VI. TRACKING OTHER MILITARY CONTRACTORS
1. The latest chart showing the top ten US Military Contractors and their share of contracts paid with our tax dollars. Also includes URL for top 100 contractors and their subsidiaries.
Corporations with large missile defense contracts are also indicated. And Corporations involved in production of depleted uranium weapons. Two of the best websites for tracking weapons production and arms sales are Federation of American Scientists at www.fas.org (click on arms sales or arms sales monitoring) and Arms Trade Resource Center at http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/
2. War Profiteers
War profiteering in Iraq by Bechtel, Halliburton and others Listing of major war corporations profiteering from both nuclear weapons and militarization of space. (WILPF note: These are the “top five” DISARM: Dismantle the War Economy Campaign deems most dangerous to our conduct of foreign policy and to our economy and political system in the USA.) 3. Universities and Bio-Defense: Academics chase Pentagon and Homeland Security contracts for research that may violate the Bio-weapons treaty because research funds for public health are disappearing. Are they also bringing deadly pathogens into your community?
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6) Suggested Guide for Study/Research/Action groups
Section VI: Resources for tracking other military contractors
Readings:
Major Military Contractors in the USA (including Internet resources on top ten, top 100, on contractors involved in missile defense and in depleted uranium) War Profiteers
1) Major Military Contractors: This is only one of the charts that can be accessed at the URL given in this section. Also available are the Top 100 Corporations with the size of their contracts, and another table displaying the Top 100 and Their Subsidiaries. The site gives a good view of the top crust of the total military-industrial complex. The tables may also help you detect corporations in your own region that you had not realized were so heavily involved in the military economy. This document also includes names and websites of firms specializing in national missile defense contracts and in fabricating depleted uranium. 2) War profiteers : These pages include background information on war profiteering in Iraq by Bechtel (also a major nuclear weapons producer) and Halliburton for those interested in researching either of these firms. There is also a listing of major corporations involve in both nuclear weapons production and in space militarization as well as tips for tracking other military contractors. 3) Bio-defense: Monitoring those Universities seeking large Pentagon and Homeland Security grants for Bio-defense labs that bring deadly pathogens in our communities.
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Planning research: If you are intending to research a military contractor in your own area, this is the discussion session at which you can share any additional research and begin to lay your research and action plans. This section provides a broad over view of corporations involved in the militaryindustrial complex. Section VII provides numerous other links and suggestions for both research and action to get you on your way. If your group intends to concentrate on one or more of the detrimental effects of the military industry or on the positives of peace policy and economic conversion, we suggest that you refer to those sections before launching your project. You will also find many useful suggestions and links in the Research Action guide provided in Section VII. For groups using this section primarily for study purposes we suggest discussion on war profiteering in Iraq. In what more positive ways could the military budget for Iraq have been spent to improve life in that country and build positive relations and interchange with its people? What if some of those billions had been spent on a Department of Peace, or on conflict prevention and resolution? How would you have handled foreign policy prior to the invasion of Iraq?
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I. MAJOR MILITARY CONTRACTORS Top 10 Companies
The FY 2003 top 10 companies are listed below by rank, along with their FY 2002 rank and the dollar value of the awards received in both FY 2003 and FY 2002. Rank
2003 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 2002 1 2 3 5 4 6 37 11 7 21
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LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION BOEING COMPANY, THE NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION RAYTHEON COMPANY UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION HALLIBURTON COMPANY GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORP. COMPUTER SCIENCES CORPORATION
Awards (Billion $) 2003 2002 21.9 17.0 17.3 16.6 11.1 8.7 8.2 7.0 7.9 7.0 4.5 3.6 3.9 0.5 2.8 1.6 2.6 2.1 2.5 0.8
WEBSITES OF TOP 10 U.S. MILITARY CORPORATIONS
Lockheed Martin Boeing Company Northrup Grumman General Dynamics Raytheon United Technologies Halliburton General Electric Science Applications Int’l Computer Sciences Corp. www.lockheedmartin.com www.boeing.com www.northgrum.com www.generaldynamics.com www.raytheon.com www.utc.com www.halliburton.com www.ge.com www.saic.com www.csc.com
Note: Three U.S. and two British aerospace corporations (Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce) have formed an “e-commerce” arrangement, to expedite procurement from sub-contractors, reduce cycle times and lower costs (a bizarre bazaar). At www.exostar.com To view the Top 10 and Top 100 military corporations and their subsidiaries. go to:: http://www.dior.whs.mil/peidhome/procstat/p01/fy2003/top100.htm . Find the mil-corp nearest to you and your own community!!!
