This document discusses Lockheed Martin's future directions in space technology. It provides an overview of Lockheed Martin, which employs over 116,000 people working across 500+ facilities. It then discusses Lockheed Martin's divisions in space systems, advanced technology, and nanoelectronics. For space systems, it focuses on areas like human exploration, weather, communications, and more. For advanced technology, it highlights projects involving imaging interferometers, photonic integrated circuits, and carbon nanotube electronics. It concludes with a section on advanced materials and additive manufacturing innovations.
1. On The Cusp: What is Next?
53rd Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium
March 11, 2015
Nelson Pedreiro
Science & Technology Director
Advanced Technology Center
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company
We are partners with our customers sharing a unified vision: to deliver the technologies customers need to address their most pressing priorities and achieve success at their defining moments.
We hire approximately five percent of all engineers produced in American colleges and universities – about 4,000 people annually.
We are a corporate sponsor of National Engineers Week (every third week in February) and Space Day (May 15).
Every year, Lockheed Martin employees donate over a million hours of voluntary assistance to their local communities and donate more than $20 million to charities through workplace giving programs. The corporation donates an additional $24 million annually, focusing on education, community outreach and customer and constituent interests.
116,000 employees worldwide
5 core businesses
About 50% of Lockheed Martin’s business is in Aeronautics and Space, which has highly visible products: airplanes and spacecraft
The other 50% of Lockheed Martin’s business is in Electronic Systems and Information & Technology Services, which include sea-based missile defense capabilities installed in surface ships, as well as the Coast Guard’s Deepwater Program and the Littoral Combat Ship capture. Less visible products that are key to these business areas are systems engineering, software, and information technology.
Lockheed Martin’s newest line of business – Information Systems & Global Services – was formed to leverage our unique strengths in integrating advanced information technology systems.
Briefer Notes
1) Strategic and Missile defense is a key part to what we do.
2) Strong international interest in the THAAD system
Working common contract combining UAE THAAD interceptors with USG Lot-4 interceptors to maximize synergies
Qatar LOR for 2 batteries (150 missiles) received in July
3) Civil Space
Mission areas = human and robotic exploration
…thank you for your support of Orion. Program is executing very well, with Crew Module structure recently delivered to KSC on route to fist orbital test EFT-1 in 2014.
4) Military Space
Mission Areas = Communication, Navigation, and Remote Sensing
…AEHF, MUOS, SBIRS in “production mode” and delivering on orbit
…advanced manufacturing techniques are enabling reduced learning curves on GPS III
5) Commercial ventures unit
…is one of the world’s leading providers of commercial imagery systems.
…has provided SATCOM systems to companies from Vietnam, Japan
…WindTracer is a Laser Radar technology. Used predict wind direction for Aviation safety and wind energy applications.
6) Finally, underpinning all of our product lines is a core set of people, techniques, and facilities for advanced technology and architectures.
…highlight NIRCam, the Near-Infrared Camera; imaging heart of the James Webb space telescope
…advanced materials, such as nano copper for Lead-free electronics assembly and Graphene, a nanoporous material with promising filtering applications.
Lockheed Martin has been actively involved with the design and development of systems since the dawn of the space age.
Space-based products are so well integrated into our lives that its only when services are disrupted that we realize the full extent of our dependence.
Space-based products supports almost all of our modern conveniences and provide critical infrastructure support that is the backbone of our economy
Everything from cable TV to cell phones to ATMs
In fact our banking system is based on precision timing from our GPS satellite constellation
GPS also allows precision seeding of crops… and rescue teams to locate those in distress.
Few Americans appreciate just how dependent we are upon AND how many inventions grew out of space technology
Simply, America would be a far different place without our space capabilities
I’d like to take you on a brief tour of the products and systems that Lockheed Martin has been involved with over the years.
Low-mass, low-volume, RECONFIGURABLE
Key advantages of integrated CNT technologies
Processing to-date has been developed on standard semiconductor process fabrication lines
CNT processing requires fewer photo-masks to obtain comparable densities to state-of-the-art technology nodes
CNT-FETs enable using multiple device layers for control circuitry (CMOS can only be fabricated using base silicon layer)
Back-end processes can be developed to fabricate FETs and NRAM® at multiple levels
APEX = Advanced Polymer Engineered for the eXtreme (material system)
Juno Mission – Launch Aug. 2011,
Understand the origin and evolution of Jupiter
Origin of solar system and planetary systems being discovered around other stars
32 polar orbits will extensively sample Jupiter’s full range of latitudes and longitudes
Elliptical orbit swings below radiation belts to minimize radiation exposure
Global maps of the gravity, magnetic fields, and atmospheric composition
In-situ and remote sensing observations
Explore polar magnetosphere and determine what drives Jupiter’s remarkable auroras