$1.3 Trillion Dollars (more) For 7 P-8A Aircraft

[unhappycamper]

http://www.defense.gov/contracts/contract.aspx?contractid=4657

FOR RELEASE AT 5 p.m. ET
No. 932-11 November 03, 2011

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The Boeing Co., Seattle, Wash., is being awarded a $1,377,823,556 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price-incentive contract (N00019-09-C-0022) to procure seven P-8A Multi-Mission Maritime Low Rate Initial Production II aircraft. Work will be performed in Chicago, Ill. (21.9 percent); Greenlawn, N.Y. (12.3 percent); Puget Sound, Wash. (11.5 percent); Dallas, Texas (6.6 percent); North Amityville, N.Y. (5.8 percent); Cambridge, United Kingdom (4.8 percent); and various locations in and outside the continental United States (37.1 percent). The work is expected to be completed in January 2013. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-8A




A P-8A lands at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland



unhappycamper comment: This is how we spend a trillion dollars a year on the MIC.

[NYC_SKP]

1. Billion, not Trillion, but still $1,377,823,556 too much to spend on this bullshit. nt

:patriot:

[fascisthunter]

2. what a waste of tax money

[leveymg]

3. "A billion here, a billion there, it all adds up to real money"

Shows how much our frame of reference has had to shift due to the obscene greed of defense contractors. Call it, Greed Inflation.

Thought outsourcing was supposed to save money? These things are 62.9% foreign-sourced.

[Historic NY]

4. Firm-fixed-price-incentive contract that failed the contractor should be eating the repairs.

[onethatcares]

5. does anyone think it would work against

10 radical people armed with box cutters?

Jeeez, read the mission statement for this plane. It's a regular war making machine in one tactical level with the ability to monitor all military and civilian broadcasts including internet.

Who are we gonna kill with this one?

[bvar22]

6. Says the Mechanic wiping greasy hands on coveralls after looking under the hood,

"Well THERES your problem, Lady!"


You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.
Solidarity99!
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[Fire Walk With Me]

7. No, I think we're going to need that money to pay teachers, firemen, pilots, and nurses. Thank you.

[Tace]

8. Headline Off By A Factor Of One-Thousand

Still a lot of money, but I was left Googling for a while trying to make the figures add up.

[truedelphi]

9. So are you saying we need to divide the amount in the header by

One thousand?

Not being snarky, just wanna know.

[Motown_Johnny]

10. Yes, billion not trillion

so divide by 1000 (or just drop the last 3 zeros, since they shouldn't be there anyways)

[truedelphi]

12. Gotch ya.

Still a lot of money. The budget for my entire county is probably something like three million a year in terms of County services. (Only some 90,000 of us here in Lake County.)

One billion would be an astronomical amount for us rural folks to have access to.

[Motown_Johnny]

11. The quote I wish the super-committee had in mind while "negotiating"

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/d/dwightdei112029.html#ixzz1csC2xiP

^snip^

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)



This guy set the standard I think they should be trying to live up to.

[toddwv]

13. Isn't our shiny new stealth fleet still grounded?

They should fix the shit that we have first...