Lockheed Martin History Lockheed Martin Corporation was founded when in March of 1995 two of the world’s largest technology and defense contractors unite. This being called the “merger of equals”, become the largest aerospace, defense and technology companies. Lockheed Martin is responsible for many of today’s well-known accomplishments. This included the SR-71 Blackbird, the F-117 nighthawk and the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU). Today, Lockheed Martin continues to be one of the largest government defense contractors. (Corporation, Lockheed Martin, 2010)
Mission Statement
“Powered by Innovation, Guided by Integrity, We Help Our Customers Achieve Their Most Challenging Goals”, is the companies vision statement. (Corporation,
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government.(Felsinger, 2008)
The Lockheed Martin Spaces Systems division is currently focused in the retirement of the shuttle fleet in 2010. This presents an opportunity for Lockheed to be one of the first innovators in new technology to replace this far aged asset. As the U.S. government retires their fleet Lockheed will be looking for ways to gain the upper hand by developing new spacecrafts for the U.S. or allied countries wishing to expand their space programs.
As the government is analyzing the war efforts and highlighted costs, Lockheed Martin has had to begin marketing to a much larger customer base. This means new business is looking to be found. This includes the development of a missile interceptor for the Japanese government. With the recent threats by the North Koreans, the Japanese have had to ensure that they would be adequately prepared for if and when they decide to launch. This has led to a new development for a short-range interceptor missile based off a proven and tested platform, the PAC3 battery. (Corporation, Lockheed Martin, 2010)
Threats
In recent years much of Lockheed Martin’s success has been scrutinized by many in the U.S. government’s left-sided way of thinking. Given the new government standings much of the business from which Lockheed Martin was built on. Has seemed to be on the back seat. As new ideas and redirection of government funds are focused on saving
General Dynamics (GD) has realized a long-standing history of success delivering product and service solutions since being formed in 1952. They have purposely divested themselves of technology, product and service offerings in an effort to remain focused on their core competencies and primary customer; the United States Department of Defense. While GD’s primary customer remains the DoD, they have diversified their offerings to adjacent markets within the DoD (e.g, Information Technology and Cybersecurity solutions). GD has also
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Today, the Lockheed Martin Corporation is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland and employs 126,000 people worldwide. The company is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration, and sustainment of advanced technology systems. Lockheed also serves both domestic and international customers with products and services that have defense, civil, and commercial applications, with their principal customers being agencies of the U.S. Government. In 2011, 84% of their $45.8 billion in net sales were made to the U.S. Government, either as a prime contractor or as a subcontractor. Lockheed’s U.S. Government sales were made to both Department of Defense (DoD) and non-DoD agencies. Sales to foreign governments (including foreign military sales funded, in whole or in part, by the U.S. Government) amounted to 15% of net sales in 2011. The remainder of net sales was attributable to commercial and other customers. In 2011, net sales at Aeronautics of $13.2 billion represented 29% of their total net sales. Aeronautics has three principal lines of business and the percentage that each contributed to its 2011 net sales was 68 percent combat aircraft, 20 percent air mobility, and 12 percent in other aeronautics programs. At December 31, 2011, we operated in 545 locations (including offices, manufacturing plants, warehouses,
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Lockheed Martin is a major security and aerospace company headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland. Employing over 97,000 employees worldwide, Lockheed Martin is principally focused on research, design, development, manufacture, integration, and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products, and services (Lockheed Martin at a Glance, n.d.). Lockheed Martin is organized into broad business areas to include aeronautics ($17.8 billion in 2016 sales), missile and fire control (6.6 billion in 2016 sales), rotary and mission systems (13.5 billion in 2016 sales), and space systems (9.4 billion in 2016 sales) (Lockheed Martin at a Glance, n.d.). To better understand the global giant that is today’s Lockheed Martin, a historical look at the two companies that merged in 1995 and their respective accomplishments is essential.
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