Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Sensors

Lockheed Martin Mission Systems & Sensors (LM MS2) is a Lockheed Martin business segment, headquartered in Washington, DC. Until October 2008 MS2 was headquartered in Moorestown Township, New Jersey, a suburb of Philadelphia; Moorestown remains the largest site in the business unit and is where many of the unit's top executives have their offices. MS2 is a part of Lockheed Martin Electronic Systems sector. MS2 was formerly known as NESS (Naval Electronics and Surveillance Systems) and Maritime Systems and Sensors. Dale Bennett is the current president of MS2.

Current major products of MS2 include the Aegis combat system, the Mk41 Vertical Launching System, the Desert Hawk UAV, the AN/UYQ-70 display system, the AN/UYK-43 and AN/UYK-44 computers, AN/SPY-1 naval RADAR systems, AN/SQQ-89 SONAR system, P-3 Orion mission systems, and tactical avionics for the F-35 Lightning II and the F-16 Fighting Falcon. Products in development include the Integrated Deepwater System Program (in partnership with Northrop Grumman), Medium Extended Air Defense System, and the Littoral Combat Ship.

Business Lines

MS2 consists of the following five lines of businesses:

• New Ventures
• Ship & Aviation Systems (SAS)
• Radar Systems
• Surface & SBMD (Sea-based Missile Defense) Systems
• Undersea Systems

Locations

MS2 has approximately 15,000 employees located at numerous sites around the United States and abroad (mostly Canada and Australia). Sites with more than 500 employees, in order of size, are:

• Moorestown Township/Mt. Laurel Township, NJ
• Owego, NY (merged with MS2 in 2010; formerly known as Systems Integration)
• Syracuse, NY
• Manassas, VA
• Eagan, MN (to be closed in 2012)
• Baltimore, MD
• Akron, OH

Lockheed Martin's Canada operations also fall under MS2, and there are about 350 employees in Canada, mostly in the Ottawa suburb of Kanata.