http://geke.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DefenseSpending.001.png (Note that September's total value of Defense contract awards was $128 billion, more than doubling August's $58 billion.) To start off October military spending, the Army awarded its high contract for yesterday to Lockheed Martin for $631 million, with just one bid solicited. The work will involve foreign military sales to the Netherlands and Japan to procure a variety of Hellfire II missile variants. International Auto Logistics won the next highest contract, worth $295 million to provide transportation of private vehicles belonging to military service members... your tax dollars at work. -------------------------------------------------------------------

Below are the contracts awarded by the Defense Department October 1, 2018 totaling $2,877,149,163

Recent record daily spending: $30.1 billion on September 7, 2018

Army - $1,213,044,243

Lockheed Martin (Orlando, FL) $631,757,949 CACI-CSS (Chantilly, VA) $126,799,620 Alion Science & Technology (McLean, VA) $49,873,115 Greenman-Pedersen (Babylon, NY) $49,500,000 Nordic PCL Construction (Honolulu, HI) $41,476,374 Altus (Darlington, MD), Applied Research Associates (Albuquerque, NM), Joint Research & Development (Stafford, VA), SURVICE Engineer (Belcamp, MD) $48,000,000 Honeywell International (Phoenix, AZ) $37,701,755 Raytheon IDS (Andover, MA) $35,000,000 Ames Construction (Burnsville, MN) $34,775,560 MOCA Systems (Boston, MA), Accura Engineering & Consulting Services (Atlanta, GA), Crawford Consulting Services (E. Pittsburgh, PA) $28,500,000 Sheffield Korte Team (Lawton, OK) $27,227,500 Honeywell International (Phoenix, AZ) $23,013,694 exp Federal (Chicago, IL) $16,128,727 Lockheed Martin (Grand Prairie, TX) $12,500,000 Navqsys (Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD) $10,514,449 Emerson Construction (Temple, TX) $10,453,000 Emerson Construction (Temple, TX) $10,453,000 (not a duplicate) Terra Construction (Oklahoma City, OK) $9,854,000 K-W Construction (San Marcos, TX) $9,515,500

US Transportation Command - $1,080,053,194

International Auto Logistics (Brunswick, GA) $295,057,155 Atlas Air (Purchase, NY) $231,789,791 Kalitta Air (Ypsilanti, MI) $160,621,410 Omni Air International (Tulsa, OK) $97,084,582 Air Transport International (Wilmington, OH) $84,833,663 International Auto Logistics (Brunswick, GA) $74,743,060 Federal Express (Memphis, TN) $34,326,712 Air Transport International (Wilmington, OH) $16,873,851 United Parcel Service (Louisville, KY) $14,903,387 Affigent (Herndon, VA) $12,637,147 Northrop Grumman Technical Services (Herndon, VA) $11,816,167 AMYX (Reston, VA) $10,836,764 ABX Air (Wilmington, OH) $10,694,315 Tapestry Solutions (San Diego, CA) $8,229,223 National Airlines (Orlando, FL) $8,110,420 Western Global Airlines (Estero, FL) $7,495,547

Navy - $268,857,042

Custom Mechanical Systems (Bargersville, IN) $34,685,621 Hornbeck Offshore Operators (Covington, LA) $33,619,420 Ocean Ships (Houston, TX) $32,745,387 Boeing (Huntington Beach, CA) $26,663,956 Raytheon (Marlborough, MA) $22,733,022 Systems Application & Technologies (Largo, MD) $20,489,591 BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services (Rockville, MD) $19,645,973 Lightforce USA (Orofina, ID) $15,760,499 Charles Stark Draper Laboratory (Cambridge, MA) $13,380,171 Systems Planning & Analysis (Alexandria, VA) $11,053,897 Northrop Grumman Systems (Melbourne, FL) $10,833,190 Knowledge Management (Tyngsboro, MA) $10,000,000 Lockheed Martin Rotary & Mission Systems (Syracuse, NY) $9,591,348 Mnemonics (Melbourne, FL) $7,654,967

Air Force - $256,020,289

M1 Support Services (Denton, TX) $71,318,065 COLSA (Huntsville, AL) $69,618,375 DynCorp International (Ft. Worth, TX) $68,254,084 M1 Support Services (Denton, TX) $12,047,564 Enhanced Veterans Solutions (Springfield, VA) $10,196,413 Tapestry Solutions (San Diego, CA) $8,538,289 TFOM-HHS Group (Austin, TX) $8,182,232 InfoReliance (Fairfax, VA) $7,865,267

Defense Logistics Agency - $59,174,395

Goodyear Tire & Rubber (Akron, OH) $26,448,587 Kearfott (Black Mountain, NC) $17,185,308 Kearfott (Black Mountain, NC) $15,540,500 ![div8.jpg](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1519573191/fa6rcf7wcadagaykk8iz.jpg) http://geke.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-23-at-11.17.25-AM.png