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SP-4012 NASA HISTORICAL DATA BOOK: VOLUME IV

NASA RESOURCES 1969-1978

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Table 5-14. Ranking of NASA's Top Ten Contractors

Contractor	FY 1969	FY 1970	FY 1971	FY 1972	FY 1973	FY 1974	FY 1975	FY 1976	FY 1977	FY 1978
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North American Rockwell Corp. a	1	1	2	3	1	1	1	1	1	1
Grumman Aerospace Corp.	2	2	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Boeing Co.	3	4	5	5	7	7	9	8	10	-
McDonnell Douglas Corp.	4	3	1	1	2	3	3	2	2	3
General Electric Co.	5	6	3	4	4	6	6	6	6	8
Bendix Corp.	6	7	4	6	6	4	5	5	4	4
Int'l. Business Machines Corp.	7	5	9	7	8	8	7	-	8	6
Aerojet-General Corp.	8	9	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Martin Marietta Corp.	9	8	7	2	3	2	2	3	3	2
RCA Corp.	10	-	8	9	10	-	10	10	-	-
TRW, Inc.	-	10	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
General Dynamics Corp.	-	-	-	8	5	5	4	4	5	-
Fairchild Industries, Inc.	-	-	-	10	9	-	-	-	-	-
United Aircraft Corp.	-	-	-	-	-	9	-	-	-	-
Philco-Ford Corp.	-	-	-	-	-	10	-	-	-	-
Lockheed Electronics Co., Inc.	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	7	7	5
Hughes Aircraft Co.	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	-	7
Thiokol Corp.	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	9
Computer Sciences Corp.	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10

a Became Rockwell International Corp. in 1973.

Source: Tables 5-22 through 5-31.