Lockheed Martin is implementing a loaned labor program that will keep employees working until business rebuilds

Go Lockheed, keep our people employed!

Lockheed Martin Space Systems' New Orleans facility will implement a loaned labor program to keep workers employed as NASA begins to shut down its space shuttle program.

Lockheed Martin, which has just over 2,000 employees at its eastern New Orleans facility, has built external fuel tanks for the space shuttles for 36 years, but will halt production of the tanks completely when the shuttle program ends in 2010. By loaning its employees out as the space shuttle program winds down, Lockheed Martin hopes to hang on to its highly trained workers until they are needed again when work on future space projects ramps up.
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