
Former head of Lockheed’s space operations, Mike Patton, will lead the product center. The company recently established an innovation hub focused on rapid capability development called Ignite, and under the realignment it will also create a “Product Center” aimed at making the company’s systems more affordable. Space Force programs across several mission areas, including GPS, missile warning and tracking and narrowband satellite communications. Ranked the largest defense firm in the most recent Defense News Top 100 list, Lockheed is the prime contractor on U.S. It now ferries American astronauts to the International Space Station and Musk is looking forward to a module that could land on Mars.

The national security space business will be led by Vice President and General Manager Maria Demaree, who previously led the company’s internal Joint All-Domain Command and Control efforts.

Dominating in war is not about dominating a domain. “With an eye toward the future and building on our current business momentum, these changes position us to deliver end-to-end solutions for today’s mission demands and well into the future,” Robert Lightfoot, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin Space, said in the May 4 statement. Since the 1940s, the nature of space operations and the need to develop a space power theory has been debated. War is a competition between adversaries, a contest of action and counteraction that concludes or changes based on the agency of competitors, and this competition unfolds in the domains accessible to each competitor: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace.
