The biggest winner to date is Vice President Dick Cheney‘s former company, Halliburton. In one year, Halliburton went from being the Pentagon‘s number 37 contractor with just $500 million in contracts to lucky number 7 and $3.9 billion in defense contracts. And that‘s just the beginning, the company now has over $8 billion in contracts for Iraqi rebuilding and Pentagon logistics work in hand, and that figure could hit $18 billion if it exercises all of its options. Halliburton‘s work includes everything from rebuilding Iraq‘s oil infrastructure and building military bases to providing meals, doing laundry and maintaining military vehicles. Whenever and wherever the U.S. Army has to deploy on short notice, Halliburton is there.