Pentagon Spends Over $19B In November 2014 --And There Are Still JIhad Training Camps In US (Pictures)

DOD spent $19,287,334,392+ on 198 individual contracts during November 2014

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 Department of Defense (DOD) spent at least $19,287,334,392 on 198 individual contracts during November 2014.

REMOTELY PILOTED MACHINES

Arête Associates received $11,742,120 for one AN/DVS-1 coastal battlefield reconnaissance and analysis (COBRA) Block I LRIP system.

General Atomics received $17,120,120 for sixteen universal upgrade kits to the existing dual carrier satellite communications ground data terminal and the required integration support. 

FOREIGN MILITARY SALES – Through Foreign Military Sales (FMS), the U.S. government procures and transfers materiel to allied nations and international organizations.

Armtec Countermeasures Co. received $9,498,687 and Kilgore Flares Co. received $10,464,773 to provide Singapore, India, Taiwan and Oman with Infrared Countermeasure (IRCM) flares M206, MJU-7 and MJU-10.

Boeing received $7,335,238 to provide Switzerland ($2,319,290; 31.6 percent); Finland ($1,678,570; 22.9 percent); Malaysia ($1,168,453; 15.8 percent); Kuwait ($1,003,647; 13.7 percent); Australia ($510,103; 7 percent); Canada ($356,677; 4.9 percent); and Spain ($298,498; 4.1 percent) with F/A-18 A-F post-production program management, logistics, engineering, incidental materials, and tech data.

Boeing received $12,255,878 for AWACS modernization planning/risk reduction. Boeing will upgrade five E-707 aircraft and ground support systems. This includes studies and analysis of mission computing (Block 40/45), next generation IFF, mission communications and navigation, and ground systems. This is 100 percent unnamed FMS. This is a sole-source acquisition.

Boeing received $82,591,000 to provide Israel with 3,000 JDAM tail kits, which have ultra-tightly coupled capability.

Conti Federal Services, Inc. received $25,871,678 to construct multiple buildings in Israel, “including an underground structure on a military installation.”

Lockheed Martin received $271,815,608 to provide Taiwan with installation of 142 aircraft kits to upgrade their F-16 fleet. This is a sole-source acquisition.

Lockheed Martin received $22,014,427 to provide Romania and Thailand with digital data recorders, spares, depot lay in, ground handling equipment, digital cartridge interface units, bench stock, pylons, hand tools, portable maintenance aid, roll break release box, software development and integration support, logistics and sustainment services. In addition, Romania will receive a compact multi-band data link. This involves FMS. This is a sole-source acquisition.

Raytheon received $32,221,204 to provide Saudi Arabia with 500 Enhanced Paveway II guided bomb unit kits and a 10-year warranty for each kit. Each kit includes an enhanced computer control group and an airfoil group.

Raytheon received $75,616,553 to provide Qatar preliminary design of an Air and Missile Defense Operations System. This is a sole-source acquisition.

RECRUITMENT & RETENTION

Intelligent Decisions, Inc. received $8,038,800 for 4,350 Dell Venue 11 Pro tablets, docking stations, soft briefcases, 22-inch monitors and four-year warranties to support the USMC Recruiting Command.

AFGHANISTAN

Aegis Defense Services, LLC received $12,756,407 for private security services at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan.

Northrop Grumman received $12,473,373 for support and bridging efforts while processing required approvals for larger follow-on ongoing contingency operations. Work will be in Huntsville, Alabama (72 percent), and Afghanistan (28 percent).

Sierra Nevada Corp. received $15,800,000 to provide Afghan National Army Special Operations Forces contractor logistics support for fixed-wing aircraft (PC-12) sustainment. Work will be at Kabul International Airport and Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Sterlingwear of Boston, Inc. received $6,835,520 for Afghanistan uniformed police (National Police) field jackets.

USSOUTHCOM

Islands Mechanical Contractor, Inc. received $7,727,970 to refurbish the Taurman Avenue Electrical Substation at Naval Station Guantánamo Bay.

USSOCOM

Rockwell Collins received $72,500,000 for post deployment software support IV for the common architecture avionics system, cockpit management system and avionics management system for the Technology Applications Program Office to support the Army Special Operations aircraft fleet. This was non-competitive per FAR 6.302-1.

DARPA

Booz Allen Hamilton; CENTRA Technology, Inc.; ManTech; and Schafer Corp. received unspecified amounts for technical, programmatic, financial, and administrative support services for existing and future DARPA Tactical Technology Office programs. Work will be performed in Arlington, VA.

The Microelectronics Advanced Research Corporation (MARCO) received $15,549,979 for year three of the Focus Center Research Program (FCRP) – Semiconductor Technology Advanced Research Network (STARnet). The goal of this program is to create/continue a nationwide network of multi-university research centers that will keep DOD and U.S. semiconductor firms at the forefront of the global microelectronics revolution.

Northrop Grumman received $20,163,543 for Phase 2 of the “DARPA research program.”  MOREHERE