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	Skunk works - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Its largest current project is the F-35 JSF (Joint Strike Fighter), which will be used in the air forces of several countries around the world.
		The term "Skunk Works" is a registered trademark of Lockheed Martin; the company also holds several registrations of it with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
		The original Lockheed facility, during the development of the P-80, was located downwind of a malodorous plastics factory.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Skunk_works (907 words)

	Lockheed F-22 Lightning II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The unit flyaway cost was to be no more than $40 million in 1985 dollars (later reduced to only $35 million), and the life-cycle cost was to be no more than that of the F-15.
		However, advances in computer technology made it possible to do the mathematical modeling and simulations that were needed to design a stealthy aircraft which was also supersonic and capable of good maneuverability.
		Lockheed considered switching its efforts to the second prototype, which was to be powered by the competing Pratt and Whitney F119 engine, but decided to stick with the original schedule.
	www.csd.uwo.ca /~pettypi/elevon/baugher_us/f022.html (6214 words)

	Lockheed Martin F/A-22 Raptor
		In April of 1980, the ETF project was shelved, and the ATAS project was redesignated the ATF.
		By the early 1980s, the air-to-ground mission for the ATF began to appear less urgent, since the projected F-117A "stealth fighter" that was currently under development should be able to penetrate the air defenses of the Warsaw Pact in the event of a European war.
		At that time, the ATF project was still in the "white" unclassified world, and a lot of the project officers working on the ATF were unaware of the "fl" stealth technology that was being developed.
	home.att.net /~jbaugher4/f22_1.html (8676 words)

	Insight: ATM Lockheed reports good early progress on en route projects
		Lockheed Martin is still ahead of schedule as it finishes some crucial early stages of FAA's mammoth en route automation modernization (ERAM) program, top company officials say, and Lockheed Martin is also poised to reach important milestones in FAA's oceanic modernization effort.
		Lockheed is also lowering the risk for schedule delays by reusing a lot of code already developed for the user request evaluation tool (URET).
		Antonucci said Lockheed has been a primary technology provider for the FAA for the past 40 years, and he is proud of the company's record of meeting budgets and timetables during this time.
	www.aviationnow.com /avnow/news/channel_aviationdaily_story.jsp?id=news/pro08134.xml (1108 words)

	Military.com Content (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Air Force and Lockheed insist Aurora is a code name for the company's work on its entry in the B-2 stealth bomber design competition, which was won by Northrop Aircraft.
		In the early 1970s Gerald Rosen, a professor of physics at Philadelphia's Drexel University and one of the highest paid theoretical physicists in the United States, was contracted by NASA to determine whether it would be possible to store hydrogen as individual atoms rather than as molecules.
		The project tested the feasibility of using the SR-71 to launch a high-speed, high-altitude drone, the D-21, deep into enemy terrain.
	www.military.com /Content/MoreContent?file=PMskunk (2296 words)

	AFRL Propulsion Directorate Projects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This is a technology being developed which combines turbojet propulsion with rocket propulsion to fly payloads from the launch pad to space orbit.
		The lab’s team is developing methods to speed up the manufacturing time of the materials while improving their quality and lowering costs.
		Advanced cooling design and manufacturing techniques are being developed, and high thermal conductivity alloys are being used.
	www.pr.afrl.af.mil /projects.htm (1665 words)

	Skunk Works
		Unofficial name for Lockheed Martin's Lockheed Advanced Development Projects Unit – the unit responsible for producing a number of famous aircraft, including the U-2, the SR-71 Blackbird, and the F-117.
		Among msot recents projects is the F-35 JSF (Joint Strike Fighter).
		The legendary Kelly Johnson and team developed the P-80 Shooting Star in a circus tent set in the parking lot (as there was no existing secure area) in only 143 days.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/S/Skunk_Works.html (254 words)

	Lockheed F-117A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Although the Lockheed F-117A stealth fighter is almost certainly NOT in the original fighter sequence of designations, the end of this particular sequence is perhaps most apt for a discussion of this unusual warplane, most of the details of which are still highly classified.
		Lockheed workers assembled the two Have Blue aircraft in a cordoned-off area in Lockheed's Plant 10 facility housed at the USAF Plant 42 in Palmdale, California.
		During November of 1978, Lockheed was awarded a go-ahead contract to begin full-scale development of the project.
	www.csd.uwo.ca /~pettypi/elevon/baugher_us/f117.html (8229 words)

	Lockheed Martin's Secretly Built Airship Makes First Flight
		Lockheed Martin Advanced Development Projects is making perhaps the first realistic tests of a hybrid airship--a concept that dates back many decades but that is just now being tried at a significant scale.
		The P-791 is not part of a government contract, but rather an independent research and development project by the Skunk Works to better understand airship capabilities and technologies, such as materials, a company official says.
		The tail units appear to be able to pivot for yaw vectoring, and it's unclear if the ones on the sides can move.
	www.aviationnow.com /avnow/news/channel_awst_story.jsp?id=news/020606p2.xml (1148 words)

