Lockheed Martin
F-22 Raptor
Photo: Robert Deering 10/18/2012
National Museum of the USAF
Wright-Paterson AFB (FFO)
Dayton, Ohio
Lockheed Martin is an American global aerospace, defense, security, and advanced technology company with worldwide interests. It was formed by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta in March 1995. It is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, in the Washington Metropolitan Area. Lockheed Martin employs 123,000 people worldwide.
PHOTOS        
Military Aircraft        

F-16
Fighting Falcon

F-22
Raptor

F-35
Lightning II

X-35
 

HISTORY

Merger talks between Lockheed Corporation and Martin Marietta began in March 1994, with the companies announcing their $10 billion planned merger on August 30, 1994. The deal was finalized on March 15, 1995 when the two companies' shareholders approved the merger.  The segments of the two companies not retained by the new company formed the basis for the present L-3 Communications, a mid-size defense contractor in its own right. Lockheed Martin later spun off the materials company Martin Marietta Materials.

Both companies contributed important products to the new portfolio. Lockheed products included the Trident missile, P-3 Orion, F-16 Fighting Falcon, F-22 Raptor, C-130 Hercules, A-4AR Fightinghawk and the DSCS-3 satellite. Martin Marietta products included Titan rockets, Sandia National Laboratories (management contract acquired in 1993), Space Shuttle External Tank, Viking 1 and Viking 2 landers, the Transfer Orbit Stage (under subcontract to Orbital Sciences Corporation) and various satellite models.

Lockheed Martin is one of the world's largest defense contractors; In 2009, 74% of Lockheed Martin's revenues came from military sales.  It received 7.1% of the funds paid out by the Pentagon.

Lockheed Martin operates in four business segments. These comprise, with respective percentages of 2009 total net sales of $45.2 billion, Aeronautics (27%), Electronic Systems (27%), Information Systems & Global Solutions (27%), and Space Systems (19%). In 2009 US Government contracts accounted for $38.4 billion (85%), foreign government contracts $5.8 billion (13%), and commercial and other contracts for $900 million (2%).  In both 2009 and 2008 the company topped the list of US Federal Contractors.

The company has received the Collier Trophy six times. Most recently (in 2001) for being part of developing the X-35/F-35B LiftFan Propulsion System, and again in 2006 for leading the team that developed the F-22 Raptor fighter jet.  

On July 20, 2015, Lockheed Martin announced plans to purchase Sikorsky Aircraft from United Technologies Corporation at a cost of $7.1 billion. The Pentagon criticized the acquisition as causing a reduction in competition. In November 2015, the acquisition received final approval from the Chinese government, with a total cost of $9 billion. Dan Schulz was named the president of Lockheed Martin's Sikorsky company.

Source: Wikipedia

AIRCRAFT        
A-4AR Fightinghawk   1998   A major upgrade of 36 McDonnell Douglas A-4M Skyhawk attack aircraft developed for the Argentine Air Force using F-16 avionics
C-130 Hercules    1995   Four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft
F-16 Fighting Falcon   1995   Single-engine supersonic multirole fighter aircraft
F-22 Raptor    1996   Twin-engine all-weather stealth fighter aircraft
F-35 Lightning II   2006   Family of single-seat, single-engine, stealth multirole combat aircraft
Lockheed Martin P-175 Polecat   2005   Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
Lockheed Martin P-791   2006   Experimental aerostatic and aerodynamic hybrid airship
RQ-3 DarkStar    1996   UAV
RQ-170 Sentinel   2007   UAV
SR-72    2013   Hypersonic UAV concept intended for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR).
X-33   1995   Proposed uncrewed, sub-scale technology demonstrator suborbital spaceplane 
X-35
  2000   Concept Demonstrator Aircraft (CDA) developed for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program. 
X-44 MANTA   1999   Multi-Axis No-Tail Aircraft (MANTA) conceptual aircraft design studied by NASA and the USAF that was based upon the F-22.
X-55   2009   Advanced Composite Cargo Aircraft (ACCA) experimental twinjet transport
X-56    2013   Modular UAV designed to explore High-Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) flight technologies
X-59 Quesst   2021   Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QUESST) experimental supersonic aircraft