It takes money to spend money

The Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) is the organization within DoD that actually pays the bills. Eventually every contract action will lead to DFAS sending money to the company doing the work. SAIC has won a contract to build software to train the DFAS employees on policies and regulations. See a story here.

DoD awards contract to manage retiree pay

Lockheed Martin won a small contract, $27 M, to manage the DoD Retiree and Annuitant pay system. See the story here. As with the medical system DoD must make sure that its retirees and survivor dependents receive their money. It is a recruitment and retention issue.