Lockheed Martin
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Lockheed Martin’s facility in Akron, OH, has core businesses in Integrated Defense Technologies, Simulation, Training & Support and Enterprise Business Services (Information Technology). Lockheed Martin is the U.S. Government’s top IT provider. Lockheed Martin Akron’s core businesses are organized within market segments, including persistent surveillance systems, weapon systems, laser and sensor systems, as well as simulation and training systems. The company’s facility in Akron is at the forefront of developing and implementing real world solutions that address the changing needs of our customers, both domestically and worldwide.
Lockheed Martin’s facility in Akron has numerous customers, including the U.S. Army; U.S. Air Force; U.S. Navy; Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; Department of Homeland Security and U.S. allies. There are approximately 670 Lockheed Martin employees located in Akron, of which 107 of those employees are in manufacturing and operations (80 are represented by the UAW Local 856).
The Lockheed Martin site is a technology incubator, offers flexible work schedules and business casual dress. Lockheed Martin Akron is a community business partner and its employees have a strong philanthropic presence within the community, with close to 8,000 volunteer service hours provided to the community in 2007 alone. The site supports K-12 Science and Math education, as it looks for and grows the next generation of employees. It also hosts the University of Akron Kid’s Career Day and Women in Engineering Events.
The facility has been at its Akron location since 1929, when an airship manufacturing facility, home of the historic Airdock, was constructed. The Akron Airdock is 1,175 feet long, 325 feet wide and 211 feet high. It provides the equivalent of seven football fields of uninterrupted floor space, covered under one roof. Since 1929, the business unit has supplied more than 8,000 lighter-than-air platforms; aircraft components; radar systems; flight simulation and training devices; torpedo warheads; underwater training targets; countermeasure dispensers; antisubmarine weapons and high-speed parallel computing processors.