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Acquired / Case file

Lockheed Martin

Numbers

What the show said, with receipts

Every figure the hosts put on the record for Lockheed Martin, with its source and the date it was captured. The audited statements from the company's own filings are under Financials.

3 figures1 source0 current or recent

Freshness

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Current (≤6 mo)

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Recent (≤18 mo)

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Older

Freshness is measured from each figure’s capture date, not from the episode date. An older figure is not wrong; it is a figure that has had time to move.

Reported figures

Loral defense acquisition

31 yr

~$10B

Completed shortly after the Lockheed-Martin merger

[Acquired: Lockheed Martin (May 2023)] · as of 1996

  • Acquired says the new Lockheed Martin acquired Loral's defense business for almost $10 billion in January 1996.
    [Acquired: Lockheed Martin (May 2023)]
    Source

F-35 share of net sales

5 yr

20%

Across all Lockheed Martin segments

[Acquired: Lockheed Martin (May 2023)] · as of 2022

  • The episode identifies the F-35 as Lockheed Martin's largest program at about 20% of total net sales.
    [Acquired: Lockheed Martin (May 2023)]
    Source

U.S. government revenue

5 yr

~75%

$50 billion of $66 billion total revenue cited on air

[Acquired: Lockheed Martin (May 2023)] · as of 2022

  • Acquired says the U.S. federal government supplied about $50 billion of Lockheed Martin's $66 billion 2022 revenue.
    [Acquired: Lockheed Martin (May 2023)]
    Source