I want to know how Lockheed martin like companies get started. Links to documentry, videos or papers will be appreciated. Need as much knowledge as I can get. No BS please
Either of:a) Be around 75 years agob) Have enormous amounts of cash on hand from the other businesses you successfully exited in industries with less market consolidation and regulatory capture
>>62785239Create a company of some sort (Corp/LLC), get a FFL, type 07 and 10, get a class 2 SOT, get a FEL (federal explosive license), register with the DECCS (for ITAR compliance. Then create a SOP to make sure you stay in compliance with this licensing.The FFL 07/10, are basically just filing for the licenses, the class 2 for each is just paying for it. The DECCS likewise is just submitting the info and paying for it. The FEL you'll likely be required to have hours for training and certain storage capabilities at your location.The licensing by itself will be about $4,500/year when you're first starting. Then it's making sure you're always in 100% compliance at all times. If you do the above you can basically do anything just limited by how much money you have to invest.
>>62785239I guess it's just like any other companies but you have to find out where you can get the loycenses to craft and sell the category of weapons you want. To get said loycenses in certain countries you will have to prove that you respect a set of norms. That's basically it
Raytheon's early history is pretty interesting. They started with civilian commodity electronic components, supplied electronic components to the military during World War II, and then gradually moved up the food chain afterwards. So I guess you can start with something small that is not a flagship weapons platform (like pure-play software or internet crap?), and then weasel in through mergers and acquisitions over the next few decades.There are a number of practical books on actually being a defense contractor. This one might be a good start:https://www.amazon.com/Contracting-Uncle-Sam-Essential-Federal/dp/1591143152
>>62785239Nearly all US defense contractors started out as purely civilian in nature. It's called the Military Industrial Complex for a reason. Texas Instruments makes calculators and targeted explosives. Honeywell does all sorts of different shit, from thermostats (their original product) to PPE to cameras to components for fighter jets and missiles. Lockheed Martin is actually the result of a merger between the Lockheed Corporation and Martin Marietta. The former was a very early airplane manufacturer (think wood framed biplanes), formed by a bunch of other even earlier airplane manufacturers pooling their money together. The latter was also a merger between the Glenn L. Martin Company and American-Marietta Corporation. The former was, again, an early aircraft manufacturer. The latter was formed by yet another merger between the American Asphalt Paint Company and the Marietta Paint and Color Company, and I'll let you guess what they originally did.Your answer is just to make a company. Eventually you're either going to get merged with someone else to make weapons or if it's something already military-adjacent you're going to get a couple proposals by some men in black suits and shades.
>>62785533>Lockheed Martin is actually the result of a merger between the Lockheed Corporation and Martin Marietta. The former was a very early airplane manufacturer (think wood framed biplanes), formed by a bunch of other even earlier airplane manufacturers pooling their money together. The latter was also a merger between the Glenn L. Martin Company and American-Marietta Corporation. The former was, again, an early aircraft manufacturer. The latter was formed by yet another merger between the American Asphalt Paint Company and the Marietta Paint and Color Company,Corporate ship of Thesius.
>>62785239Make a rifle company in a shed that makes precision rifles. Send your rifles into a program for new precision arms for the military, not expecting to win. Win contractRealise your little shed business with 5 employees can't hope to provide precision rifles for the contract requirementsSource funding from banks etc and buy yourself an entire arms factoryBING BING you are a defense company.
I got some awesome insights. Thanks to all for these comments :)
>>62785239>>62785281>Be around 75 years agomost of the currently operating defense giants are either directly descended from----or are conglomerations of----major weapons and especially *aviation*/ aerospace companies, which came to prominence and profitability during the World War II era.Sure, some of them are older (than 1940).one example : Rheinmetsll in Germany, which today iirc is not the exact same owners but even after the dissolving of Third Reich 1945 was able to remain a viable company up to today.Bu again, apart from rare exceptions, most of the big names are descended from the major U.S. and U.K. ( BAe, for another example, is the conglomerate of a dozen former WWII-and-earlier-era British aircraft and electronics manufacturers) aircraft/aerospace industry.During and after World War II----apart from nuclear technology----the technologies which advanced with the most rapidity were aircraft (aerospace, including rockets/missiles/spacecraft) and electronics (arrival of transistor in 1947).Remember also, that besides the tecnology and machines themselves, many of these companies during WWII and the few decades after during cold war, wete able to take advantage of the WWII and cold war military spending to have vast *manufacturing facilities* to produce their wares. Boeing, for example, has both the Renton, Washington and Wchita, Kansas factoriesSo it's not just the tecnology itself or the company(companies') lineage. Important to know how each of the big names came by some of their capital assets/facilities to begin with.
