The US Department of Defense (DoD) has released figures today showing the largest recipients of defence contracts last year.
Lockheed Martin came top of the table with almost $20 billion worth of contracts last year. BAE Systems was the only non-US company in the top ten, with close to $6 billion worth of prime contract awards last year.
In the fiscal year 2005, DoD prime contract awards totalled $269.2 billion, $38.5 billion more than in the same period a year perviously. According to the new report, the top 10 defence contractors for fiscal 2005 were as follows:
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TOP 10 COMPANIES RECEIVING US DoD PRIME CONTRACT |
AWARDS (2005) |
|
Company |
Value |
|
Lockheed Martin |
$19.4 billion |
|
Boeing |
$18.3 billion |
|
Northrop Grumman |
$13.5 billion |
|
General Dynamics |
$10.6 billion |
|
Raytheon |
$9.1 billion |
|
Halliburton |
$5.8 billion |
|
BAE Systems |
$5.6 billion |
|
United Technologies |
$5 billion |
|
L-3 Communications |
$4.7 billion |
|
Computer Sciences |
$2.8 billion |
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Read the full report from the directorate for information operations and reports of the Department of Defense's statistical information analysis division's web site.
Source: Flight International
