[Peace-discuss] Lockheed vs. universities, the spectrum of military contracting, etc.

[Stuart Levy]

Looking for materials about Lockheed Martin in preparation for 
tomorrow's talk, here are some:

     Nick Turse, June 2008, "The Pentagon's Merchants of War"
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JF26Ak03.html
     reviewing activities of the big three (LockheedMartin,  Boeing, 
NorthropGrumman) and several less-well-known vendors doing more than $1B 
in DoD business in 2007.

     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) --
>
> 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.
>
> 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. *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. *

or this exposé of the Lockheed-Martin C130 program, a really successful 
jobs-for-congresspeople program:

http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175659/
     Tomgram: Jeremiah Goulka, C-130 Math and a Cargo of Pork



     Lockheed Martin Partners With Universities To Support DOD Small 
Business And Academic Research Programs
     (press release from Aug, 2011...  jointly with Auburn University, 
Tuskegee, and U of AL Huntsville...)
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/news/press-releases/2011/august/DODsmallbiz.html

        "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."
       "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."
      "Lockheed Martin leads the industry in performance and domain 
expertise in strategic missile and missile defense systems. [...]
[...] The Corporation's 2010 sales from continuing operations were $45.8 
billion."


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    Lockheed Martin Partners With Universities To Support DOD Small 
Business And Academic Research Programs
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., August 17, 2011 --
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.
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.
"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."
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.
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.
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.

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