>>62785239>>62785281>>62785585[Part 2]And, remember that many companies non-aerospace were drawn into the U.S. 'arsenal of democracy' as well: from 1942 to 1945 there were *no* new model year cars produced by American manufacturers. Eastern division of General Motors, was impressed into making their TBM variant of the TBF Avenger torpedo bomber, so that Grumman in Bethpage, Long Island could focus all its resources building solely F6F Hellcats.It was a unique time for industry and these now-dominant decades later arms manufacturers, they had an advantage.All of the companies you see today as the 'defense giants' are descended from this 80-year old rapidly-advanced legacy of technology, spun off from World War II.
>>62785585>Boeing, for example, has both the Renton, Washington and Wchita, Kansas factoriesthat were each contructed specifically for the massive nationwide B-29 heavy bomber manufacturing program, one that was logistically more vast and amazing (in terms of how fast it was brought together and made to work, and cost + energy-resource efficiency to mass produce over 4,000 examples of the largest most complex airplane ever built) even than the Manhattan Project.
>>62785239Barrett made rifles and the DOD was interested in them.
How much Million $ someone should have to step into the industry? How they outsource technological minds? are those university professors who work or what?
>>62785533Luv me Honeywell fan
You are in luck anon, I'm actually a billionaire defense investor.Pitch me some of your ideas.
Lockheed was a company like others at the time, but had one specific interest in mind.Advancing the R&D of the arsenals of the US through the use of a series of weapons that the Germans had created, as well as the use of specific craft that the US Military had in their possession in Wright Patterson AFB after WWII.There were a number of faults with their programs in the days as they were right in the middle of Ohio, near residential towns and cities nearby, so they were extremely limited in their ability to test their planes without raising attention.So the director of the CIA - Frank Gardiner Wisner, and another of their group called Majestic 12, Gordon Grey, brought the remnants of craft they had stored in a hangar in Ohio to the desert of Nevada in a new factory that they were planning to build in the late 50'The beginning of the Groom Lake/Area 51 center for research and development of advanced aircraft was first seen discussed in the letter between Frank Wisner and his buddy, McPherson.The letter held some odd traits and that would be from the use of a specific type of encryption known as an Old English Box Cipher layout that would be used to pass along an underlying layer of text blocks that were made from the letter's word selection and positioning.With the use of this system they were able to create a series of blocked-in stennos, as well as to create a format for the encryption of parts of the letter that would be designed to relay the image of a map.The letter hosted a familiar layout to it that I was interested in examining, as the details were shown to be a map that is also found encrypted in the Beale Ciphers, of which I am featured in an interview in Popular Mechanics this month, as the cryptographer that broke the ciphers and located the maps within them to caches of weapons, as well as the maps to Gold Mines that JP Morgan once used to amass a huge amount of Gold and Silver holdings.This is how the CIA began Area 51.
>>62786693Using these mines, they were able to create a massive amount of money that they used to create funding for the initial stages, that allowed them to purchase large warehouses and equipment needed to dig the underground levels out, and bore into the sides of the valleys in order to extract minerals, as well as to refine them into metals and minerals that they needed for their metallurgic research projects.This combined with the massive runway that was created, would allow them the ability to remain undetected while they created a number of projects there, and with that funding, harvested with the Gold and Silver from the mines in the area, would be able to expand the site rapidly, without causing any attention from the use of the Budget in the Senate.The cipher would deliver information that they had an alien craft, as well as other information about an EBE that would be able to assist them in the development of advanced weaponry and aircraft. It mentioned even a Time-Travelling Portal.They mentioned it being a Foo Fighter, a nickname for the German Vril and Hannebu Craft found at Pennemunde after the war, but also mentioned that this one was Alien of origin.A segment of the cipher is shown in this pic, exposing the way the words are formed but concealed in different lines in different words that are positioned in proximity to one another.
The building of this site continued under an agreement between the US Military and the CIA under Wisner's direction until about the early 60's, when a ploy was hatched to take over the CIA and to do so with the intention of heisting the Gold Mines as well as the Factory in the desert, to use the location for other research as well. This would spawn the later discussion of biological weapons research, as well as the speculation that they had been studying the EBE after it was deceased, to integrate foreign biological entities into the R&D of their Bioweapons research at private labs, like Radtek.There were a number of signs that this takeover of the CIA would bring about another direction of advancement of the US Arsenals that could be eventually used for the creation of a "Special Cancer Virus" research project.In the region around the Gold Mines in the Superstitions of Arizona, a man named Frank Fish was known to have the maps to these mines hidden in his archives, and seeing that he was the only person able to find them, and possibly expose their use of them for clandestine and off the books uses, the CIA's agents conspired to kill him, leaving another cipher behind in their wake.It mimicked the previous cipher made by Wisner as a symbolic theme used to prepare to kill him after Frank Fish was murdered.I'll post what I found in the ciphers here.Fish was killed with a gunshot to the head in an apparent suicide, after getting a number of strange phonecalls throughout the day before, and in the middle of the night.When he was found dead, a note was found with his body that read about his well being poisoned, but he shot himself, they said. The letter's text entered into the graph would deliver a series of blocks of text using the same Old English Box Cipher structure as in the Wisner - McPherson letter.It also mentioned the nature of research going on.
