The Top Contract Categories - Aircraft
| Rank | Parent Company | Amount ($000s) | Market Share (%) |
| DoD Aircraft | |||
| Total Purchases $34,949,558,000 | |||
| 1 | Boeing Co. | 9,765,459 | 27.94 |
| 2 | Lockheed Martin Corp. | 7,594,449 | 21.73 |
| 3 | United Technologies Corp. | 3,594,081 | 10.28 |
| 4 | General Electric Co. | 1,541,110 | 4.41 |
| 5 | Northrop Grumman Corp. | 1,284,657 | 3.68 |
| 6 | Raytheon Co. | 1,230,095 | 3.52 |
| 7 | General Dynamics Corp. | 1,001,874 | 2.87 |
| 8 | Honeywell Inc. | 466,554 | 1.33 |
| 9 | Veritas Capital Inc. | 404,528 | 1.16 |
| 10 | Stewart & Stevenson Services | 372,883 | 1.07 |
| 11 | General Motors Corp. | 367,954 | 1.05 |
| 12 | DynCorp | 360,957 | 1.03 |
| 13 | Rolls Royce PLC | 327,208 | 0.94 |
| 14 | Textron Inc. | 306,207 | 0.88 |
| 15 | SAIC | 282,972 | 0.81 |
| 16 | Carlyle Group | 214,718 | 0.61 |
| 17 | TRW Inc. | 193,488 | 0.55 |
| 18 | BAE Systems | 161,354 | 0.46 |
| 19 | B.F. Goodrich Co. | 141,960 | 0.41 |
| 20 | Parker-Hannifin Corp. | 137,085 | 0.39 |
| 21 | Government of Canada | 128,736 | 0.37 |
| 22 | Engineered Support Systems Inc. | 127,834 | 0.37 |
| 23 | United Industrial Corp. | 126,981 | 0.36 |
| 24 | Teledyne Technologies Inc. | 120,608 | 0.35 |
| 25 | MITRE Corp. | 108,920 | 0.31 |
| 26 | Rockwell Automation | 106,273 | 0.30 |
| 27 | Pemco Aviation Group | 92,205 | 0.26 |
| 28 | ITT Industries | 78,532 | 0.22 |
| 29 | Berkshire Hathaway | 70,882 | 0.20 |
| 30 | General Atomics Tech. Corp. | 66,399 | 0.19 |
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