Lockheed Martin (1991): Consolidation

This page is firm history -- plants, programmes, hearings -- not a product brochure and not a how-to for any aircraft or missile. Kelly Johnson and Ben Rich are the English vernacular of the secret shop. Norman Augustine is the vernacular of the 1990s executive who wrote about the industry's shrink. Marillyn Hewson and James Taiclet are later public CEOs.

Korean procurement memory is thick: F-16, then F-35, and a century of US types in ROK service. That is an alliance-industrial fact on the ROK military page too. Intensity is low (a company, not a campaign). TechShift is high because Skunk Works types changed reconnaissance and, later, the F-35 changed a generation of air-force politics.

Lockheed Martin is what US defence consolidation looked like after 1991 -- a letterhead that still carries a California shop myth. Vegas, Electras, then war transports and the postwar Skunk Works. The F-104's German crash scandal and the C-130's endless career are two morals in one catalogue.