Department of Defense has released its annual spending report for the Fiscal Year 2021

The Department of Defense has released its annual spending report for the Fiscal Year 2021. The report revealed the Defense Department spent 10.5-billion dollars in personnel and contract funding in Missouri last fiscal year. The biggest beneficiary was the St. Louis area, which netted a lion’s share of the federal largesse–8.8-billion dollars, with Boeing Corporation receiving 6.9-billion dollars of that amount. Pulaski County and Fort Leonard Wood received 255.3-million dollars in contract funding in FY-2021 and 617 million dollars in personnel funding. In FY 2020, Missouri received 12.5-billion dollars in D-O-D personnel and contract funding.