Top 100 arms-producing and military services companies in the world excluding China, 2012

The SIPRI Top 100 arms-producing and military services companies in the world excluding China, 2012

The SIPRI Top 100 lists the world’s 100 largest arms-producing and military services companies (excluding Chinese companies)[a], ranked by their arms sales in 2012. The list is based on the comprehensive SIPRI Arms Industry Database, which contains financial and employment data on the world’s major arms-producing and military services companies.

• The SIPRI Top 100 for 2012 is the 25th edition of the SIPRI Top 100. For more on the coverage and methodology of the SIPRI Top 100 see the notes below and read the sources and methods.

• Arms and military services sales (‘arms sales’) are defined by SIPRI as sales of military goods and services to military customers, including sales for both domestic procurement and export.Military goods and services are those that are designed specifically for military purposes and include the technologies related to these goods and services. Military goods are military-specific equipment and do not include general-purpose goods, such as oil, electricity, office computers, uniforms and boots. Military services are also military-specific. They include technical services, such as information technology, maintenance, repair and overhaul, and operational support; services related to the operation of the armed forces, such as intelligence, training, logistics and facilities management; and armed security in conflict zones. They do not include the peacetime provision of purely civilian services—such as health care, cleaning, catering and transportation—but supply services to operationally deployed forces are included.

Figures for arms sales, total sales and total profit are in millions of US dollars.

