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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 list with over $430 million on the month.

(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 of Sikorsky Aircraft. They received a $7.8

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 be competitive markets. General Dynamics

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 managed to spend $2 billion. Yesterday's

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 billion for the month. Nine years ago,

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 the month at $2.2 billion. Four other

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 billion modification (increase) to an existing

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 previously awarded contract having to do

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 awards for September are now approaching

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 tax dollars: BAE, Boeing, and Booz Allen

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 a two-year-old contract originally worth

Yesterday Northrop Grumman and Raytheon both broke the billion dollar barrier for September. Orbital Sciences Corporation, which received a $1.1 billion Missile Defense Agency contract, is a wholly-owned

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, including the venn diagram below. The most

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, Development, and Management Office.

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) to a previous contract awarded to

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 Booz Allen Hamilton, so I'm listing one

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 for engineering support services; the

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 company below receiving half. Notice

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 million contract for P-8A upgrades for