War as business

Top U.S. Defense
Contractors for Fiscal
Year 1998
(Compiled by counterpunch.org)
CONTRACTOR 
1. Lockheed/Martin$12,341,236,000
2. Boeing$10,865,899,000
3. Raytheon/Hughes$5,661,161,000
4. General Dynamics$3,679,867,000
5. Northrop Grumman$2,690,742,000
6. United Technologies$1,983,147,000
7. Textron, Inc.$1,837,815,000
8. Litton Industries$1,644,465,000
9. Newport News Shipbuilding$1,546,634,000
10. TRW, Inc.$1,347,903,000
11. The Carlyle Group$1,328,834,000
12. Science Applications International$1,223,978,000
13. General Electric Company$1,161,392,000
14. Humana, Inc.$867,453,000
15. GTE, Corporation$787,073,000
16. ITT Industries$780,794,000
17. General Electric, PLC$732,057,000
18. Allied Signal$655,994,000