‘Darkmarks’ spending boosts biggest defense contractors

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Of the roughly 1,040 Pentagon procurement programs–the $99.3 billion part of the Defense budget devoted to purchasing new equipment–some 212 of them, worth $21.4 billion, fund the work of a single company.

The Army wants $551 million to buy surface-to-air missiles from Lockheed Martin. The Navy wants to spend $157 million the aerospace giant’s KC-130J tanker plane. The Air Force has $291 million worth ofJASSM missiles on its wish list.

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