WRITTEN ON June 27th, 2007 BY William Heath AND STORED IN What do we want?, Wibbipedia/MindtheGap

Knowing of my interest in such amtters, the lovely Martha has me sent a ” title=”list of the top US federal contractors”>list of the top US federal contractors:

At least 22 companies made Washington Technology’s 2007 list of top federal prime contractors because they received more than $1 billion from government contracts in fiscal year 2006, according to data compiled by FedSources, Inc.

Lockheed Martin leads the list with $12.7 billion, nearly 75% higher than the second ranking company, Boeing, which reported $7.3 billion in government sales. The others in the top 22, in descending order, are:

* Northrop Grumman Corp.
* KBR Inc.
* Science Applications International Corp.
* Raytheon Co.
* General Dynamics Corp.
* Fluor Corp.
* L-3 Communications Corp.
* EDS Corp.
* Computer Sciences Corp.
* Battelle Memorial Institute
* Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
* Bechtel Group Inc.
* BAE Systems Inc.
* ITT Industries Inc.
* Dell Inc.
* IBM Corp.
* Verizon Communications Inc.
* United Technologies Corp.
* Harris Corp.
* CACI International Inc.

The rankings were based on GSA’s Federal Procurement Data System database of federal contract actions of $25,000 or more in FY 2006. Describing “How We Got Our Numbers,” Washington Technology cautions that the data may be skewed because:

* Agencies report contract actions that are worth more than $25,000 and are obligated to prime contractors. Such amounts represent actual spending on a contract during the time period analyzed, not over the contract’s life.
* The reports are for prime contracting only and do not include subcontracting dollars.
* GSA Schedule transactions of more than $25,000 are included, but some agencies are better than others at reporting their GSA spending.

You have to say it. Wibbi our world were less dominated by arms manufacturers and taxpayers spent a great deal more money on non-violent conflict resolution.