Skunk Works is an official pseudonym for Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs (ADP), formerly called Lockheed Advanced Development Projects. It is responsible for a number of aircraft designs, highly classified research and development programs, and exotic aircraft platforms. Known locations include United States Air Force Plant 42 and United States Air Force Plant 4, and Marietta, Georgia.
Entrance plaza at the Skunk Works in Palmdale, California
Assembly line of the SR-71 Blackbird at Skunk Works
A modern Skunk Works project leverages an older one: LASRE atop the SR-71 Blackbird.
The Skunk Works logo as seen on one of Lockheed Martin’s hangars.
The Lockheed Martin Corporation is an American aerospace and defense manufacturer with worldwide interests. It was formed by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta in March 1995. It is headquartered in North Bethesda, Maryland, in the Washington, D.C. area. As of January 2022, Lockheed Martin employs approximately 115,000 employees worldwide, including about 60,000 engineers and scientists.
Lockheed Martin's prior Center For Leadership Excellence (CLE) Building, which was located near its corporate headquarters
Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning
President Joe Biden at the Lockheed Martin Facility in Troy, Alabama, May 3, 2022
The C-130 Hercules has been in production since the 1950s with the C-130J variant being produced now.
