American aerospace executive who served as CEO of Martin Marietta before the Lockheed merger, led the post-Cold War defense industry consolidation, and authored Augustine's Laws — sardonic observations about the economics of defense contracting.
Drove the Lockheed-Martin Marietta merger — creating Lockheed Martin — as part of the defense industry consolidation that the Pentagon explicitly encouraged after the Cold War ended, and codified the contradictions of defense procurement in Augustine's Laws.
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