Corporations with major National Missile Defense Contracts
Corporation: Boeing Co. Johns Hopkins University (Applied Physics Lab) Lockheed Martin Web Site: www.boeing.com www.jhuapl.edu www.lockheedmartin.com
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Raytheon www.raytheon.com Northrup Grumman www.northgrum.com Sparta Inc. www.sparta.com United Missile Defense Co. (Joint venture of Lockheed Martin, Raytheon & Northrup Grumman) Note: The NMD program receives more funding than any other weapons system in the annual Pentagon budget. The FY’05 request totals $10.2 billion. ( www.space4peace.org ) Major missile defense plants near you: If you live in or near one of these communities you may want to track the local plant involved in missile defense work. Aberdeen, S. Dakota: United Defense Bethesda, Maryland: Lockheed Clearwater Florida: Honeywell Colorado Springs, Colorado: Northrup-Grumman-TRW El Segundo, California: Northrup-Grumman-TRW Gaitherstown, Maryland: Lockheed Huntsville, Alabama: United Defense MacLean, Virginia: Northrup-Grumman-TRW Minneapolis, Minnesota: United Defense Orlando, Florida: Lockheed Reston, Virginia: SI International St. Louis, Missouri: Boeing and Bell Aerospace and Technology Sunnyside California: Lockheed Tamaqua, Pennsylvania: Valley Technologies, Inc. Troy, Alabama: Lockheed Tucson, Arizona: Raytheon For background information on missile defense, space militarization and Pentagon plans for global domination a good place to start is at www.wilpf.org. Click on the Disarmament button and explore ABOLITION for a wide variety of articles and links. Click on EYE on Congress for legislative alerts on missile defense budget and issues in Congress. Center for Defense Information (www.cdi.org ) is now one of the best sources of up-to-date information on missile defense and weapons in space. Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space (www.space4epeace.org ) is rich in resources and action possibilities as well as information on all aspects of space militarization.
Corporations Fabricating Depleted Uranium Ammunition
Corporation & location: Web site: Aerojet, Jonesboro, TN www.aerojet.com Alliant Techsystems, Edina, MN www.atk.com General Dynamics (was Primex Technologies), Red Lion, PA www.generaldynamics.com Mason & Hanger-Silas Mason Co., Middletown, IA www.americanordnance.com Starmet Corporation, Concord, MA (not in production; Superfund Site for DU & beryllium contamination) Source: www.antenna.nl/wise/uranium/dfac.html Starmet info: www.crewconcord.org/pages/problem.html Updated February 2004
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Further Tips for finding war industries in your community:
Lists of states and communities with Boeing, Lockheed, Raytheon and TRW (now part of Northrup Grumman) are at http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Locations_of_Boeing%2C_Lockheed_Martin%2C_Rayth eon%2C_and_TRW#California . They were compiled in the year 2000 and not all of the information is still accurate. The same Disinfopedia has information at http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Northrop_Grumman on locations of Northrup Grumman, which now also includes TRW. Another way to find locations of military industries in your area is to use your search engine (Google works best) and enter the name of a company (e.g. Lockheed-Martin) and the name of your city or your state. Play around with Google and you will uncover a lot of relevant information, and a lot of surprises, too! Write the WILPF national office if you want to receive copies in the mail of the quarterly DISARM UPDATE. The UPDATE includes reports on Branch DISARM activities, alerts on Mil-Corp ConneXions, and background information on militarization issues and WILPF efforts to build a culture and an economy of peace.
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II. WAR PROFITEERS
1) Aerospace and nuclear weapons war profiteering industries:
Note that the top five military contractors -- Lockheed Martin, Boeing Corporation, Northrup Grumman-TRW, General Dynamics and Raytheon are not only among our “dirty dozen” – they are also corporations pushing for development of missile defense, space domination and nuclear power and weapons in space. So are other aerospace industries profiting from missile defense, space weaponry and development of satellite systems for military purposes. In DISARM we believe these are the most dangerous of the private-for-profit military corporations. Firms like these have, with the encouragement of the Pentagon, even engaged in research and development on projects (like space weapons) not yet approved by Congress. Branches choosing to investigate a local facility of one of these corporations will also want to inquire into that corporation’s ties to the Administration and the Pentagon. CEOs, members of Boards of Directors, lobbyists and “top brass” tend to circulate between these corporations and the Pentagon. These relationships should be pursued and exposed.
