Insights Magazine features an in-depth look at net-centric strategies and advancements. Published quarterly by Lockheed Martin, Insights includes viewpoint editorials penned by leading government and industry officials as well as news features covering recent milestones, achievements and innovations in net-centric operations.

Thinking Differently:

Lockheed Martin Researchers Are Accustomed To “Thinking Differently” As They Pursue Advances That Will Benefit Customers

Reaching as far back as the early days of Ben Franklin and his experiments with kite and key, our nation’s pursuit of technology has been a persistent force.

From today’s vantage, a look back at the laboratory triumphs of Franklin and Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and others who helped fuel the growth of the industrial era seems almost quaint — flickering, kinescope images of a past era.

Today, scientists probe the depths of the universe and of matter itself, using computer simulations to make centuries pass in the blink of an eye or to work at submicroscopic levels that a few years ago would have defied the mind’s ability to grasp.

Lockheed Martin is well accustomed to thinking differently, a trait no better embodied than in the company’s laboratories where new ideas and concepts are tested. As in the past, it is the desire to find and exploit technologies that can be turned into valued products for customers that most fully defines and imbues the work.

Here is a glimpse at two of those technologies, nanotechnology and laser detection and ranging, which Lockheed Martin believes may be threads that will run deeply through the future.

Download Insights Magazine, Third Quarter, 2007

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Inside:
A Conversation with Dr. Anthony J. Tether
Living for the City
Thinking Differently: LADAR
Thinking Differently: Nanotechnology:
Integrated Ballistic Missile Defense
Persistent Maritime Surveillance
Training Tomorrow’s Warfighter
Deep Water Diver
Net-Centric Connections

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Lockheed Martin Corporation, an advanced technology company, was formed in March 1995 with the merger of two of the world's premier technology companies, Lockheed Corporation and Martin Marietta Corporation.

Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed Martin employs about 140,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture and integration of advanced technology systems, products and services.

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