The Workforce AI Index · Industrials
Lockheed Martin (LMT)
A defense manufacturer with a stated skill count. Read October 1, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending 2025-12-31, filed 2026-01-29. Ranked 18 of the 28 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now: the sector.
The filing states the total, the U.S. and union shares and how many are engineers, scientists and technologists, but nothing by segment, so the manufacturing and services patterns follow the description.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 16% now, 37% at the end of 2027, 47% at the end of 2028, 51% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 51% desk work, 14% people work and 35% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 44% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 46% becomes checking a model's work and 4% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
123,000 employees as of 2025-12-31 (stated). Approximately 93% of the workforce was located in the U.S.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had a highly skilled workforce made up of approximately 123,000 employees, including approximately 72,000 engineers, scientists and information technology professionals.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing | 90% | By (c): the filing states the total, a skill count of 72,000 engineers, scientists and information technology professionals, and the U.S. and union shares, but no headcount by segment; it describes aircraft, missiles, space systems and rotary and mission systems, so most of the workforce is read into the aerospace manufacturing pattern by description, with its engineers inside it as BLS counts a manufacturer's staff. |
| Computer Systems Design and Related Services | 10% | By (c): the filing describes information technology, cybersecurity, training and sustainment services for government customers without a headcount, so a share is read into the computer systems design pattern by description. |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 123,000 employees, 72,000 of them engineers, scientists and information technology professionals; 93% in the U.S.; about 19% under collective bargaining agreements; nearly 10,800 hired in 2025, nearly 1,500 of them college hires; many roles need security clearances.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Boeing (BA, 182,000 employees)16% now, 43% by 2028
- RTX (RTX, 180,000 employees)16% now, 44% by 2028
- Honeywell International Inc. (HON, 101,000 employees)17% now, 45% by 2028
- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NOC, 95,000 employees)16% now, 46% by 2028
- GE Aerospace (GE, 57,000 employees)16% now, 45% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
5 sentences in the filing name AI. AI appears among the technological advances the filing says shape its business (additive manufacturing, data analytics, digital engineering, artificial intelligence, autonomy and robotics), among the skills its workforce needs, and as an emerging cyber threat; the human capital section lists engineering, science and information technology among those skills.
- “We are expanding production capacity to continue delivering at scale, and we are harnessing leading-edge technologies like artificial intelligence and autonomy, open-architecture systems, and advanced networking to make defense forces more agile, adaptive and unpredictable.”
- “Technological advances in such areas as additive manufacturing, data analytics, digital engineering, artificial intelligence, advanced materials, autonomy and robotics, and new business models such as commercial access to space, are enabling new factors of competition for both traditional and non-traditional competitors.”
- “Our performance is dependent upon us identifying, attracting, developing, motivating and retaining a highly skilled workforce with the requisite skills in multiple areas including engineering, science, manufacturing, information technology, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, business development and strategy and management.”
- “The sophistication of threats continues to evolve and grow, including the risk associated with the use of emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing, for nefarious purposes.”
- “We are expanding production capacity to continue delivering at scale, and we are harnessing leading-edge technologies like artificial intelligence and autonomy, open-architecture systems, and advanced networking to make defense forces more agile, adaptive and unpredictable.”
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 123,000 | 2026-01-29 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 121,000 | 2025-01-28 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 122,000 | 2024-01-23 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 116,000 | 2023-01-26 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 114,000 | 2022-01-25 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 114,000 | 2021-01-28 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 110,000 | 2020-02-07 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 105,000 | 2019-02-08 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 100,000 | 2018-02-06 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 97,000 | 2017-02-09 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 126,000 | 2016-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 112,000 | 2015-02-09 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 115,000 | 2014-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 120,000 | 2013-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 123,000 | 2012-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 132,000 | 2011-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 140,000 | 2010-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 146,000 | 2009-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 140,000 | 2008-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 140,000 | 2007-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 135,000 | 2006-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 130,000 | 2005-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 130,000 | 2004-03-08 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 125,000 | 2003-03-06 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 125,000 | 2002-03-07 | 10-K |
| 2000-12-31 | 126,000 | 2001-03-09 | 10-K |
| 1999-12-31 | 147,000 | 2000-03-09 | 10-K |
| 1998-12-31 | 165,000 | 1999-03-22 | 10-K |
| 1997-12-31 | 173,000 | 1998-03-19 | 10-K |
| 1996-12-31 | 190,000 | 1997-03-14 | 10-K |
| 1995-12-31 | 160,000 | 1996-03-13 | 10-K405 |
| 1994-12-31 | 120,000 | 1995-05-10 | 10-K405 |
Limits of this reading
- No headcount by segment is stated; the 72,000 is a skill count, so both pattern shares follow the business description (c).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-26-004195, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
Questions about this company
- How much of Lockheed Martin's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 16% now and 47% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Lockheed Martin's own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Lockheed Martin employ?
- 123,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 93% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Lockheed Martin's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 51% desk work, 14% people work and 35% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Lockheed Martin's annual report say about AI?
- 5 sentences in the filing name AI. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 1, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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