2009 Top 100

73: BALL CORP.
Top 100 Revenue: $219526280
Defense Revenue: $128,907,926
Civilian Revenue: $90,618,354
2008 Revenue: $7.6 billion
2008 Earnings: $319.5 million
2007 Revenue: N/A
2007 Earnings: N/A
Number of employees: 14500
Headquarters: Boulder, Colorado
Website: https://www.ball.com/aerospace
Leadership:

R. David Hoover, chairman, president and CEO

David L. Taylor, president and CEO, Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp.

Ticker: BLL
Lines of business: Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, space sciences and exploration, weather and environment, integrated battlespace, space superiority and technology components
Major customers: Defense Department, NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Major contracts/projects: NASA hired Ball Aerospace & Technologies to support the agency's Science Mission Directorate 2007 Instrument Incubator Program in developin earth science instrument subsystem technologies. Ball is also a co-investigator on a study led by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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