The Top 5 Contractors receiving federal government funds in Fiscal Year 2010 were:
Lockheed Martin Corp.: $35,828,421,340.83 in contracts
Boeing: $19,486,294,255.83 in contracts
Northrop Grumman Corp.: $16,797,921,451.22 in contracts
General Dynamics Corp.: $15,249,055,811.75 in contracts
Raytheon: $15,245,234,506.52 in contracts
Together, these five corporations received $102.6 Billion in federal contracts during Fiscal Year 2010. 19.4% of all federal contracting dollars — nearly one in five — flowed to these five corporations.
In just the 1st Quarter of 2011, these five corporations hired the following sets of lobbyists to push for policies to their benefit, in addition to running their own lobbying operations in-house:
| Lockheed Martin AB Managaement Associates Brachman, Marshall Capital Concepts Carliner Strategies LLC Clark & Weinstock Desmond, James Edington, Peel & Associates, Inc. Ervin Technical Associates, Inc. Etherton and Associates, Inc. Leach, David LHD & Associates, Inc. Lilly, Ralph Scott ML Strategies Monument Strategies, LLC National Group LLP Park Strategies Washington Group, LLC Podesta Group LLP Public Strategies Washington Rey, Mark Rose, Peter Sonny Callahan and Associates Squire Sanders Public Advocacy, LLC The Cohen Group The Walter Group Van Scoyoc Associates Venable LLP |
Boeing Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Cornerstone Government Affairs, LLC Denny Miller Associates Ernst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young) Etherton and Associates, Inc. Gephardt Group Government Affairs K&L Gates LLP McBee Strategic Consulting Monument Policy Group Podesta Group PriceWaterhouseCoopers Stapleton & Associates, LLC Washington2 Advocates |
Northrop Grumman American Defense International, Inc. Breaux Lott Leadership Group Carter Consulting, Inc. Commenator & Associates, Ltd. Commonwealth Consulting Corporation Elmendorf Ryan Ervin Technical Associates, Inc. Federal Initiatives FifeStrategies, LLC Innovative Federal Strategies Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre Kadesh & Associates, LLC Mattoon & Associates, LLC MD Ryan Associates Ms. Diane O’Toole Patton Boggs LLP PAW and Associates PRASAM Richard L. Collins & Company, Inc. The Livingston Group, LLC Tucker, Patrick |
General Dynamics American Defense International, Inc. Bergson & Company C. Baker Consulting, Incorporated Clark & Weinstock Commonwealth Consulting Corporation Congressional Strategies, LLC Denny Miller Associates Ervin Technical Associates, Inc. Etherton and Associates, Inc. FifeStrategies, LLC Haake And Associates Innovative Federal Strategies, LLC McBee Strategic Consulting, LLC Monument Policy Group, LLC Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough Podesta Group PRASAM Prime Policy Group Richard L. Collins & Company, Inc. Robison International, Inc. Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP Sneed, Robert The Gallagher Group, LLC The Grossman Group, LLC Turner Pollard Strategies, LLC Williams and Jensen, PLLC |
Raytheon
American Defense International, Inc.
Baker Botts L.L.P.
Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz
Balzano Associates, Inc.
Barbour Griffith & Rogers, LLC d/b/a BGR Government Affairs
Breaux Lott Leadership Group
C. Baker Consulting, Incorporated
Denny Miller Associates
DLA Piper LLP (US)
Etherton and Associates, Inc.
G.L. Merritt & Associates, Inc.
Innovative Federal Strategies, LLC
King & Spalding LLP
PRASAM
Richard L. Collins & Company, Inc.
RPI Group, Inc.
Thompson Advisory Group
Each of these is a military weapons manufacturer. Each has an interest in maintaining the money flow. Does this help explain why Washington DC is the way it is? Why the world is the way it is?
Oh i think you could add the energy companies to that list (as well as all of us who drive fossil-fuel powered devices):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/may/29/carbon-emissions-nuclearpower
You should be ashamed for publishing this. Know thy enemy? You are apparently the enemy. Every time someone publishes shit like this freedom and liberty come closer to disappearing. I just spent the day at the WWII museum and it is due to companies like this that we rescued not only America but the world from the cold hard fist of tyranny. It is because of companies like this that humanity is protected and we are safe from another Holocaust. You also apparently forget 9/11 and the many brave Americans who responded to the call of duty. It is due to people like you that after times of war soldiers are spit on rather than given the respect they deserve for defending your liberty to even post this trash. Here you sit claiming that the people who are providing you the freedom you choose to disrespect are the enemy when you need look no farther than a mirror to know the true enemy.
So information about corporate collusion is spitting on people.
That’s an interesting point of view, to say the least.