Little Govt Contractor Math 101 for ya to digest...
Last year all aircraft squadron hangar dock floors (regardless of aircraft squadron) were scrubbed with machines, paint chips/dust vacuumed into huge HEPA filtration containers, and each dock, one at the time, repainted with epoxy paint. All hazardous areas, green areas, red areas, and yellow walkways striped, etc, etc. Each dock was repainted to the tune of $88K per dock. In C-17's alone there are 10 docks btwn three hangars...a fraction of the total docks that were scrubbed/re-painted. This is still on-going by the way...
Now the hangar/dock lighting upgrades are in full effect. Each dock in C-17's has 72 metal halide lights in the ceilings...four docks each in two of our hangars, and two docks in the other hangar. 720 lights total just in C-17's. C-5's larger hangars have almost 50% more lights than we do per dock to give some perspective. The contractors, out of central Florida, brought eight 80-ft JLG's with 'em when they started. And they are knocking this *s-wordt out quick replacing each metal halide light with a 4ft, six strip LED (3 strips each side of the center of the light).
I'll let some of you take a wild ass guess as to what this is costing Uncle Sugar...just for the C-17 hangars alone, much less all flightline hangars. I'll give ya a hint...the HMFIC of this electrical contracting company can retire five times over after all this LED lighting upgrade is said and done, across all these hangars.