I worked for Lockheed. It is the most corrupt company I have ever seen. I walked away from 6-figures because I could not stomach it. They take bilking the government (and taxpayer) to a new level.
This has long been my position, that Lockheed is corrupt. Many will howl in protest at the suggestion that they lobbied against their own production of the F-22 so the DoD money could be saved to work on the much more profitable and more numerous F-35. I remember it. It happened. It was a convenience for president barky to close the F-22 line.
Others will defend Lockheed and the F-35 program citing USAF mismanagement. Bunk. They could have done the same thing Douglas did with the XB-19 that was obsolete before it was built. Douglas insisted the Army cancell the contract. The Army didn’t. Douglas tried to do the right thing which is something I have not seem much of from Lockheed on the F-35 program.