1995 merger
The letterhead this page is named for.
US prime consolidation; alliance fighter politics; a California myth of secrecy that English readers love.
ROK industrial participation as a late afterlife.
Lessons
U-2, 1955
Reconnaissance as politics.
F-35 hearings
The late public file.
Keep the cost as a range
not a war -- a firm; human cost sits in the wars that bought the products Lockheed Martin is not improved by a fake precise integer.
Memory is national
US/UK/AU/CA rites and the memory of US plants and Pentagon offices; export customers; Skunk Works as a California myth will not match. Name the difference when teaching Lockheed Martin.
Unresolved
Census still a band
"not a war -- a firm; human cost sits in the wars that bought the products" remains a band. New archives refine Lockheed Martin; they do not un-happen 1995 merger (Lockheed 1926; Glenn L. Martin Company 1912).
Archives uneven
Files on Lockheed Martin remain unevenly open across US plants and Pentagon offices; export customers; Skunk Works as a California myth. Daniel M. Tellep's paper trail is not the same as Allan Lockheed's.
U-2
1955 reconnaissance type -- a Cold War political aircraft.
Teaching hours
English classroom hours on Lockheed Martin still disagree with hours in US plants and Pentagon offices; export customers; Skunk Works as a California myth. Is this a how-to or a catalogue of specs? is often the gap.
Shifts
Two aircraft firms
1912-45: Martin and Lockheed as separate stories.
Consolidation
1991-95: The merger season.
Services and exports
After 2015: ROK and other customers as news.
Afterlife of the name
Lockheed Martin left institutions and stories that outlasted 1995 merger (Lockheed 1926; Glenn L. Martin Company 1912). Allan Lockheed became a caption; US plants and Pentagon offices; export customers; Skunk Works as a California myth kept the rubble or the letterhead.
Outlook
Scholarship
New archives will refine Lockheed Martin (SR-71 first flight, ROK F-35 decision era) without un-happening 1995 merger (Lockheed 1926; Glenn L. Martin Company 1912).
Memory handover
As witnesses die, museums and film carry Lockheed Martin. Kelly Johnson and Ben Rich will keep being recast.
This atlas
Lockheed Martin stays a historical file -- firm history, not a live order of battle or a method.
Risk
going concern; page is historical
Lockheed Martin is a living firm. This page is contractor history, not a product guide, spec sheet, or live programme-status tracker.
BAE and Rheinmetall are the European comparison set.
Hanwha is the Korean comparison set -- a different state-firm bargain.