These are the profiteering corporations that, together with the Pentagon, are pushing us into a permanent state of war.
2) BECHTEL WAR PROFITEERING and IRAQ WATER CONTROL
Is there a Bechtel operation near you? Bechtel not only lobbies for nuclear weapons related defense contracts, it profits from war itself. This email, sent by Voice4Change in 2003 to protest Bechtel’s nobid Pentagon contract for water project work in Iraq, high lights Bechtel profiteering at the expense of tax payers in a wide range of projects associated with water. From Changing Hearts and Minds, Voice4Change.org http://www.voice4change.org June 04, 2003 TAKE ACTION! STOP BECHTEL'S WAR PROFITEERING Tell your Senator that…. Our taxpayer dollars should be going to education, health care and other basic services rather than illegal, unnecessary and immoral wars. In the aftermath of the war on Iraq, our tax dollars should be going to genuine humanitarian and reconstruction efforts: NOT to corporations seeking to profit from the horror and tragedy of war NOT to the major corporate cronies of Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld NOT to corporations with a history of social, environmental and labor abuses NOT to efforts to expand U.S. markets and major U.S. corporate interests in the Middle East.
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We, the American people, have a right to full and complete information about the content of all contracts (using American taxpayer dollars) granted by the Department of Defense, USAID and other government agencies to U.S. corporations doing business in post-war Iraq. Full information about Bechtel’s contract is currently being denied to members of Congress and the American public. (The email begins with requests to support efforts of Senators Barbara Boxer, D-CA, Senator John Warner (R-VA), Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore), Susan Collins (RMaine), Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) and Robert Byrd (D-WV), Richard G. Lugar (R-IND) and Joseph R. Biden (D-DE) to halt awarding of no-bid contracts in Iraq to companies like Haliburton and Bechtel. In Bechtel’s case the profiteering is in relation to privatization of water, another major WILPF concern. The email continues . . .) Background Stop Bechtel's war profiteering. Stop the Bush Administration from taking money from our schools and communities to subsidize Bechtel theft of Iraq's water - leaving desperate human needs unmet in Iraq and the U.S. Lend your voice and activism to on-going community struggles against Bechtel. Two wars and over a decade of sanctions have crippled Iraq's infrastructure. It is imperative that the humanitarian needs of the Iraqi people - particularly the right to self-determination - take precedence in the rebuilding effort. Unfortunately, the Bush Administration is putting U.S. corporate profits over humanitarian needs, awarding a $680 million 18-month contract to the San Francisco-based Bechtel Corporation - a company with one of the worst human rights and environmental abuse records in the world, far more likely to line its own pockets than meet the needs of the Iraqi people, a company with intimate ties to the Bush Administration, and a company that helped bring us into the war in the first place and is now profiting from it. Bechtel will be given responsibility for drinking and wastewater systems in Iraq. A Bush Administration plan for "a broad-based Mass Privatization Program" of state-owned industries in Iraq may also include water - raising the specter of Bechtel seizing Iraq's water to increase profits at the expense of the Iraqi people. A few samples from Bechtel's record of putting profits over people provides ample reason for concern: Just over a year ago, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors canceled a contract with Bechtel for the management of the city's water systems upgrade. Bechtel was doing unnecessary and overpriced work and charged the city for tens of thousands of dollars worth of personal expenses. Many also feared that Bechtel had its eye on privatizing the city's water. After privatizing the water systems in Cochabamba, Bolivia, a Bechtel subsidiary made the price of water so expensive that many, particularly the poorest users, could no longer afford it. Bechtel then, at best, sat still while the Bolivian government met mass public protests with deadly force. In the end, the people of Cochabamba prevailed and the government canceled Bechtel's contract.
