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BFP Exclusive Report- A Distillation of DOD Funding Priorities for April 2016

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The Pentagon issues a jumbled list of contracts every business day around 5:00PM local time. Our project distills an entire month of these contracts into an accessible form. The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) spent at least $11,355,885,000 on 188 individual contracts during April 2016. This amount does not include 26 Foreign Military Sales transactions worth $1,508,484,000. FOREIGN MILITARY SALES (FMS) - Through FMS, the U.S. government procures and transfers materiel to allied nations and international organizations. Al-Salam Aircraft Co (AAC) Ltd. received $32,500,000 to provide Saudi Arabia with services required to disassemble/assess 3 F-15 and to convert 1 F-15S to F-15SA. BAE Systems received $39,999,960 to manufacture MJU-68/B flares for PMA272 Air Expendable Countermeasures program for Israel. Sole-source, per 10 U.S.C. 2304 (c)(1)


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