Lockheed soon regained stature as a top Pentagon contractor, winning contracts for satellites, nuclear missiles, cargo jets, space shuttle maintenance and work on the stealth aircraft.
Included in the Government Accountability Office's survey of vulnerabilities were submarines, missiles, cargo rockets, radars, fighter jets, refueling tankers, aircraft carriers, destroyers, satellites, helicopters and electronic jammers.
In recent years Lockheed has won multibillion-dollar contracts to build satellites, nuclear missiles, cargo jets and a secret stealth aircraft.
He has trimmed $1.6 billion from the budget and axed three of the worst projects, infuriating the high priests of the missile defense cargo cult.
Third, there really was a submarine escorting the missile-carrying cargo ships to Cuba.
And a band of Orange County New York parolees and former drug peddlers placed bombs at two Bronx synagogues and was preparing to launch missile attacks on military cargo planes at Stewart National Guard Air Base in Newburgh.
A search revealed 15 Scud missiles hidden beneath the cargo.
The Israeli Navy seized a merchant ship 100 miles off the Israeli coast in November 2009 that it said was carrying 500 tons of weapons, including rockets and missiles, disguised as civilian cargo.
For example, the latest United Nations report on the enforcement of sanctions against North Korea, issued in May, faults China for failing to intercept suspected shipments of ballistic-missile items on North Korean cargo planes that land there en route to Iran.
No one wants to repeat the recent embarrassment when a Spanish warship, at America's request, stopped a North Korean vessel carrying a hidden cargo of missiles (bound for Yemen, it turned out).
