Top 100 Defense Companies
Companies to the list as well as sizable mergers also contributed to notable shifts.
Top 100 defense companies. Defense spending growth combined with strong foreign military sales. The defense news top 100 has become the go to resource for identifying the world s biggest defense companies. For the third straight year overall defense revenue for the top 100 has increased as defense budgets around the globe continue to climb in what has been dubbed a new era of great power competition. The defense news top 100 captures some of the changes but not all that are taking place among global defense contractors.
Changes are slow and can take time to appear on our list. Defense revenues of the top 100 defense companies in the world climbed for a fourth straight year pushed upward by u s. Vienna va july 22 2019 today defense news released its 2019 top 100 list with the biggest shakeup of the defense industry ranking in decades attributed primarily to the first ever inclusion of chinese companies. As well there are some enduring characteristics that are reinforced by the 2017 rankings.
Overall defense revenues for the top 100 defense companies in the world increased in 2019.