LARGEST DEFENSE CONTRACTORS AND THEIR SUBSIDIARY .

RACTORSCORPORATIONS1973ISSUED ANNUALLY BYDEPARTMENT OF DEFENSEOASD (COMPTROLLER)DIRECTORATE FOR INFORMATION OPERATIONS2 November 1973

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100 CC)4PANIES AND THEIR SUBSIDIARY CORPORATIONSLISTED ACCORDING TO NETr VALUE OF MILITARYPRIME CONTRACT AWARDSFISCAL YEAR 1973The net value of military prime contracts awarded by the Departmentof Defense to United States contractors for research and development,services, constructionand supplies and equipment during fiscal year 1973totaled 31,627 million, a drop of 1,735 million from the dollar levelof contracts awarded in fiscal year 1972.The general decline in procuremept during fiscal year 1973 was evidentin most major programs of the DoD and particularly in hardgoods programssuch as, aerospace and ammunition which are dininated by large contractors.However, the continuing high overall level of awards in major hardgoodsindustries concentrated more than 68.6% of the total prime contracts of 10,000 or more awarded to U. S. contractors in the top 100 contractors.These 100 contractors, which together with their subsidiaries are predominantly major equipment and weapons system suppliers, received contractawards ranging from 36 million to more than 1.7 billion. Of the 31.6billion in defense prime contracts awarded to all U.S. contractors infiscal year 1973, 21.7 billion or 68.6% was awarded to the top 100contractors. In fiscal year 1972 the top 100 contractors received 24.Jbillion or 72.1% of the volume of awards placed with all U. S. contractors.The table which follows show that the first five contractors on the top100 list1973.received 20.1% of all awards given to U. S. contractors in fiscal yearPercent of U. S. 3.52.8167%21.321.3%20.i%6 - 1011 - 2510.516.813.513.917.352.1%16.011.717.026 - 5013.3-51 - 756.6ll.05.811.56.03.45th1 - 5 FY 19701- 2576 - 1oo1 - 1002.803.8;9.7%3.272.1%72.1%10.45.93.5

Lockheed Aircraft Corp., as in the past five years, is in thenumber one position. This contractor received 1,659 million in fiscalyear 1973 compared with a total of 1,705 million in fiscal year 1972.Fourteen contractors not appearing on the list last year are amongthe top 100 companies this year. Of these, one appears in position 50,one in position 58 and the balance between positions 71 and 100.Companies Listed in FY 1972Bat Not in FY 1973Ccmpanies Listed in FY 1973But Not in FY 1972MJ4Atlantic Richfield Co.Blair Algernon, Inc.Blake Const. Co. & U. S. Industries,(JV)Bulova Watch Co., Inc.Burroughs Corp.Centex Corp.Computer Sciences Corp.Cutler-Hammer, Inc.Dynalectron Corp.Hunt Building Corp.Kaiser Industries Corp.Pacific Corp.United States Steel Corp.Whittaker Corp.Colt Industries, Inc.Diamond Reo Trucks, Inc.Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp.Federal Cartridge Co.Flying Tiger Corp.Gulf & Western IndustriesItek Corp.Kiewit Morrison Fischbach (JV)Marathon Mfg. Co.Ogden Corp.Pacific Architects & Engineers, Inc.Raymond Morrison Knudsen (JV)Transamerica Corp.Xerox Corp.Of the 86 contractors appearing on the list in both fiscal year 1972and fiscal year 1973, 42 bettered their position, 40 were in a lower positionand 4 showed no change. Companies are considered as appearing on the listin both years despite mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and name changesif a major component of a newly constituted company or the newly constitutedcompany itself made the list as a component of a company in the top 100 inthe prior year.The most significant position change, both in dollar volume and rank,was for Textron, Inc. This company increased its contract volume by morethan 506 million and moved from 24th position in fiscal year 1972 to 7thplace in fiscal year 1973. Of major importance to this company in fiscalyear 1973 were awards received for work on the UH-I Iroquois and 214-AOther companies with major dollar volume increasescomercial helicopters.were the Raytheon Company and the General Electric Company. Whereas sevencompanies had received more than 1 billion each in fiscal year 1972 onlyfour companies reached this level in fiscal year 1973. This was thesmallest number of 1 billion companies since fiscal year 1970.2

