Lockheed Martin to Pay $29.5 Million to Settle DOJ Claims of White Worker Discrimination

By Katherine Hamilton

Lockheed Martin agreed to pay $29.5 million to resolve allegations from the Justice Department that it discriminated against white workers.

The defense contractor will pay $22 million to the U.S. to settle the claims, as well as $7.5 million to more than 1,000 Lockheed employees.

The Justice Department alleges that Lockheed Martin's incentive program, which awarded its top 20% of employees with additional pay, discriminated against white workers.

Prior to finalizing the selections for the incentive program, Lockheed performed a statistical analysis to flag statistical outliers based on the race and sex composition of the list of employees, the government alleged.

The government claimed Lockheed human-resources personnel put pressure on leaders to add or remove certain employees in order to rectify the statistical outliers. The HR personnel encouraged leaders to remove non-minority employees and add people of color to the lists, the Justice Department alleged.

The government also alleged the company took race or sex into account when making hiring and promotion decisions.

Write to Katherine Hamilton at katherine.hamilton@wsj.com

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November 03, 2026 18:03 ET (23:03 GMT)