About the Numbers

The rankings of top contractors and top-spending agencies in this issue are compiled for Government Executive by Eagle Eye Publishers Inc. of Fairfax, Va., from data contained in the General Services Administration's Federal Procurement Data System for fiscal 2003. The center gets its information from reports on contracting filed by agencies.

Most of the vendors listed in the rankings are private, for-profit U.S. companies, but universities, nonprofit institutions and foreign-owned firms also are represented. The data cover only prime contracts worth more than $25,000. They also omit spending by intelligence agencies.

Companies ranked in this issue are parent companies; outlays to subsidiaries are "rolled up" to the parent. For joint ventures, we have assigned each partner an equal portion of payments made under the contract in 2003. Mergers and acquisitions are not reflected in the listings unless they became final before fiscal 2003 ended.

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