Talk:List of defense contractors

message: i wonder why not merge with private military contractor ? Jabbi 00:01, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merging

message: ..are now available on http://www.sipri.org/research/armaments/production/Top100 , date should be 12 April 2010 from http://www.sipri.org/media/pressreleases/100412top100 . I don't know how to edit that table easily ? How come no autosign bot is present on this Talk page? TGCP (talk) 16:18, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: sorry for the format - please make it prettier, I can't program table stuff. Method of update: mark section on external link, copy to spreadsheet (OpenOffice Calc), use http://excel2wiki.net/wikipedia.php and paste to wiki. Found on Help:Table#Converting_spreadsheet_to_wikitable_format TGCP (talk) 17:08, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

text: The WaTech says "Data is collected on government expenditures related to information technology products and services, systems integration, telecommunications, professional services and engineering services" which does not sound like weapons. Each source seem to have different definitions of defense, with SIPRI (70%) and  92%, where WaTech is about 26% (11/42). However, DefNews does not state which definition they use, so SIPRI is likely the best defined. TGCP (talk) 21:54, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

text: DefNews and SIPRI have similar numbers for total revenue and defense revenue, where WaTech have considerably lower numbers, and does not seem to count hardware. TGCP (talk) 22:11, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

text: Also, WaTech seem to count only US government sales, not world sales. TGCP (talk) 22:14, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Real 2008 numbers from [[SIPRI]]

message: A defense contractor as suggested by the loose definition provided in this article, is a company that provides goods and services to the defense industry whether local or overseas ( Aerospace, Electronic Systems, Information Systems, etc) Not just weapons!  Provided "weapon sales" is not an accurate indication of a defense contractors contributions and only reflects a very small percentage of actual sales!!
Feel free to check any other site that ranks defense contractors and see how it is actually done.  The source you provide only ranks based on weapon sales and should be quoted in a separate area of this article  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Djdoublestack (talk • contribs) 22:12, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is a Defense Contractor? 

message: "Under 1949 Geneva Conventions military contractors engaged in direct support of military operations may be legitimate targets of military attacks."
I'm not sure if this is overly paraphrased or not, but it needs to be looked into.
There shouldn't be a "may be" in this context.  You're either a legitimate target, or not.  You're either directly supporting or not.  That's not something that should be "subject to discretion" if they clearly define what qualifies a company as a defense contractor.  I hope someone has the time and expertise to source this wording and correct it if need be.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.0.107.248 (talk) 01:27, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  May be? 

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*Support, provided that Defense contractor will redirect to Arms industry.  - WPGA2345 - ☛ 21:09, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

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