R&D expense · 2011–2025

Lockheed Martin R&D expense

$2.0B+25.0% · FY2025

Lockheed Martin (LMT) reported $2.0B in R&D expense for fiscal 2025, +25.0% year on year.

$585M2011$616M2012$697M2013$733M2014$817M2015$988M2016$1.2B2017$1.3B2018$1.3B2019$1.3B2020$1.5B2021$1.7B2022$1.5B2023$1.6B2024$2.0B2025
Lockheed Martin — R&D expense, 2011–2025
Fiscal yearR&D expenseChangeFiling
FY20252025-12-31$2.0B+25.0%Open →
FY20242024-12-31$1.6B+6.7%Open →
FY20232023-12-31$1.5B−11.8%Open →
FY20222022-12-31$1.7B+13.3%Open →
FY20212021-12-31$1.5B+15.4%Open →
FY20202020-12-31$1.3B0.0%Open →
FY20192019-12-31$1.3B0.0%Open →
FY20182018-12-31$1.3B+8.3%Open →
FY20172017-12-31$1.2B+21.5%Open →
FY20162016-12-31$988M+20.9%Open →
FY20152015-12-31$817M+11.5%Open →
FY20142014-12-31$733M+5.2%Open →
FY20132013-12-31$697M+13.1%Open →
FY20122012-12-31$616M+5.3%Open →
FY20112011-12-31$585M—Open →

R&D expense — Research and development expense is what the company charged to R&D in the income statement for the year. Most companies report no R&D at all — the line is absent rather than zero — so this ranking covers the roughly 40% of filers that do.

Every row links to its own SEC filing · Fiscal year 2025 · Data as of September 25, 2026 · 2011–2025 compound annual growth +9.2%

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BibTeX

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  author       = {{CompaniesRanked}},
  title        = {{Lockheed Martin R\&D expense}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://companiesranked.com/en/company/lockheed-martin/research-and-development-expense}},
  note         = {Compiled from SEC EDGAR XBRL filings; data as of 2026-09-25},
  urldate      = {2026-09-25}
}

The filing itself

The numbers above are read from this document: 10-K · 0001628280-26-004195 · January 29, 2026

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