Defense Contractors and the Washington Revolving Door

[FreakinDJ]

Top 100 Defense Contractors

http://www.govexec.com/features/0807-15/0807-15s3s1.htm

The Whos Who of Petrolium and Washington dominate the board rooms of Top Defense contracting companies

#8 United Technologies Corp $4,574,841,469

RICHARD B. MYERS, Ret. U.S. Air Force General, served as Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2001 to 2005. He was the principal military adviser to President George W. Bush, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and the National Security Council.
http://investors.utc.com/bios-detail.cfm?ID=12314

#9 BAE Systems $4,500,683,822

Richard L. Olver Joining BP in 1973, following a brief period designing and building highways and bridges, his early career involved a wide range of oil, gas and refining projects in Britain, Canada, Scotland, the Middle East and Norway.
He was appointed Vice President, BP Pipelines Inc., BP North America, in 1979. In 1983 he became Divisional Manager for new technology with responsibility for offshore, Arctic and enhanced oil recovery technology development.
In 1985 Mr Olver became Divisional Manager of Corporate Planning for British Petroleum and led the strategic team on the acquisition by BP of Standard Oil in the United States.
http://www.baesystems.com/AboutUs/CompanyStructure/Leadership/DickOlver/index.htm

Philip Carroll is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Fluor Corporation and the former president and chief executive officer of Shell Oil Company Inc. He was appointed by the United States Department of Defense in 2003 to serve as the first Senior Advisor to the Iraqi Ministry of Oil.
http://www.baesystems.com/AboutUs/CompanyStructure/Leadership/PhilipCarroll/index.htm

#10 SAIC $3,404,387,190

J.J. HAMRE
Dr. Hamre has served as the president and chief executive officer of the Center for Strategic & International Studies, a public policy research institution, since 2000. Prior thereto, Hamre served as U.S. deputy secretary of defense from 1997 to 2000 and under secretary of defense (comptroller) from 1993 to 1997
http://investors.saic.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=193857&p=irol-govBoard

Feel free to add more as we find them. These crooks and liars will bankrupt the national treasury and then move offshore soon enough

[soothsayer]

1. pretty sure SAIC is a CIA front company