The landers, which were the responsibility of Langley, were developed by a company called Martin Marietta.
Integrating the various businesses from Lockheed's takeovers of companies such as Martin Marietta was proving difficult.
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In 1988 only 5% of Martin Marietta's sales were outside the United States, compared with 18% today for Lockheed Martin.
Other competitors in the capital goods sector include: Martin Marietta Materials (MLM), Texas Industries, Inc. (TXI), and CRH (CRH).
It was that development that sent her back to Florida, to become director of air-defense production operations at Martin Marietta in Orlando.
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When Lockheed merged with Martin Marietta to form what would eventually be the biggest defense contractor four years later, it elected to site its headquarters in Maryland.
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But Martin Marietta had longstanding ties to Maryland, and that was just about the last time any big military transplant decided to locate its headquarters in the state.
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Rodgers of Cypress Semiconductors and Norn Augustine, retired from Martin Marietta sound exactly alike: America needs more engineers, encourage young people to consider it, bring on the immigrants, etc.
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Over a few quarters, the missiles division was sold to Hughes Aircraft, the military aircraft unit was sold to Lockheed, and the space division was sold to Martin Marietta.
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It is now apparent that Lockheed never properly integrated Martin Marietta after their merger in 1995, to say nothing of 39 smaller acquisitions it has made in the past seven years.
With 90% of Ceradyne's revenues coming from such big defense contractors as Hughes, Martin Marietta and McDonnell Douglas--and with the ceramic car engine still several years off--Moskowitz is now searching hard for nonmilitary ceramics applications.
When the executive who interviewed her for the position at Martin Marietta expressed doubt a woman could do the job, she pushed back hard and he was so impressed by her toughness that he gave her the job.
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In particular, McDonnell Douglas, General Dynamics and Martin Marietta resumed production of three powerful launch vehicles the Delta, Atlas and Titan rockets, respectively recreating an array of options for launching vital national security satellites into space and establishing an active competition for both domestic and civilian payloads.
The Athens trestle was built in the 1880s as part of the Athens branch of the old Georgia Railroad, according to Martin K. O'Toole, a lawyer and rail buff in Marietta, Ga.
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