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Washington Technology released their annual list of the Top 100 government IT contractors. Based on defense revenue these are the Top Ten companies:

Lockheed Martin
Boeing
Northrop Grumman
Raytheon
KBR Inc.
General Dynamics
L-3 Communications
SAIC
ITT Corporation
CSC

Lockheed had almost $11 billion in revenue while ITT and CSC came in around $2.4 billion. Not surprisingly these are similar to the list of big system developer and producers for the Department of Defense.

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Matthew Potter works supporting US Army aviation programs. He holds degrees in history as well as studying at the Defense Acquisition University. He has written for Seeking Alpha and at his own website, Defense Procurement News.

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