14-05-2025
Lockheed Martin to lay off 64 workers at Andover clean energy facility, citing ‘program changes'
'As part of an annual business review and after careful consideration, Lockheed Martin has made the difficult decision to adjust the workforce at the Andover, Mass., facility,' Sherlock said in a statement Wednesday. 'We remain committed to delivering critical defense capabilities while also driving innovation, efficiency and affordability for all of our customers.'
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The Andover facility was the 'single site' for the development, testing, and production of
Webpages and other material related to GridStar Flow had largely been scrubbed from Lockheed Martin's website as of Wednesday.
The company directed questions on the future of the program to the US Army and the Romanian Ministry of Energy, which both partnered with Lockheed Martin on the program.
The defense giant opened its Andover lab in 2020, according to a
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'It's kind of this representation of how far we've come from our days of benchtop experiments to delivering these repeatable results on large scale flow battery systems,' Sean Powers, a manufacturing engineer, said at the time. 'We used to have small, handheld batteries that couldn't deliver much storage, but now we're working with these larger systems, and the new facility represents that transformation.'
Lockheed Martin announced in 2022 that a new GridStar Flow battery installed at the military base in
Fort Carson, Colo. would be 'the first megawatt-scale, long-duration energy storage system' for the Department of Defense. The battery was installed in December, with a pilot program scheduled to run for 18 months, US Army officials
The pilot program has since been discontinued, a Fort Carson official confirmed Wednesday.
Also last year, Lockheed Martin
The US Department of Defense did not immediately return a request for comment on Wednesday, nor did the Romanian Ministry of Energy.
Lockheed Martin also operates a missile development facility in Chelmsford that employs 350 workers, according to its
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