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Lockheed Martin Canada [1] [2] is an aerospace and defence contractor, headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, and a part of the Rotary and Mission Systems business area. It has over 900 employees, [3] with facilities in Montreal, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Victoria, British Columbia with a corporate office in Ottawa, Ontario.

Locations in Canada do engineering, software development, integration and test along with mechanical and hardware design as well as manufacturing, product test, logistics support and repair and overhaul. Field staff are also deployed at various Canadian Forces' bases. [4]

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