Dennis the Peasant is an accountant by trade.

Its always interesting (to me anyway) to see a SME (Subject Matter Expert) comment on people who themselves, are commenting on subjects in the SME's knowledge domain.

It always makes me consider again the source. And that's a skill that is only going to be more and more important these days.

Price less:

• 1,200 additional Category I (CAT I) Mine Resistance Ambush Protected (MRAP) Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) vehicles: $623 Million.
• Navy Multiband Terminal (NMT): $20 Million.
• Long lead items in support of the production of Vertical Takeoff and Landing Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (VTUAV): $13.6 Million.
• Repair of up to 250 AGM-88 High Speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM) guidance and control sections: $8.6 Million.
• Non-Recurring Engineering (NRE) for Phase II of the T-45 Hot Section Reliability Improvement Program: $7.2 Million.
• Supplies in support of the Navy's Ships Stores Program: $33 Million.
• Eight Universal Modular Mast (UMM) Systems: $6.5 Million.
• Maintenance, repair, and operations supplies: $107 Million.
• AH-64D Apache Longbow Fire Control Radar Programs: $28.8 Million.
• PATRIOT engineering services: $13.8 Million.
• Construction of Permanent Party Barracks: $13.5 Million.
• System technical support for the Abrams Tank Program: $11.5 Million.
• Contract to upgrade, fabricate, assemble, integrate, test, and deliver the Air and Missile Defense Planning Control Systems to the 32nd Army Air and Missile Defense Command: $8 Million.
• Chameleon Phase VI Program: $5.4 Million.
• C-17 Automated Test Equipment : $12.5 Million.
• Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) Launch Capability (ELC) contract: $9.5 Million.
• Global Broadcast Service (GBS) program: $7.5 Million.
• 74 embedded Global Positioning/Inertial Production Units (Installs) for the CH-47F (700 and MH-47 (4) platforms, 4 Mounts for the MH-47 platform, 3 Spares for the F/A-18 platform, and 167 Contractor Depot Repairs (CDRs) for the H-1W (67), CH-47F (25), HH-60J (5), and F-15/F-16 (70) platforms: $7.4 Million.
• Form-fit-function for obsolete subassemblies in the F-15 Avionics Intermediate Shop (AIS) Antenna Test Station (ATS) and Enhanced Aircraft Radar Test Station (EARTS): $5.5 Million.
• LHA 6 Amphibious Assault Ship: $2.4 Billion.
• Long-term contract for support of 44 weapons systems of the T/AV8B Harrier aircraft: $258 Million.
• P-3C sustainment, modification and installation program: $133 Million.
• Nine Extremely High Frequency (EHF) Satellite Communications Follow-On Terminal Communication Groups and 17 ship Antenna Groups: $27 Million.
• Supply and distribution of food and non-food products: $2.8 Billion.
• Sole source items on engine lines: $10.9 Million.
• Fuel: $6.5 Million.
• Wide area surveillance platform: $12.2 Million.
• Light Aircraft Missile Protection (CELAMP) system: $9.8 Million.

Most capable Army, Navy & Air Force in the history of Civilization: Priceless.

Your tax dollars at work:

What is Applied Research Laboratories doing, and why do they need $928 million dollars to do it with?

I'm just curious. Very curious.

When I get round to it, I'm going to put together a database of all these contracts, and what companies and where they are, and what congressional district they're in, and what contributions are being given by who to whom.

I want to see who is connected to who. I'm just curious, that's all.