Editing Lockheed Martin (section)

=== Lobbying ===
According to the magazine ''[[Politico]]'', Lockheed Martin has "a political network that is already the envy of its competitors", and its contracts enjoy wide bipartisan support in the U.S. Congress thanks to it having "perfected the strategy of spreading jobs on weapons programs in key states and congressional districts".<ref>{{cite news|last1=Munsil|first1=Leigh|last2=Wright|first2=Austin|title=Is Lockheed Martin too big to fail? Lockheed has made itself dominant on Capitol Hill – with defense jobs in virtually every state|url=http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/is-lockheed-martin-too-big-too-fail-121203.html|access-date=August 12, 2015|work=Politico|date=August 12, 2015}}</ref> The company's 2022 lobbying expenditure is $13.6&nbsp;million (2009 total: $13.7&nbsp;million).<ref>{{cite web |title=Lockheed Martin Profile: Summary |url=https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/lockheed-martin/summary?id=D000000104 |access-date=November 24, 2023 |publisher=[[OpenSecrets]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=chooseFields |title=Lobbying Disclosure Act Database |publisher=United States Senate |access-date=January 5, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101231011939/http://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=chooseFields |archive-date=December 31, 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Through its [[political action committee]] (PAC), the company provides low levels of financial support to candidates who advocate national defense and relevant business issues.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lockheedmartin.com/investor/corporate_governance/PoliticalDisclosures.html |title=Political Disclosures |publisher=LockheedMartin.com |access-date=January 4, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110121183547/http://www.lockheedmartin.com/investor/corporate_governance/PoliticalDisclosures.html |archive-date=January 21, 2011}}</ref> It was the largest contributor to the [[House Armed Services Committee]] chairman, [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[Buck McKeon]] of California with over $50,000 donated in the election cycle as of January 2011. It also was the top donor to Sen. [[Daniel Inouye]] (D-HI), the chair of the [[Senate Appropriations Committee]] before his death in 2012.<ref name=MoJo />

Lockheed Martin Employees Political Action Committee is one of the 50 largest in the country, according to FEC data. With contributions from 3,000 employees, it donates $500,000 a year to about 260 House and Senate candidates.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=7838|title=CorpWatch: US: Lockheed Martin Lobby Group Audited|access-date=June 29, 2010|archive-date=June 20, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100620212826/http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=7838|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{Needs update|date=November 2023|reason=Has not been updated in 13 years}}