Larger DoD deal for local coal supplier

This military contract stuff is getting to be big business for Nashville-based Delta Coals. A year after having its annual contract to supply coals to the Army and Marine Corps upsized to more than $8 million, the company founded by a former Vanderbilt University trustee has been chosen again (over nine other bidders this time) and been given a contract that is worth more than $11.6 million.