Defense contractors: business organizations or individuals that provide products or services to a defense department of a government.
The Arms industry, which produces guns, ammunition, missiles, military aircraft, and their associated consumables and systems.
It can also include: A defense contractor (sometimes called a military contractor) is a business organization or individual that provides products or services to a defense department of a government. ... The arms industry is a massive global industry. ...
Private military contractors: private companies that provide logistics, manpower, and other expenditures for a military force.
The Military-industrial complex, which is generally the combination of the U.S. armed forces, arms industry and associated political and commercial interests, although it can also be used to describe any such relationship of industry and military.
Industries that had relied heavily on defense spending for both research funds and sales have been forced to reevaluate and redefine their roles in the global economy.
High-tech defenseindustries have been defined by (1) the number of technology workers employed as a proportion of total employment and/or (2) the ratio of research and development expenditures to sales.
All four of the high-tech defenseindustries manufactured at least 50 percent of their output for defense purchases in 1987, the peak year for U.S. Department of Defense expenditures.
These peculiarities of the defense contracting relation have led some analysts to conclude that there must be little potential for overlap between a production system that satisfies military needs and one designed for commercial transactions, causing companies to "spin away" their defense operations from their commercial activities[11].
This estimate of the extent of the defenseindustrial base in the MDG sector in 1991 corresponds closely to results obtained from the Bureau of the Census's 1988 survey of 10,000 manufacturing plants employing at least 20 workers[16].
Despite declines in defense spending in real terms between 1988 and 1991, there is no statistical evidence of a decline in the share of the overall manufacturing base in the MDG sector serving DOD during this period.
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