Contract awards to the Raytheon Company which moved from twelfth placelast year to eleventh place this year, increased by 173 million. Inaddition to Textron, Inc. and the Raytheon Ccumpany, other companies withmajor position changes were: Asiatic Petroleum Corp. which went from 71stplace to 34th place; Chrysler Corp. from 57th to 30th; Eastman Kodak Co.from 62nd to 38th; Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. from 59th to 39th;Chamberlain Mfg. Corp. from 61st to 94th; Magnavox Co. from 45th to 73rd;Olin Corp. from 58th to 83rd and American Motors fram 30th to 51st place.-were: the changesOther changes concerning companies on this years listin name for Standard Oil of New Jersey which is now Exxon Corp. and NorthAmerican Rockwell Corp. which is now called Rockwell International Corp.Boeing Co. gave company status to its operating organizations (divisions).Some of the newly designated cumpanies are: Boeing Commercial Airplane Co.,Boeing Aerospace Co. and Boeing Vertol Co.Although the work performed by many of the contractors on the listincludes more than one procurement category, each contractor has beenassigned in the following table to the procurement category that accountsFor example, RCA Corp. is a multifor its major share of defense awards.industry company producing electronic and telecommunication equipment andindustrial and consumer products. For this table it is assigned to"Electronics", the procurement category accounting for its largest dollarOn this basis "Electronics" companiesvolume of DoD prime contract awards.increased by 3 from fiscal year 1972 while cumpanies engaged in "Missiles"decreased by 2.Number of CamvaniesF 1973ge1972Procurement CategoryFY"NAircraftMissiles2221-l1-3ll-2Ships34 !Tank ServicesConstructionPetroleum16ll29191010 3-i 2 1Subsistence00-Construction Equipment00-4During fiscal year 1973, four companies received military prime contractawards of 1 billion or more.These companies also received this dollarOf the companies in this group, General Electricvolume in fiscal year 1972.year moving up from fourthCo. showed the most significant change from lstto second position. The four companies and a brief description of their workbeing performed for the DoD are as follows:3,1WI

Lockheed Aircraft Corp. with a total of 1,659 million or 5.3%in DoDprime contract awards heads the list of the top 100 for the fifth consecutiveo------year. This was a decrease of 47 million from fiscal year 1972, however,the company's share of the total DoD contract volume was approximately thesame as last year. Whereas the pattern of awards in recent years has shw-nthe aircraft contracts for this company assignable to the C-5 Galaxy Aircraft,in fiscal year 1973 the largest contract volume was for the S-3A VikingAntisubmarine Warfare Aircraft. Other major aircraft awards, in additionthe S-3A, were for the C-5 and the C-130 Hercules Transport. Majormissile work included the Poseidon and Trident.)to-s!-VGeneralCElectric Company moved up to second place in fiscal year 1973displacing McDonnell Douglas Corp. which slipped to fourth position. Awardsreceived by the General Electric Company amounted to 1,416 miion for 4.5%of total. In fiscal year 1972, General Electric Company received 1,259million for 3.4% of total. Nuclear reactors and turbojet and turbofanaircraft engines were the major work of this cmpany. Other activity includedResearch and Development for the B-1 and work for the Minuteman missile.Boeing Company, in fifth place last year, moved up to third place thisyear. This years contract volume reached 1,229 million, 58 million morethan last year; however, due to the overall drop in total awards the percentof total applicable to Boeing COaMPy increased from 3.5% in fiscal year 1972to 3.9%of total in fiscal year 1973. Boeing Caumpany's major work for theDoD continues in missiles and aircraft. Missile programs include the ShortW.angeAttack Missile (SRAM) and the Minutean. Aircraft work included sparesproduction for the B-52 Stratofortress Bomber Aircraft and ihe B-1.McDonnell Douglas Corp. in second place last year fell to fourth positionthis year as the volume of contracts awarded fell by 557 million.Totalawards received by this company during fiscal year 1973 amounted to 1,143million or 3.6%of total. In fiscal year 1972 awards totaled 1,700 millionor 5.1% of total. The major aircraft contracts for this company continueto be for the all weather F-4 Phantom and the F-15 fighter aircraft. Othermajor contracts are for the A-4 attack aircraft and Dragon missiles.NOTE' Included in the overall U. S. total, for the first time, areFDoD contracts for the Civilian Health and Medical Program of theUniformed Services (CHAMPUS). This program provides an improvedand uniform program of medical and dental care for m nbers andcertain former members of the uniformed services, and for theirdependents. Awards under this program were not included in DDprocurement statistics prior to this year. Although the volumeof dollars representing CHAMFJS contracts have been included inthe total for all U. S. companies, the Contractors involved inthis program, consisting of insurance ccupanies and nonprofitorganizations, have not been selected for the top 100 listalthough at least one (Mutual of 0maha) would qualify on thebasis of total dollar volume.4 . Ar - JJ4A

