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The Dulles Technology Corridor has access to a highly educated workforce. Of adults aged 25 and over, 58.2% in Fairfax County [10] and 57.6% in Loudoun County [11] have a bachelor's degree or higher, compared with 28.2% for the U.S. as a whole.
Tysons Corner has more Fortune 500 company headquarters than Washington, D.C. [1]. This is a list of notable companies headquartered in Northern Virginia.The majority of the following companies are located in Fairfax County and Loudoun County the most populous jurisdictions in Northern Virginia, Virginia state, and the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area.
On May 12, 2006, The Washington Post reported that when Robert Stevens took control of Lockheed Martin in 2004, he faced the dilemma that within 10 years, 100,000 of the about 130,000 Lockheed Martin employees – more than three-quarters – would be retiring. [33]
The company employs 122,000 people worldwide and more than 18,000 in the Fort Worth area, according to the Lockheed Martin website. “We are working with all impacted employees to help them ...
Northrop Grumman and Boeing collaborated on a design concept for NASA's upcoming Orion spacecraft (previously the Crew Exploration Vehicle), but the contract went to rival Lockheed Martin on August 31, 2006. [43] In 2006, Northrop Grumman had intended to bid for the U.S. Air Force's Next-Generation Bomber. Though it has not built a large manned ...
Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems (LM RMS) is a Lockheed Martin business segment headquartered in Washington, D.C. Until October 2008, RMS was headquartered in Moorestown Township, New Jersey, a suburb of Philadelphia; Moorestown remains one of the largest sites in the business unit and is where many of the unit's top executives have their offices.
Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL) is a department of Lockheed Martin headquartered in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, that specializes in applied research and development. Additional facilities are located in Eagan, Minnesota , Kennesaw, Georgia , and Arlington, Virginia , employing approximately 250 people in total.
While the formation of Lockheed Martin in 1995 was a merger of equals, by far the greatest contribution to Lockheed Martin Aeronautics was the product portfolio of Lockheed. This included the C-5 , C-130 , and C-141 transports as well as the F-2 , F-16 (purchased from General Dynamics ), F-117 , F-22 , and F-35 Lightning II .