Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control Lockheed Martin Missiles & Fire Control (LM MFC) is a Lockheed Martin business unit based in the Dallas suburb of Grand Prairie, Texas. The unit's offensive and defensive arsenal includes air-to-air and air-to-ground missiles, naval rockets and missiles, fire control and sensor systems, fire support systems, missile launchers, missile defense systems, and anti-tank weapons. In 2012, the unit was a recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. LM MFC has approximately 10,600 employees, most split between Orlando, Florida and Grand Prairie, Texas. Other major LM MFC facilities are located in Archbald, Pennsylvania; Chelmsford,
Lockheed Martin shooting Lockheed Martin shooting The Lockheed Martin shooting was an act of workplace violence that occurred on July 8, 2003, at the Lockheed Martin plant in Meridian, Mississippi. The gunman, Douglas Williams, was a 48-year-old divorced father of two. He was an assembly line worker at the plant. He shot 14 of his co-workers with a shotgun, killing six of them, before committing suicide. The incident was the deadliest workplace shooting in the United States since December 2000, when Michael McDermott killed seven co-workers at Edgewater Technology in Wakefield, Massachusetts. On the day of the shooting, Williams attended a mandatory ethics