Nation’s largest defense contractor sent executives to training course to address ‘white male culture,’ documents show

Published May 26, 2021 12:00am ET



Lockheed Martin, the nation’s largest defense contractor, sent high-profile executives to a virtual training course in 2020 that asked them to come to grips with “white male culture” and “heterosexual privilege,” documents show.

The company, which received nearly $38 billion in taxpayer funds from the United States government in 2018, dispatched 13 top employees, including the director of global supply chain operations and its vice president of sustainment operations, to the three-day Zoom class, according to journalist Christopher Rufo, who obtained what he said were internal documents. The documents were dated June 2020 and showed the names of the participants and the trainers but blacked out other information about them.

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