Lockheed Martin 7/20日宣布以90億美元買下Sikorsky
2015/7/21Lockheed Martin 7/20日宣布以90億美元買下Sikorsky
By CHRISTOPHER DREW and CHAD BRAY
July 20, 2015
Lockheed Martin‘s $9 billion purchase of Sikorsky Aircraft, the helicopter manufacturer, is part of a larger effort at Lockheed to focus more intently on military hardware than on less profitable government services.
At the same time that it announced on Monday that it would buy Sikorsky from the United Technologies Corporation, Lockheed also said that it would consider spinning off or selling much of its business that provides information technology services to government agencies.
Lockheed said those parts of its business employ 17,000 people and earn roughly $6 billion in annual sales — much of it coming from federal agencies outside the military and intelligence communities.
That business generally has lower profit margins than Lockheed’s more traditional work of building satellites, warplanes and missiles, and its sales have dropped in recent years as the government has cut spending on information technology and encouraged more competition from smaller firms. Lockheed said it would continue to supply technical services to military and intelligence customers.