Just what did the Department of Defense spend with your $26.5 billion taxes last month? Well, after cutting back by a couple of billion of dollars – the Pentagon spent $30 billion in taxes in the month of June – it decided to spend your money on some pretty dull things.
If you want to check out all of the Pentagon’s contracts for the month of July, and so far for the month of August, check out its website.
Here are five items the Pentagon purchased with your billions highlighted by DailyFinance:
– Military Intelligence: the Pentagon hired 50 companies to build and support the “U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency’s Enhanced Solutions for the Information Technology Enterprise program over the next five years.” This cost $6 billion.
– Obamacare for the Military: the Pentagon handed out a $4.3 billion contract to a government contractor to update the department’s Defense Healthcare Management System. The company was given another half-billion-dollar contract for unspecified medical research.
– Robots for the Navy: Lockheed Martin, Harris Corp. and five other defense contractors were given a contract that could potentially be worth $1.4 billion “to design, test, and build equipment and software for the new robotic warships.”
– Peace Missiles: the Pentagon signed a multi-million-dollar deal in which it’ll get Lockheed to sell about $1.6 billion worth of 600 Patriot surface-to-air missiles to South Korea, Taiwan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
– Preserving Navy Submarine: nearly $300 million will be spent on contractors to “preserve” U.S. Navy submarines.
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