Rank[b]		Company[c]	Country	Arms sales (US$ m.)		Total sales, 2012 (US$ m.)	Arms sales as share of total sales, 2012 (%)	Total profit, 2012 (US$ m.)	Total employ- ment, 2012
2012	2011			2012	2011
1	1	Lockheed Martin		36 000	36 270	47 182	76	2 745	120 000
2	2	Boeing		27 610	30 560	81 698	34	3 900	174 400
3	3	BAE Systems		26 850	29 160	28 263	95	2 599	88 200
4	5	Raytheon		22 500	22 900	24 414	92	1 900	67 800
5	4	General Dynamics		20 940	23 330	31 513	66	- 332	92 200
6	6	Northrop Grumman		19 400	20 340	25 218	77	1 978	68 100
7	7	EADS[d]		15 400	16 400	72 596	21	1 580	140 000
8	10	United Technologies, UTC[e]		13 460	11 640	62 173	22	5 200	218 300
9	8	Finmeccanica		12 530	14 570	22 131	57	-1 010	67 408
10	9	L-3 Communications		10 840	12 520	13 146	82	782	51 000
S	S	BAE Systems Inc. (BAE Systems, UK)		10 370	13 560	11 305	92	1 171	34 500
11	11	Thales		8 880	9 480	18 198	49	752	68 325
12	12	SAIC		7 820	7 940	11 173	70	525	40 000
13	13	Huntington Ingalls Industries		6 440	6 380	6 708	96	146	37 000
14	22	Almaz-Antei[f]		5 510	3 860	6 186	89	168	95 933
15	15	Safran		5 300	5 240	17 429	30	127	62 558
16	14	Honeywell		5 110	5 280	37 655	14	2 926	132 000
17	16	Rolls-Royce		5 010	4 730	19 349	26	2 265	42 800
S	S	Sikorsky (United Technologies)		4 510	4 970	6 791	66	712	16 591
18	17	United Aircraft Corp.[f]		4 440	4 400	5 545	80	. .	. .
19	20	General Electric		4 100	4 100	147 359	3	13 641	305 000
20	18	Oshkosh Truck		3 950	4 370	8 181	48	230	13 200
S	S	MBDA (BAE Systems, UK/EADS, trans-European/Finmeccanica, Italy)		3 860	4 170	3 856	100	. .	. .
21	19	ITT Exelis		3 800	4 150	5 522	69	330	19 900
S	S	Pratt & Whitney (United Technologies)		3 720	3 000	13 964	27	1 589	35 847
S	S	Eurocopter Group (EADS, trans-Eur.)		3 700	3 540	8 051	46	398	22 400
22	21	Computer Sciences Corp., CSC		3 690	3 860	14 993	25	961	90 000
S	S	CASA (EADS, Trans-Eur)		3 640	3 950	4 134	88	205	7 546
23	24	DCNS		3 580	3 620	3 766	95	210	13 183
24	25	Textron		3 550	3 500	12 237	29	581	33 000
25	35	Vertolety Rossii [f](Oboronoprom)[g]		3 520	2 740	4 077	86	306	. .
26	26	Booz Allen Hamilton[h]		3 200	3 100	5 758	56	219	24 500
27	31	Babcock International Group		3 190	2 850	5 140	62	356	. .
28	36	Dyncorp		3 040	2 690	4 044	75	-9	29 000
29	23	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries		3 010	3 620	35 316	9	1 219	31 111
30	28	Rheinmetall		3 000	2 980	6 046	50	244	21 767
31	30	CACI International		2 950	2 860	3 774	78	167	14 500
S	S	AgustaWestland (Finmeccanica)		2 940	3 450	5 454	54	353	13 050
32	27	Saab		2 910	3 080	3 543	82	227	13 968
33	38	URS Corporation		2 850	2 670	10 973	26	311	54 000
34	37	Elbit Systems		2 740	2 680	2 889	95	168	12 134
35	32	Rockwell Collins		2 590	2 810	4 726	55	609	19 000
S	S	EADS Astrium (EADS, trans-Eur.)		2 540	2 350	7 477	34	398	17 000
36	41	Israel Aerospace Industries		2 540	2 500	3 345	76	69	16 000
S	S	Sukhoi (United Aircraft Corp.)[f]		2 530	2 630	2 719	93	. .	. .
37	29	Hewlett-Packard[j]		2 500	2 960	120 357	2	-12 650	331 800
38	59	United Engine Corp. (Oboronoprom)[f]		2 500	1 440	4 170	60	. .	. .
39	33	ManTech International		2 470	2 770	2 582	96	95	9 700
40	34	Hindustan Aeronautics		2 410	2 740	2 679	90	650	. .
41	40	Alliant Techsystems		2 330	2 550	4 362	53	272	14 000
42	45	Fluor[k]		2 260	2 260	27 577	8	456	41 193
43	46	Serco[l]		2 200	2 230	7 786	28	479	120 000
44	44	CEA		2 190	2 300	5 420	40	59	15 953
S	S	Alenia Aeronautica (Finmeccanica)		2 100	2 050	3 821	55	134	11 708
45	60	NEC[i]		2 050	1 440	38 497	5	381	102 375
46	57	United Shipbuilding Corporation[f]		1 950	1 570	5 253	37	. .	. .
47	49	Ordnance Factories[l]		1 940	2 120	2 421	80	. .	. .
48	43	Harris		1 900	2 400	5 451	35	31	15 200
49	48	Cobham		1 890	2 160	2 772	68	326	9 992
50	52	ST Engineering (Temasek)		1 890	1 950	5 104	37	461	22 000
51	39	Kawasaki Heavy Industries[i]		1 860	2 630	16 154	11	387	34 010
S	S	BAE Systems Australia (BAE Systems		1760	1 860	1 957	90	. .	5 500
52	53	Rafael		1 700	1 940	1 732	98	147	6 500
53	67	Uralvagonzavod[f]		1 630	1 200	4 083	40	. .	. .
54	54	Samsung		1 557	1 856	178 521	1	21 167	369 000
S	S	Samsung Techwin (Samsung)		1 557	1 856	3 005	52	130	8 380
55	58	Mitsubishi Electric[i]		1 554	1 445	44 708	3	871	120 958
56	-	DSN[i]		1 530	. .	. .	. .	. .	. .
57	50	ThyssenKrupp		1 526	2 076	60 469	3	-6 000	167 961
58	65	Dassault Aviation Groupe		1 470	1 238	5 066	29	674	11 552
59	63	Ukroboronprom		1 439	1 263	1 599	90	. .	. .
60	56	QinetiQ		1 410	1 579	2 104	67	-211	9 498
61	66	Fincantieri		1 298	1 223	3 066	42	19	10 240
62	61	Kongsberg Gruppen		1 294	1 442	2 690	48	227	6 259
63	62	Diehl		1 197	1 385	3 637	33	39	14 369
64	55	Navantia		1 130	1 651	1 255	90	-101	5 537
65	71	Chemring Group		1 126	1 075	1 173	96	. .	4 193
66	84	Embraer		1 060	860	6 241	17	357	18 032
67	79	Korea Aerospace Industries		1 060	890	1 395	76	115	2 970
68	70	Triumph Group		1 030	1 090	3 703	28	297	13 900
69	72	Jacobs Engineering Group[k]		1 020	1 070	10 894	9	379	63 400
70	83	Precision Castparts		1 010	870	8 378	12	1 429	28 500
71	51	Navistar		1 000	2 000	12 948	8	–3 010	18 500
72	77	Meggitt		990	940	2 545	39	575	10 980
73	64	Krauss-Maffei Wegmann		980	1 250	1 031	95	. .	. .
74	80	Bharat Electronics		960	890	1 125	85	167	10 305
75	74	Moog		950	1 000	2 470	39	152	10 976
76	-	IHI Group[i]		940	440	17 546	5	877	. .
77	76	AAR Corp		930	950	2 065	45	68	6 700
S	S	Thales Systémes Aéroportés (Thales)		930	. .	929	100	103	. .
78	73	RUAG		930	1 040	1 856	50	86	7 739
79	69	Nexter		910	1 120	1 954	95	120	1 791
80	75	GKN		900	970	10 317	9	932	48 000
81	92	Patria Industries		890	770	981	91	11	3 587
S	S	Selex Galileo SpA (Finmeccanica)		880	840	1 005	88	72	2 684
82	47	KBR[l]		880	2 180	7 921	11	144	27 000
83	82	Cupic Corporation		870	870	1 381	63	92	8 200
84	91	LIG Nex1		870	820	866	100	30	2 690
85	86	Aselan		870	850	909	95	163	5 205
S	S	Thales Australia (Thales, France)		840	690	1 012	83	. .	3 300
86	78	CAE		840	900	2 107	40	143	7 670
87	81	SRA International[m]		830	870	1 675	50	-68	6 100
88	95	Gencorp		830	740	955	83	-3	3 391
89	89	Bumar Group[n]		820	830	1 031	80	-5	9 289
90	85	Ultra Electronics		820	860	1 206	68	183	. .
91	87	Aerospace Corp		800	840	903	89	. .	. .
92	–	FIAT		800	650	107 637	1	1 809	26 307
S	S	IVECO		800	660	11 465	7	603	26 307
93	–	Esterline Technologies		800	690	1 992	40	113	12 185
94	94	Mitre[k]		780	770	1 421	55	–	7 613
95	100	Mission Essential[k]		770	700	. .	. .	. .	8 000
S	S	Raytheon Australia (Raytheon, USA)		760	770	. .	. .	. .	1 480
96	–	ASC		760	660	824	92	15	2 270
S	S	Selex Elsag (Finmeccanica)		750	900	1 474	51	64	7 020
97	97	Alion Science and Technology		750	730	817	92	-41	2 882
98	68	AM General[k]		740	1 130	. .	. .	. .	2 000
99	98	Teledyne Technologies		720	720	2 127	34	164	7 200
100	–	Hanwha		720	. .	4 765	15	102	3 480

