The U.S. Defense Department awarded several hundred contracts last month in a fiscal year-end surge of activity as officials raced to ink deals before the government shutdown.
The Pentagon in September announced almost 730 awards potentially worth about $47 billion, according to a Military.com analysis of the Pentagon’s daily contract announcements.
The value doesn’t include tens of billions of dollars in previously announced Army alternative-energy contracts, or reflect what is actually spent, or obligated, because many deals are only partially funded at first.
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