	The Black Jet--July 1990 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In the mid-1970s, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency provided funding for development of an airplane that would feature low radar, optical, and infrared signatures to counter the increasing sophistication of Soviet radar and surface-to-air missiles.
		He adds that Lockheed did not attempt to deliver a "perfect" airplane, an effort that surely would have brought long delays in deployment of a "good enough" aircraft.
		For developing and fielding the F-117 in complete secrecy and at such a rapid pace, the National Aeronautic Association awarded the 1989 Collier Trophy, the most prestigious award in American aviation, to Mr.
	www.afa.org /magazine/1990/0790black.html (2831 words)

	Orbital Technologies Corporation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The primary goal of this project is to provide the crew with a palatable, nutritious and safe source of fresh food and to provide the crew with a tool for relaxation and recreation.
		The objective of the DRYER project is to develop a gravity-independent pasteurization and hot air drying process suitable for stabilization of ALS wet cabin waste, drying of crew laundry, water recovery from water-reprocessing brines, and food drying.
		The technical objective of the Phase II project is to provide a more complete investigation of the long-term needs of the simulant community based on the updated NASA outline for exploration, including potential landing site designations, the types of technologies currently funded for research, and timelines for future development.
	www.orbitec.com /projects.htm (3906 words)

	Skunkworks International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		During World War II, the United States needed to develop planes to counter the threat from the advanced german fighters.
		Lockheed set up the Lockheed Advanced Development Projects Unit, unofficially called the Skunk Works and put Kelly Johnson in charge.
		Kelly's team went on to build some of the most advanced aircraft ever to grace the skies.
	www.skunkworksintl.com (123 words)

	F-117A Nighthawk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The F-117 production decision was made in 1978 with a contract awarded to the Lockheed Advanced Development Projects, nicknamed "Skunk Works," in Burbank, Calif. The first flight was in 1981, only 31 months after the full-scale development decision.
		The 4450th TG was deactivated in October 1989, and was reactivated as the 37th Tactical Fighter Wing.
		Logistically supported by Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company under the Total System Performance Responsibility contract administered by Aeronautical Systems Division, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, the F-117 is kept at the forefront of technology through a planned weapon system improvement program located at USAF Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif.
	www.holloman.af.mil /hafb/f117.html (456 words)

	Osprey Publishing - Lockheed Blackbird
		It was while serving as Assistant Chief in the New Developments Office, Bombardment Branch, at Wright Field, near Dayton, Ohio, that he articulated high-altitude strategic reconnaissance philosophy, by proposing to mate an aircraft with an extremely efficient high-aspect-ratio wing to the new generation of turbojet engines.
		Developments in camera and film technology, required to gather surveillance data from high altitude, had been proceeding in parallel with advances made by the aerospace industry.
		Pilots recruited by the Agency into Project Aquatone came straight from the Air Force, on a ‘suspended contract’, their ‘grey suit’ time during the period of ‘secondment’ counting as time served in the military.
	www.ospreypublishing.com /title_detail.php?ser=GNA&title=S6941&view=spread&view=extract (3791 words)

	Naval Technology - Zumwalt DD(X) Class - Multimission Destroyer
		The Advanced Vertical Launch System (AVLS) that forms the basis of the PVLS is being developed by United Defense and Raytheon and has been designated the Mk 57 VLS.
		Lockheed Martin has been awarded the contract for the LRAP EDM.
		BAE Systems Land and Armaments is developing advanced gun barrel technologies for the new AGS, with improvements to barrel life, overall system performance and life cycle costs.
	www.naval-technology.com /projects/dd21 (1485 words)

	Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) - Military Aircraft
		Cost commonality is projected in the range of 70-90 percent; parts commonality will be lower, but emphasis is on commonality in the higher-priced parts.
		The two CDP contracts were competitively awarded to Boeing and Lockheed Martin for ground and flight demonstrations at a cost of $2.2 billion for the 51-month effort, including an additional contract to Pratt and Whitney for the engine.
		The Lockheed Martin Joint Strike Fighter X-35A successfully executed a series of airborne refuelings during its 10th flight, demonstrating the aircraft's flying qualities during refueling and paving the way for extended test flights.
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ac/jsf.htm (1913 words)

	OpenSpaceWorld: SkunkWorks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The skunk works was the unofficial name for the Lockheed Advanced Development Projects Unit and was the production unit responsible for a number of famous aircraft, including the U-2, the SR-71, and the F-117.
		Skunk works also refers to a unit within a company that attempts to use the techniques of the original skunk works.
		Skunk works is also used to refer to projects undertaken by engineers without the knowledge or approval of company management.
	www.openspaceworld.org /cgi/wiki.cgi?SkunkWorks (190 words)

