Talk:Beltway bandit

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The term may have fallen from use as the original Beltway Bandits wer absorbed into aerospace giants, whose headquarters are elsewhere: e.g. Boeing in Seattle/Chicago, Northrop Grumman in Los Angeles. Lockheed Martin is just off the Beltway in Maryland, but it was never considered a "bandit" but rather an aerospace company. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.111.254.11 (talk) 16:27, 13 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure I agree with that. I worked for companies called "beltway bandits" though not based around the beltway (e.g. Contel/GTE, at least the government services part), and to my knowledge other companies like TRW, Rockwell, Lockheed, Martin/Marietta, etc. would be called BBs. In my understanding it's a generic term for a company or division in the DC area who makes most of its living off federal government contracts. Perhaps something has changed very recently, but I doubt it. Fool4jesus (talk) 20:51, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

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