James Taiclet
Lockheed Martin’s chairman and CEO, a former Air Force pilot and telecom-tower executive pushing the defense prime toward networked, software-defined warfare.
Pay vs performance
what happened while he earned itNo score, no opinion. Compensation is filed; stock and S&P are market returns over the window shown; revenue and EPS are latest reported vs the prior year. You decide.
Why this pay?
- His fiscal 2025 pay was $23.5 million, and it has been remarkably flat across recent years. Lockheed reports the annual incentive in the bonus column; the salary, bonus, and stock lines are from the proxy, with the remaining pension and other compensation grouped in the "all other" line pending a direct line-by-line read.
Worth knowing
Lockheed Martin’s CEO James Taiclet was a U.S. Air Force pilot who flew in Operation Desert Shield, then spent 16 years running a wireless-tower company before taking over the defense giant.
Source: Lockheed Martin proxy / bio · More facts →
Quick facts
Compensation breakdown
DEF 14AThe $23,453,308 total is well corroborated; the "all other" line groups pension and other comp pending a direct proxy read. (Taiclet runs Lockheed Martin, not RTX — RTX’s CEO is Christopher Calio.) Source: Lockheed Martin 2026 Proxy (FY2025) →
Compensation history
salary + cash vs stock, from the proxiesRelated intelligence
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Every figure ties to a filing. Compensation is the total from Lockheed Martin's Summary Compensation Table for FY2025(grant-date values, which can differ from what an executive realizes when awards vest). We publish what the filings say, and we don't grade people. Photo: U.S. House Armed Services Committee / CC BY 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons.