Skunk Works
Lockheed's advanced-development shop -- a memoir brand as much as a place. Policy or ancestor soil of Lockheed Martin.
Historical programme offices, AF Plant numbers, and Skunk Works as a named shop -- past industrial geography.
Not a current classified org chart.
Systems
Martin Marietta
The 1961-95 missile-and-space company in the merger.
Last supper
The 1990s US defence-consolidation dinner story -- an industry legend. A public signature type or programme -- named, not specified.
Allan Lockheed
The name on the California firm -- spelling later standardised without the hyphen in some tellings.
Martin Marietta years
1961-95: Missiles and space on the other letterhead.
Works geography
US plants and Pentagon offices; export customers; Skunk Works as a California myth is the industrial map of Lockheed Martin (1995 merger (Lockheed 1926; Glenn L. Martin Company 1912)) -- plants and hearings, not a capacity leak.
Meters
Atlas scale (not a war)
44
Peak intensity
25
How long it defined a period
68
Tech or method shift
70
Borders, regimes, law, alliances
55
Film, school, ritual density
38
Hotspots
Two aircraft firms
1912-45: Martin and Lockheed as separate stories. Named as historical geography of Lockheed Martin, not as a targeting list.
Skunk Works Cold War
1946-90: U-2, SR-71, missiles. Named as historical geography of Lockheed Martin, not as a targeting list.
Consolidation
1991-95: The merger season. Named as historical geography of Lockheed Martin, not as a targeting list.
F-22 / F-35 politics
1996-2015: Hearings as the public file. Named as historical geography of Lockheed Martin, not as a targeting list.
Services and exports
After 2015: ROK and other customers as news. Named as historical geography of Lockheed Martin, not as a targeting list.
Materials
Chronology (1995 merger (Lockheed 1926; Glenn L. Martin Company 1912))
Lockheed Martin is bounded as 1995 merger (Lockheed 1926; Glenn L. Martin Company 1912). 1912 opens the usual narrative (Glenn L. Martin Company); 2013-20 closes it (Hewson public era).
Theatre: US plants and Pentagon offices; export customer.
Place is evidence. US plants and Pentagon offices; export customers; Skunk Works as a California myth is where Lockheed Martin happened -- a map for readers, not a guide for repeating it.
Human-cost band
not a war -- a firm; human cost sits in the wars that bought the products Keep the figure as a range. Spectacle integers are not a census.
Last supper
The 1990s US defence-consolidation dinner story -- an industry legend. A material of the Lockheed Martin vocabulary, dated to 1995 merger (Lockheed 1926; Glenn L. Martin Company 1912).
A plant town's employment history is a cost-and-politics file.
No live production-rate intelligence.