The end of a fiscal quarter in Washington is a funny time -- and the end of a fiscal year at the Pentagon even more so.
As the clock starts ticking down to the final days of a quarter, the Pentagon's contracts clerks shift into overdrive, finalizing and pushing out the door dozens of defense contract announcements daily until the new quarter begins. And so it was that on Friday, September 27, the penultimate workday of the fiscal year, the U.S. Department of Defense announced 115 separate contracts in a single day.
(To put that in context, last Thursday, DoD announced a grand total of four contracts.)