Lockheed Martin Corporation

Lockheed Martin Corporation Advanced Technology Laboratories Division, doing business as Lockheed Martin Aerostructures, operates as a prime contractor and subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, competing exclusively in full-and-open procurements without set-aside designation and delivering advanced research, development, and test-and-evaluation services to the Department of Defense and intelligence community. The division is headquartered in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, with administrative oversight at the Orlando, Florida parent facility and secondary performance locations in San Antonio, Texas, Charleston, South Carolina, and Huntsville, Alabama.

The Advanced Technology Laboratories Division specializes in artificial intelligence and autonomous systems research, electronic warfare and spectrum operations, distributed sensing and beamforming systems, tactical communications and 5G resilience, ethical frameworks for military autonomy, and test-and-evaluation methodologies for AI system reliability and safety. Representative work includes a $31.95 million cost-plus-fixed-fee DARPA contract for the DENALI TA2A classified research program (ultimate completion December 2027), a $14.9 million Air Force contract for Ephemeral Paragon electronic support subsystem development spanning algorithm adaptation and electromagnetic environment management (October 2026), a $14.6 million DARPA contract for the Influence Campaign Awareness and Sensemaking (INCAS) program to detect and characterize geopolitical influence operations through automated detection and population segmentation analysis (July 2025), and a $10.7 million Office of Naval Research contract for a highly scalable distributed beamforming system with 32-node ground array and two airborne payloads (completed May 2025).

Customer concentration heavily favors defense research agencies and Navy information warfare platforms. The Department of the Navy commands 276 awards (51% of total) concentrated within Office of Naval Research and Naval Information Warfare Systems Command; DARPA commands 58 awards (10.7% of total) worth $428.8 million combined potential value, representing 42% of the division's total dollar portfolio; the Air Force Research Laboratory accounts for 47 awards worth $113.3 million. The top five customer agencies by potential value — DARPA ($428.8 million), Office of the Secretary of Defense ($304.7 million), Air Force Research Laboratory ($113.3 million), Navy Office of Naval Research ($74.8 million), and Naval Information Warfare Systems Command ($53.6 million) — represent 96% of combined potential value across all awards.

The Advanced Technology Laboratories Division holds a position on the newly awarded Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract with the Missile Defense Agency (awarded December 29, 2025, ultimate completion December 2035) supporting multi-layered defense research, prototyping, systems engineering, and modernization across air, missile, space, and cyber threat domains. The division also operates under a $249 million DISA Blanket Purchase Agreement for Test and Evaluation services to the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center and Department of Defense (running through January 2027). Five named Navy Basic Ordering Agreements and Indefinite Delivery Contracts drive recurring work: N0018985D0030 (48 task orders), N0012387D0231 (35 task orders), N6226988D0100 (35 task orders), N6226984D0120 (23 task orders), and N0012388D0283 (21 task orders).

Recent activity shows moderate award volume with six awards in 2023, ten in 2024, four in 2025, and two in early 2026 — suggesting contract maturation and larger individual award values rather than volume growth. Fourteen awards (combined potential value $165.4 million) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure in DARPA research, Air Force electronic warfare, and Navy information warfare technical areas. Combined obligated funding across all awards totals $729.7 million (72% of combined potential value of $1.01 billion), indicating that roughly 28% remains unobligated against signed vehicles.

The division subcontracts selectively on specialized research projects. Named subcontractors include Shift5 Inc. on the DENALI TA2A classified software modification effort (subcontract modification October 2024), Battelle Memorial Institute on the GHOST classified program, Exxact Corporation (minority-owned small disadvantaged business) for high-performance computing hardware on a January 2023 DARPA research project, Tevet LLC (SDVOSB and HUBZone-certified) for specialized test and measurement equipment, Qualcomm Technologies Inc. on the SPECTER 5G resilience program for ONR, and multiple academic partners including the University of Virginia, Arizona State University, and the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition on DARPA autonomy standards, ethics frameworks, and influence operations analysis. The division also appears as a named subcontractor to Kitware Inc. on the ARC-TAK automated threat recognition and cataloging project (May 2025).

The Service Contract Inventory dataset carries minimal signals for the Advanced Technology Laboratories Division — three records across FY2022–FY2024 with zero invoiced revenue on prime contracts and 1.1 FTEs in FY2022 — reflecting that the majority of the division's work involves classified research, product development, and prototype deliverables rather than labor-hour service contracts above the $150,000 SCI reporting threshold.

Subsidiary structure and NAICS coding reflect the division's research focus. Top NAICS categories are Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (75 awards under primary NAICS 541715 and 48 under the variant excluding nanotechnology and biotechnology); top PSC categories are R&D Defense Other Applied Research/Exploratory Development (61 awards) and Maintenance/Repair/Rebuild of Aircraft Components and Accessories (51 awards), indicating work spanning exploratory R&D and sustainment of existing defense platforms.