Entry #0005 · SAM.gov Subcontract Reports
A $39 Trillion Antenna
A SAM.gov subcontract report puts a single C-band radar antenna at over $39T.
Part of GOV422, a catalog of errors we find in federal procurement data.
GOV422
Unprocessable entity
#0005
Record detail
- "subcontract_id"
- "JH11-00071"
- "description"
- "NMIS C-BAND RADAR ANTENNA"
- "subcontract_amount"
- invalid value: "$39,157,943,915,794.00"
- "pct_of_prime_award"
- invalid value: "9,107,462.1%"
- "source"
- "SAM.gov Subcontract Reports"
L3Harris holds a $430 million Navy contract for flight-test instrumentation. Five days before Christmas 2023, a subcontract for a single C-band radar antenna was reported at $39.16 trillion. Contractors self-report these numbers to SAM.gov, and checking the math is left to the user. NORAD has tracked Santa by radar every Christmas Eve since 1955; who knew antennas were so expensive?
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