Igniting Innovation. That's the push Lockheed Martin's making with its new Ignite Unit. A skunkworks like team tasked with rapidly realizing new space technologies.

We've got several missions that we do for the government,

we have several partners that we work with,

but what they're looking for is they're looking for us to be innovative

because of the threat vector that's out there, they're looking for us to be innovative because of the threat vector that's out there.

They're looking for us to go fast, faster than we may have in the past.

And really how do we transform ourselves after six decades of operating a certain way?

Ignite is the brainchild of Robert Lightfoot,

the executive vice president of Lockheed Martin's space

and a former acting administrator of NASA.

He oversees the entire space portfolio

for the top weapons maker,

a more than 11 billion dollar business last year

that continues to grow, with sales jumping 16%

last quarter contributing to an earning speed. I spoke with Lightfoot at the

Space Symposium, a big industry conference where Lockheed announced the

successful demonstration of its new tech to service satellites on orbit. On this

episode we discuss Ignite as well as the company's

big bet on the moon. I'm Morgan Brennan and this is Manifest Space. Robert Lightfoot of Lockheed Martin, Thank you so much for joining me today.

I'm thrilled to speak with you. So we're here at the Space Symposium, one of the biggest

space conferences of the year. Your message or what you're planning to share about Lockheed Martin

specifically here at this event. Yeah for Lucky Martin space is pretty

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