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ockheed Corporation and Martin Marietta, two distinguished aerospace companies with origins in California over 100 years ago, combined in March 1995 in “a merger of equals” to form Lockheed Martin. Now headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, the company has become one of the world’s major aerospace, defense, security and advanced technologies companies. Its list of legendary products includes the C-130 Hercules and F-16 Fighting Falcon (Lockheed) and the Space Shuttle External Tank and Viking 1 and 2 Mars landing craft (Martin Marietta).
The majority of Lockheed Martin’s business is with the US Department of Defense and US federal government agencies. Sikorsky (a Lockheed Martin company) provides military and rotarywing aircraft to all five branches of the US armed forces along with military services and commercial operation in 40 countries. The remaining portion of Lockheed Martin’s business comprises international government and commercial sales of products, services and platforms. Lockheed Martin’s operating units are organized into four broad business areas, aeronautics, missiles and fire control, rotary and mission systems, and space. Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, home of the world renowned Skunk Works, has been designing, building and sustaining the finest military aircraft in the world for more than 100 years. The business unit is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, with additional production and operations facilities in Clarksburg, West Virginia; Greenville, South Carolina, Johnstown, Pennsylvania; Marietta, Georgia;
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Meridian, Mississippi; Palmdale, California; and Pinellas Park, Florida. Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control (MFC) is a recognized designer, developer and manufacturer of precision engagement systems for the US and allied militaries, including missiles, rockets, manned and unmanned systems. Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems provides surface, air and undersea applications for US military as well as intelligence, civil, commercial and international military customers. Its portfolio features more than 1,000 programs, including helicopters, integrated air and missile defense, undersea warfare, radar, electronic warfare, cyber solutions and training and logistics systems. Lockheed Martin Space Systems is developing advanced capabilities to usher in a new era of exploration, traveling deeper into space than ever before, where greater discoveries await and where future generations will be inspired. Lockheed Martin is developing a variety of spacecraft that