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Military Industrial Contractors in Massachusetts By Andrew Romanowski Massachusetts Peace Action 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 March 23, 2013 Contents Introduction 2 Raytheon 4 General Dynamics 5 General Electric 6 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 7 American Science and Engineering Inc. 8 Draper Labs 10 The Analytic Science Corporation (TASC) 11 Textron Systems 11 Perini 12 BAE Systems Inc. 12 Quantech Services Inc. 13 Dynamics Research Corp. 14 Oasis Systems 15 Odyssey Systems 15 FLIR Systems 16 iRobot Corp 16 Infoscitex Corp 17 Niche. Ariel Inc. 18 Charles River Analytics Inc. 18 Aptima Inc. 20 Works Cited 21  Introduction Massachusetts has a unique relationship to the Military-Industrial Complex, as a progressive state that receives important revenue from the defense industry, as a state with a highly educated and specialized workforce able to provides cutting-edge analysis, and as the largest recipient of military funding in New England. According to the Donahue Institute a conservative academic research center with substantial connections to the military, Massachusetts’s venders and companies were awarded more than $13. 7 billion from the department of Defense (DoD), and the department of Homeland security, an 83 percent increase since 2003. The DoD and Department of Homeland Security is responsible for more than 130,000 approximately 4.1 percent of employment in the state. Overall direct and indirect economic activity associated with the military and defense industry in broader New England is estimated to be greater than $25.5 billion. In Massachusetts, 3.8 percent of annual GDP is estimated by the Donahue Institute to be derived from military spending and contracts. The great majority of this spending is concentrated in communications; radio, detection and other forms of engineering related work intended to give the military strategic advantages. This particular sector of employment and development has grown 1