One of these companies is a lot more profitable than the other."A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money." -- Senator Everett DirksenThe honorable senator from Illinois went down in the history books with this famous quip about government spending -- which is nowhere truer than in the defense department, where billion-dollar paydays pop up with regularity. Still, when I took a look at the list of Pentagon contracts published on July 31 in particular, I admit my eyes did gog ...