Lawrence O. Kitchen, former chairman and chief executive officer of Lockheed Corporation, died 15 December 2013, at the age of ninety. During his tenure at Lockheed-Georgia Company (1971-1975), Kitchen stabilized employment, brought C-5A costs under control and completed the program, and greatly boosted C-130 sales. Kitchen became Lockheed president in 1975. He successfully lobbied Congress to accept the company’s C-5B offer in 1981, encouraged the development of stealth, and set up a teaming arrangement to bid on the US Air Force’s Advanced Tactical Fighter program that became the F-22. Kitchen served as president of the corporation until 1986 and was chairman and chief executive officer from 1986 to 1988, completing a thirty-year career with Lockheed.
