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In December 1975, it surfaced that Prince Bernhard received a $1.1 million bribe in the early 1960s from Lockheed to ensure the Lockheed F-104 would win out over the Dassault Mirage 5 for the purchase contract. He had served on more than 300 corporate boards or committees worldwide and had been praised in the Netherlands for his efforts to ...
The deal was finalized on March 15, 1995, when the two companies' shareholders approved the merger. [19] The segments of the two companies not retained by the new company formed the basis for L-3 Communications, a mid-size defense contractor in its own right. Lockheed Martin also later spun off the materials company Martin Marietta Materials.
United States. Language. English. Budget. $10 million [1] Box office. $10.4 million (USA) Deal of the Century is a 1983 American comedy film directed by William Friedkin and starring Chevy Chase, Gregory Hines, and Sigourney Weaver. The film follows the adventures of several arms dealers that compete to sell weapons to a South American dictator.
Daniel Michael Tellep (20 November 1931 – 26 November 2020) [ 1] was an American aerospace businessman. He died on November 26, 2020. He served as CEO and chairman of the board of the Lockheed Corporation from 1989 to 1995 and CEO of Lockheed Martin Corporation in 1996. Mr.
Back at Lockheed, he was assigned to work with aviation pioneer Kelly Johnson, and became division engineer for all flight test activities in 1957, and then chief of engineering flight test in 1960. He also was a flight test engineer on the first flight of the Lockheed C-130 Hercules on 23 August 1954. Two years later, his career advanced again ...
Title. Chairman, President & CEO of Lockheed Martin. Predecessor. Marillyn Hewson. Website. Lockheed Martin Leadership. Signature. James Donald Taiclet Jr. (born May 13, 1960) is an American business executive who has been the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Lockheed Martin since June 2020, and chairman since March 2021.
James Joseph Mattern (March 8, 1905 – December 17, 1988) was an American aviator. Mattern undertook a number of aviation world records, including twice attempting to break the world record for aerial circumnavigation set by Wiley Post and Harold Gatty. Both attempts failed; the second in 1933 resulted in a crash landing and subsequent rescue ...
The Lightweight Fighter (LWF) program was a United States Air Force technology evaluation program initiated in the late 1960s by a group of officers and defense analysts known as the "Fighter Mafia". It was spurred by then-Major John Boyd 's 'energy-maneuverability' (E-M) theory, which indicated that excessive weight would have severely ...