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#### Skunk Works®
#### What Defines The Next Generation?
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At Lockheed Martin Skunk Works®, your mission defines our purpose.  assume it can be done. With a visionary focus on the future, we partner with our customers to anticipate tomorrow’s capability gaps and technology needs to solve the most critical national security challenges today.
With our , Skunks move quickly to develop disruptive solutions in core capability areas needed for our nation’s future success. Discover how our team is defining the future by clicking the capability icons below.
### Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance
As the threat evolves to a highly contested environment, a survivable and persistent ISR system is needed to provide lifesaving intelligence for the warfighter. We’re working on solutions that combine stealth technology, speed and improved sensors to penetrate and operate in hostile environments.
### Joint All-Domain Operations
We are evolving technologies that connect, share and learn to create a holistic network across the battlespace. From the depths of sea to the far reaches of space, our engineers’ extensive expertise in advanced technology solutions will power the joint all-domain battlespace.
### Hypersonics
We are proud to support the DoD and warfighters in developing rapid and cost effective hypersonic solutions. Our robust experience in high-speed flight is the foundation on which we are developing cutting edge technologies to enable hypersonic solutions.
### Digital Thread
Our team embraces an integrated digital approach to design that reduces cost and accelerates development. From artificial intelligence and networked factories to data analytics and augmented reality, the digital thread helps our team connect, collaborate and innovate with agility.
### Open Systems Architecture
Our approach brings faster system integration, enables affordable hardware and software reuse and upgrades, and provides a solid foundation to build capabilities for today and the future.
### Supersonics
Leveraging more than 20 years of advancing quiet supersonic technologies, we are solving one of the most persistent challenges of supersonic flight - the sonic boom.
### Future Fighters
Through , open architectures and agile development, we are advancing capabilities to combat emerging threats and maintain air dominance in the joint all-domain battlespace.
### Next Gen UAS
Leveraging more than six decades of unmanned aerial systems expertise, we are working on next generation solutions that combine stealth technology, open systems architecture and manned/unmanned teaming capabilities to be a force multiplier in the battlespace.
### Classified Work
85% of the work we do is classified and executed in secrecy to protect our national security and ensure our armed forces maintain an edge over any threat.
### Virtual Prototyping
We embrace new approaches and techniques to enhance efficiency while adhering to our tried-and-true way of operating. Digital Transformation methodologies and advanced digitally enabled technologies allows us to deliver holistic integrated solutions faster and more effectively, ensuring that we continue to meet and exceed the evolving needs of our customers. Mission-driven transformation is what we do.
### Next Gen Air Mobility
In today’s contested battlespace, our operators need to get closer to the fight. We’re advancing next generation air mobility through investment in connected and survivable tanking solutions that provide the reliability and versatility operators have come to expect.
### Revolutionary Technologies
At Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, nothing is impossible. Our scientists and engineers tackle some of the world’s hardest problems every day to pioneer radical approaches to groundbreaking advanced technology concepts.
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#### Military and Veteran Support
## **Committed to Serving and Honoring Our Nation’s Heroes**
#### **Of our 122,000 employee population, about one in five is a veteran, reservist, or military spouse.** As a leading global defense technology company, we’re proud to stand by the entire military community.
#### We’re deeply committed to supporting service members and their families, empowering veterans in transition to the civilian sector, and honoring the legacy of those who have served.
#### Through funding research to help inform policy decisions and drive critical programming, we're working to make a positive impact on the lives of those who have sacrificed so much for our nation.
### America’s Military and Veteran Caregivers: Hidden Heroes Emerging From the Shadows
#### 2024 RAND Report Released
The , commissioned by the in partnership with Lockheed Martin, Wounded Warrior Project, AARP, and the Lilly Endowment, serves as a 10-year follow-up to the Foundation's first landmark report, released in 2014 from the White House.
It estimates that the number of Americans providing care to a wounded, ill, or injured service member or veteran now stands at 14.3 million – up from the 2014 estimate of 5.5 million – representing 5.5 percent of all U.S. adults.
See the full report to learn more about key findings, insights, and recommendations proposed to strengthen caregiver support.
Lockheed Martin is known for convening thought leaders, driving innovation, advancing scientific discovery, solving complex challenges, and delivering transformative technologies to ensure those we serve stay ahead of ready.
We want to be a part of the solution for the issues facing our military community. As our military serves proudly to keep us safe, their families serve, too. With our nonprofit partners, we support the active-duty force and their families with programs that help improve their lives.
## Featured Partnerships
### Face the Fight
Simply put, the realities surrounding veteran suicide are shocking. Currently, the veteran suicide rate is **71.8% higher** than that of non-veteran adults. That’s whyLockheed Martin is joining an unprecedented of more than 200 corporations, foundations, nonprofit and veteran-focused organizations joined together to raise awareness and support for veteran suicide prevention.
Founded by USAA, Face the Fight’s mission is aimed at breaking the stigmas surrounding suicide within the military community and to create open conversation and support around the topic.
We're committed to investing in crucial programs aimed at helping provide resources and fostering hope for so many who are struggling and seeking help, and .
### Rebuilding Together
Affording peace of mind to a veteran and their family is priceless, and our employees have gotten to do just that.
We've teamed up with local chapters of the nonprofit organization, through their , to provide critical home repairs and accessibility modifications to ensure safer and healthier living conditions for veterans.
Since launching a national partnership in 2022, Lockheed Martin volunteers have supported more than 50 home rebuild and community center renovation projects in communities throughout the U.S.
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At Lockheed Martin, **veterans are at the center of everything we do** — in fact, one in five of our employees has served in uniform. **We are proud to help our brave service members successfully transition into civilian careers.**
**Join us** and you will find opportunities to take on the same kind of long-term challenging assignments you tackled while in the military.
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