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...patriarchal former chairman of Lockheed Corp., who helped oversee the development of the U-2 and SR-71 reconnaissance planes and the L-1011 jetliner while combatting financial crises that culminated in the aircraft maker's near bankruptcy in 1971; of complications following heart and gallbladder surgery; in Marietta, Ga. Haughton resigned in 1976 after revelations of massive overseas payoffs by Lockheed in order to boost aircraft sales...
...alliance with other big firms that can bring to the project expertise in large computer networks and other skills. AT&T has linked up with Boeing, which already operates a high-tech voice-and-data network for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. MCI is working with Martin Marietta, the aerospace giant, and Northern Telecom, Canada's largest telephone-equipment manufacturer. U.S. Sprint has enlisted Electronic Data Systems, the data-processing subsidiary of General Motors...
...Martin Marietta, which produces Titan-class rockets for the Air Force, was the first U.S. firm to sign up a client. It plans to launch an ExpressStar communications satellite for Federal Express in 1989. Says Richard Brackeen, a vice president in charge of launch systems for Martin Marietta Aerospace: "The private launching business could be the next widebody jet business...
...launching competitors, however, will not be totally dependent on the satellite market. NASA has proposed a space station, for example, that Boeing, Martin Marietta and McDonnell Douglas are bidding to build in the early 1990s. Once operational, the station will need to be supplied by as many as 16 cargo launches a year, and private firms may get some of that business. Commercial carriers could also win Defense Department contracts to carry hardware into space as testing of Strategic Defense Initiative technology picks...
...military's chip supplies has concluded in a report to the Pentagon that only major Government intervention can save the U.S. chipmakers. The report recommends that the Defense Department invest some $2 billion over the next five years for research and development in chip-building technology. Says Martin Marietta President Norman Augustine, who chaired the advisory panel: "If we don't do this or something akin to this, the U.S. semiconductor industry will...