1999 Top Telecommunications Contractors
TOTAL PURCHASES $11,610,649,000
| Rank | Parent Company | Amount ($000s) | Market Share |
| 1 | Raytheon Co. | $1,297,468 | 11.17% |
| 2 | Lockheed Martin Corp. | 915,312 | 7.88 |
| 3 | AT&T | 800,002 | 6.89 |
| 4 | Boeing Co. | 747,776 | 6.44 |
| 5 | Northrop Grumman Corp. | 587,162 | 5.06 |
| 6 | GTE Corp. | 386,077 | 3.33 |
| 7 | ITT Industries | 319,230 | 2.75 |
| 8 | Sprint Corp. | 288,393 | 2.48 |
| 9 | Motorola Inc. | 284,733 | 2.45 |
| 10 | General Electric Co. PLC | 243,460 | 2.10 |
| 11 | IBM Corp. | 243,216 | 2.09 |
| 12 | MCI WorldCom | 235,077 | 2.02 |
| 13 | Bell Atlantic Corp. | 220,304 | 1.90 |
| 14 | Rockwell International Corp. | 215,505 | 1.86 |
| 15 | Litton Industries Inc. | 212,970 | 1.83 |
| 16 | TRW Inc. | 204,214 | 1.76 |
| 17 | Harris Corp. | 187,813 | 1.62 |
| 18 | Lucent Technologies Inc. | 112,478 | 0.97 |
| 19 | Allied-Signal Inc. | 111,805 | 0.96 |
| 20 | C&R Contract Services | 94,825 | 0.82 |
Rankings, which are for the total federal government, are drawn from both the Product Service and SIC codes and are based on
prime contracts of $25,000 or more.
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