# Lockheed Martin American aerospace and defense company that took over management of [[wiki/Sandia National Laboratories|Sandia National Laboratories]] from [[wiki/Western Electric|AT&T Technologies]] (the renamed Western Electric) in 1993, ending forty-four years of Bell System management of the nuclear weapons laboratory. Referenced in [[articles/Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power|Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power]].