18 : IBM Corp.
| Expanded Profile |
| Top 100 Revenue: |
$1,249,472,802 |
|
| Defense revenue: |
$257,542,606 |
| Civilian revenue: |
$991,930,196 |
| 2006 revenue: |
$91.4 billion |
| 2006 earnings : |
$9.5 billion |
| 2005 revenue: |
$91.1 billion |
| 2005 earnings: |
$7.9 billion |
| Number of employees: |
355766 |
| Headquarters: |
Armonk, N.Y. |
| Web address: |
www.ibm.com |
| President/CEO: |
Samuel J. Palmisano, chairman and CEO |
| Head of gov't business: |
John Nyland, public sector managing partner |
| Ticker: |
NYSE: IBM |
| Lines of business: |
Hardware, software, services, financing, research and technology |
| Major customers: |
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, US. Joint Forces Command, Veterans Affairs and Energy Department |
| Major contracts/projects: |
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded IBM a four-year, $244 million contract to develop a machine that provides 100 times the sustained performance of today''s general purpose supercomputers and simpler to program, administer and use. The company was also hired by the Energy Department''s National Nuclear Security Administration to design and build the world''s first supercomputer to harness the power of the Cell Broadband Engine processor. This will produce a machine capable of processing 1,000 trillion calculations per second. |
| Previous Profile: |
2006 |