POGO has updated the Federal Contractor Misconduct Database (FCMD) with a new top 100 ranking based on FY 2007 contract data.
The top 100 contractors received over $257 billion in contracts in FY 2007, a 14 percent increase over the previous year. This total represents over half of the $457 billion in contracts the government awarded that year. As of today, these 100 contractors have accumulated 673 misconduct instances and over $26 billion in monetary penalties since 1995.
Lockheed Martin still leads the pack, outpacing everyone else by almost $10 billion in contracts. Lockheed also has the most misconduct instances, with 50 instances of civil, criminal, or administrative misconduct since 1995.
Contractors that have fallen out of the top 100 are still included in the database. They don't appear on the home page, but you can find them by clicking on the links in the archived 2006 ranking, by doing keyword searches or by sorting the data. For example, click on the "Federal Contract $" column heading on the home page to sort the ranking in ascending order of dollar amount. The first 30 contractors in that list will be numbers 101 through 130. Their names also appear in the "Contractor" pulldown menu on the left margin, but selecting them from this menu only brings up their instances (if any), not their home pages.
-- Neil Gordon
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