In the article the author says, “... Paddock worked for government contractor Morton-Thiokol from 1985 to 1988, a predecessor company of the Lockheed Martin.”
Not sure what he means as both companies do entirely different things, and are in no way related.
They both make and count money. I believe that is what he did.
My Dad had a chemical company in the 70’s-80’s. We sold machining fluids to the Morton Thiokol plant in Elkton, MD They were manufacturing rocket engine components at the time and IIRC Lockheed Martin had similar contracts with NASA, but other than that they were 2 completely different companies.