Lockheed Martin--Aligning Logistics Career Development to Their Corporate Business Strategy (PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT) (Company Overview‪)‬

In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Brutus remarks insightfully to Cassius, "There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune." They are, of course, discussing battle strategy, but this famous phrase is equally applicable in the business world. Lockheed Martin Corporation, long a leader in the design, development, and production of sophisticated defense systems, is rapidly recognizing, along with many other Aerospace and Defense (A&D) companies, that the "tide" of defense business is undergoing a paradigm shift, unveiling new and growing opportunities in the area of after market support services. The convergence of many factors, such as the end of the cold war technology race, the changing global threat environment, the decline in procurement of new systems, and the corresponding rising cost of supporting aging systems, has prompted a new era and approach to defense system sustainment--those activities that assure operationally ready systems for today's national security environment.