Our friend Joe at Defense Industry Daily has done some brilliant analysis of DoD contract award announcements and come up with the following: The military spent over $4 billion in awarding gas contracts during the month of March 2007 alone. This figure exceeds last year's by over $1 billion.
The hefty sum adds some immediacy to what Steve Trimble reported here some weeks ago. (At this rate the military may be bankrupt by 2050.)
Click here to read the entire article, including detailed breakdown of contract awards.
-- Ward
![A cameraman films U.S. Navy SEALs during an episode of the Fox network television series "24" at Camarillo Airport in 2008.](http://images04.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2024-04/mil-filming-seals-in-series-24-1800.jpg?itok=WZFSEAJB "A cameraman films U.S. Navy SEALs during an episode of the Fox network television series "24" at Camarillo Airport in 2008. (U.S. Navy)")
