Name       : Wael Nagy

Course     : ENG 1121, E106

Professor: Schmerler

4/26/2019

Lockheed-Martin Biography.

Lockheed Martin is an American international company that works in deferent sectors such aerospace, defense, security and advanced technologies. Lockheed Martin is a result of combining of 2 companies, Lockheed Corporation and Martin Marietta. Lockheed Martin has a huge number off employee; based on 2018 statistics it has approximately 110,000 employees worldwide. 

Lockheed Martin considered among the largest companies in the world that work in these sectors. It has the largest defense contractor in the world in 2014.

Lockheed history starts a long time ago since 1926 when Lockheed establish his company as Aircraft Company, then a few years later john Northrop a chief Engineer join the company and developed a four-passenger monoplane, it was the first aircraft that succeed and achieved several records, this success was the start for Lockheed.

During the period of World War 2, Lockheed had a contract or association with the US government and had been starting to gain a good reputation not only in the USA but around the world.

In 1995 the big merge had been started between Lockheed Company and Martin Marita Corporation to be one company that is Lockheed Martin.