From Soviet Acquisition of Militarily Significant Western Technology, a study released by the Defense Department in September. The study ranks U. S. defense contractors according to the priority the Soviet Union places on acquiring the technology each company is developing. The rank of the company or institution in the dollar value of its 1983 Pentagon contracts is given at right.
| Soviet rank | Dollar rank |
| 1. General Electric | 4 |
| 2. Boeing | 5 |
| 3. Lockheed | 6 |
| 4. Rockwell International | 3 |
| 5. McDonnell Douglas | 2 |
| 6. Westinghouse Electric | 14 |
| 7. Martin Marietta | 12 |
| 8. General Dynamics | 1 |
| 9. Allied (Bendix) | 27 |
| 10. Du Pont | 80 |
| 11. United Technologies (Pratt & Whitney) | 7 |
| 12. Honeywell | 21 |
| 13. Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 71 |
| 14. General Motors | 23 |
| 15. Hughes Aircraft | 9 |
