{"id":32981,"date":"2021-09-01T18:37:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T18:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2021\/09\/01\/thirteen-us-lawmakers-back-lockheed-aerojet-merger-in-new-letter\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:38:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:38:34","slug":"thirteen-us-lawmakers-back-lockheed-aerojet-merger-in-new-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2021\/09\/01\/thirteen-us-lawmakers-back-lockheed-aerojet-merger-in-new-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"13 US lawmakers back Lockheed-Aerojet merger in new letter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2015 A bipartisan group of 13 lawmakers is calling on the Pentagon to support <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/industry\/2020\/12\/20\/lockheed-buys-aerojet-rocketdyne-in-44b-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lockheed Martin\u2019s proposed $4.4 billon acquisition of rocket maker Aerojet Rocketdyne<\/a>, according to their letter, obtained by Defense News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Government approval of the takeover, under review by the Pentagon, is \u201cin both our national security interests and the U.S. taxpayers\u2019 best interest,\u201d says the Aug. 31 letter to Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The letter, led by Reps. Steve Womack, R-Ark., and Marc Veasey, D-Texas, comes weeks after Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.warren.senate.gov\/oversight\/letters\/as-ftc-reviews-lockheed-martins-proposed-acquisition-of-aerojet-rocketdyne-warren-questions-agency-about-preventing-monopolistic-behavior-in-defense-industry\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a> to the Federal Trade Commission to question the proposed merger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Raytheon Technologies, based in Warren\u2019s home state, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2021\/02\/17\/raytheon-to-challenge-lockheed-aerojet-merger-ceo-says\/\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> it would challenge the deal with regulators, voicing concerns that Lockheed, a top competitor, would absorb a key supplier of its solid-fuel rocket motors, stifling competition in the missile market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The proponents argue in their letter the merger would \u201crestore competitive balance,\u201d following Northrop Grumman\u2019s acquisition of another major rocket propulsion firm, Orbital ATK. 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