[a] Although several Chinese arms-producing enterprises are large enough to rank among the SIPRI Top 100, it has not been possible to include them because of lack of comparable and sufficiently accurate data. In addition, there are companies in other countries, such as Kazakhstan, that also could be large enough to appear in the SIPRI Top 100 list if data were available, but this is less certain.
[b] Companies are ranked according to the value of their arms sales in 2012. An S denotes a subsidiary company. A dash (–) indicates that the company did not rank among the SIPRI Top 100 for 2011. Company names and structures are listed as they were on 31 Dec. 2012. Information about subsequent changes is provided in these notes. The 2011 ranks may differ from those published in SIPRI Yearbook 2013 and elsewhere owing to continual revision of data, most often because of changes reported by the company itself and sometimes because of improved estimations. Major revisions are explained in these notes.
[c] For subsidiaries and operational companies owned by a holding or investment company, the name of the parent company is given in parentheses along with its country, where it differs.
[d] EADS was renamed Airbus Group in Jan. 2014.
[e] United Technologies acquired Goodrich in July 2012. The figures for 2012 are pro forma figures calculated as if Goodrich had been acquired at the beginning of 2012 and assume that the military share of Goodrich’s sales was even throughout the year.
[f] Due to the limited availability of financial information on Russian arms companies, the arms sales figures for most of these companies in 2011 and 2012 are estimated based on total company sales and are subject to substantial margins of error. There may be other Russian companies that should be in the list but for which insufficient data is available.
[g] Vertolety Rossii (Russian Helicopters) and United Engine Corporation are subsidiaries of OPK Oboronprom, but, since comparable financial data for Oboronprom for 2011 is not currently available, they are reported here as independent companies. For more on Russian arms industry consolidation see Jackson, S. T., ‘Arms production’, SIPRI Yearbook 2011; Jackson, S. T., ‘Arms production’, SIPRI Yearbook 2010; and Perlo-Freeman, S. et al., ‘The SIPRI Top 100 arms-producing companies, 2007’, SIPRI Yearbook 2009, pp. 286–87.
[h] Arms sales for Booz Allen Hamilton are sales to defence clients as reported by the company.
[i] Arms sales figures for Japanese companies represent new military contracts rather than revenues.
[j] Arms sales figures for Hewlett-Packard are based on data on US prime contract awards from USAspending.gov plus sales to the British Ministry of Defence from UK Defence Statistics. They may be underestimated as awards from classified contracts are not included in the US data.
[k] Arms sales figures for these companies are based on data on US prime contract awards from USA spending.gov. They may be underestimated as awards from classified contracts are not included in this data.
[l] Arms sales figures for these companies are estimates and are subject to a high degree of uncertainty.
[m] Arms sales figures for SRA International are for ‘National Security’ revenue. As this category includes sales to the US departments of Homeland Security and Justice, as well as to the Department of Defense, it is an overestimate.
[n] Arms sales figures for Bumar Group are estimates and are subject to a high degree of uncertainty. Bumar Group was renamed Polish Defence Holding (Polski Holding Obronny, PHO) in May 2013 and in Sep. 2013 it was announced that PHO would form part of a larger group, the Polish Armaments Group (Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa, PGZ).

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