Monday, Jan. 26, 1959
Who Got What
U.S. industry's biggest single customer totted up its annual accounting of who got what in fiscal 1958. All told last year, said the Defense Department, military contracts totaled $21.8 billion, of which 75% went to 100 top prime contractors.
The ten biggest and some of their important contracts:
P: Boeing Airplane Co., with $2.1 billion, including 6-52 bombers, KC-135 jet tankers and Bomarc missiles.
P:General Dynamics Corp., $1.4 billion, including F-102 and F106 fighters, B58 supersonic bombers, atomic submarines, the Atlas ICBM.
P: General Electric Co., $783.4 million, including jet engines, atomic submarine and ship reactors, electronic gear for virtually every missile in the U.S. arsenal.
P: Lockheed Aircraft Corp., $755.1 million, including F-104 fighters, C-130 Hercules transports, the submarine-launched Polaris IRBM.
P:United Aircraft Corp., $661.1 million, including J57 and J-75 jet engines, helicopters.
P:American Telephone & Telegraph Co., $659.8 million, including the SAGE electronic air-defense system, the Distant Early Warning (DEW) line, the "White Alice" Alaskan communications system, ICBM guidance systems.
P: North American Aviation, Inc., $647.7 million, including F-100 and F107 fighters, the Navy's A3J twin-jet supersonic bomber, engines for the Atlas, other rocket engines.
P:Douglas Aircraft Co., $513.4 million, including Navy jet fighters and bombers, Air Force light bombers, Nike antiaircraft missiles and Thor IRBM.
P: Hughes Aircraft Co., $472.6 million, including Falcon air-to-air missiles and jet fire-control systems.
P: Martin Co., $400.2 million, including piston-and jet-engined Navy patrol flying boats, the Titan ICBM and other missiles.
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