>>62785482This is pretty much the answer. You start a business, sell to government / military, and then expand. 100 years later you're making tie fighters or some shit. >>62785315If you don't sell explodey stuff you don't need any of this aside from the LLC. There are probably other regs, but these don't apply to all.
>>62786771The fact that both use the same stennos is based on the intentional addition of them in order to form a sort of confirmation concerning their intent.Here you can see the letter formed is used for this specific purpose and use, to relay information to their agents who would be able to collect information left behind after he was killed.
>>62786780The block of text had been laid out so as to deliver an initial read of the stennos, but also as the pairs were assigned and removed, and the block of text rotated 90 degrees, it would then deliver another read of stennosHere is where they planned to kill Frank Wisner after the murder of Frank Fish.You can tell that there is a massive operation going on, as they are looking to take control over these developments in scientific research into aeronautics and human genetics, both showing up in scientific journals and magazines at the same time, being harnessed from the research at this base.Having an Alien Craft and Alien Being(s) that were used for the research.
>>62786807OP asked how do you open up their own company.....lolFind their ciphers, find their mines, harvest gold, and invest in a location in the middle of nowhere and get to work designing and manufacturing new aircraft and weaponry.Get a few contracts, and turn into one of the most hated companies in the world.But in order to do so you would have to know how to find their mines, an endless source of wealth.They were nice enough to carve a huge arrow on the outside on a slab that you can barely see from the base of the hike up to it's entrance, but when you get closer, you find that there are two aliens carved faintly into the slab of rock.I enhanced the color in the image so you can see them...two large greys.
>Locksneed Fartin
I appreciate the hardwork for writing about mines, JP morgan story, Area 51 and all. Can we connect any way?
lockheed and honeywell love deboosting their own pensions. you could poach their employees if you offered competitive benefits
>>62785239>No BS pleasejust buy all the stock and take it private, then its yours.
>>62785239https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atMrnp_EVcIHere's a podcast of their history. >>62785281This pretty much sums it up. Government budgets are limited and there are too many players in the game chasing the same pie. You'd need to make a product for the civilian sector and then create things for the government.
>>62785533>Nearly all US defense contractors started out as purely civilian in nature. It's called the Military Industrial Complex for a reason ... Your answer is just to make a company. Yeah. I work for a small contract manufacturing and engineering firm that is mostly civilian (and started that way) but also works on defense projects. It's a massive industry and there are untold numbers of subcontractors who will work on projects with the big guys. If you think about a helicopter, there are many different components and electronics, and many different companies (including ones nobody here has ever heard of) involved in it.This is not the company, but I just randomly typed in some key phrases on Google and pulled up a contract manufacturer that makes steel, and also makes steel for the military. You just go to a trade show for these companies, and they are looking for whatever customers they can get, but I suppose they like to show off some of their defense work because it looks cool. I came across a booth recently by a small metal manufacturing company in Pennsylvania that had been around since the early 20th century, and they made rifle cartridges.>>62785315>Then it's making sure you're always in 100% compliance at all times.Absolutely.
>>62786184electronic drills that sneak into your asshole while your asleep and sends out a signal during battle.
>>62785315>DECCS (for ITAR compliancethis is the only important part of your post. Also CCMC compliance is basically required today. Nothing you will ever do will not touch software at some point so you need both to start bidding on RFPsYou also need to register for a DUNS, sign up for the FCR and either get, or hire someone with, a clearance.https://deccspmddtc.servicenowservices.com/deccs?id=ddtc_public_portal_itar_landinghttps://dodcio.defense.gov/CMMC/about/https://www.dnb.com/duns/get-a-duns.htmlhttps://federalcontractorregistry.com/Good luck, Boris. be aware that registeriung for the fed contract agency and bidding on defense projects means the govt can and will freely abuse your asshole in snooping into literally every corner of your life. They will get your kindergarten graduation diploma and your mom's username on fetlife.com if they want it
