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Looking for materials about Lockheed Martin in preparation for
tomorrow's talk, here are some:<br>
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Nick Turse, June 2008, "The Pentagon's Merchants of War"<br>
<a
href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JF26Ak03.html">http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JF26Ak03.html</a><br>
reviewing activities of the big three (LockheedMartin, Boeing,
NorthropGrumman) and several less-well-known vendors doing more than
$1B in DoD business in 2007.<br>
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Lockheed Martin themselves have done well over $20B/year in
business with DoD every year since 2002, and growing steadily. A
quarter trillion from DoD in the last decade for them alone. But
as Turse says, their less prominent cousins are important too --
(think of Alan Simpson's millions of teats at the public trough) --
<br>
<blockquote type="cite"><br>
Tens of thousands of defense contractors - from well-known
"civilian" corporations (like Coca-Cola, Kraft and Dell) to tiny
companies - have fattened up on the Pentagon and its wars. Most of
the time, large or small, they fly under the radar and are seldom
identified as defense contractors at all. So it's hardly
surprising that firms like Harris and Evergreen, without name
recognition outside their own worlds, can take in billions in
taxpayer dollars without notice or comment in our increasingly
militarized civilian economy. <br>
<br>
When the history of the Iraq war is finally written, chances are
that these five billion-dollar babies, and most of the other
defense contractors involved in making the US occupation possible,
will be left out. <b>Until we begin coming to grips with the role
of such corporations in creating the material basis for an
imperial foreign policy, we'll never be able to grasp fully how
the Pentagon works and why the US so regularly makes war in, and
carries out occupations of, distant lands. </b><br>
</blockquote>
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or this exposé of the Lockheed-Martin C130 program, a really
successful jobs-for-congresspeople program:<br>
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<a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175659/">http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175659/</a><br>
Tomgram: Jeremiah Goulka, C-130 Math and a Cargo of Pork<br>
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Lockheed Martin Partners With Universities To Support DOD Small
Business And Academic Research Programs <br>
(press release from Aug, 2011... jointly with Auburn
University, Tuskegee, and U of AL Huntsville...)<br>
<a
href="http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/news/press-releases/2011/august/DODsmallbiz.html">http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/news/press-releases/2011/august/DODsmallbiz.html</a><br>
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"Working together, Lockheed Martin and our university
partners will further increase our active support of Department of
Defense programs for small business and academic technology
research," said John W. Holly, vice president of Missile Defense
Systems, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company. "This local-level
initiative will provide national-level benefits by helping bring
more cutting-edge technologies into the systems our war fighters
rely upon to defend our country."<br>
"The Lockheed Martin Innovation Marketplace will focus on
supporting emerging technology for missile defense applications. As
part of the program, Lockheed Martin will provide a center on its
Bradford Drive campus in Huntsville. The center will open by the end
of this year and initially will provide researchers with a
conference room with meeting and work space, as well as high-speed
network connections to similar Lockheed Martin centers such as those
in Washington, D.C., and San Diego, Calif. The company plans to
expand the facility in 2012 to include a technology test bed where
researchers will be able to plug their new products into a
simulation environment to assess interoperability with existing
Lockheed Martin and government systems."<br>
"Lockheed Martin leads the industry in performance and domain
expertise in strategic missile and missile defense systems. [...]<br>
[...] The Corporation's 2010 sales from continuing operations were
$45.8 billion."<br>
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Lockheed Martin Partners With Universities To Support DOD Small
Business And Academic Research Programs <br>
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., August 17, 2011 --<br>
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) today announced that it is partnering
with three universities to establish a program in Huntsville, Ala.,
that will support small businesses and universities participating in
federal technology programs.<br>
Called the Lockheed Martin Innovation Marketplace, the program will
support private sector and academic sector technologists in
participating in the Department of Defense's Small Business
Innovation Research (SBIR), Technology Transfer (STTR) and Mentor
Protégé programs. Collaborating with Lockheed Martin Space Systems
Company are Auburn University, Auburn, Ala., Tuskegee University,
Tuskegee, Ala., and University of Alabama in Huntsville.<br>
"Working together, Lockheed Martin and our university partners will
further increase our active support of Department of Defense
programs for small business and academic technology research," said
John W. Holly, vice president of Missile Defense Systems, Lockheed
Martin Space Systems Company. "This local-level initiative will
provide national-level benefits by helping bring more cutting-edge
technologies into the systems our war fighters rely upon to defend
our country."<br>
Joining Holly in signing a collaboration agreement today at the
Space and Missile Defense Conference in Huntsville were: Dr. Rodney
Robertson, executive director of Auburn University's Huntsville
Research Center, Dr. Shaik Jeelani, vice president of Tuskegee
University's division of research and sponsored programs; and Dr.
John Horack, vice president for research for University of Alabama
in Huntsville.<br>
The Lockheed Martin Innovation Marketplace will focus on supporting
emerging technology for missile defense applications. As part of the
program, Lockheed Martin will provide a center on its Bradford Drive
campus in Huntsville. The center will open by the end of this year
and initially will provide researchers with a conference room with
meeting and work space, as well as high-speed network connections to
similar Lockheed Martin centers such as those in Washington, D.C.,
and San Diego, Calif. The company plans to expand the facility in
2012 to include a technology test bed where researchers will be able
to plug their new products into a simulation environment to assess
interoperability with existing Lockheed Martin and government
systems.<br>
Lockheed Martin Space Systems employs more than 800 people in
Huntsville and Courtland in the company's Missile Defense Systems
operating unit. The company performs program management and
engineering for key missile defense contracts in Huntsville and
missile defense assembly, integration and test services in
Courtland.<br>
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