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In response, Bechtel is suing Bolivia for $25 million in lost profits. Warm Regards, Voice4Change.org http://www.voice4change.org
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Halliburton war profiteering:
Halliburton, largely an oil services company, is another war profiteer with a no-bid contract in Iraq and close ties to the Pentagon and Vice President Cheney. Multitudes of articles have appeared on company shenanigans. Here is a source From Mother Jones July/August 2003 (updated in the web version) HALLIBURTON: includes THE INTERACTIVE MAP : 58 off-shore tax shelters used by Halliburton, and text on contracts. Want to know where to find the 58 off-shore tax shelters used by Halliburton - the defense contractor whose fortunes became bloated with U.S. tax dollars under Dick Cheney's stewardship? Try the Cayman Islands (9 subsidiaries), Barbados, the Dutch Antilles, the Island of Jersey, Bahrain, Mauritius and tiny Lichtenstein. Mother Jones provides an on-line interactive map, complete with individual histories and a list of the company's key Defense Department contracts. According to the magazine, Halliburton's revenues rose 26% in one year after Cheney took over. Halliburton's overseas energy projects were subsidized by $3.3 billion in federal loans and guarantees. Cheney doubled the company's political contributions to $1.2 million. Federal investigators said the company "had the upper hand in the Pentagon, because it knew the process like the back of its hand." Go to:
http://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2003/28/we_455_01.html
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More on war profiteering and Iraq:
Remember to check www.uslaborabainstwar.org for The Corporate Invasion of Iraq: Profile of U.S. Corporations Awarded Contracts in U.S./ British-Occupied Iraq for 35 pages on major contractors, most of them “war profiteers.”
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War profiteering and Palestine/Israel:
For a good rundown on Caterpillar bulldozer use in Israel check http://www.freedefinition.com/Caterpillar-D9.html . Use Google and words like Caterpillar bulldozers Israel for more information, including re protest groups and UN warnings. For disturbing articles on plans of NASA and Jet propulsion Laboratories (a project of the California Institute of Technology) to build a huge facility in an Israeli settlement on the west bank check http://www.amin.org/eng/uncat/2004/apr/apr14.html. For more information use Google and the words Ariel settlement NASA.
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AND Get creative with your Google!!!
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You can track your university’s military contracts or contracts with Defense and Homeland Security Bio-defense and Bio-Shield projects, contracts of chemical corporations producing defoliants and “nonlethal” chemical weapons for the military, DARPA contracts, mind altering weapons, space weapons, Pentagon inter-relations with corporations and what have you!!! Look for land-mine contracts, track Alliant and other small arms and conventional munitions producers. Follow your own concerns and let us know what you find! In the internet we have a powerful tool to confront and expose the military-industrial complex. Let’s learn to use it!!!!!
III. UNIVERSITIES AND BIO-DEFENSE
The University of California is not the only institution of higher learning with large parts of its budget funded with military contracts. Universities and their academics need research grants and contracts to survive and grow, and the military is increasingly “where the money is.” Since 9/11 many of them – including Lawrence Livermore Laboratory (one of our Dirty Dozen) -- are aggressively pursuing biodefense grants from the Pentagon and Homeland Security. After the 2000 election the U.S. torpedoed the United Nations Monitoring and Inspection Protocol, which had been developed over a twelve year period to provide an enforcement mechanism for the BioWeapons ban. The President declared that inspection would not be in the interests of the United States, and soon after launched several multi-billion dollar research program, parts of which seem to be in violation of the Bio-Weapons treaty initiated by President Nixon in 19 . While some research projects may be useful, others are bringing deadly pathogens previously unknown in the U.S., like Ebola, into university laboratories in the heart of our communities. Research projects are reconstructing the bubonic plague and influenza viruses that killed millions in the past, and engineering entirely new viruses. Although billions are allocated for building “secure laboratories,” incidents of unintended infection and apparent thefts do occur. Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, now with the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation ( www.armscontrolcenter.org ) helped trace the source of anthrax used in the 2001 anthrax scare to a U.S. military laboratory. Read her articles on anthrax under Bio-weapons. In the absence of international inspections, which should be occurring in all countries to ensure Bioweapons treaty enforcement, WILPF DISARM encourages members to join in citizen’s watchdog groups monitoring or opposing these suspicious bio-defense research. One of the best of these bio-defense treaty monitoring groups is the Sunshine Project. Contact information, a map of planned and existing Bio-defense labs, and a list of sites including Universities and military bases appear on the next two pages. You can subscribe to the mailed quarterly newsletter and explore the website (www.sunshineproject.org) for a wealth of other information. Serious investigators should subscribe to Edward Hammond’s list serve which posts frequent alerts. Email hammond@sunshine-project.org .
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