{"id":43562,"date":"2018-08-13T07:45:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T07:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2018\/08\/13\/the-list-is-here-the-largest-defense-companies-on-the-globe-revealed\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:40:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:40:37","slug":"the-list-is-here-the-largest-defense-companies-on-the-globe-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/top-100\/2018\/08\/13\/the-list-is-here-the-largest-defense-companies-on-the-globe-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"The list is here: The largest defense companies on the globe, revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-smg-jwplayer-video\"><atype-video-jwplayer nostick=\"true\" playlisturl=\"https:\/\/cdn.jwplayer.com\/v2\/playlists\/fCzRqMW8?tags=7f39ca54-13cd-443f-be22-9cd1dadaea67\" poster=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/video-poster-7f39ca54-13cd-443f-be22-9cd1dadaea67.jpg\" aspectratio=\"16 \/ 9\" mute autostart=\"false\"><\/atype-video-jwplayer><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Find out from Defense News Executive Editor Jill Aitoro as we reveal the Defense News Top 100 list.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People like lists. And certainly, there are plenty of lists to come by in our space \u2014 some are based on contract awards, some are based on total revenue. To quote a really terrible proverb, there are many ways to skin a cat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How we do it is to <a href=\"http:\/\/people.defensenews.com\/top-100\/\" target=_blank>rank companies by defense revenue<\/a> \u2014 that is, sales that support efforts in military, intelligence and aspects of homeland security. It\u2019s a tactic that we believe isolates the one statistic that best reflects market presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it\u2019s not an easy statistic to come by. We ask companies to dig up and submit to us the totals, which can often be strewn across multiple business units and programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/people.defensenews.com\/top-100\/\" target=_blank><b>See this year\u2019s Top 100 list!<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many do, but some don\u2019t. In certain cases we can pretty safely find the numbers ourselves (particularly when they release annual earnings). Other times we can get input from the analyst community to draw reasonable conclusions. Trickier still are companies in Japan, where we can only get contract data from the Defense Ministry. And in some cases, whether it be the tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon or private companies like General Atomics that play in both civilian and defense markets, some can\u2019t or won\u2019t participate. 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