Pentagon’s November Contracts Rose 46% as Shutdown Backlog Eased
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Pentagon contracts rose 46 percent last month to $23 billion as the military began clearing a bottleneck caused by October’s partial U.S. government shutdown.
Three of the top five agreements went to Lockheed Martin Corp., Cardinal Health Inc. and Bechtel Group Inc., and they accounted for more than a third of the total, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.