pINDEX OF 100 PARENT COMPANIES dHICH WITH THEIR SUBSIDIARIES RECEIVED THELARGEST DOLLAR VOLUME OF MILITAqY PRIME CONTRACT AWARDS IN FISCAL YEAR ------------4ANKPARENT T COMPANY------------- 87.41.IS.92.A M F, INCAEROSPACE CORP (N)AMERADA HESS CORPAMERICAN MOTORS CORPA"ERICAN TELEPHONE * TELEGRAPH C3ASIATIC PETROLEUM CORPATLANTIC RICHFIELD COAUTOMATION INDUSTRIES. INCAVCO CORPBENDIX CORPBLAIR ALGERNON INCBLAKE CONST CO * U S INDUSTRIES (V)BOEING COBULOVA MATCH CO. INCBURROUGHS CORPCENTEX CORPCHAMBERLAIN MFG CORPCHRYSLER CORPCITY INVESTING COCOLLINS RADIO COCOMPUTER SCIENCES CORPCONTROL DATA CORPCURTISS WRIGHT CORPCUTLER-HwAmER. INCDAY * ZIMMERMAN INCDUPONT E I DE REMOURS * CODYNALECTRON CORPE SYSTEMS. INCEASTMAN KODAK COEXXON CORPF M C CORPFAIRCHILD INDUSTRIES. INCFORD MOTOR COGENERAL DYNAMICS CORPGENERAL ELECTRIC COGENERAL KOTORS CORPGENERAL TELEPHONE * FLECTU CORPGENERAL TIPE * RUBBER CCGOODYEAR TIRE * RUBBFR COGOULD, INCGRUMMAN CORPGULF OIL CORPHARRIS-INTERTYPE CORPHERCULES. INCHONEYWELL INCHUGHES AIRCRAFT COHUNT BUILDING CORPI C I AMERICA. INCINTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES COINTERNATIONAL HARVESTER 67 .16.1.73.24.61.35,4, 13.78,-INTEPN&ATIONAL TELEPHONE * TEL COQPJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (k)KAISER INDUSTRIES CORPKAMAN CORPKIDDE WALTER * CO INCL T V CORPLEAR SIEGLER INCLITTON INDUSTRIES, INCLOCKHEED AIRCRAFT CORPMAGNAVoX COMARTIN MARIETTA CORPMASGN * HANGER SILAS MASON COMASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE TECHOLOGY"CDDNNELL DOUGLAS CORP"I T RE !THE) CORP (N)MOBIL OIL CORPMOTOROLA INCNATIONAL PRESTO INDUSTRIES IN:MORRIS INDUSTRIESNORTmROP CORPOLIV CORPPACIFIC CORPPAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS ItCR C A CORPRAYTHEON COREYNOLDS (RJi INDUSTRIES. INCROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL CORPSANDERS ASSOCIATES kCSEATRAIN LIKES INCSHELL OIL COSIGNAL COMPANIES INC (THE)SINGER COSPERRY RAND CORPSTANDARD OIL CO OF CALIFSTANDARD OIL OF INDIAN&SVERDRUP , PARCEL * ASSOCS INCSYSTEM DEVELOPMENT CORPT R v INCTELEDYNE INCTENNECO INCTEXACO INCTEXAS INSTRUNENTS INCTEXTRON INCTHIOKOL CHEMICAL CORPUNIROYAL INCUNITED AIRCRAFT CORPUNITED STATES STEEL CORPUESTERN UNION CORPWESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPWHITTAKER CORP------------------------------(N) NonprofitVV) Joint Venture5