{"title":"LeoLabs vs Lockheed Martin Space: Defense & intelligence compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/leolabs-vs-lockheed-martin-space","comparison":"Lockheed Martin Space ranks 5 on the Space 100 with a score of 88; LeoLabs ranks 59 with 71. Lockheed Martin Space is ahead on production, commercials, technology, positioning and firepower. Level on deployment, progress and leverage. LeoLabs is based in Menlo Park, United States, Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, United States. Lockheed Martin Space: Subsidiary. LeoLabs is named in 29 signals and Lockheed Martin Space in 90.","companies":[{"name":"LeoLabs","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/leolabs","city":"Menlo Park","country":"United States","stage":null,"founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"LeoLabs is a US operator of a global phased-array radar network for LEO and VLEO tracking, the commercial gap-filler for the aging, northern-skewed Space Surveillance Network (with equatorial and Southern Hemisphere sites), plus a Delta product giving operators alerts on close approaches and obscured deployments. It was named to the competitive range of MDA's SHIELD homeland-defense program in January 2026 (a $151B ceiling, not an award), and its radar-versus-optical complementarity with Slingshot defines the space-sensing duopoly. Revenue is estimated at 10-100m from repeated annual government contracting.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Space","list":"Space 100","rank":59,"score":71,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":8,"progress":9,"firepower":6,"commercial":6,"deployment":8,"production":6,"technology":6},"why":"LeoLabs sells orbital-object tracking and space-domain-awareness data services to government agencies, satellite operators, and other space customers.","segment":"Defense & intelligence","layer":"Applications"},"signals_total":29,"facts_total":37},{"name":"Lockheed Martin Space","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/lockheed-martin-space","city":"Littleton","country":"United States","stage":"Subsidiary","founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Lockheed Martin's space segment (~$13B annual revenue) has the deepest prime bench in national-security space: Orion (Artemis), GPS III, classified sensor programs, an SDA Tranche 3 win (December 2025), Terran Orbital as its smallsat manufacturing arm, and a HawkEye 360 investment. Its venture arm and Terran absorption show a build-buy-invest triple play. Segment financials are program-scoped (a filings pass owed).","assessed_in":{"domain":"Space","list":"Space 100","rank":5,"score":88,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":10,"progress":9,"firepower":10,"commercial":10,"deployment":8,"production":8,"technology":8},"why":"Lockheed Martin builds spacecraft platforms including LM 400, GPS III, OPIR, and missile-warning satellites for government and defense customers.","segment":"Defense & intelligence","layer":"Applications"},"signals_total":90,"facts_total":45}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}