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8 unusual facts about Martin Marietta


Akerman LLP

In the 1950s, Dial was involved in bringing defense contractor Martin Marietta to the area.

Digigraphics

Over the next few years CDC sold a small number of the Digigraphics systems, first to aerospace companies including Lockheed and Martin Marietta, and later to the US Navy, who was interested in using them for submarine design.

Fairway Rock

The device, developed by Martin Marietta, was the first commercially-developed instrument of its kind deployed for unattended field use by the U.S. government.

John Paul Vann

Vann accepted a job in Denver, Colorado with defense contractor Martin Marietta and succeeded there in a term of nearly two years, but missed Vietnam and angled to return.

Mark Crisson

After resigning his Navy commission in 1975, he first joined Tacoma Public Utilities in Tacoma, Washington as part of its Power Management group, and stayed eight years before leaving in 1983 to become power manager for Martin Marietta when it owned an aluminum company.

Martin Marietta

In 1982, Martin Marietta was subject to a hostile takeover bid by the Bendix Corporation, headed by William Agee.

Portable People Meter

Lacking the internal expertise to do so – additional outside help from Martin Marietta was sought.

Research Institute for Advanced Studies

The RIAS changed its name and turned its mission away from basic research in 1973, after the merger that produced the Martin Marietta Corporation.


Edward Uhl

Uhl rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel and after his military service he worked for the Glenn L. Martin Company and Martin Marietta on guided missiles projects and became vice-president of engineering.

Hans Multhopp

In 1949, the Glenn L. Martin Company (later Martin Marietta) of Essex, Maryland made efforts to recruit Multhopp to their staff of aeronautical engineers.

Herman R. Staudt

In 1954, Staudt joined Martin Marietta in Baltimore, working as assistant project engineer on the MGM-1 Matador, then as project engineer of the Missile Master Electronic Defense System, then as operations manager of its Electronics Division.

Robert Purcell

Purcell also served on a number of corporate boards and had a noted role in Bendix Corporation's 1982 attempt to acquire Martin Marietta.


see also

RIM-113

The designation XRIM-113A, indicating an experimental ship-launched interceptor missile, was allocated to the SIRCS project in May 1976, and contracts were awarded to three separate teams of contractors - RCA/Martin-Marietta, McDonnell Douglas/Sperry, and Raytheon/Lockheed/Univac - for initial studies of the SIRCS missile concept, in anticipation of a competitive evaluation.