Press Release
Contact: Richard Sterk, Editor-in-Chief, Sr. Defense
Electronics Analyst
Phone: (203) 426-0800
Fax: (203) 426-4262
Web site: www.forecastinternational.com
E-mail: Richard.Sterk@forecast1.com
Forecast International, Inc.
22 Commerce Rd. Newtown, CT 06470 USA
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
C4I Spending Heading for a Slow-Down
NEWTOWN, Conn. [March 7, 2006] ― A worldwide C4I
market correction and gradual decline can be expected to occur in a few years as
many of the programs that were accelerated to combat terrorism and operations
in Afghanistan and Iraq draw to an end. According to Forecast International’s
2006 “C4I Market Overview,” the market will continue to show strong
growth through 2008, but will then begin to shift back to its pre-9/11 levels
in 2009.
The Overview, prepared by Forecast International’s
Electronics Group, forecasts that the world C4I market will be worth
more than $88.344 billion over the course of the 10-year period in review
(2006-2015). But the downward spiral that will start in 2009 is expected to
continue through 2015.
Based on forecast sales volume and percentage of market share,
the Overview projects that the following will rank as the top five C4I
companies from 2006-2015. Raytheon Co, with 13.04 percent of anticipated
10-year market share, valued at $11.522 billion, comes in as the leading C4I
firm. General Dynamics will be number two with 6.74 percent anticipated market
share, worth $5.950 billion. Lockheed Martin is third with a foreseen market
share of 5.73 percent, representing $5.73 billion in value. BAE Systems ranks
fourth with a predicted 2.14 percent hold on the C4I market,
representing a 10-year sales total of $1.892 billion. Rounding out the survey
at number five is Thales Raytheon Systems, expected to garner 1.85 percent of
the market, worth approximately $1.636 billion over the next 10 years.
“It is no surprise that the top five C4I defense
companies typically remain nearly the same year after year,” said Richard
Sterk, Editor-in-Chief and Sr. Defense Electronics Analyst at Forecast
International. “The continual acquisition of rivals and smaller competitors on
the part of these mega corporations has narrowed the field of major players
each year,” said Sterk adding “the big get bigger and the small just simply
cense to exist. One should not be that surprised if some time in the future
there is only one all powerful defense contractor called Word Defense, Inc.”
Forecast International, Inc., is a leading provider of
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