	STSC CrossTalk - Commandments for a Productive Development Environment - Jan 2006
		The physical project area should be allocated to a specific development task and not shared by multiple projects.
		Another side effect of an undedicated project area is that the presence of people from another task prevents the team from forming into a focused, cohesive unit.
		Thus, when more than one project is active in a given area, the need for individual privacy becomes an issue due to the distracting information flow or noise in the area.
	www.stsc.hill.af.mil /CrossTalk/2006/01/0601JensenDupaix.html (4076 words)

	Homeland Security Daily Wire for July 31, 2006
		More than nine years and $300 million later, in September 2005, the United States and Israel put the system in moth balls, having come to the conclusion that the system was too expensive, to bulky, to dangerous to operate, and not too effective against large salvos of rockets.
		The anti-Katyusha shield project -- it was called the tactical high energy laser project -- was approved by the two countries in April 1996.
		The prototype was the size of six city buses, and it held the command center, radar and a telescope for tracking targets, the chemical laser itself, tanks to feed it tons of fuel, and a rotating mirror to bounce its beam toward speeding targets.
	hsdailywire.com /currentIssue.html (3178 words)

	Popular Mechanics - World's First Supersonic Business Jet: Nov. 2004 Cover Story
		Lockheed Martin's ability to keep a secret has been honed for decades.
		After all, this was the outfit that developed the F-117 Stealth Fighter and the awesome Mach 3-capable SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft that became a star of the Cold War.
		A scrappy, one-time dock worker, Kelly set up his ultra-secret Lockheed Advanced Development Projects Unit in a rented circus tent in Burbank, Calif. The stench from a nearby plastics factory was so vile, engineers answered the phone "skonk works," after the backwoods still in the L'il Abner comic strip.
	www.popularmechanics.com /science/aviation/1303021.html?page=2&c=y (946 words)

	Lockheed Martin and Raytheon Create Limited Liability Company for Development of NetFires
		Although the two missiles have significantly different mission profiles, the objective is that they both operate as part of a system that includes a common launcher.
		Developing the systems together will enhance component as well as command and control commonality throughout the NLOS-LS.
		Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global enterprise principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture and integration of advanced-technology systems, products and services.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=105&STORY=/www/story/05-16-2003/0001948614 (698 words)

	Les OVNIS vus de près: le chasseur invisible F-117
		The first stealth fighters were flown by Lockheed C-5 Galaxy cargo plane to Groom Dry Lake, where they took to the air for the first time in June 1981.
		The F-117A production decision was made in 1978 with a contract awarded to Lockheed Advanced Development Projects, the "Skunk Works," in Burbank, California.
		Having outgrown the Groom Lake facilities, the stealth unit operates out of the remote Tonopah Test Range airfield in the northwest corner of the Nellis Range.
	www.ufologie.net /htm/f117f.htm (559 words)

	F-117A Nighthawk - Military Aircraft
		Serbian air defenses managed to string together a series of brief sightings, perhaps starting as early as the F-117's takeoff in Italy, to project the F-117's course and loft an anti-aircraft missile at the F-117 when it was most vulnerable.
		In December 2001, TRW and Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Company completed a series of success F-117 flight tests evaluating the ability for commerical off the shelf (COTS) technology combined with COTS emulation technology to execute the existing F-117 Operational Flight Plan (OFP).
		The SCF development contract was awarded June 1996, and all development and flight testing completed March 1999.
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ac/f-117.htm (2104 words)

	IBM Software Development case studies for Aerospace & Defense industry
		Government projects that in the past required many years to complete are now expected in 18 months or less.
		As more of Lockheed Martin's government clients embrace open source technologies, the company is combining IBM Rational tools and open source applications to share assets and unify its development teams.
		At Lockheed Martin, testers and developers are leveraging IBM Rational TestManager and its extensibility interface to lower costs, improve communication, and reuse test assets throughout development.
	www.ibm.com /software/success/cssdb.nsf/industryL2VW?OpenView&Count=30&RestrictToCategory=admain_AerospaceDefense (1129 words)

	Linux in Government: Linux System Administrators
		Similarly, on numerous occasions customers have told us we were "crazy" to believe we could complete projects in the time and for the fee we offered.
		The model used in open-source software projects allows for rapid development and quick times to market and does not fit the paradigm of the typical IT professional.
		In most organizations, skunk works is a group of people who work on a project in a way that is outside the rules in order to achieve unusual results.
	www.linuxjournal.com /node/8114/print (1491 words)

	Military & Aerospace Electronics - Lockheed Martin picked for DARPA laser weapon system (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		As weapon system integrator, Lockheed Martin will support General Atomics in developing and demonstrating this innovative solid-state laser in a weapon system that is capable of being integrated on a range of potential platforms.
		Lockheed Martin Space Systems C., a major operating unit of Lockheed Martin Corp., designs, develops, tests, manufactures, and operates a variety of advanced technology systems for military, civil and commercial customers.
		Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin employs about 130,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture and integration of advanced technology systems, products and services.
	mae.pennnet.com /Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=OnlineArticles&SubSection=Display&PUBLICATION_ID=32&ARTICLE_ID=227027 (485 words)

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