# 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]]. ## Chronological Proximity Lockheed Corporation entered the Stanford research-park ecosystem during the 1950s and built missiles in Sunnyvale as federal defense investment reshaped the region; Lockheed Martin formed later in 1995. ## Relational Proximity Lockheed connected [[wiki/Stanford Research Park|Stanford Research Park]], aerospace engineering, Polaris missile work, and the defense-demand side of [[wiki/Military Origins of Silicon Valley|Silicon Valley's military origins]]. ## Chronology and Collection Routes [[research/Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research|Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software]] · [[wiki/Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software|Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software]] · [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]] · [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]]