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The masters of war: Pentagon's top 10 contractors

Posted Mar 7th 2007 4:27PM by Tom Barlow (RSS feed)
Filed under: Boeing Co (BA), Lockheed Martin (LMT), United Technologies (UTX)

As unpleasant as it may be to consider the business of war, the War on Terrorism has had a significant impact on our economy. The Defense Department today released figures showing which companies are garnering the largest portions of the military spending to support both the war and ongoing operations.

The Pentagon's Top 10 Prime Contact award winners for 2006 are:

Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT), $26.6 billion, up from $19.4b in 2005.
Boeing (NYSE:BA) $20.3b, up from $18.3b in '05.
Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) $16.6b, up from $13.5b.
General Dynamics (NYSE:GD) $10.5b, down from $10.6b
Raytheon (NYSE:RTN) $10.1b, up from $9.1b
Halliburton (NYSE:HAL) $6.1b, up from $5.8b
L-3 Communications Holdings (NYSE:LLL) $5.2b, up from $4.7b
BAE Systems (BAESY) $4.7b, down from $5.6b
United Technologies (NYSE:UTX) $4.5b, down from $5.0b
Science Applications Int'l (NYSE:SAI) $3.2b, up from $2.8b