Where's the outrage?-$6.3 trillion in projected 10 year defence spending

Ah, hell- just spend it all! It's a party!

wonderful defense contractors:

http://theasiandefence.blogspot.com/2009/11/three-arab-nations-purchase-raytheon...

The Pentagon will make some of that back in arms deals. ;)

WHAT THE F*CK!?!?!?
THEY JUST GOT 700BILLION LAST YEAR! WHERE THE HELL IS ALL THIS MONEY GOING?!?!?! THATS 1.4 TRILLION DOLLARS WITHIN 12 GODDAYM MONTHS!!!!!

The military industrial complex owns us all, we are all just slaves to the corporations that are robbing us blind to make killing machines that will end up killing us. NO HEALTHCARE for the people but we sure can feed the defense department. Every time the people fall for the terrorist attacks that should be dealt with the justice department oh no some republican politician spouts off and claims we are at war with Islam. When we spend the trillions to fight these trumped up wars the terrorist win. So what if we kill a thousand of them 100,000 replace them the whole world will soon be our enemy and the scared little pigs that control your minds fake you into this unnecessary military spending while the country and it's people crumble within.

Man, if I had a nickle for everytime defense contractors got a trillion dollars of taxpayer money, I'd be a millionaire!!

Let's see now...where is all that money going...below are just 4 of the contracts awarded yesterday. There were 6 more awarded that wouldn't fit on this post...but you can go to the DOD website and find out for yourself. NOTE how many of these contracts are not competitively procured.

Spreading the seeds of Democracy...

Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, Inc., Newport News, Va., is being awarded a $96,682,393 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for engineering, technical, design, configuration management, integrated logistics support, database management, research and development, modernization, trade, and industrial support for Los Angeles, Seawolf, Virginia, Ohio SSBN, and Ohio SSGN Class submarines, special mission submersible interfaces, submarine support facilities, as well as Foreign Military Sales programs. This contract includes options which, if exercised, will bring the total cumulative value of the contract to $635,287,686. Work will be performed in Newport News, Va., and is expected to be completed by September 2010. Contract funds in the amount of $44,473,900 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-10-C-2102).

Lockheed Martin MS2, Manassas, Va., is being awarded a $59,592,068 cost-plus incentive-fee, performance based, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide development, integration, and testing of the multistatic active coherent modification to the P-3C aircraft acoustic subsystem and tactical software. Work will be performed in Manassas, Va. (80 percent), and Patuxent River, Md. (20 percent), and is expected to be completed in November 2014. Contract funds in the amount of $400,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to FAR 6.302-1. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity (N00421-10-D-0003).

Northrop Grumman Corp., Electronic Systems, Linthicum Heights, Md., is being awarded a $44,490,000 modification under previously awarded cost-plus-incentive-fee contract (M67854-07-C-2072) to increase the estimated cost ceiling for the Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar System development and demonstration, target cost, and target cost plus target fee of contract line item number 0001 by $17,490,000 to reflect undefinitized change orders for the UPX40, change to medium tactical vehicle replacement as the prime mover and the up armor. Additionally, this contract modification increases the estimated cost ceiling, target cost and target cost plus target fee of contract line item number 0001 in increase by an additional $27,000,000 to reflect the estimated cost increase associated with the 9 month schedule extension. Work will be performed in Linthicum Heights, Md. (75 percent), and Syracuse, N.Y. (25 percent). Work is expected to be completed Sept. 15, 2011. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.

The L3/Interstate Electronics Corp., Anaheim, Calif., is being awarded a $39,187,635 cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide flight test data acquisition, processing and analysis of the TRIDENT missile flight test missions for the United States and United Kingdom. This contract contains options, which if exercised, would bring the contract value to $49,437,854. Work will be performed in Anaheim, Calif. (50 percent); Austin, Texas (20 percent); Ascension Island (10 percent); Cape Canaveral, Fla. (10 percent); and St. Croix (10 percent). Work is expected to be completed Sept. 30, 2010 (Sept. 2012 with options). Contract funds in the amount of $33,863,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The contract was not competitively procured.

what a mess

if it makes everyone feel better this is how america will sink, by doing what every failed empire has done, expanding its military. As for the potential aftermath of a bloated military in a country going broke, well thats another very sad conversation.

State control and funding of military function is far more critical than health care for private citizens. PERIOD.

If you don't keep the military oiled and running well, you get violent revolution. Is that what you want instead?

Also, it's spelled DEFENSE.

How in the hell do they get this figure. The right bitches about health care but they are probably so happy with this number this is soo wrong 6 trill for death 1 trill for life. WOW

The defense budget has become a sacorsanct cow. No Administration has a snowballs chance in hell if they are percieved to be weak on defense. That said, pentagon spending is the greatest waste of our national wealth. I would love to know what its going to be spent on.

When you consider that we already spend more on defense than the rest of the world combined, it is truly obscene. China, our next big made up threat spends only 84 billion on defense. What is even more weird was that prior to WWII we had only the 18th largest military in the world and got along quite well.

My view is this, let China take over the role of the worlds police force. That way we can focus on our economy and trade (where all future wars will be fought) and bankrupt THEM.

Our military spending accounts for MORE THAN HALF the entire worlds spending on defense. Honestly im all for having a strong and well supplied military but we really dont need 800 military bases around the world. It just furthers America's negative image as a bully and oppressive empire.

But we Have to protect Dick Cheney’s, I mean Halliburton's, I mean KBR's profits and taxpayer funded contracts that they were given without bidding. We should not question their principles, tactics, and salaries. America should just take whatever we want, who's gonna stop us. And who needs healthcare reform. There are millions of deaths each year in America and only about 50,000 are due to lack of healthcare, not so bad. Hey, shit happens, deal with it. Having a military that can fight multiple wars and still fund Billions of dollars in research on new technologies for killing people is far more important than saving the lives of just 50,000 poor people per year, we should just get rid of them anyway, they are just a burden on the country and our wonderful "too big to fail" companies can’t make money on them so they are just worthless. We need to spend whatever is needed to protect the foreign interests of our big corporations and the huge profits of our military contractors.

Hey BUDDY they're protecting our freedom!!!! ...you know, the freedom that is directly contradicted by our drug and prostitution laws.

These priorities are backwards !