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Lockheed Martin is an US-American technology company in the range air and space travel. The Lockheed Martin Corporation was created in March 1995. It is a union of the companies Lockheed corporation and the Martin Marietta corporation. Seat of the company is Bethesda, Maryland in the USA. In consequence of the fusion as well as heavy financial problems into the late 1990er years larger portions of two companies of the investor T.M.M.H as well as of the British competitor BAE of system were sold. This replaced by it Lockheed Martin as the largest arms company of the world. After an extensive reorganization Lockheed Martin could however already stress this title 2004 again for itself.

In October 2001 Lockheed received the order for the largest combat aircraft program of the post-war period, the Joint Strike Fighter. This order brought new lift to the company.

The department of Transportation and Security Solutions (transportation and safety solutions) kept the addition for the structure of the archiving system electronics of the record of archives (ERA) national to 2005 that Archives and record administration (NARA). Financial volume: 308 million dollar.

The business fields of Martin Marietta covered among other things also the building of rocket and remote guided weapons. Among other things by Lockheed Martin now the booster rockets for the start the space shuttle are built, whose failure led 1986 to one the worst in the history of NASA - the Challenger disaster.

In Germany the name became Lockheed by the Starfighter affair into the 1960-er years of a broader public for the first time admits. In Japan the company released one of the largest corruption affairs, the Lockheed scandal.

Beginning of the 1990-er years took over Lockheed of Loral the Goodyear Aerospace corporation of the inclusive type certificates for the Goodyear airships. At the beginning 21. Century works Lockheed among other things also on military airships.