The cost - plus NASA contract, valued at $ 247.5 million, will allow the defense contractor's secretive Skunk Works division to continue development of Lockheed Martin's Quiet Supersonic Technology (or QueSST) aircraft. (cnbc.com)
Monsanto is also the financial backer of a 15 - person company called Preceres, a kind of skunk works it established just off the campus of MIT, where robotic mixers are busy stirring RNA together with coatings of specialized nanoparticles. (technologyreview.com)
The Lockheed Skunk Works led by Kelly Johnson was responsible for its Advanced Development Projects — everything from the P - 80, the first U.S. jet fighter plane, to the U-2 and A-12 spy planes. (inc.com)