| US: Boeing-Lockheed Granted Monopoly by Andy Pasztor and Jonathan Karp, Wall Street Journal January 7th, 2006 The Pentagon has given preliminary approval to a joint venture between Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp. for military-rocket launches, endorsing a rare monopoly that could set a precedent for defense contractors facing slower military spending, said industry and government officials. |
| US: Lockheed Wins $869 Mln US Navy Missile Contract Reuters December 20th, 2005 The U.S. Navy on Tuesday said it awarded Lockheed Martin Corp. an $869 million contract to fund continued production of Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missiles in fiscal year 2006. |
 | Meet the New Interrogators: Lockheed Martin by Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatch November 4th, 2005 Sytex, a subsidiary of Lockheed , the world's largest military contractor, has emerged as one of the biggest recruiters of private interrogators deployed to the United States-run prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
| US: Lockheed Martin Is Hired to Bolster Transit Security in N.Y. by Sewell Chan and Shadi Rahimi, The New York Times August 23rd, 2005 A new world of transit security in New York City began to take form this morning, as officials disclosed plans to saturate the transit system with 1,000 video cameras, 3,000 motion detectors and a wide array of sophisticated gadgets, all intended to buffer the city's subways, bridges and tunnels from a terror attack. |
| US: Business booming for U.S. defense contractors by Peter Bauer, Menafn August 20th, 2005 U.S. defence contractors are riding high these days, buoyed by rising Pentagon spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the high cost of homeland security in the U.S.-declared war on terror. The fiscal 2006 defence budget is set to climb to 441 billion dollars, an increase of 21 billion dollars over 2005. It envisions an additional 50 billion dollars for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
| BELGIUM: Activists Occupy Lockheed Martin Office FOR Mother Earth February 22nd, 2005 A group of 13 anti-nuclear activists occupied the European headquarters of US arms manufacturer Lockheed Martin,in Brussels, in protest against the company’s close links with the Bush government, and specifically its production of nuclear weapons and weapons ued in the war against Iraq. |
| US: Titan to Pay Fine and Plead Guilty in Bribery Probe by Jonathon Karp and Andy Pasztor, Wall Street Journal January 20th, 2005 Defense contractor Titan corporation tentatively agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges and pay less than $30 million to end investigations by the Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission. As part of the settlement, Titan will admit that payments by its overseas consultants violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. |
| US: Lockheed, BAE protest Boeing pacts by Jonathan Karp and Andy Pasztor, Wall Street Journal October 13th, 2004 |
| US: Jets, IT Drive Lockheed Gains by Renae Merle, Washington Post April 28th, 2004 Lockheed Martin Corp. reported a 16 percent jump in first-quarter profit yesterday as demand for fighter aircraft and information technology continued to boost sales. |
| US: Diminished Oversight Leads to Overpricing by David Phinney, Federal Times April 5th, 2004 Ken Pedeleose’s eyes popped in awe as he plowed through a bill for airplane parts in 1999: $2,522 for a 4˝-inch metal sleeve, $744 for a washer, $714 for a rivet, and $5,217 for a 1-inch metal bracket. |
| US: Making Money On Terrorism by William D. Hartung, The Nation February 5th, 2004 We all know that Halliburton is raking in billions from the Bush Administration's occupation and rebuilding of Iraq. But in the long run, the biggest beneficiaries of the Administration's "war on terror" may be the "destroyers," not the rebuilders. The nation's "Big Three" weapons makers--Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Northrop Grumman--are cashing in on the Bush policies of regime change abroad and surveillance at home. |
| USA: Inside Lockheed's $250 Billion Pentagon Connection by Geoffrey Gray, Village Voice March 19th, 2003 George Bush has said if he is fortunate enough to be elected president, he is going to look at our whole military situation, including the tactical air account. He's noted that the 3000 number [of planes] seems a bit much. |
 | Precision Farming: The Marriage Between Agribusiness and Spy Technology by Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero, Special to CorpWatch October 2nd, 2002 Precision farming: high tech corporate responsibility or agribusiness expansion? We look at the use of satellites and new technology in farming. |
| US: Unjust Rewards by Ken Silverstein, Mother Jones May 1st, 2002 The government continues to award federal business worth billions to companies that repeatedly break the law. A Mother Jones investigation reveals which major contractors are the worst offenders. |
| Palestine: Death in Bethlehem, Made in America by Robert Fisk, The Independent (U.K.) April 15th, 2001 Lockheed Martin of Florida and the Federal Laboratories of Pennsylvania have made quite a contribution to life in the municipality of Bethlehem. Or, in the case of Lockheed, death. Pieces of the US manufacturer's Hellfire air-to-ground missile lie in the local civil defence headquarters in Bethlehem less than two months after it exploded in 18-year-old Osama Khorabi's living room, killing him instantly. |
| US: Lockheed Martin's Tests on Humans
Environmental Working Group November 27th, 2000 On behalf of military contractor Lockheed Martin, Loma Linda University is conducting the first large-scale tests of a toxic drinking water contaminant on human subjects -- a precedent medical researchers and Environmental Working Group condemned as morally unethical and scientifically invalid. |