 million

Over halfway through October and the only company on our watchlist to not receive any awards from the Pentagon is Booz Allen Hamilton. General Dynamics tops the

How much did the military spend yesterday? $192 million

(Note: there were no contract awards on Monday due to the holiday.) The only company on our watchlist to procure a contract yesterday was Lockheed Martin, owner

How much did the military spend yesterday? $566 million

The biggest contract awarded yesterday was not procured competitively because the government has regulations that allow it to pick winners and losers in what should

How much did the military spend yesterday? $2.2 billion

Well, it's the start of a new fiscal quarter and none of the seven companies on our watchlist received contracts yesterday. Even so, the defense department still

September's highest paid defense contractor: Northrop Grumman ($5.1 billion)

Of the seven companies contracting for the defense department that we're watching in this series, September's big winner was Northrop Grumman with awards of $5.1

How much did the military spend yesterday? $9.8 billion

Another huge list of contracts and modifications yesterday; definitely the end of a spending quarter. Lockheed Martin walked away with another $640 million to end

How much did the military spend yesterday? $10.3 billion

There were certainly a lot of contracts and modifications yesterday; you'd think it was nearing the end of a spending quarter! Boeing topped the list with a $2.6

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

How much did the military spend yesterday? $4.5 billion

Yesterday BAE blew past its recent $1 billion mark for September with a $2.6 billion contract for the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System II. The company's total

How much did the military spend yesterday? $800 million

Yesterday was a slow spending day for the Defense Department: only $800 million in several small awards. But three companies on our watchlist racked up more of our

How much did the military spend yesterday? $2.2 billion

Yesterday, Raytheon received four awards from the Defense Department, one of which was worth half a billion dollars. This award was a modification, an increase to

How much did the military spend yesterday? $3.4 billion

Yesterday Northrop Grumman and Raytheon both broke the billion dollar barrier for September. Orbital Sciences Corporation, which received a $1.1 billion Missile

How much did the military spend yesterday? $2.4 billion

BAE has hit the billion dollar mark for September. A little bit about them: BAE is a British aerospace, arms, and IT company. I did a write-up on them last year,

How much did the military spend yesterday? $1.5 billion

Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH) was one of eight companies to receive a multiple award for analytical and technical services for the Secretary of the Air Force's Concepts,

How much did the military spend yesterday? $1.9 billion

Aside from the 8 awards given to three of the companies on our watchlist (see below), of note in yesterday's defense spending was a $1 billion modification (increase)

How much did the military spend yesterday? $1.3 billion

There are two instances of multiple-award contracts from yesterday's spending list. One involves a contract award to four companies, including General Dynamics and

How much did the military spend yesterday? $1.4 billion

Northrop Grumman is back on the board for September with two awards; surely they were starting to get worried! One is modification (increase) to an existing contract

How much did the military spend yesterday? $2.5 billion

Because one of the contracts yesterday was a joint award to Raytheon and Lockheed Martin as a joint venture, the amount of the contract was divided in two with each

How much did the military spend yesterday? $103 million

Yesterday, the anniversary of 9/11, was a slow spending day for the Defense Department and only one company on our watchlist was able to benefit: Boeing with a $45