Customer Outreach
Impacting Our Customers and Constituents
 As the nation’s largest systems integrator for defense, aerospace and government customers, Lockheed Martin is keenly aware of the unique importance of its customers’ missions. From our corporate offices through each employee in the field, we have a deep respect for our customers’ contributions to national security and the United States’ scientific and technological leadership — and we show it.
We show our appreciation for our military customers through our United in Gratitude initiative, which provides support that improves the quality of their lives and honors their sacrifices. And we show our support for the vital work of our National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) customers through activities that recognize their achievements and by sponsoring educational initiatives that are helping produce the next generation of astronauts, engineers and scientists.
Every day, we stand side-by-side with our customers through the products we design and build, through the services we render, and through the product support we provide wherever our products are in use around the world. We believe it is only fitting that we also support their interests.
Corporatewide Focus Programs
At Lockheed Martin, we care about our customers. We demonstrate our commitment through our support of initiatives such as:
- Lockheed Martin Employees Care — a program that supports Operation USO Care Package, which is approved by the U.S. Department of Defense to provide care packages with a variety of personal items to deployed troops. The packages remind troops that Americans back home support them.
- United Through Reading — a Family Literacy Foundation program that brings the comfort of a serviceman’s or woman’s presence back home by enabling troops to read stories aloud on videotape to a son, daughter, grandchild, or younger brother or sister.
- Education and Training Support — financial support for organizations that supplement education at the four U.S. military academies, which train America’s future defense force leaders.
- Honoring and Remembering — financial support for commemorative ceremonies, museums and memorials such as the National Air Force Memorial and Visitor’s Center in Northern Virginia, National Museum of the Marine Corps and Naval Aviation Museum. These contributions support organizations that help preserve the history of our armed services and tell the story of the remarkable sacrifices that America’s military personnel have made for their country.
- The Space Day Education Initiative — a yearlong effort that excites children about math, science, engineering and technology through hands-on activities and interaction with astronauts and other aerospace professionals in partnership with NASA.
Local Community Customer Support Initiatives
Nowhere is our respect for our customers stronger than among Lockheed Martin employees who work side by side with them. Our employees demonstrate their appreciation through a wide variety of local initiatives. Here are some examples:
- Lockheed Martin in Michoud, La., and Hampton Roads, Va., each stuffed over 10,000 care packages for the troops as part of the Operation USO Care Package program.
- Lockheed Martin in Northern Virginia held collection drives that produced 10 pallets of items for troops who set sail early last year for the Persian Gulf on the USS Wasp aircraft carrier.
- Lockheed Martin in Orlando, Fla., gathered boxes and crates of food supplies that were sent to troops overseas, both through its field service personnel and directly through the Florida National Guard.
- Lockheed Martin in Dallas sends cards to soldiers and is part of a USO effort that welcomes arriving troops at Dallas-Fort Worth airport as they deplane.
- Lockheed Martin in Houston recognized employees in the military and employees’ sons and daughters serving overseas with a photo display.
- Lockheed Martin in Manassas, Va., supported Operation Uplink, a VFW program that provides phone cards to deployed service men and women and veterans.
- Lockheed Martin in Valley Forge, Pa., cleaned, painted and organized the USO area at the Philadelphia airport so the space was more comfortable for visiting troops.
- Lockheed Martin in Moorestown, N.J., holds an annual Books on Board campaign for the U.S. Coast Guard Foundation to purchase books for Coast Guard vessels’ onboard libraries.
- Lockheed Martin in Colorado Springs, Colo., supports the Fort Carson Giving Program, collecting toys and clothing for as many as 200 children at Fort Carson annually.
- Lockheed Martin in Bethesda, Md., collects school supplies and at the beginning of the school year distributes them through the Armed Services YMCA to families at military bases in the Greater Washington, D.C., region.
- Lockheed Martin in Cherry Hill, N.J., organized a companywide pen-pal program that linked 900 Army reserve soldiers with Lockheed Martin pen pals.
- Lockheed Martin in San Diego provides free admission to major sporting events and parties for military personnel in the region.
- Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth, Texas, supports an annual barbecue in honor of military personnel serving at the Naval Air Station-Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base.
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