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Posted on 06/13/2025 4:23:56 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The company allegedly required managers to reward employees “on the basis of their skin color alone and contrary to documented performance.”
Many believe that masculine industries, such as military and defense, are naturally immune to left-wing race and gender ideologies. This is mostly a myth. These institutions are organized according to prestige and profit—and when those signals point to “woke,” industry leaders have dutifully followed.
Take America’s largest defense contractor, Lockheed Martin. As we have previously reported, after the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, Lockheed adopted radical DEI policies and, in one instance, required white men in leadership positions to attend a racial reeducation program and atone for their “white male privilege.”
Now, a whistleblower has come forward to claim that Lockheed executives were so committed to DEI policies that they awarded some year-end bonuses based on employees’ skin color, rather than performance—in open violation of civil rights law.
The story began in December 2022, when the whistleblower was preparing recommendations for the aeronautics division’s year-end bonuses. The whistleblower was proud of the work the team had done to calculate awards. But soon after the bonuses were submitted for approval, higher-ups told the whistleblower that there was a problem: the “Comp Adder” list, which named recipients of bonus compensation, had too many white employees on it.
Santiago Bulnes, a vice president who now leads engineering on Lockheed’s F-35 program, wrote an email to the whistleblower. “I got a call from [human resources director] La Wanda [Moorer] last night regarding diversity stats on comp adder,” Bulnes, who did not respond to a request for comment, said. “They took a run at getting your few approved and we’re told that we need to fit in the box. I asked her to send you the list of diversity names to simplify the task of finding the best in the group.”
Next, our source claims, officials in Lockheed’s human resources department made the demand explicit. One communication instructed the whistleblower to add more than a dozen minorities to the list and recommended removing an equal number of “non-minority” employees. The implication was clear—“increasing POC for Comp Adder will result in removing equal count of non-minority”—and the instructions were deliberate, recommending specific race swaps by manager. For example, for one team, human resources officials instructed the whistleblower to “increase POC 4 and decrease non-minority 4.”
Our source was outraged. The company was requiring managers to reward employees “on the basis of their skin color alone and contrary to documented performance.” The whistleblower tried to protest this decision and filed an ethics complaint, arguing that the policy was unethical and could expose the company to legal liability, but management insisted. “Our HR counsel told me that while this may present business risk, it was the ‘less[e]r of two evils.’”
One driving force behind Lockheed’s discriminatory policy, according to our source, was La Wanda Moorer, the director of human resources. When the whistleblower asked Moorer, who did not respond to a request for comment, what would happen if the team could not find enough minorities to replace white workers on the bonus list, Moorer responded forcefully. “[T]he preference is for you to get there,” Moorer wrote. “If you are coming back and saying you can’t get there and it’s unnatural than [sic] I think that changes the conversation as a business area what risk are we willing to assume, and should we get into a situation where there is legal activity that takes place then you will be part of that process . . . . We haven’t ever been in a situation where we haven’t gotten there.”
Moorer’s last comment is worth highlighting. It suggests this wasn’t the first time Lockheed had engaged in a secret, post hoc process to strip bonuses from top performers and instead award them to employees who checked diversity boxes. And in the preceding sentence, Moorer seems to acknowledge that such policies, which are inherently discriminatory, could violate the law. Apparently, the company’s commitment to “diversity” trumped any other consideration.
In the end, the whistleblower followed the order and “swapped” 18 whites for 18 minorities, solely on the basis of race. A few months later, our source left the firm and penned a resignation letter to colleagues.
“I, at the direction of Lockheed, have actively discriminated against higher performing individuals, denied them higher pay they earned, denied them the opportunity to be motivated as a top performer,” the letter read. “Not only does this force a violation of my conscience that forces me to leave, but we could have 18 valid individual claims with associated public embarrassment and lost customer trust.”
A Lockheed spokesperson responded to our request for comment, insisting that “Lockheed Martin is a meritocracy” and is “committed to recognizing performance, rewarding excellence, and upholding the principles of merit and fairness.” The spokesperson claimed that our reporting “raise[s] concerns that we are taking seriously and investigating.”
Nevertheless, a reckoning may be coming. Earlier this year, President Trump signed an executive order prohibiting federal contractors from maintaining discriminatory DEI programs. His administration has signaled interest in prosecuting cases of anti-white discrimination. Though Lockheed quickly shuttered its DEI initiatives after Trump’s executive order, its actions earlier in the post-George Floyd era cannot be erased. As the whistleblower warned, racial discrimination is illegal—and the company could pay a heavy price.
One hopes that it will. For decades, companies could deliberately discriminate against white men without consequence. But that calculus is changing. The Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, now led by conservative super-lawyer Harmeet Dhillon, has sought to return the civil rights regime to its original mission: to enforce the law equally for individuals of all racial groups.
Dhillon might initiate this policy with a high-profile target—perhaps the nation’s largest defense contractor.
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If the skin color preference was reversed, can you imagine the outrage in the MSM. This will be crickets.
Just another indication of how screwed up defense contracting is. This crap goes all the way up the DOD acquisition bureaucracy to the top. It's a symptom of the mess that caused the DOD to buy a POS aircraft.
Put them put of business,if they do not fire the executives, unceremoniously for doing this.
Musk can use more business.
“La Wanda Moorer”.....all I need to know
Hospitals/ Healthcare Systems are worse.
Especially at the corporate levels.
Medicare could save oodles.
Their shareholders ought to sue them into the ground.
They would have a case, I think.
The fact that the black female director of human resources would actually put it in writing should be enough to kick her ass off the planet.....but I doubt it.
New World Order:
Lockheed Martin
Ownership
State Street Corporation United States 37,049,916 15.33% $16,113,379 <<<
The Vanguard Group United States 22,099,137 9.15% $9,611,136 <<<
BlackRock Inc. United States 18,158,813 7.51% $7,897,449 <<<
Charles Schwab Corporation United States 5,637,923 2.33% $2,451,989
Morgan Stanley United States 5,206,242 2.15% $2,264,247
Capital World Investors United States 5,031,450 2.08% $2,188,228
Geode Capital Management, LLC United States 4,559,183 1.89% $1,982,834
FMR, LLC United States 4,351,452 1.80% $1,892,490
Bank of America United States 3,209,854 1.33% $1,395,998
Wellington Management Company United States 2,807,469 1.16% $1,220,996
Total 179,583,655 100%
dei worked so well at boeing...
I retired from Lockheed Martin in January, and that is an absolute fact. I retired a couple of years early because I was fed up with the woke stupidity. The older one gets, the more difficult it is to do stupid. My wife retired in April; we're on an awesome month-long road trip and have seen 20 states so far. Screw them...
“Their shareholders ought to sue them into the ground.”
See #10 for the controlling share holders. They would have to sue themselves...
DEI aka Dumbass Employees Incorporated
So many companies that were forced into DEI stuck the token large black female into the HR lead role, thinking it would be the least harmful place for them. They were wrong.
It really kills a company. I’ve seen it from the inside. They had to bring in new management who were skilled at navigating DEI policies and effects. Production and efficiency go way down.
But I’m sure degradation is the very intent. I pulled most of my money out of Vanguard assets when I learned they were on board with this.
Imagine what would be revealed by CVR and FDR content from an airplane crash like that...BOOM!
Forgot to mention, it is just as bad, if not worse, on the hiring/promotion side...
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