During the meeting, the country’s leader emphasised that, after Lockheed Martin International established a subsidiary in Lithuania a year ago, it is now time to move on to specific industrial cooperation projects.
„A year ago, I invited Lockheed Martin to invest in Lithuania. Today, the company already has a subsidiary in our country. It now makes sense to discuss the development of joint manufacturing projects,“ the president is quoted as saying in the statement.
According to him, Lithuania’s ecosystem has the expertise and potential to become an important part of Lockheed Martin’s supply chains and to manufacture components for the company’s systems.
„Lithuania is a leader in defence funding within NATO. Strengthening defence capabilities today means more than procuring weapons. We must strive to ensure that as much manufacturing, maintenance and supply capacity as possible is established in Europe. Lithuania is ready to become an important part of this process,“ stated the country’s leader.
Last September, the president met in New York with Michael Williamson, then president of Lockheed Martin International, and invited the company to invest in Lithuania. In March 2026, the Lithuanian branch of Lockheed Martin Global was registered.
Lockheed Martin has also recently been expanding its industrial cooperation in Europe. Together with Germany’s Rheinmetall, the company is seeking to localise ATACMS production, whilst also developing, in collaboration with NATO allies, an initiative for a PAC-3 missile maintenance centre in Europe.