Check Out America's Biggest Defense Purchases From The Past Week

http://www.businessinsider.com/if-youre-an-american-taxpayer-check-out-what-cost-you-4-billion-last-week-2012-8

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$500 million for Air Force Rockets
Four companies — Launch Systems Group, ATK Launch Systems, L-3 Communications and Space Vector Corporation are each given $125 million as a modification to the Sounding Rocket program.


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$306 million to upgrade Bradley fighting vehicles
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have led to significant wear and tear on the Bradley Fighting vehicles that served throughout the conflicts, and BAE Systems has been tapped to re-manufacture them and get them back into fighting shape.


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$250 million for battle space awareness tech
Four companies — Cambridge International Systems, Mandex Inc, Grove Resource Solutions, and United JV are splitting a quarter of a billion dollars developing and integrating new ways to oversee and observe a battlefield.


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DARPA Double-shot: Two contracts worth $27 million for cylons and super-factories
DARPA had two big announcements this week.
The first was that Penn State will get $16.2 million to develop DARPA's Instant Foundry Adaptive Through Bits program. That program seeks to change the way manufacturing is accomplished. Instead of a single facility devoted to building a single defense project — like one factory capable of only building Humvees — the program wants to explore the possibility of making factories that are capable of making many kinds of products, all by using a programmable, easily reconfigurable production line.


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