2010 Top 100
86: BALL CORP.
| Top 100 Revenue: | $213,982,367 |
| Defense Revenue: | $134,285,810 |
| Civilian Revenue: | $79,696,558 |
| 2009 Revenue: | $7.4 billion |
| 2009 Earnings: | $387.9 million |
| 2008 Revenue: | $7.6 billion |
| 2008 Earnings: | $319.5 million |
| Number of employees: | 14500 |
| Headquarters: | Boulder, Colorado |
| Website: | https://www.ball.com/aerospace |
| Leadership: | David L. Taylor, president and CEO Carol Lane, VP, corporate strategy and federal relations |
| Ticker: | BLL |
| Lines of business: | Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, space science and exploration, weather and environment, integrated battlespace, space superiority and technology components |
| Major customers: | Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Defense Department, NASA, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and National Geospatial Agency |
| Major contracts/projects: | "The Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command selected Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., in April 2010 for Geosat Follow-on 2, the next generation ocean altimetry satellite. GFO-2 measurements will be used for global ocean, and tactical battlespace characterization. Ball Aerospace will upgrade the payloads, as compared to the original GFO satellite that was launched in 1998, with a dual frequency radar altimeter, and provide enhanced radio frequency interference immunity with reduced data latency. " |