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Lockheed Martin in ‘Late Stage Negotiations’ With Company to Create Solid Rocket Motor Provider

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Lockheed Martin in ‘Late Stage Negotiations’ With Company to Create Solid Rocket Motor Provider
Australian Defense Minister Pat Conroy examines the undercarriage of a P-8C Poseidon. Australia plans to equip the Poseidon with LRASM (Australian Defence Force Photo)

Lockheed Martin [LMT] is pursuing the creation of a provider of solid rocket motors beyond the two main suppliers--Northrop Grumman [NOC] through its 2018 buy of Orbital ATK and L3Harris [LHX] through its recent acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne. "We are endeavoring as a defense company to create another supplier," James Taiclet, the president of Lockheed Martin, testified at a Sept. 20 hearing of the House Armed Services Committee's cyber, information technologies, and innovation (CITI) panel in response to a question from…

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