Top 25 NASA Contractors

August 15, 2006

Total Purchases: $14,490,498,720

**Fiscal 2005 Contract Awards**
Rank	Parent Company	Amount $	Market Share
1	Lockheed Martin Corp.	$2,346,511,494	16.19%
2	Boeing Co.	2,323,406,458	16.03
3	California Institute of Technology	1,408,595,123	9.72
4	Northrop Grumman Corp.	438,427,623	3.03
5	SAIC	404,686,006	2.79
6	Alliant Techsystems Inc.	384,582,105	2.65
7	Honeywell Inc.	315,373,112	2.18
8	Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.	293,315,949	2.02
9	Raytheon Co.	213,447,948	1.47
10	Johns Hopkins University	173,165,277	1.20
11	Group 4 Securicor PLC	162,830,284	1.12
12	QSS Group	145,557,978	1.00
13	University of California System	144,942,652	1.00
14	Swales Aerospace	132,203,581	0.91
15	United Technologies Corp.	125,990,802	0.87
16	Computer Sciences Corp.	125,972,494	0.87
17	Ball Corp.	110,340,903	0.76
18	University of Maryland System	101,809,030	0.70
19	Wyle Laboratories Inc.	101,454,119	0.70
20	ITT Industries	100,025,958	0.69
21	Government of Canada	97,938,136	0.68
22	Universities Space Research Association	97,028,823	0.67
23	SGT Inc.	80,153,934	0.55
24	Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc.	76,808,402	0.53
25	Stanford University	68,394,750	0.47

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