2007 Top 100
29: Sprint Nextel Corp.
| Top 100 Revenue: | $705,083,000 |
| Defense Revenue: | $204,221,000 |
| Civilian Revenue: | $500,862,000 |
| 2006 Revenue: | $41 billion |
| 2006 Earnings: | $1.3 billion |
| 2005 Revenue: | $34.7 billion |
| 2005 Earnings: | $1.8 billion |
| Number of employees: | 65000 |
| Headquarters: | Reston, Va. |
| Website: | www.sprint.com |
| Leadership: | Gary D. Forsee, chairman and CEO Tony D''Agata, vice president, public sector, federal |
| Ticker: | S |
| Lines of business: | Wireless and long distance |
| Major customers: | Homeland Security Department, Justice Department, FDIC, Federal Reserve, National Guard, Air Force, U.S. Courts, U.S. Postal Service, Navy and Veterans Affairs Department |
| Major contracts/projects: | Sprint Nextel worked on the Global Information Grid Bandwidth Expansion program for the Defense Department. The contract created an ubiquitous bandwidth-available environment to improve national security intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, information assurance and command and control. Sprint Nextel also works on the FTS2001 Bridge contract for the General Services Administration. Under the contract, agencies have access to Sprint Nextel''s communications services, including a Tier-1 IP backbone, wireless networks and voice products, mobile data services and data applications. |